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Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 19 (Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998)) Kindle & comiXology

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Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #193-202, Annual (1964) #13, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual (1979) #1.

The Amazing Spider-Man swings toward his historic 200th issue! Peter Parker has faced villain after villain over the course of his heroic career, but despite all those victories, one moment will forever torment him — the death of his Uncle Ben. And now, our hero is struck low when not only does Aunt May die, but the man who killed Uncle Ben returns! It's a saga that plumbs the emotional depths of Peter Parker's life like no other. As Spidey struggles through his grief, old villains and new faces emerge: the Kingpin returns and the Black Cat makes her fi rst appearance. Spidey faces Doc Ock in an Annual extravaganza.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07199HKXG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (June 14, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1022784 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 294 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Marv Wolfman
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Marv Wolfman has created more characters that have gone on to television, animation, movies and toys than any other comics creator since Stan Lee. Marv is the writer-creator of Blade, the Vampire Hunter which has been turned into three hit movies starring Wesley Snipes, as well as a TV series. Marv also created Bullseye, the prime villain in the 2003 movie, Daredevil, and was the writer-creator of the New Teen Titans which was a runaway hit show on the Cartoon Network. It has also been picked up as a live action movie. Marv's character Cyborg, has also been featured on the TV show Smallville, while his Superman creation, Cat Grant, was a regular on the Lois And Clark, The New Adventures of Superman TV series. Many of Marv's other characters have appeared on many animated series.

Beyond comics, Marv writes video games, novels, cartoons, animation and lots more. Marv wrote the direct-to-video animated movie, The Condor, for POW Entertainment, released in March, 2007, and just completed his newest direct-to-DVD animated movie, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" based on his own comic story. Marv also wrote the novelization of Superman Returns" - which won the industry SCRIBE Award for best speculative fiction novel adapted, as well as co-wrote the "Superman Returns" Electronic Arts video-game. His book "Homeland," the Illustrated History of the State of Israel" was published in April 2007 and has already won many awards including the prestigious National Jewish Book Award. He has also written a novel based on his own comic, Crisis on Infinite Earths which was published in April, 2005. Marv was also Editorial Director for 15 graphic albums for the educational market, targeting high school students who read with a 3rd -5th grade level.

Marv co-created and co-wrote The Gene Pool, a feature length live-action movie. Marv also co-created, story-edited and was co-Executive Producer of Pocket Dragon Adventures, a 52-episode animated series appearing on the Bohbot TV network. Marv has written dozens of animated TV episodes as well as developed and story-edited the animated series' The Transformers, The Adventures of Superman and Monster Force.

Marv has also been Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics, senior editor at DC Comics and founding editor of Disney Adventures magazine. He has also edited and produced educational comics and was given a special commendation by the White House for his work on three anti-drug comics for the "Just Say No" program.

Marv is married to his lovely wife, Noel, a senior producer at Blizzard entertainment, and has a wonderful daughter, Jessica, from his first marriage. Marv & Noel also have a obstreperous Keeshond dog named Elle Dee Deux (L.D.) who is currently chewing on everything that is and isn't nailed down.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017
The 19th Amazing Spider-Man masterwork volume takes us into the 1980s and beyond the 200th anniversary issue. In his introduction, writer Marv Wolfman states that he was reluctant to take on the title as he didn't feel he could do it justice but judging from the books collected here he need not have worried. This masterwork comes in at just under 300 pages but the pacing throughout is so fast they seem to fly by quickly.

Wolfman basically builds on the foundations that other creators laid previously but he starts out by introducing a new villainess for Spider-Man to face. She proves to be a handful for him, not least because of his reluctance to overpower her like he does male adversaries and her constant flirting with him. In the meantime Mysterio is running the retirement home that Aunt May resides at. In an interesting and convoluted plot he tries an interesting way to stop Peter Parker's visits but ensures the attention of Spider-Man. The Kingpin also becomes involved in an exciting multi-issue arc that takes us through a double sized issue #200. The two Spider-Man Annuals (Amazing and Spectacular) have two related Dr. Octopus stories, and although not horrible, are the weakest stories in this collection. This volume closes out with an above average Punisher story.

Parker's supporting cast contributes most of the subplots. Jameson has a nervous breakdown, Parker is fired and now works for the Globe (who has a mysterious publisher), and Barney Bushkin and April Maye of the Globe begin to appear more often.

The art is handled by Keith Pollard with some fill ins by others. Pollard is a competent Spider-Man artist, about on the same level as Jim Mooney but below Romita or Ditko. Indeed, Mooney does a lot of the inking but he doesn't overpower Pollard's pencils.

Extras are about average and include some original art, unused covers, house ads, and the aforementioned Wolfman introduction.

Highly recommended. The first Spectacular Spider-Man masterwork comes out next month and we'll see how well these collections proceed with one masterwork line per title. I would have folded both titles into the same collection line.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018
Not quite as great as the previous Silver Age, but a lot of fun, nonetheless, and a lot of important changes in the Spidey "world" take place in this edition.

You just have to get "used" to the other artists that drew Spiderman, as in the first 300 issues of this run, it was bookended by the best artists, with others, Such as Ross Andru, filling in the middle.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2017
I got this on digital to read on my IPad so as not to soil up the limted edition book copy. I enjoy the storylines with Black Cat and her premiere started in these issues in the book. Black Cat and Spiderman has always been a good romance story and action filled issues to follow.
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021
I read these issues as they came out (albeit with about a 4-month lag, due to their being reprinted into two-issues-at-a-time Australian newsprint reprints) and I was riveted. I still have a high opinion of most of them--through issue #199 (with the exception of #197, which I accept is an awkward case of padding). I believed Aunt May was dead at the time and was disappointed in early 1980 to find in #200 that it was just a hoax. Through #199, I find her "death" plot handled well (and I don't oppose the return of the Burglar from Spider-Man's origin). Re-reading #200, I find the exposition of the return of Spider-Man's super-powers very unclear--it's not adequately explained at what point in the story he has (largely) regained them.
I didn't in 1980, and don't in 2021, like issues #201-#202, in large part because then, as now, I find the notion that the Punisher uses "mercy bullets" from which those shot can recover (perhaps even without hospitalization) a cop-out and inconsistent with both how the Punisher's shooting is depicted visually (they're clearly not light pellets or anything like that) and the sheer medical seriousness of being shot. Are we really to believe a "mercy bullet" that strikes into the body at high velocity and that hits the heart or other vital organs is something you can wake up and walk away from?
When I read these issues at the time, my belief that Aunt May had died was reinforced by reading (before #200) a reference to the bills for her funeral in Peter Parker Annual #1 (also provided in this collection). This was later classified (in the official 1985 index mentioned below) as a story occurring after #200, and the order in which the annual is placed in this collection conforms to this classification. So Peter's reference to the funeral bills must now be interpreted as a reference to expenses that he had to pay despite Aunt May's death turning out to be a hoax. The remark in the annual is made when listing his recent expenses (and perhaps making his interlocutor feel guilty for suggesting that his student stipend covers all his living costs), so the remark in this revised context does make sense.
The Mysterio story in the leadup to #200 received little-concealed criticism in the usually-neutral 1985 Official Marvel Index to Spider-Man on account of the holes in the plot, especially with regard to the apparent non-setting-off of Peter Parker's Spider-sense in the presence of Mysterio in disguise. That criticism is probably valid, although the near-overt nature of the index's criticism may have had something to do with the fact that the author (Marv Wolfman) had since become a star author for DC. Incidentally, the Mysterio storyline here takes for granted that the amount of time (three years) since Mysterio's previous appearance in the Spider-Man comic is the same span of time that has occurred for the characters, with no apparent indication of time compression. (And the reprinted 1979 ASM annual has Spider-Man refer to his most recent meeting with Doctor Octopus as having been years before, as though Octopus' previous appearance in 1976 was indeed years ago from the characters' perspective.) Issue #200 also implies that Aunt May and Mary Jane's aunt are the same age--something that I don't think is consistent with the impression given up to that point. The story also describes Prohibition as "back in the Thirties" (it wasn't).
At the opening of issue #200, Wolfman describes Stan Lee as Spider-Man's creator, without mentioning Steve Ditko. This posture is a little surprising, as Wolfman during this era did describe Jack Kirby as the FF's co-creator and was also actually himself working with Ditko (in the Tomb of Dracula magazine).
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Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2018
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Tim Gronlund
5.0 out of 5 stars ... fan and want to read some of the earlier amazing spiderman stories without having to collect every individual issue ...
Reviewed in Canada on December 1, 2017
If your a Spiderman fan and want to read some of the earlier amazing spiderman stories without having to collect every individual issue and pay out those collector dollars. This is the best way to do it. You'll get 12-13 issues of amazing in full color art. You can't go wrong, I just wish they would put more of these books out more often. As of now theyre up to amazing spiderman 781. They've got a long way to go to catch up. But that said these books are masterworks.
George-Philip
5.0 out of 5 stars One more to collection
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2018
A wonderful volume, with some really amazing issues, I fully enjoyed collecting it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2018
Classic Spidey collection of adventures with Keith Pollard and other incredible cartoonist.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2018
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