The series was sadly cut short after just twenty-five issues, but it has long remained a bright spot in the memories of Spider-Man fans, finally collected in its entirety in this omnibus. Whereas the Spider-Man books of the mid-90s were centered on Ben Reilly and trying to introduce an all-new supporting cast for him, this series instead focused on the classic Spider-Man supporting cast, and even added a few new characters into the mix, to keep things all the more interesting. Busiek, no stranger to continuity, used the series to tell new stories set in Spider-Man’s first few years in the costume, set in and around the classic Stan Lee/Steve Ditko issues of Amazing Spider-Man. The series was clearly a blast for creators Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe, a book which had a very timeless feel to it, while at the same time being deeply rooted in the Silver Age era of Spider-Man. The series was a rarity for the time, as it was an extremely well-written book set in Spider-Man’s past, long before clones were part of a Spider-Man fan’s lexicon. In the mid-nineties, shortly after Ben Reilly was revealed to be the “one and true Spider-Man”, Marvel published a relatively short-lived comic called Untold Tales of Spider-Man.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |