Spider-Man must find a way to stop this deadly duo or else New York City will be left in the dark, a fearful populace left in panic and a city stricken by chaos.
Separately, they were easily overpowered, but together, they could be unstoppable! They demand a ten-million-dollar ransom or else they will cripple the city’s electrical supply. The Eel, having been defeated singlehandedly by the Human Torch on numerous occasions, springs Max Dillion aka Electro from prison. I had a hard time deciding which Untold Tales issue to buy and the cover featuring Electro and the Eel was the deciding factor. At this early stage there’s still more to the story than just flashy pinups and big sound effects, but things are gradually starting to move into a direction I’m not all that excited about.Digging through the dollar bin last Thursday at Eide’s, I found a few more Marvel books to review and one of them was Untold Tales of Spiderman #11. Things then get a little grittier and wittier with Peter David and Rich Buckler’s "Death of Jean DeWolff," a multi-part event-type story (originally published in 1985 as The Spectacular Spider-Man #107-10) that co-stars Daredevil and has many fans but felt a bit clunky to me – I’d probably get more out of it if I was familiar with previous issues.įinally, 1989’s "Venom Strikes Back" ( The Amazing Spider-Man #315-17) by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane features still grittier writing and more gimmicky artwork – a trend that would continue throughout the early 90s, to increasingly absurd effect. Even better is "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" (#248), a hero-meets-young-fan type short story that cranks the melodrama up to eleven – and succeeds beautifully. Organized chronologically, the book starts out with "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut" and "Hyde & Seek" from Roger Stern & John Romita Jr.’s acclaimed run (the selected issues are 1982’s The Amazing Spider-Man #229-32), and both stories turn out to be great Silver Age-style fun in the Lee-Romita Sr. This is a sampler of some of the most popular Spider-Man comics of the 1980s, complete with a (not particularly informative) Bendis introduction and a rather fanboy-ish (but slightly more informative) foreword to each story arc.
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