The first volume of stories contained within AMAZING SPIDER-MAN's initial 35 year run follow Peter Parker from his very first days as the wall-crawling hero all the way through high school, college, marriage, and beyond! As he's threatened by the most ferocious rogues gallery around and besieged by personal problems, Spider-Man lives by "With great power must also come great responsibility"!
Spider-Man spins his first full-length web in the debut issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! The web-slinger fights against the Chameleon to keep his reputation clean, not that blowhard publisher J. Jonah Jameson is making life any easier! Will Peter Parker just call it quits and use his powers to make a quick buck?
Peter Parker faced the biggest struggle of his young life staring with a story kicked off in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #31. Just as he starts a new life at Empire State University, one with new friends like Harry Osborn and Gwen Stacy, his dear Aunt May receives a shocking diagnosis!
In AMAZING SPIDER-MAN's most tragic story, the maniacal Green Goblin discovers Spider-Man's secret identity and uses that information to hit the wall-crawler where it will hurt. Reeling from grief, Spider-Man must fight his own rage in a struggle that will determine the rest of his super hero life!
Spider-Man may be a strong hero, but he's nothing compared to the mystical might of the unstoppable Juggernaut! Too bad for Spidey, because he's the only one that stands in between a determined Juggernaut and the rest of Manhattan
Little Tim Harrison has one wish: he wants to meet Spider-Man. The webhead grants Tim's wish by dropping by his home and trading stories with the kid. This backup story's ending has to remain a secret; read it and you'll understand why this story has resonated with readers for over 30 years!
Following his adventure in the SECRET WARS series, Spider-Man returns to Earth in a mysterious-and pretty cool-all-black costume. But things aren't exactly what they seem, as Peter Parker soon discovers that his sleek new suit might just be too good to be true-and evil, too!
Otto Octavius has eight arms with which to rip Spider-Man apart, and he attempts to do just that in his debut appearance-after he acquires those six extra limbs, that is. To say that Doc Ock will go on to play a major role in Spider-Man's life would be a bit of an understatement!
The tragic life of Dr. Curt Connors steals the spotlight in this issue. When the biologist's attempt to use lizard DNA to enable humans to regrow missing limbs goes horribly awry, he transforms into the Lizard! Only Spider-Man can protect Dr. Connors' family from the threat posed...by himself!
Max Dillon makes his electrifying debut as a super charged bank robber in this early chapter of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. With Electro on a crime spree throughout New York City, Peter Parker will have to use some of his science smarts to put a stop to his latest foe!
The internationally known Sergei Kravinoff wants to add another trophy to his already impressive collection of exotic captures. Sorry Spidey, but that trophy is your head! Spider-Man has to push his physical strength past its limits in order to outmaneuver the most skilled hunter on Earth!
Spider-Man's black costume returns with a vengeance in this anniversary issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! The spurned symbiote has bonded with Eddie Brock, a photographer with an ax to grind against Peter Parker, and they're ready to torment the wall-crawler both psychically and physically!
As if one symbiotic bad guy wasn't enough, a sliver of Brock's symbiote latched onto a serial killer named Cletus Kasaday to create Carnage-a blood red sociopathic nightmare! Does Spider-Man even stand a chance against the combined mayhem of Carnage and Venom?