Essential Spider-Man - Volume 1

Marvel, Mar 8, 2006 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 568 pages

While attending a demonstration on radiation, high school student Peter Parker was bitten by a spider that had been exposed to radioactive rays. Learning he had gained great arachnid-like abilities, the timid teenager donned a colorful costume of his own design - seeking fame and fortune as the Amazing Spider-Man! But his Uncle Ben's death - tragedy he could have prevented - taught Peter that with great power there must also come great responsibility...and on that day a legend was born!

About the author

Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan, New York on December 28, 1922. During World War II, he wrote training manuals stateside in the Army Signal Corps while moonlighting as a comics writer. He joined Marvel Comics in the early 1940s and worked there for 60 years. He was a central player in the creation of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and the X-Men. He wrote several books including Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee written with George Mair, Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir written with Peter David, and A Trick of Light written with Kat Rosenfield. He died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Essential Spider-Man - Volume 1
• author of text accompanying photos: Stan Lee
• Illustrated by: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby
• Publisher: Marvel, 2006
• ISBN: 0785121927, 9780785121923
• Length: 568 pages
• Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes