# The Amazing Spider-Man

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- Book: [The Amazing Spider-Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/stan-lee/the-amazing-spider-man) ([The Amazing Spider-Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stan-lee/the-amazing-spider-man.md))
- Authors: [Stan Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/stan-lee), [Steve Ditko](https://www.bookquiver.com/steve-ditko)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-573-9
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2022-06-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-colour art throughout.