The Amazing Spider-Man (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection)

A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition

Collects “Spider-Man!” from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962); The Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19 (1963-1964); “Good-bye to Linda Brown” from Strange Tales #97 (1962); “How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man!” from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964). It’s unimaginable to believe American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on more than one levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations at the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a couple of.

This anthology accommodates twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man’s publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre—by insisting that with great power there will have to also come great responsibility.

A foreword by Jason Reynolds and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of The Amazing Spider-Man and classic Marvel comics.

The Deluxe Hardcover edition features gold foil stamping, gold top stain edges, special endpapers with artwork spotlighting series villains, and full-color art during.