Marvel Masterworks the Amazing Spider-Man: The Amazing Spider-Man (Series #01) (Paperback)

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I have thought a fair amount about what I am going to rate this. Spider-Man is my favorite super hero. The primary reason that many relate to him is that much of the story is based upon the life of Peter Parker. These first issues establish "the life of Peter Parker" as how the story will be told...

from DanJlaf

nostalgic memories Reading was a nostelegic remembering of actually reading these as a boy way back fresh off the candy store racks in 1960s

from schteve

"Amazing" is right. Such was the opposition to Stan Lee's concept of a hung-up, teenage superhero, he had to resort to introducing the character via a one-off story in the final issue of a magazine due to be cancelled. By way of contrast, The Mighty Thor debuted in his own series the same month a...

from wethewatched

This is where it all began! Classic work by Stan "the man" Lee! Nearly every sentence of dialog ends with an exclamation! Or with...a couple question marks?? But that's OK! This stuff is classic!

from engelcox

Although rough and still overly bombastic, as was his style at the time, the thing that sets the first ten or so issues of The Amazing Spider-Man apart is a combination of how Stan Lee introduced complexity to the super-hero story, not from the dangers of super-powered villains, although there ar...