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Also by Stan Lee:

Captain America, June 2022
Hardcover
The Amazing Spider-Man, June 2022
Hardcover
Amazing Fantastic Incredible, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The God Project, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics, November 2010
Hardcover
The Avengers Volume 2, October 2009
Paperback
The Avengers Volume 1, June 2009
Paperback (reprint)

Also by Steve Ditko:

The Amazing Spider-Man, June 2022
Hardcover

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
By: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko

Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
Penguin Classics
June 2022
On Sale: June 14, 2022
384 pages
ISBN: 0143135724
EAN: 9780143135722
Hardcover
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Fantasy Superheroes | Anthology

Collects “Spider-Man!” from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962); The Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19 (1963-1964); “Goodbye to Linda Brown” from Strange Tales #97 (1962); “How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man!” from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.
 
This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man’s publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre—by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility.
 
A foreword by Jason Reynolds and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of The Amazing Spider-Man and classic Marvel comics.
 
The Deluxe Hardcover edition features gold foil stamping, gold top stain edges, special endpapers with artwork spotlighting series villains, and full-color art throughout.