This compelling compilation re-presents the rise of the wallcrawler as first seen in Amazing Spider-Man #11-19 and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (spanning cover-dates April – December 1964) and is lettered throughout by unsung superstars Sam Rosen & Art Simek, allowing newcomers and veteran readers to comprehensively relive some of the greatest moments in sequential narrative. Lee & Kirby had responded with The Fantastic Four and so-ahead-of-its-time Incredible Hulk, but there was no indication of the renaissance ahead when officially just-cancelled Amazing Fantasy featured a brand new and rather eerie adventure character… Amazing Adventures/Amazing Adult Fantasy featured a subtler brand of yarn than Rampaging Aliens and Furry Underpants Monsters: an ilk which, though individually entertaining, had been slowly losing traction in the world of comics ever since National/DC had successfully reintroduced costumed heroes. His drawing could be oddly disquieting… and, when he wanted, decidedly creepy.Ĭrafting extremely well-received monster and mystery tales for and with Stan Lee, Ditko had been rewarded with his own title. He saw heroism and humour and ultimate evil all contained within the frail but noble confines of humanity. Always questing for affirming detail, he ever explored the man within. Steve Ditko was quiet and unassuming, diffident to the point of invisibility, but his work was both subtle and striking: innovative and meticulously polished. However, there was another unique visionary toiling at Atlas-Comics-as-was, one whose creativity and philosophy seemed diametrically opposed to the bludgeoning power, vast imaginative scope and clean, gleaming futurism that resulted from Kirby’s ever-expanding search for the external and infinite. Marvel is often termed “the House that Jack Built” and King Kirby’s contributions are undeniable and inescapable in the creation of a new kind of comic book storytelling. If you opt for the digital editions, that’s no issue at all. Your eyesight might be failing and your hands too big and shaky, but at 152 x 227mm, they’re perfect for kids. These new books are far cheaper, on lower quality paper and smaller, about the dimensions of a paperback book. These stories are timeless and have been gathered many times before but this time we’re looking at The Mighty Marvel Masterworks line: designed with economy in mind and newcomers as target audience. However, I’m one of those radicals who feel that 1963 was when he was really born, so let’s start the New Year with acknowledgement of that opinion and warning of many more of the same over the next 12 months… ISBN: 978-1-3029-3195-7 (TPB/Digital edition)Īs any fule kno, The Amazing Spider-Man celebrated his 60 th anniversary in 2022. By Stan Lee & Steve Ditko, with Sam Rosen & Art Simek (MARVEL)
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