Product Description

He was a teenage web-wlinger, and he carved a career few heroes have equaled since! Witness the origins of Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, the Lizard, Electro and more of Spider-Man's original rogues gallery - most of whom remain in the spotlight forty years later! Plus: Spider-Man's identity is exposed for the first time! His first fights with the Green Goblin, the villain who would defeat him more disastrously than any other! Spidey's first effort to join a super-team, and his first effort to fight a super-team - all before his high-school graduation (and we've got that, too)! Guest-starring Doctor Strange, Daredevil, the Human Torch, the Hulk and more! Collects Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-38 and Annual #1-2; plus the Spider-Man stories from Fantastic Four Annual #1 and Strange Tales Annual #2, and the covers to Marvel Tales #3-28 and Annual #1-2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #636916 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1088 pages

Customer Reviews

Sweet Sassy Molassey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow this is one huge book and it contains all of the Lee/Ditko goodness that there ever was or will be. Beautiful book, I had some reprints of this material when I was a little kid and after I got older I always wanted a collection of only Lee/Ditko material and lo and behold three Spider-man movies later Marvel unveils this mammoth book of the first 38 issues as well as other early appearances of the Webhead. Amazon's price is very nice and certainly cheaper than what will be found in a comic book store, not that folks shouldn't support their local comic book stores but a deal is a deal. The book does is titled as Volume 1 so just as there has been a volume 2 of the Fantastic Four, there very well may be a Volume 2 of The Amazing Spider-man within a few years.

Awesome book!
The full Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spider-Man saga in beautifully reproduced color lovingly bound in a heavy, hardcover stock. A must have for those who love the earliest Spider-Man magic!

AMAZING! SPECTACULAR! SENSATIONAL!
Simply put... If I was stranded on a desert island and I could have only one book... this would be it. Quite possibly the greatest run in comics history. These are not only the best Spider-Man stories ever, they're some of the best comic stories... PERIOD. Stan Lee's writing is fun and upbeat with a great sense of comic timing and adventure. Steve Ditko's pencils are tight and bursting with kinetic energy. (Definitely the best work of his career). Even though I have all of the original issues, as well as the Marvel Masterworks collections of these stories, I still bought this book. It is loaded with extra goodies, like all of the letters columns and some early guest appearances of Spider-Man in other comics, such as, his first team-up with the Human Torch in Strange Tales Annual #2. However, it's the attention to detail that really makes this collection shine. The publishers even went to the trouble of exactly matching the colors to the original comics (i.e. in the first few issues the blue in Spider-Man's costume looks purple, just like it did in the original printings). It may sound cliche, but the bottom line is, if you are a Spider-Man fan or just a comics fan in general, this book is a MUST HAVE!