January 19, 2007

Upcoming Ditko - Spider-Man Omnibus

Big Ditko publication coming up in a few months. It's also good to see a collection like this stopping at a logical place. Quite a bargain, too, given that it takes four volumes of MARVEL MASTERWORKS to get all of these, at $50 each, and this should look better than at least the earlier editions of the MASTERWORKS. Plus of course the letter columns and other stuff.



AMAZING SPIDER-MAN OMNIBUS VOL. 1 HC
Written by STAN LEE & STEVE DITKO
Penciled by STEVE DITKO with JACK KIRBY
Cover by JACK KIRBY & STEVE DITKO
Variant Painted Cover by ALEX ROSS

In 1962, in the pages of a comic book slated for cancellation, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave birth to one of the most-enduring icons in American popular media: the one and only Amazing Spider-Man! Turning the concept of a super hero on its head, they imbued the young, guilt-ridden Peter Parker with the fantastic powers of an arachnid and the fantastic pressures of an everyday teenager. The combination was pure magic.
During the course of 40 issues of web-slinging, wisecracking wonderment Lee and Ditko built the foundation for 45 years of Spidey spectaculars — girl trouble; bill trouble; bully trouble; the Daily Bugle; and a cast friends, family and, of course, super-villains unlike any other!
Completing the entire Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Spider-Man run in one massive volume —including every page, every pinup and every letters column. Not to mention unused covers, critical essays and bonuses galore!
We went back to the Mighty Marvel Archive to restore each and every page in this volume for painstaking accuracy to the originals. There’s no kidding — this collector’s edition is the guaranteed be-all, end-all book for the Spider-Man fan!
Collecting AMAZING FANTASY #15, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1-38 and ANNUAL #1-2, STRANGE TALES ANNUAL #2, and FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #1.
1088 PGS. $99.99
ISBN: 0-7851-2402-0

1 comment:

  1. Speaking of upcoming Ditko, you might want to provide a link to the TwoMorrows site, specifically Alter Ego # 68. Advertised is a very interesting artifact that will appear there for the first time. I look forward to seeing this!

    Nick Caputo

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