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The Essential Spider-Man: v. 5 (Paperback)

by Stan Lee (Author), John Romita (Author), Gil Kane (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Marvel Comics; illustrated edition edition (16 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0785108815
  • ISBN-13: 978-0785108818
  • Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 16.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 615,768 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The celebrated hero whose powers stem from the bite of a radioactive spider battles with forces of evil, including the Red Skull, Mysterio, and the Lizard.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The first appearance of Morbius, and the Green Goblin returns., 25 April 2007
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A memorable selection of stories starting and ending with Dr. Octopus battling Spider-Man.
The opening tale sees the death of Gwen's father, Captain Stacy as he tries to save a child. Spider-man is blamed by some, JJJ, for the death and the next stories see corrupt politician Sam Bullit gunning for both Spidey and Joe Robertson, guest-starring Iceman. Then the Prowler joins in the Spidey bashing. Gwen leaves for London and to round off his day The Beetle kidnaps his Aunt May, how's that for luck?
He follows Gwen to London and faces off some terrorists but being spotted as Spider-Man cannot face her as Peter Parker.
The first highlight is the return of Norman Osborn as the Green Goblin in a great 3 parter that also shows his son Harry is addicted to pills. This series sees Parker hitting out at the local dealers. There follows an indictment on the prison system which is just as relevant nowadays.
Then trying to get rid of his powers he takes a potion that backfires and he ends up with 6 arms, a real Spider-Man. As if that wasn't enough he turns for help to Dr. Curt Connors only to be attacked by the Living Vampire Morbius, his first ever appearance, and to round it off Connors turns into the Lizard.
Then to slow the pace down, Parker with JJJ, and a bikini clad Gwen head off to Antarctica and the Savage Land to check out stories of a monster. There they meet Ka-Zar as well as the monster Gog who it turns out was a stranded Alien being looked after by Kraven the Hunter as its surrogate father. Look out for the plentiful King Kong allusions.
There's another 3 parter with Prof. Smythe and his latest Spider Slayer.
Then Flash Thompson returns from Viet-Nam being stalked by misguided religious fanatics, Doctor Strange steps in to assist.
The Gibbon is a tragic figure who was only after friendship but is turned towards evil by Kraven.
It ends as did Essential Volume 4 with a cliff-hanger as Dr. Octopus attacks an injured Spidey and just as Doc Ock is knocked out for the count in steps Hammerhead......
The best artwork is by John Romita, this is purely my personal opinion. Gil Kane's art looks better in colour. The stories are well written by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, the real gems being the Morbius and Green Goblin tales which set up some great future stories.
Sure Spidey does seem to have more bad luck dealt to him than anyone else would ever want to see, perhaps they did over-egg that omelette but a hero who always comes out on top would be a very poor read.
The background characters are well developed even JJJ shows some public spiritedness, both Joe Robertson and his son Randy make major appearances, the scatty Mary Jane, the drug dependent Harry Osborn, and Aunt May strangely disappears in the last few issues.
And the next volume has some even better and more tragic story lines.
Keep them coming Marvel, and well done for not correcting the original misprints like on the cover of issue 102.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Spider-Man begins the Seventies in less than stellar style, 16 Nov 2002
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"The Essential Spider-Man, Volume 4" presents black & white reprints of "The Amazing Spider-Man" #69-89 and Annuals #4-5, which covers the web-head from 1969-71. I was sort of surprised as I read through these issues again that really nothing significant happens. I mean, we have return visits from the Kingpin, the Lizard, the Chameleon, Mysterio and Doctor Octopus, but the new villains are pretty week: Man-Mountain Marko, the Prowler, the Kangaroo, and the Schemer. Make that incredibly weak villains, except for the Prowler, who is just a kid making stupid mistakes.

At this point Stan Lee has his formula for Spider-Man, which is probably encapsulated best by what our hero says at the conclusion of issue #72: "So, I finally nailed the Shocker...Big deal! I'm in the doghouse with Gwen...the tablet is gone again...I just remembered something else...I forgot to take a single picture of the entire battle! So all I get out of it is some skinned knuckles! In other words, the wonderful Parker luck is still running true to form! Nuts!" The best story in this collection is probably "The Parents of Peter Parker!" from Annual #5, although the most memorable moment is when the Black Widow comes up with her sexy new threads of the Seventies.

John Buscema takes over the penciling chores from John Romita (Sr.) at one point before Gil Kane makes his first appearance right at the end. Buscema did some nice work on "Conan," but Spider-Man does not play to his strengths; Kane, however, does manage to adapt his distinctive style to the comic. Fortunately, things improve considerably for Spider-Man as Stan Lee gets a feel for the Seventies. So you can just write off this collection as the quiet before the storm of Harry's drug addiction, the deaths of Captain and Gwen Stacy, and Spider-Man really becoming Spider-Man.

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