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Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man #11
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 11
100 ISSUES...6 ARMS...1 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!!!
The Marvel Masterworks celebrate Spider-Man's centennial bow with ten classic Spidey adventures created by a quartet of the greatest talents in comics' history!
Stan Lee and Gil Kane start it off with Peter Parker's attempt to cure himself from his spider-powers gone horribly wrong. Yes, it's the six-armed Spider-Man! And he'll need the extra arms to handle Morbius the Living Vampire, in his first appearance, and the cold rage of Lizard. Rascally Roy Thomas joins the fray and then takes Spidey and his bikini-clad gal, Gwen Stacy, into the forgotten jungle known as the Savage Land to face towering beasts, Kraven the Hunter, and J. Jonah Jameson to boot!
When Stan returns the Spider Slayer comes with him, and right behind him is the talented pencil of John Romita. In what Romita cites as the favorite artwork of his storied Spidey career, Stan and the Jazzy One leap into an adventure teaming up Spidey and Doctor Strange against a mystic threat from Vietnam while Flash Thompson's life hangs in the balance!
Comics don't come better than this, so reserve that copy today, True Believer!
Collecting THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #100-109
The Marvel Masterworks celebrate Spider-Man's centennial bow with ten classic Spidey adventures created by a quartet of the greatest talents in comics' history!
Stan Lee and Gil Kane start it off with Peter Parker's attempt to cure himself from his spider-powers gone horribly wrong. Yes, it's the six-armed Spider-Man! And he'll need the extra arms to handle Morbius the Living Vampire, in his first appearance, and the cold rage of Lizard. Rascally Roy Thomas joins the fray and then takes Spidey and his bikini-clad gal, Gwen Stacy, into the forgotten jungle known as the Savage Land to face towering beasts, Kraven the Hunter, and J. Jonah Jameson to boot!
When Stan returns the Spider Slayer comes with him, and right behind him is the talented pencil of John Romita. In what Romita cites as the favorite artwork of his storied Spidey career, Stan and the Jazzy One leap into an adventure teaming up Spidey and Doctor Strange against a mystic threat from Vietnam while Flash Thompson's life hangs in the balance!
Comics don't come better than this, so reserve that copy today, True Believer!
Collecting THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #100-109
256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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Stan Lee
7,564 books2,339 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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February 24, 2023
A decent collection of classic Spidey adventures, featuring the first appearance of Morbius.
June 22, 2017
After penning a hundred issues, Stan Lee turns the reigns over to writer Roy Thomas (at least for a couple of issues) and there's a perceptible change in the storytelling quality.
Seeking to cure himself of being Spider-Man in order to have a normal life, Peter Parker downs an untested serum, falls into a deep sleep (in which we are treated to a summary of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's life up to now) and wakes up with six arms. Horrified by what he's done, Peter scrambles to find a cure all while battling new threat Morbius the vampire and the return of the Lizard.
Another arc centers on Flash Thompson's return from Vietnam and the fall-out from his attempting to do the right thing for a group of villagers. The arc starts well for Flash but quickly goes in an entirely less than politically correct direction for the remainder of its run.
Then Spidey and company are off to Antartica to find Ka-Zar's forgotten world and deliver a photo feature that will save circulation at the Daily Bugle. (Interesting to see that newspapers were having issues with circulation back then and not just as we continue to explore the digital age). Gwen Stacey tags along as a model, which complicates things when Peter has to go all Spider-Man to battle Kraven the Hunter as well as various prehistoric beasts that inhabit the area.
Honestly, this storyline feels like an excuse for the artists to give us Gwen Stacey in a bikini, much to the delight of Peter and Jolly Jonah (who tags along to make sure his money is being well spent). At multiple points in this collection, I found myself wondering at the angles taken by artist Gil Kane for various characters. One memorable panel seems to want to give us a view of what it looks like up the nostrils of Robbie Robinson, the Bugle's long-suffering assistant editor.
It's clear that the storylines here aren't going to mined for adaptation for the silver screen (though we did get a re-telling of the Morbius story and the six-armed Spider-Man in the 90's cartoon). It feels like this is Spider-Man on autopilot, complete with all the drama of how being Spider-Man is ruining Peter Parker's life and relationships. Seriously, the guy can't be happy for more than two consecutive panels. I knew as soon as we saw Gwen in the bikini that Pete's life was about to take a turn for the worse.
Knowing what's coming up in a few issues (20 or so at this point) makes this collection feel a bit less essential than others in the Masterworks series. It feels a lot like we're treading water and waiting for the next big development for Spider-Man or possibly the introduction of a new, great villain or foe.
The eleventh edition is my least favorite of the collected Amazing Spider-Man series I've read so far.
Seeking to cure himself of being Spider-Man in order to have a normal life, Peter Parker downs an untested serum, falls into a deep sleep (in which we are treated to a summary of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's life up to now) and wakes up with six arms. Horrified by what he's done, Peter scrambles to find a cure all while battling new threat Morbius the vampire and the return of the Lizard.
Another arc centers on Flash Thompson's return from Vietnam and the fall-out from his attempting to do the right thing for a group of villagers. The arc starts well for Flash but quickly goes in an entirely less than politically correct direction for the remainder of its run.
Then Spidey and company are off to Antartica to find Ka-Zar's forgotten world and deliver a photo feature that will save circulation at the Daily Bugle. (Interesting to see that newspapers were having issues with circulation back then and not just as we continue to explore the digital age). Gwen Stacey tags along as a model, which complicates things when Peter has to go all Spider-Man to battle Kraven the Hunter as well as various prehistoric beasts that inhabit the area.
Honestly, this storyline feels like an excuse for the artists to give us Gwen Stacey in a bikini, much to the delight of Peter and Jolly Jonah (who tags along to make sure his money is being well spent). At multiple points in this collection, I found myself wondering at the angles taken by artist Gil Kane for various characters. One memorable panel seems to want to give us a view of what it looks like up the nostrils of Robbie Robinson, the Bugle's long-suffering assistant editor.
It's clear that the storylines here aren't going to mined for adaptation for the silver screen (though we did get a re-telling of the Morbius story and the six-armed Spider-Man in the 90's cartoon). It feels like this is Spider-Man on autopilot, complete with all the drama of how being Spider-Man is ruining Peter Parker's life and relationships. Seriously, the guy can't be happy for more than two consecutive panels. I knew as soon as we saw Gwen in the bikini that Pete's life was about to take a turn for the worse.
Knowing what's coming up in a few issues (20 or so at this point) makes this collection feel a bit less essential than others in the Masterworks series. It feels a lot like we're treading water and waiting for the next big development for Spider-Man or possibly the introduction of a new, great villain or foe.
The eleventh edition is my least favorite of the collected Amazing Spider-Man series I've read so far.
October 3, 2021
It was ok. Still gotta get over the over analyzation of everything that's happening every now and then in it.
May 20, 2024
Spider-Man to jak na razie najmniej zenujacy scenariuszowo komiks z klasyki. Jeszcze F4 czasami daje rade. Czasami.
July 5, 2024
Marvel Masterworks are my poison of choice, with the finest restoration, paper, and binding in this day and age. To have comics that I once owned the floppies to presented in a deluxe, high-end format like this makes them seem far more important. I found Issue 103 in a quarter box circa 1983, and it was among my earliest exposure to Gil Kane's godlike artwork. I owned 101 and 102 as well, with 101 featuring the first appearance of my beloved Morbius, the Living Vampire (scroll through earlier blogs for more on that). Lots of people bag on this era of Spider-Man, and I fail to see why. You get writing from either Stan Lee or Roy Thomas, both among the greatest comic book writers of all-time, and artwork by Gil Kane and/or John Romita, Sr., who are among the greatest comic book artists of all-time. Honestly, these are comic books at their finest, and while there isn't much here that went down in Marvel history as an important event, these are solid reads with great artwork. Isn't that what one really wants from comic books?
January 12, 2022
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 11 by Stan Lee is the book that introduces Morbius the Living Vampire the antihero that will get it's own movie in the Spiderverse soon and will be played by Oscar winner Jared Leto and cameo Michael Keaton as the Vulture. This book bring back Allister Smythe and a new version of the Spider Slayer. This book feature the first time that Stan Lee did not write all the issues of The Amazing Spider-Man as he went to write a screenplay, he was still the story editor, but not the sole writer. The change was not glaring until he came back, I love his little quips in the editorial. The villains in these issues are Morbius, Kraven the Hunter, The Lizard, And Allister Smythe. This volume does have a couple of guest stars namely Kazar and Dr. Strange. Volume 11 brings The Amazing Spiderman past issues 100. which is crazy to think since I'm reading in order that I have read over 100 issues of Spiderman. This issue contain 4 stories that are either 2 to 3 issue arcs, I liked two stories a lot, the other stories one was okay and one was pretty horrible. One of the stories featured Flash Thompson as a soldier returning from Vietnamwhich was interesting for it's time stamp and showed a little PTSD, also commenting on the complexity of war and misunderstanding. I had a love hate relationship with the art, Gil Kane draws a great Spiderman but a horrible Peter Parker, he's not good with people but adds such intricate details to landscape in panels. I prefer Romita who is more balanced in all things. The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 11 collects issues 100-109.
The Plot Summaries:Peter Parker ready for a normal life concocts a formula to reverse his spider powers only it has the opposite effect and makes him more spider like and grows extra limbs. Perker wants to run from the world and can with Dr. Kurt Connors help and his summer home by the beach, but little does Spiderman know another creature is trying to hide from the world named Morbius the Living Vampire. The Daily Bugle is in trouble and Jonah Jamison thinks a picture of a rare monster form the Savage Land will do it, and he knows just the photographer. Jamison is humiliated by Spiderman and wants revenge in walks Allister Smythe and his newest Spider Slayer, but Jamison keeps loosing control of the robot is it him or is it Smythe who is in control, either are not good for Spiderman. Flash Thompson Returns from the jungles of Vietnam much more serious. He is getting followed for what some believe are war crimes, Spiderman saves him and believes his innocence, but a there is a bigger force that Spiderman can't protect him, enter Dr. Strange.
What I Liked: The Spider Slayer storyline was great and a welcomed return for Stan Lee back in the helm. The Spiderman quips were great and so were the editorial ones. I liked the Morbius backstory and how the Lizard got involved in the story and how he changed. I liked Gwen and Spiderman's relationship the best, Gwen has a moment where she snaps at Aunt May for babying him and it was great. I liked that they discussed soldiers returning from Vietnam and dipped into the Civil Rights protest again as well. I thought more could be done with the 6 armed Spiderman but it was still pretty fun having him get used to them.
What I Disliked: The Savage Land storyline was a horrible remake of King Kong when he was on Skull Island an excuse to draw Gwen Stacy in a bikini. Te only bright spot was Kraven the Hunter. I laughed in the backstory for Morbius he changes from man to Vampire due to a rare blood disease that he tries to cure when he turns to vampire it changed his regular clothes to a costume.
Recommendation: I liked more than half of the stories, this book had good insight in to social issues at the time. I thought some of the storytelling could have been stronger but it was still interesting and worth your time. I rated Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 11 by Stan Lee 4 out of 5 stars.
The Plot Summaries:Peter Parker ready for a normal life concocts a formula to reverse his spider powers only it has the opposite effect and makes him more spider like and grows extra limbs. Perker wants to run from the world and can with Dr. Kurt Connors help and his summer home by the beach, but little does Spiderman know another creature is trying to hide from the world named Morbius the Living Vampire. The Daily Bugle is in trouble and Jonah Jamison thinks a picture of a rare monster form the Savage Land will do it, and he knows just the photographer. Jamison is humiliated by Spiderman and wants revenge in walks Allister Smythe and his newest Spider Slayer, but Jamison keeps loosing control of the robot is it him or is it Smythe who is in control, either are not good for Spiderman. Flash Thompson Returns from the jungles of Vietnam much more serious. He is getting followed for what some believe are war crimes, Spiderman saves him and believes his innocence, but a there is a bigger force that Spiderman can't protect him, enter Dr. Strange.
What I Liked: The Spider Slayer storyline was great and a welcomed return for Stan Lee back in the helm. The Spiderman quips were great and so were the editorial ones. I liked the Morbius backstory and how the Lizard got involved in the story and how he changed. I liked Gwen and Spiderman's relationship the best, Gwen has a moment where she snaps at Aunt May for babying him and it was great. I liked that they discussed soldiers returning from Vietnam and dipped into the Civil Rights protest again as well. I thought more could be done with the 6 armed Spiderman but it was still pretty fun having him get used to them.
What I Disliked: The Savage Land storyline was a horrible remake of King Kong when he was on Skull Island an excuse to draw Gwen Stacy in a bikini. Te only bright spot was Kraven the Hunter. I laughed in the backstory for Morbius he changes from man to Vampire due to a rare blood disease that he tries to cure when he turns to vampire it changed his regular clothes to a costume.
Recommendation: I liked more than half of the stories, this book had good insight in to social issues at the time. I thought some of the storytelling could have been stronger but it was still interesting and worth your time. I rated Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 11 by Stan Lee 4 out of 5 stars.
April 22, 2020
The return of John Romita on some of the art elevates this volume above some generic plots.
It's notable for the first appearance of Morbius in a pretty great series of issues that has Spidey accidentally giving himself four extra arms and then shacking up in the Lizard's Long Island mansion lab to try to cure himself. That's when the Living Vampire shows up. And then the Lizard himself.
After that, there's another attempt by JJ Jameson to use one of Professor Smythe's Spider-Slayer robots to defeat Spidey. I haven't enjoyed any of the previous three attempts and this one isn't great either. There's a kind of cool plot about Smythe's tricking the NYPD into installing spy cameras all over the city, but Smythe is such a lame villain that it's hard to take him seriously.
This volume does include a fun side-quest to the Savage Land when JJJ hires Peter (and Gwen!) to go photograph a newly discovered creature there. Roy Thomas wrote this one.
Even though Stan Lee comes back to finish the volume, it ends pretty well with the return of Flash Thompson from Vietnam, but with his life in danger from some religious zealots who are unjustly angry with him. There's some dumb drama with Peter's being insecure about Gwen and Flash hanging out, but it's mostly below-the-surface and never boils over into Peter acting like a complete jerk. Maybe he's maturing? Doctor Strange shows up at the end to assist with Flash's rescue, so that's fun.
It's notable for the first appearance of Morbius in a pretty great series of issues that has Spidey accidentally giving himself four extra arms and then shacking up in the Lizard's Long Island mansion lab to try to cure himself. That's when the Living Vampire shows up. And then the Lizard himself.
After that, there's another attempt by JJ Jameson to use one of Professor Smythe's Spider-Slayer robots to defeat Spidey. I haven't enjoyed any of the previous three attempts and this one isn't great either. There's a kind of cool plot about Smythe's tricking the NYPD into installing spy cameras all over the city, but Smythe is such a lame villain that it's hard to take him seriously.
This volume does include a fun side-quest to the Savage Land when JJJ hires Peter (and Gwen!) to go photograph a newly discovered creature there. Roy Thomas wrote this one.
Even though Stan Lee comes back to finish the volume, it ends pretty well with the return of Flash Thompson from Vietnam, but with his life in danger from some religious zealots who are unjustly angry with him. There's some dumb drama with Peter's being insecure about Gwen and Flash hanging out, but it's mostly below-the-surface and never boils over into Peter acting like a complete jerk. Maybe he's maturing? Doctor Strange shows up at the end to assist with Flash's rescue, so that's fun.
October 12, 2020
This was a very mixed bag of a book. The first arc was a classic one - Peter Parker trying to cure himself of his spider powers but resulting in him becoming a 6-armed man. Throw in the first appearance of Morbius the Living Vampire along with some unusual Lizard action and we have a pretty interesting adventure.
The second arc about the Spider-Slayers was fun but not like amazing, despite the title of the book. Beyond trying to defeat Spider-Man, there wasn't much of a big plan there.
The last arc about Flash Thompson and something haunting him from his past in Vietnam wasn't great at all and probably didn't age all too well. It just felt so left-field and in the end, became a contrived reason to pull in a guest start for the final book in the story.
The second arc about the Spider-Slayers was fun but not like amazing, despite the title of the book. Beyond trying to defeat Spider-Man, there wasn't much of a big plan there.
The last arc about Flash Thompson and something haunting him from his past in Vietnam wasn't great at all and probably didn't age all too well. It just felt so left-field and in the end, became a contrived reason to pull in a guest start for the final book in the story.
May 2, 2022
Hard to give this one a rating because it's all so over the place. The six arms-arc is wacky, but also entertaining and has two great villains at once. The King Kong adventure by another writer I found to be entertaining (from what I've seen it's pretty hated?) and the Spider-Crawler and Vietnam stories were just kinda okay. I liked a lot about this and I'm glad they introduced so many new villains but some of it was a bit underwhelming.
Really curious about the passing of the torch, though. Stan Lee only writes one issue after this collection and then it's Gerry Conway time!
Really curious about the passing of the torch, though. Stan Lee only writes one issue after this collection and then it's Gerry Conway time!
July 3, 2020
Spidey and Parker are still less interesting than the supporting cast, but this collection started to change that. Peter's constant anxiety about Gwendy and Aunt May drive him to do some pretty desperate things, especially near the end of this collection. His commitment to his secret identity continues to be the biggest hindrance to his happiness, though, and it's becoming an annoyance. Overall, though, the team continues to deliver.
January 10, 2021
Quite wacky in parts. Mainly because of editorial tomfoolery.
September 17, 2023
The Amazing Spider-Man #100-109
January 14, 2025
One ish has Dr. Strange;Flash Thompson comes back from 'Na, Jameson joins protestors; Spidey uses the Lizard's lab a couple of times
October 27, 2013
This volume seems to be scrambling for a new take on the familiar formula, but it goes pretty far afield, especially in the early issues where Roy Thomas takes over the plotting. Spider-Man famously gets four extra arms thanks to an experiment gone awry, then decamps to the Savage Land with J. Jonah Jameson and Gwen Stacy. These issues are pretty oddball, and they fall outside the "street-level hero with problems" theme Lee has established to date.
Thinks get back to normal with Lee on the reins as Jameson takes another crack at a Spider-slayer robot. But they get weird again with a Flash Thompson story featuring Vietnamese mystics, human sacrifice, post-traumatic stress disorder and Dr. Strange. Yikes! Thankfully, the foreign cast of characters here isn't rendered too offensively, but I'd welcome a return to the more familiar in the next volume.
Read digital versions.
Thinks get back to normal with Lee on the reins as Jameson takes another crack at a Spider-slayer robot. But they get weird again with a Flash Thompson story featuring Vietnamese mystics, human sacrifice, post-traumatic stress disorder and Dr. Strange. Yikes! Thankfully, the foreign cast of characters here isn't rendered too offensively, but I'd welcome a return to the more familiar in the next volume.
Read digital versions.
August 24, 2014
Spiderman gains 4 arms, goes to the Savage Land, fights the spider slayer and saves Flash Thompson in this volume. The stories are decent and rely more on character than fights for the story line. I particularly liked the 4 arms story, as it was a nice twist on the idea of the Spiderman. A good read.
February 14, 2016
The Marvel Masterworks volumes are fantastic reprints of the early years of Marvel comics. A fantastic resource to allow these hard to find issues to be read by everyone. Very recommended to everyone and Highly recommended to any comic fan.
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