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Post by impulse on May 8, 2014 1:23:57 GMT -5
Thanks, all. I appreciate the suggestions. I may try digital. Hard to beat $10 a month. I prefer physical copies but I barely have room to store the comics I already have to say nothing of the cost.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 8, 2014 12:07:14 GMT -5
If you want hard-copies, it's always worth trying the library. (And inter-library loan - I've abused the hell out of inter-library loan in my time.) Worth linking: Comics Should Be Good fan-voted 50 Greatest Spider-Man Stories of All Time. |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 8, 2014 12:31:45 GMT -5
Not a comic obviously, but you can't go wrong with Greg Weisman/Sean "Cheeks" Galloway's short-lived Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon.
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Post by impulse on May 8, 2014 13:09:55 GMT -5
I have made copious use of the library in the past. I just moved a year ago, and I really miss the old library system... great collection of comics/TPBs and audiobooks, digital downloads, doorstep courier service... I almost can't believe it was "free."
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Post by hondobrode on May 9, 2014 0:17:07 GMT -5
 And how better than Peter Bagge to put this together ? Perfect |
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Post by pmpknface on May 9, 2014 9:56:34 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on May 9, 2014 11:50:49 GMT -5
Add my voice to the chorus of Lee/Ditko advocates, noting that if you want them at the peak of their collaboration you can concentrate on Amazing #14 through 33 plus the first two Annuals. I also recommend the Conway/Wein/Andru run from Amazing #124-178, including the five Giant-Sizes. Andru is an amazing visual storyteller. His use of staging and page layout to guide the eye panel by panel through the detailed environments he creates (his backgrounds are epic, especially considering they are hand drawn on '70s-era deadlines and for '70s-era page rates) should be required reading for anyone hoping to draw comics regardless of genre or style. The writing isn't as strong. I prefer Wein's plotting and scripting to Conway's but Gerry's run does include the debut of the Punisher, Harry's first appearance as the Goblin, and the original Spidey clone story so...
Cei-U!
I summon the Mindworm, the Grizzly and Stegron the Dinosaur Man!
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Post by Hoosier X on May 9, 2014 18:05:56 GMT -5
If the Ditko Spider-Man seems a little primitive for your tastes, I second Cei-U on the Ross Andru, though I'd start a little earlier (pre-Andru) with #121, the death of Gwen Stacy, for a little context on what you're reading. I've been reading the #114 to #160 era in the Essential Spider-Man volumes and I'm really enjoying them. I started reading Spidey about #150 and I got a few of the earlier issues from used book stores and stuff in the late 1970s, but I never read the whole thing before. I usually read one or two issues before I go to bed, and it's been a lot of fun.
I just read the Grizzly issues a week ago. And though Stegron is not in the volumes I've read lately, I remember those crazy-ass issues very well from when I was a kid. That Stegron/Lizard storyline (Stegron keeps calling Spidey "Mammal" like he's very disgusted) was a lot of insane Bronze Age shenanigans that I will never forget.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 19:04:24 GMT -5
If the Ditko Spider-Man seems a little primitive for your tastes, I second Cei-U on the Ross Andru, though I'd start a little earlier (pre-Andru) with #121, the death of Gwen Stacy, for a little context on what you're reading. I prefer the Romita run from #39 to #95 (I think) to Ditko....first full appearance of Mary Jane, first Rhino first Kingpin...first black-costume Black Widow...and I loved the covers. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 9, 2014 19:07:22 GMT -5
Yeah, Jez, the Romita issues are great, too. I've probably read about half of them over the years.
I just prefer the crazed, inventive energy of the Ditko years.
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Post by maddog1981 on May 9, 2014 19:29:16 GMT -5
Spider-Man is kind of amazing, no pun intended honestly, in that it came out of the gate as almost the exact product we known it as. I've read most of the 60s Marvel books in a chronological fashion and Spider-Man is a great book right out of the gate. That rogue's gallery fills right up and they really get that underdog formula down quick.
In the first 10 issues you get the Vulture, Doctor Octopus Lizard, Sandman and Electro. If you expand that out to the first 20 issues you also get Kraven, the Green Goblin, Mysterio and Scorpion. And the book literally just keeps getting better as the 60s progress.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 9, 2014 19:48:18 GMT -5
I remember really liking the character The Gibbon, in a two-part story - Spidey #110-111.
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Post by coke & comics on May 9, 2014 19:57:04 GMT -5
I remember really liking the character The Gibbon, in a two-part story - Spidey #110-111. Issue 110 is Stan Lee's final story. Ends on a cliffhanger. |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 9, 2014 21:00:12 GMT -5
I remember really liking the character The Gibbon, in a two-part story - Spidey #110-111. #111 was one of the first back issues I ever got. I picked it up at a used bookstore for a dime. (It was late 1975 or early 1976.) No bag, initials written in ink (MR) on the cover, scuffed edges. (Spine was intact.)
I don't think it was the first time I saw Kraven because I think I already had that Marvel Treasury Edition that reprinted the first annual.
But it was pretty cool nonetheless.
Spider-Man is pretty consistently awesome for close to 200 issues. There's some good issues for while after that but it gets kind of spotty at times.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 8:53:31 GMT -5
#27-#28 is also awesome...guest-stars Daredevil and is pencilled by Frank Miller (a preview of things to come as he took over DD from #158 and gave horn-head a new lease on life.   |
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