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helpfulsnowman's review
4.0
Lemme 'splain what made old comics great and bonkers.
Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2010's:
A bunch of superpeople try and stop a superrobot who decides that humans shouldn't exist because they're inefficient. Or something. He has infinite reasoning ability, but no ability to reason that existence is basically purposeless anyway, so striving for maximum efficiency in a task with no end goal is dumb.
Spider Man circa 1970's:
Peter Parker's Aunt May inherits a nuclear power plant. Doctor Octopus gets romantically involved with her, partially because he's interested in getting his (8) grubby hands on said power plant. Also, he goes to jail for a while and gets pretty ripped, but people still call him tubby. As Ock is trying to seize control of the plant, Hammerhead gets involved. Hammerhead tries to hammer his head into Ock, misses, and gets his head stuck in a power plant wall. Of course, this causes an atomic explosion, which destroys the plants and turns Hammerhead INTO A FUCKING GHOST! HammerheadGhost haunts Ock until Ock decides to make some kind of gizmo to destroy the ghost, but then it turns out that the gizmo actually REVIVES Hammerhead and makes him stronger than ever. This results in a team-up between Ock and Spider-Man, who try to defeat Hammerhead and also rescue Aunt May, who somehow got caught up in all this.
Oh, and also, The Spider-Mobile returns, and a dune buggy that shoots webs nearly kills Spider-Man.
That, my friends, is why the 70's were awesome.
Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2010's:
A bunch of superpeople try and stop a superrobot who decides that humans shouldn't exist because they're inefficient. Or something. He has infinite reasoning ability, but no ability to reason that existence is basically purposeless anyway, so striving for maximum efficiency in a task with no end goal is dumb.
Spider Man circa 1970's:
Peter Parker's Aunt May inherits a nuclear power plant. Doctor Octopus gets romantically involved with her, partially because he's interested in getting his (8) grubby hands on said power plant. Also, he goes to jail for a while and gets pretty ripped, but people still call him tubby. As Ock is trying to seize control of the plant, Hammerhead gets involved. Hammerhead tries to hammer his head into Ock, misses, and gets his head stuck in a power plant wall. Of course, this causes an atomic explosion, which destroys the plants and turns Hammerhead INTO A FUCKING GHOST! HammerheadGhost haunts Ock until Ock decides to make some kind of gizmo to destroy the ghost, but then it turns out that the gizmo actually REVIVES Hammerhead and makes him stronger than ever. This results in a team-up between Ock and Spider-Man, who try to defeat Hammerhead and also rescue Aunt May, who somehow got caught up in all this.
Oh, and also, The Spider-Mobile returns, and a dune buggy that shoots webs nearly kills Spider-Man.
That, my friends, is why the 70's were awesome.
ferrisscottr's review
5.0
In my opinion the best super hero company is Marvel (not at the present moment but just in general) and the best super hero is Spider-Man and the best Spider-Man run is from 1972 - 1977.
I just like everything about that era. Great stories. Great art. Pacing. Villians. Plot Twists.
This is the best of the best.
1974-1976 with Ross Andru as the artist.
It's an argument that can't be settled because it's based on personal preference. My personal preference is that this is perfection. Really really good stuff.
I just like everything about that era. Great stories. Great art. Pacing. Villians. Plot Twists.
This is the best of the best.
1974-1976 with Ross Andru as the artist.
It's an argument that can't be settled because it's based on personal preference. My personal preference is that this is perfection. Really really good stuff.
coolnameguy's review
2.0
This is pretty weak, honestly. A lot of MJ getting pissed for no reason or completely over-reacting to understandable struggles Peter has, Gwen trying to cope with her return is interesting, but it's very rarely touched upon. The clones are stupid, the re-animations and ghosts are stupid, and most of the situations are stupid, and people keep flip flopping on Spidey being the greatest thing ever and the world's greatest criminal, and even the Punisher and Strange appearances are dull.
tabman678's review
5.0
Gerry Conway is one of my favorite Spider-man writers and he writes all of this collection.
Alright Essential Amazing Spider-man is another of those big newspaper collection. I myself read all the issue collected here on Marvel Unlimited it collects ASM 138-160, Giant Size Spider-man 4 and 5, and Annual 10.
Is it worth reading? Hell yes. I love Spider-Man from pretty much any era and in the 60's and 70's are some of my favorite Spidey stories. Within this collection you get the original clone saga, the French supervillian Cyclone story, the new Mysterio, a saga of the Spider mobile, and Doc Ock fighting Hammer heads ghost over a nuclear power plant before hammerhead tricks Ock into reviving him!
Plus all the soapy goodness that were comics at the time. Also featured is Peter and MJ's first kiss and the return of Harry Osborn after he was the goblin. Betty Brant and Ned Leeds get married and honestly what else could you ask for in the ongoing epic of The Amazing Spider-Man?
This type of comic and these Spider-Man tales are classics. Goofy, ridiculous, and filled with so much wit and heart. They're loveable to the extreme and I love them.
5 stars.
Alright Essential Amazing Spider-man is another of those big newspaper collection. I myself read all the issue collected here on Marvel Unlimited it collects ASM 138-160, Giant Size Spider-man 4 and 5, and Annual 10.
Is it worth reading? Hell yes. I love Spider-Man from pretty much any era and in the 60's and 70's are some of my favorite Spidey stories. Within this collection you get the original clone saga, the French supervillian Cyclone story, the new Mysterio, a saga of the Spider mobile, and Doc Ock fighting Hammer heads ghost over a nuclear power plant before hammerhead tricks Ock into reviving him!
Plus all the soapy goodness that were comics at the time. Also featured is Peter and MJ's first kiss and the return of Harry Osborn after he was the goblin. Betty Brant and Ned Leeds get married and honestly what else could you ask for in the ongoing epic of The Amazing Spider-Man?
This type of comic and these Spider-Man tales are classics. Goofy, ridiculous, and filled with so much wit and heart. They're loveable to the extreme and I love them.
5 stars.
guojing's review
4.0
I read this when I was about 10, so around the time it came out. I read the first seven Essential volumes, I'm quite sure, but this volume is the one I remember best, with that thrilling cover. My memory is mostly of sitting in a camping chair behind my bedroom door, greedily eating up page after page, relieved to be in the world of comics and not at church. But then it was over, and except for a few issues of Superboy from the '80s, I don't think I read another comic book for years, only rediscovering them thanks to Neil Gaiman a couple years ago.
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