Essential Spider-Man, Volume 1
by Stan Lee, Steve Ditko (Illustrator)
Essential Spider-Man (1), Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man (Essential — 1-20 & Annual 1)
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While attending a demonstration on radiation, high school student Peter Parker was bitten by a spider that had been exposed to radioactive rays. Learning he had gained great arachnid-like abilities, the timid teenager donned a colorful costume of his own design - seeking fame and fortune as the Amazing Spider-Man! But his Uncle Ben's death - tragedy he could have prevented - taught Peter that with great power there must also come great responsibility...and on that day a legend was born!Tags
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Fun and interesting to see the origins of my favorite comic character of all time. Also nice to see the source material for so much of the modern story lines, etc.
This is a good book, especially the Daredevil team-up, which is totally aces.
My copy is very special. Someone actually took the time to color in some of the black and white pages with colored pencils, and it actually has half of one page cropped out. I bought it used, and gave a friend my new copy I had purchased a few months ago (bad, bad idea).
My copy is very special. Someone actually took the time to color in some of the black and white pages with colored pencils, and it actually has half of one page cropped out. I bought it used, and gave a friend my new copy I had purchased a few months ago (bad, bad idea).
"With great power, there must also come great responsibility"-Peter Parker
A great line that deserves quoting from this fun book with exciting Steve Ditko art.
A great line that deserves quoting from this fun book with exciting Steve Ditko art.
1-4. Essential Spider-Man Vols. 1-4Stan Lee's self-hyped "Marvel Age Of Comics" began with the publication of Fantastic Four #1, but it didn't really get its pizzazz until Lee and artist Steve Ditko created teenage nerd Peter Parker and his alter ego, the more confident and charismatic Spider-Man. While Lee milked the high-school soap opera and indulged his passion for slangy dialogue, Ditko created strikingly spare and often cartoony designs for Spider-Man's gallery of grotesque villains. The collaborators got up to speed quick in the 20-odd issues reprinted in Essential Spider-Man Vol. 1, and by the period represented in the second volume, they'd mastered the series' pace and tone, balancing white-knuckle action with slow-burningshow more
serialized adventures. Ditko was long gone by the time Spider-Man swung his way into the late '60s, in the stories reprinted in volumes 3 and 4, but those collections are almost as vital for the way they show Lee and artist John Romita engaging directly with their growing college audience, throwing in hipster references and amping up the fun. Re-reading all four volumes–the most essential of the bargain-priced, black-and-white Marvel Essentials book series–is like watching a pop-culture revolution unfold, month by month.-- Onion A/V Club: Inventory - 10 Essential Volumes Of The Marvel Essentials Series show less
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Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan, New York on December 28, 1922. During World War II, he wrote training manuals stateside in the Army Signal Corps while moonlighting as a comics writer. He joined Marvel Comics in the early 1940s and worked there for 60 years. He was a central player in the creation of Spider-Man, the Incredible show more Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and the X-Men. He wrote several books including Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee written with George Mair, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir written with Peter David, and A Trick of Light written with Kat Rosenfield. He died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Stephen Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on November 2, 1927. After graduating from high school in 1945, he joined the Army and was stationed in Germany, where he drew cartoons for a service newspaper. In 1950, he attended the Cartoonist and Illustrator School in New York. He was best known for his role in creating Spider-Man. He also show more created or helped create Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Iron Man, the Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Squirrel Girl. He was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 1994. He was found dead on June 29, 2018 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Essential Spider-Man
11 works (1)
Spider-Man
87 works
The Amazing Spider-Man
433 works (Essential — 1-20 & Annual 1)
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Marvel Essentials (Spider-Man)
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- Canonical title
- Essential Spider-Man, Volume 1
- Original publication date
- 1996-12-11
- People/Characters
- Peter Parker; Spider-Man; Betty Brant; Ben Parker; Chameleon; Thing (show all 25); Human Torch; Invisible Woman; Mister Fantastic; Vulture; Tinkerer; Doctor Octopus; Sandman; Doctor Doom; Lizard; Living Brain; Electro; Enforcers; Mysterio; Green Goblin; Hulk; Kraven the Hunter; Daredevil; Ringmaster; Scorpion
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Collects: Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-20 and Annual #1.
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