Tells the story of Peter Parker, a smart teenager whose exposure to a radioactive spider gives him incredible powers, leading him to adopt the name Spider-man, and how he learns a very difficult lesson about responsibility.

Making a lasting mark on comics as the co-creator of Spider-Man, Steve Ditko veered away from the mainstream and into darker territories at the end of the sixties, especially with his work in Creepy and Eerie! Warring wizards, paranoid goons, persistent heroes, and otherworldly domains dominate the diverse tales in this handsome collection-with fifteen of the sixteen stories written by fellow comics icon Archie Goodwin. New introduction by Mark Evanier!...

The world was on the brink of destruction. Countless heroes died. The Fantastic Four have disbanded. The X-Men are gone. Mutants are hunted as criminals. But there is hope - in the form of an unlikely group of young heroes gathered together to save tomorrow. Who, or what, is Ultimate X?

Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #16, Annual #2-3; Strange Tales Annual #2; Avengers (1963) #11; Daredevil (1964) #16-17, 27; X-Men (1963) #35; Fantastic Four (1961) #73 and material from Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1, 8, 14; Fantastic Four Annual #1; Tales to Astonish (1959) #57. Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - and see how Spider-Man became an icon of the (Web) Swinging Sixties! The ever-sociable wallcrawler helped build...

"The Family that Slays Together" Jack Boniface returns from a battle beyond space-time to the Louisiana bayou, only to lose his lover in the process. But he'll also lose his housekeeper in the swamp's fetid waters if Shadowman can't save her from a backwoods cannibal family!

Collects Amazing Spider-Man #20-30 & Annual 2. Thrill to stories of spectacular web-slinging adventures from Spidey's early days including battles with the Green Goblin, the Molten Man, Vulture and Scorpion! Featuring appearences by Dr. Strange and the Human Torch!

Collects stories from Strange Tales #110-111, 114-141 & Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #2. Stephen Strange is Doctor Strange. But he is no doctor, at least not that kind that would initially come to mind. He is the Master of the Mystic Arts, a sorcerer supreme, a white knight who wields black magic against blacker villains still. Strange is mankind's only hope against the dark other-worldly forces that conspire to destroy the conscious world. Catch...

Collects Strange Tales (1951) #130-146 And The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #2. First, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the Master of the Mystic Arts. Now, in this second Mighty Marvel Masterworks volume they make him a legend. The Eternity Saga is a multi-part adventure that many consider it be one of the greatest Marvel stories of all time. In it, Baron Mordo gains new power from the dread Dormammu, so much power that he strikes down the...

As Spider-Man struggles to stop the crime spree of the Master Planner (secretly Dr. Octopus) and his men, he ends up buried under a collapsed water tower! See Spidey use his strength as never before to get free! Peter Parker tries balancing his new life at college and his Aunt May's ailing health! Ned Leeds wants to marry Betty Brant, but she's still got feelings for her old flame, Peter, who's too preoccupied to even notice his beautiful new classmate...

"Power Play" The showdown with the machine-controlling villain Ax continues, but with his control of the X-O Manowar armor scrambled can Aric still prevail? Aric will show Ax what he does to bandits and Ken what he does to traitors!