The Amazing Spider-Man
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Book short specifications
- Author
- Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Ben Saunders
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Series
- Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
- Language
- english
- Release date
- June 14, 2022
- Foreword
- Jason Reynolds
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-313573-9
- GTIN
- 9780143135739
About
It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.
This anthology contains 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 must 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 Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-colour art throughout.