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The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection #3
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection, Volume 3: 1981-1982
New artists offer a new look, but the wall-crawling adventure is as exciting as ever! Doctor Octopus and Aunt May a couple? Not if Peter Parker can help it! Mary Jane's stage debut may be spoiled by the mystery man known as--The Assassin! As the campaign for president heats up, millionaire Thurston Thruwell shows us where creatures roam, while Spidey invades Latveria just in time for Dr. Doom and his captured spaceship to show the world where monsters dwell! And that's just to start!
Edited by Bruce Canwell, this book includes more than 700 sequential comics--the complete run from January 1981 through December 1982!
Edited by Bruce Canwell, this book includes more than 700 sequential comics--the complete run from January 1981 through December 1982!
- GenresGraphic Novels
312 pages, Hardcover
First published August 16, 2016
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Stan Lee
7,561 books2,350 followersStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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April 19, 2017
This book covers both daily and Sunday newspaper strips of the Amazing Spider-man from January 12, 1981-December 31, 1982.
The book features the appearance of two known Supervillains: Doctor Octopus (who is out for revenge and for Aunt May's heart) and Doctor Doom: Who is out to take over the world after a flying saucer crashed in Latveria. Beyond this, the book offers a stream of other plots: There's a man with telekinetic powers who wants to defeat Spidey as the first step on the road to world domination, robots bent on world domination, an assassination plot that Spidey gets involved in because Peter Parker's apartment is going co-op, a group of Spider-man fan vigilantes, an attempt to cash in Spidey's image with Spidey jeans, a wealthy woman who wants to learn Spidey's identity because she's attracted to him, and a thrilling cross-country spy thriller among other plots.
Overall, this was good. No plot overstayed its welcome (a big danger for these sort of strips.) Some were actually quite exception (my favorite probably being the cross country chase.) The important thing to remember about the comic strip is that it's written for a different audience and probably should be viewed as being in a different universe than typical Marvel comic books (as evidenced by Spidey thinking the Sub-mariner was a mere comic book character in the last pages of this book.) It's more goofy and lighter with one plot having the absurd idea that someone would think J. Jonah Jameson was Spider-man. I do think Lee laid politics on a little thick with the overt identification of some groups as conservative and there were a few weaker plot turns, but overall the book is good if you're looking for some fun Spider-man stories with a lighter touch.
The book features the appearance of two known Supervillains: Doctor Octopus (who is out for revenge and for Aunt May's heart) and Doctor Doom: Who is out to take over the world after a flying saucer crashed in Latveria. Beyond this, the book offers a stream of other plots: There's a man with telekinetic powers who wants to defeat Spidey as the first step on the road to world domination, robots bent on world domination, an assassination plot that Spidey gets involved in because Peter Parker's apartment is going co-op, a group of Spider-man fan vigilantes, an attempt to cash in Spidey's image with Spidey jeans, a wealthy woman who wants to learn Spidey's identity because she's attracted to him, and a thrilling cross-country spy thriller among other plots.
Overall, this was good. No plot overstayed its welcome (a big danger for these sort of strips.) Some were actually quite exception (my favorite probably being the cross country chase.) The important thing to remember about the comic strip is that it's written for a different audience and probably should be viewed as being in a different universe than typical Marvel comic books (as evidenced by Spidey thinking the Sub-mariner was a mere comic book character in the last pages of this book.) It's more goofy and lighter with one plot having the absurd idea that someone would think J. Jonah Jameson was Spider-man. I do think Lee laid politics on a little thick with the overt identification of some groups as conservative and there were a few weaker plot turns, but overall the book is good if you're looking for some fun Spider-man stories with a lighter touch.
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