What's black and white and red and blue all over? Long thought lost to avid arachnophiles, three years' worth of Spider-Man's newspaper adventures - from January 1977 to January 1980 - are collected in their entirety for the first time across two volumes! Spiderdom's top talents set the web-slinger up with daily doses of enemies old and new, from Kraven the Hunter to the Rattler! Collects Stan Lee/John Romita's Spider-Man daily strips and Sunday pages, originally published from 1977-1980.
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Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. Nevertheless: Having begun his career with wartime Timely Comics and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic-book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry's greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men and more -- forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee entered new entertainment fields and earned Marvel one opportunity after another. He remains one of Marvel's best-known public representatives.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Why no Color Sundays?!!,
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This review is from: Spider-Man Newspaper Strips -Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Ah, the 70's. Spider-Man made a few appearances in various different media in the 1970s. Some good, (Spider-Man Rockcomix),some not so, (the terrible TV show). These Newspaper strips were one of the high points. Written by Stan Lee, drawn by John Romita. Although it followed a different continuity than the books, it felt like an continuation of Lee/Romita run from the 60, prior Spider-man 100.
Romita was at the top of his game, and the art was fantastic. The Sunday strips were half pages in full bright color. The New York Daily News at the time had a great Sunday Funnies color section, with bright pages. Here my problem with this collection. NO Color. The Sunday strips should have been represented in the original Sunday size and Color. With this collection, all the strips are formatted as daily black and white strips. Bummer. Come on Marvel. My review, poor presentation-though great content.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Marvel drops the ball with book format,
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This review is from: Spider-Man Newspaper Strips -Volume 1 (Hardcover)
My review rating is heavily weighted on book presentation and format. I feel Marvel shorted fans with the physical arrangement of the newspaper strips.
The material runs parallel to the spine - so the book must be held like a girlie mag centerfold, making it very uncomfortable to read. Additionally, the gutters near the spine are not sufficient, causing parts of some strips to "roll" into the middle. I guess an argument can be made not to color the Sunday strips for story continuity (the dailies' plots were continued in the Sundays), but who are we kidding? Marvel went cheap. It's too bad. The content was a great highlight of Silver/Bronze Age Spider-Man characterizations and situations. Stan Lee's cornball alliterations and snappy barbs were perfect for newspaper strips. John Romita's art served the stories well and were great examples of design, composition, and facial expressions to budding comic book artists. My only complaint on the art was the constant changing of inkers/letterers. To be fair, who knew the work was to be compiled 30 years later and invite comparison of successive strips? I just wish Marvel would look at the great job Fantagraphics and other companies have done with comic strip reproductions. This should have been an easy production job.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Strips small and hard to read,
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This review is from: Spider-Man Newspaper Strips -Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Received this book today and I'm not a happy camper. As a previous reviewer mentioned, the book is printed sideways, three strips to a page with a large wasted border at top and bottom, pretty much the only colour I saw in the book. You have to hold the book sideways like a Playboy centerfold to read and the strips are about the same size as they were in the original newspaper printings. If Marvel had printed them in larger format, two strips to a page like they did the last few pages, I could live with the sideways printing but not at three to a page. At least in the DC reprints of the Superman and Batman newspaper strips the publisher had the common sense to bind the books on the short side.
In fact, now that I think of it, almost all of the strip reprints I've bought (Denis Kitchen's Little Abner, Terry & the Pirates, Gasoline Alley, Buck Rogers, the recent Hagar the Horrible, even the old Flying Buttress Captain Easy books) were bound on the short side and printed large enough to study and enjoy the artwork. I realize newspaper strips are the Incredible Shrinking Medium but... Sorry, folks. I won't be buying any more in this series and I'm seriously considering returning it.
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