The Very Best of Spider-Man

As a great primer to the world of Spider-Man or just a neat collection for fans, The Very Best of Spider-Man shines. From the first story in Amazing Fantasy #15 and running up through the McFarlane era in the early 90's, it provides an interesting and engaging overview of the character and the talents who have developed him.You get Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr., Tom DeFalco, Roger Stern, Mark Bagley, McFarlane, and more, really giving the reader a sense of how Spidey (and comics) has evolved.Being that this book is from 1994, it was current up through that time. I'd LOVE to see an updated version, to include at least one story featuring John Romita Jr., and maybe one of the Ultimate stories with Brian Michael Bendis. Maybe even a couple of the better late 90's stories, before the book got revitalized.This was also printed before Marvel upped the overall quality of presentation regarding their collections and graphic novels, so the paper quality could be better. However, at less than [price], it's an awesome collection of Spidey stories to get any webhead-follower pumped.

The Very Best of Spider-Man (published in 1994) is a collection of selected stories that really show why Spider-Man is one of the best comic book superheroes ever created. He is one of Marvel Comics' most recognized characters. These were very entertaining stories, but I still wondered if more stories could have been inserted as well. This book only reprinted eight stories in total. I really thought that more stories could have been included. Overall, I was still satisfied with this collection.

I bought the book and I really liked it. I thought it was the best paperback of the spider-man series. The book was a bunch of short comic stories about peter parker first becoming spider man to fight his worse enemys.