Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus - Volume 1 (New Printing)

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And it all leads to a confrontation atop the George Washington Bridge that will leave Peter Parker forever changed! Sometimes all you want is an easy-going comic reading experience, free of all the needless drama, dark plots, cumbersome crossovers, and other such detriments, and the Spidey comics here have plenty of that simple charm to suit your needs. J. Jonah Jameson actually gets to be more of a reliable newspaper publisher with this issue when he notes some potential issues with Kraven. The Silver Age of Comics will always suffer from being at least a little problematic due to the time it was created, but there's actually less of that in these Spider-Man issues than I expected. Finally - this is where the majority of Spider-Man's rogue's gallery (arguably the overall best in superhero comics) was introduced: Doc Ock, Green Goblin, the Vulture, Kraven the Hunter, Sandman, the Lizard, Elektro - the list goes on.

This issue focuses more on Spider-man’s human problems and unconventional hero status, still no supervillains! Stanley Martin Lieber (Manhattan, Nueva York; 28 de diciembre de 1922 - Los Ángeles, California; 12 de noviembre de 2018), más conocido como Stan Lee, fue un escritor y editor de cómics estadounidense, además de productor y ocasional actor de cine. Between Spider-Man finding his voice as a wiseass, Stan Lee's unbridled enthusiasm and fourth-wall breaking, and Art Simek's POW! Sometimes you just want characters to actually talk to each other to avoid the repeated frustration.So, this is essentially a continuation and expansion of the elements from the Chameleon story in issue 1. I feel like the Vulture as “old man with wings” has overshadowed how crafty and swift he used to be. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. And for the curious, you get a beautiful book with all the wondeful stories written and drawn by Stan Lee and Steve Ditco in one collective volume.

The movie studio fight is fun, and Mysterio posing as a hero is nice, but it just leads to very samey Jonah stuff. Whilst certainly bunky and liable to take up a lot of your bookshelf, the Marvel Omnibuses like this one feature fun, if perhaps slightly dated, tales of Spider-Man's early days. You need this book, in other words, if you really want to have a kid to grasp the complexities and nuances of one of the greatest superhero archetypes we still have today. Lee gives Spider-Man the witty quips we've come to expect, while Ditko's art is fundamental in showing how these great characters move and interact.This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The Fox and his gang are the usual uninspired villains that would show up in Strange Tales (Note: This is not the much more fun Fox, also a master thief, who would show up in the 80s).

The vulture fight is really fun and creative with the water tower scene being the first example of Spider-Man having to overcome a predicament that his powers might not cover. With so many classic moments and characters, this Omnibus delivers it all with wonderful reproductions and colour work including the letters and design of the original. Seeing how most of Marvel's other superheroes react to him really gives Spider-Man a sense of isolation from them. During the course of 40 issues of web-slinging, wisecracking wonderment Lee and Ditko built the foundation for 45 years of Spidey spectaculars - girl trouble; bill trouble; bully trouble; the Daily Bugle; and a cast friends, family and, of course, super-villains unlike any other! Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Today, you will either find most comics to be bland and colorless to the point of losing all personality, or too stylized and out of touch with the characters of the comic (or just plain ugly). I have always known Spider-Man media to have a heavy focus on the teen drama encompassing Peter Parker's life, and the angles explored here proved to be as compelling as they were timeless; the plights of a teenaged Spidey seem not that far off from the adversity which an outsider teenager would face today. By choosing to be a hero, Peter gives hope to the future that has been squandered or abandoned by the adults of the present. It's also fun to see a hero who, as is typical of teens, is at times cocky, over-confident, and frustrated to the point of quitting his role.