With Great Power….

As a teenager, Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive arachnid, granting him the amazing powers of Spider-Man. Peter has since matured into a young adult, but he hasn’t forgotten the lessons of his youth: With great power, there must come great responsibility.

……Comes Great Responsiblity

Created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Spider-man first appeared in the last issue of a comic called Amazing Fanasty. Amazing fanasty #15 sold very well and Spidey got his own comic one year later in Amazing Spider-man. Spider-man later went on in other comics, tv spinoffs, video games, and finally the movies.

Amazing Fanasty #15

 

Amazing Fantasy was a popular comic book that originally began under the name Amazing Adventures in June 1961, running anthological monster, science fiction and suspense stories, and introducing the fledgling Marvel’s first continuing character, the paranormal adventurer Dr. Droom — renamed Dr. Druid when brought back in the 1970s as a supporting character. He was phased out when the book’s title changed, with issue #7 (Dec. 1961), to Amazing Adult Fantasy, a name intended to reflect the more “sophisticated” nature of its new exclusive content, the quick, quirky, twist-ending tales of writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. It carried the motto, “The magazine that respects your intelligence.”

With issue #15 (Aug. 1962), as Lee has recounted in his book Origins of Marvel Comics and elsewhere, the series, now titled Amazing Fantasy, was slated for cancellation. With nothing to lose, publisher Martin Goodman allowed Lee to experiment with a new kind of superhero — one who would be a teenager, but not a sidekick, and who would have everyman doubts, neuroses and money problems, as well as what Goodman considered a terrible name. Lee and Ditko’s Spider-Man wound up proving immensely popular, and Marvel quickly launched The Amazing Spider-Man comic book.

Amazing Spider-man

 

The Amazing Spider-Man was launched, issue #1 appearing in March 1963. Writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Steve Ditko produced 38 issues of Amazing from 1963 to 1966. Since then, many writers and artists have taken over the monthly comic over the years chronicling the adventures of Marvel’s most identifiable hero.The Amazing Spider-Man is considered to be the “lead” Spider-Man title, as it was the first (and for many years, the only) regular Spider-Man comic, and it has been in print since 1963. Most of the major characters and villains of the Spider-Man saga were introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man, and many (but not all) of the key events occurred in the title too.

The title was published continuously until 1998 when Marvel Comics decided to begin it anew by renumbering the title with a new issue #1 published in January, 1999. In 2003 this new title reverted to using the numbering of the original series, at issue #500.

Spectacular Spider-man

 

The Spectacular Spider-Man was initially a two-issue magazine published by Marvel in 1968, as an experiment in entering the black-and-white comic-magazine market successfully pioneered by Warren Publishing and others. It sold for 35 cents when standard comic books cost 12 cents and annuals and giants 25 cents. The first issue (July 1968) featured a painted, color cover with a 52-page black-and-white Spider-Man story, “Lo, This Monster!”, by writer Stan Lee, with art by penciler John Romita, Sr. and inker Jim Mooney. A 10-page origin story, “In The Beginning!”, was by Lee, penciler Larry Lieber and inker Bill Everett. The feature story was reprinted in color, with some small alterations and bridging material by Gerry Conway, in The Amazing Spider-Man #116-118 (Jan.-March 1973) as “Suddenly…The Smasher!”, “The Deadly Designs Of The Disruptor!”, and “Countdown To Chaos!” (with additional inking by Tony Mortellaro on the latter two). These versions were themselves reprinted in Marvel Tales #95-97 (Sept.-Oct. 1978).

Peter Parker Spider-man

 

Peter Parker: Spider-Man (originally titled simply Spider-Man), was a monthly comic book series published by Marvel Comics that ran for 98 issues from 1990-1998. The series was retitled Peter Parker: Spider-Man with issue #75, but only on the covers (the series was still under its original Spider-Man title in the comic’s legal indicia, printed on the title page, from #75-98; the comic book would not officially be titled Peter Parker: Spider-Man until the Vol. 2 series relaunch). The series originally was conceived as a showcase for Todd McFarlane. McFarlane, who until then had only been known as an artist, was hugely popular at the time and the series was created by editor Jim Salicrup so that McFarlane could write, pencil and ink a Spider-Man title of his own. Though panned by critics the series was a massive sales success. McFarlane stayed on the title until #16 in 1991. He would go on to create the character Spawn and help found Image Comics in 1992.

The series had a brief interlude in July, 1997 with Marvel’s one-month “Flashback” stunt, when all Marvel titles were numbered -1 and each was set before the events of Fantastic Four #1. This #-1 was published between #81-82. The series then continued uninterrupted until the arrival of John Byrne to the Spider-Man titles heralded a relaunch of the entire line. The book was cancelled with #98 (Dec. 1998) and relaunched as Vol. 2 almost immediately afterward.

Ultimate Spider-man

 

Ultimate Spider-man is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel’s long-running Spider-Man comic book franchise. Ultimate Spider-Man is set outside the Marvel Universe continuity, in the Ultimate Marvel Universe, which it introduced.

The protagonist of Ultimate Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a teenager who lives in Queens, New York. He is bitten by a genetically altered spider and inherits its powers, including enhanced strength, agility and reflexes. When a burglar that Peter refuses to stop kills his uncle, he feels guilty and dedicates his life to fighting crime as the costumed vigilante Spider-Man. Peter tries to balance school, a job, a girlfriend, his family life with his widowed aunt, and his activities as Spider-Man. In contrast to the mainstream Spider-Man concept, Ultimate Spider-Man strongly focuses on genetic engineering as plot devices and largely bypasses such elements as radiation, magic, aliens and space opera. Ultimate Spider-Man first saw print in 2000 under veteran Spider-Man artist Mark Bagley and writer Brian Michael Bendis, who expanded the original 11-page origin story into a 180-page story arc. This duo has been collaborating to this day. [1] As of Issue #110, however, Mark Bagley will be leaving the book [2]. Stuart Immonen has been confirmed as his replacement

Marvel Age Spider-man

 

Marvel Age is an imprint of Marvel Comics intended for younger audiences, including children, established in 2003. It succeeded the failed Tsunami imprint. All Marvel Age titles are collected in the smaller digest-sized format rather than the standard American comic book size format they were originally published in. Unlike the standard comics Marvel publishes which take place in story arcs spanning several issues, each Marvel Age comic is a standalone. In 2005 the imprint became Marvel Adventures, with Marvel Age Spider-Man and Marvel Age Fantastic Four being restarted as Marvel Adventures Spider-Man and Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four and a four issue mini-series, Marvel Adventures The Thing, being released. The other titles that were not part of the Marvel Age continuity, including Emma Frost, Runaways, Mary Jane and Spider-Girl, were excluded from the new imprint (the individual issues of Emma Frost, Runaways and Spider-Girl had never used the Marvel Age trade dress anyway).