As a kid growing up in the late '70's - very early'80's, for some reason I preferred the Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-man title to the Amazing Spider-man series. PPTTSSM featured more bizarre villains & also seemed to focus somewhat more on PP's personal life, while at the same time having a lot of action as well.

So, I am truly looking forward to the first MMW volume reprinting the 1970's issues, coming out this summer. This is the first time these will be reprinted in color - it will be nice for me to be able to read these issues for the first time in many years:

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I'll definitely be getting the first 5-6 (and maybe more) MMW reprinting this title. By 1983-ish, however, PPTSSM & ASM were a lot more interchangeable, with the stories starting in one title & crossing over to the other. I remember this especially occurring with the Dr. Octopus/Owl gang-war, as well as some of the Black Cat storylines.

I thought Web of Spider-Man was OK; I collected this to some extent for a while after the title began.  I would probably buy a series of Epic Trades reprinting just the '80's issues.  

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Spidey didn't do much for me in the 70s, regardless of which book it was; but, I usually enjoyed Marvel team-Up. The Spidey soap opera used to annoy me in the regular books and MTU mostly kept it in check. Also, it highlighted a lot of great second string characters who weren't being used to their potential in the rest of the MU. Marvel Two-In-One was much the same. Fantastic Four could be hit and miss for me; but M2in1 was usually pretty fun an Ben made a great mixer with others. Both also got a few mini-epics, beyond the normal 1-2 issue stories. MTU had one that started with an amnesiac Black Widow encountering Spidey, that then brought Nick Fury and Shang Chi into things. The story culminates with a battle on the deck of the Helicarrier, which is about to plow into the Capitol Building. M2in1, of course, had the Project Pegasus saga, which brought in Quasar, Wundar (ak the Aquarian), Deathlok, Giant Man (Bill Foster, the former Black Goliath), and Thundra.

That's the old different tastes.  I first read Spidey comics in the 70s, when Gerry Conway was writing.  I thought he was the biggest whiner I ever encountered.  Batman had his parents killed in front of him; but, he did constantly whine about it.  When i read Spidey, it felt like, "Mary Jane wants to go out and I have no bread!"  "Aunt May is sick again!"  "J Jonah Yelled at Me!"  "The rent is due!"  I didn't care about any of that, i wanted adventure.  I liked the smart aleck stuff and the fights were usually good; but, the soap opera kept filtering in.  meanwhile, Spidey builds some contraption to defeat the villain, yet he can't pay the rent.  Where did he get the money for the components?  If he can do that, why can't he cobble together something to sell to pay the rent?  I just couldn't buy into the logic of it (or suspend logic, as it were).  With Marvel Team-Up, I didn't get as much of that.  It was more of the playful banter and the action, without the soap opera stuff I hated.  Now, when I saw Spidey reprints, it wasn't as bad.  A fried had the Super Special treasury-sized comic, with the Spidey villains (from one of the annuals) and the fight with the Lizard and it wasn't anywhere near as bad.  My cousin had some Spidey issues without that much soap opera and they were better.  Again, first impression affected my perception of the character.

I did read Untold Tales of Spider-Man regularly and was fine with that portrayal.  That was the only Spidey series I read consistently.  MTU I picked up based on the guest star and Spider-Man was either because I read someone else's copy or I ended up with one in a 3-pack sampler.

Spider-Man the 70s never really appealed me that much, as a few people have already said. The Wein/Andru Amazing was probably the most consistent but it sometimes felt a bit drab to me. I like the idea of Spectacular S-M concentrating more on Peter Parker's personal and university life but the creative teams never really stood out to me, though they were never less than competent. I don't recall Web of at all - probably it started after I stopped reading Marvel in the 80s.

I suppose it comes down to the fact that Spider-man wasn't one of my favourite characters. I didn't dislike S-M and I didn't mind the soap opera or the constant worrying, but ir was never a character I was attracted to in and of itself, so in the absence of some really exceptional talent such as Ditko or Romita it tended to fade off my radar. I think the S-M series one I liked best in the 70s was Team-Up, but only when John Byrne was doing the artwork.

One thing about the soap-opera stuff and the "hero with hang-ups" idea - after Ditko left the series, I found that Romita drew Parker as a pretty handsome, solidly-built guy, so the underdog attitude sometimes felt a little at odds with the visual imagery we were getting. Not so much that it totally undermined that aspect of the book - Parker always had plenty to worry about with school, his job, and his secret life as a superhero, and anyone can have relationship problems, no matter what they look like - but the difference from the Ditko years is noticeable.

I agree, that is how I viewed the transition from Ditko to Romita. Thing is, when you grow up around someone, they may start to look better and grow into their looks but to you, they are still that nerdy person. And Peter was used to ridicule so it would be hard for him to magically think "hey I look good" and have a complete change of attitude.

Granted, some people just don't like Parker's whiny behavior in general but to me, it was never so much that it took away from the story or made me dislike him as a character.