Comics Your three all-time favourite Spidey comics

[Kevin Roegele]

NOT a list of what you consider the BEST Spidey comics ever, but your own personal favourites, for whatever reason. Mine are as follows....


3. The Amazing Spider-Man # 166, March 1977 (Len Wein & Ross Andru)

The Lizard and Stegron the Dinosaur Man in a battle to the death....with Spidey in the middle...and a dinosaur stampede across New York! In the snow as well! Perfectly told, imaginative superheroics. Wonderful art.



2. Marvel team-Up #67, March 1978 (Chris Claremont & John Byrne)

Technically a simple story, but extremely atmospheric. Kraven the Hunter has never been more menacing. There is a strong feel of the savagery and menace of the jungle that even Kraven's Last Hunt doesn't match.
Spidey is thrown into a genuinely dramatic, brutal, life-or-death situation. This issue is what makes Kraven one of my favourite supervillains.



1. The Spectacular Spider-Man #163 April 1990 (Gerry Conway & Sal Buscema)

"What?" you're thinking. Well, this issue showcase my favourite ever Spidey artist Sal Buscema, working on my favourite villain, the Hobgoblin, along with Carrion, another of my favourites. The perfect evil duo. It's dark and sinister, the villains are truly menacing and have Spidey at their mercy. It has dark drama in the relationship between the villains - Hobby is manipulating Carrion but knows he's playing with fire - and fantastic action. Great to see Spidey really up against the odds, and villains who are easily powerful and smart enough to defeat him. And what a cover as well-!

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

my favorites are amazing fantasy #15,amazing spiderman #1,amazing spiderman#4. i also like the venom issues.

 

[MyPokerShirt]

amazing spider-man 397. doc ock learns pete's ID and it was the first time i'd ever read a spider-man comic, let alone saw the intriguing kaine. (in fact, if we count british ones i'm just gonna say astonishing spider-man #9. it includes web of spider-man 119 and spider-man 53, with venom and scarlet spider )

amazing spider-man 121 - night gwen stacy died (in astonishing 17 - also had death of doc ock in it i think)

Dunno about the third. Seeing as we're just talking spider-man i'm going to say first appearance of morlun. or first full appearance, when he kicked pete's ass. I was just like "wow, comics are cool again."lmao

 

[Citizen_Kaine]

Amazing Spider-Man 389: Basically Pete goes ape****, and hunts the Cameleon, who's also going crazy because of developing memories involving Kraven the Hunter. And a twist ending, in my eyes, second only to the now famous Thunderbolts 1 conclusion.

Spider-Man 75: Peter and Osborn whoop each other all over New York City, amazing dialouge and lots of things explode in a very awesome fashion. Reilly dies, Osborn "dies", and JRjr's art never looks better I'll have to post it someday in the Reilly thread

I don't really have a "third" definitive issue, as I love ASM 121, but it needs ASM 122 to complete it, likewise with KLH or death of Jean Dewolfe

 

[Themanofbat]

Mine all came within 8 months of one another....

Amazing Spider-Man #192... this issue had it all, Spider-Man & JJJameson shackled together at the wrists with an explosive device set to go off within 24 hours. Brilliant.

Amazing Spider-Man #197... the final fight between Spider-Man and the Kingpin, as his wife Vanessa forces Wilson to give up his career of crim for her, and he gets all his dealings done and leaves the last 12 hours to deal with a broken armed wall-crawler. One of the best brawls in comics ever. The Kingpin once hated Spider-Man with a passion... it's unfortunate that Marvel writes their relationship as a joke.

Amazing Spider-Man #200... a powerless Peter Parker against the man who killed his Uncle Ben. 'Nuff said!

 

[Citizen_Kaine]

Yeah TMOB is right, I choose ASM 200 for my third choice

 

[KingOfDreams]

I really couldn't say...but I know I love ASM #400 a lot.

 

[The Joker]

Spidey's greatest villain debuts. Nuff said.

One of the best Doc Ock Vs Spidey fights ever. It spans across the whole city, as Spidey desperately tries to stop Ock from killing him and the Black Cat. Ock was so vicious in this one, he even scared the hell out of Spidey.

Ock is revealed as the Master Planner, and his battle with Spidey results in Spidey being buried under a ton of rubble. With Aunt May's life hanging in the balance, this was a defining moment for Peter as a hero.

 

[Orko Is King]

I don't care what anyone says, black and red looks kickass on Spidey.

 

[Kool-Aid]

#33(just read it today for the first time and it was great)
#121
#122

 

[Ultimate Kaine]

My first SPIDER-MAN comic, intro'd me to the firing-up clone saga and held me as a weekly, sometimes daily comic store visitor for 3 years.

Aw man, tell me you didn't cry when May bit the bucket. But what really moved me was Reilly on the roof agonizing, he couldn't enter the house.

This is where it all ended. I remember my first reading of it upon release like some remember old romances. Yeah, I'm a clone-saga geek.

 

[The_Raven]

Hmmm...

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[freemadison]

ASM 400
PP:SM 75

Two obvious clone saga highlights.

But my third would have to go to PP:SM 72. It's the Onslaught crossover with Peter and Ben fighting the Sentinels. I loved that issue. So freaking sweet. It was right in the thick of Ben's run as Spidey and the comraderie and banter between the two was awesome.

 

[Spideys Sister]

Spiderman Mangaverse #1

Spoiler

( I was a bit confused reading this the first time. After a while I got the hang of the story. Cute costume, kinda a big letdown for the true Spidey fans. No powers, Uncle Ben died for nothind VENOM IS PETERS COUSIN..... WTF. That was Bull ** to hear. You have Pete in a Dojo when he's supposed to live in queens. Oh, and hulk killed everything in that comic. He ruined the ending.

USM Annual #1
( Acctually had me laughing. Very good read, loved the art, story was decent. I recomed for comic geek with a new girlfriend. Sure to make her heart melt. [It made mine.] )
USM #29

Spoiler

(Complete whack in the face comic. It's like Holy ****! Spidey was shot AND arested all because of some loser in a holloween costume. Then the funny thing is you're like.... Okay, This guy has a Spidey costume while in volume 7 Spideys so desprated he runs around in socks and a half made costume. Good read, great for taking another look at Spidey.)

 

[Traveller]

It's a hard question. Maybe these:

Spectacular #181
Amazing #400
Web of Spider-Man #31

 

[Joker]

I dont know issue numbers but...

1. Death of Harry Osborne

2. MJ and Peter getting back together in the airport during the Dr. Doom vs Robots feat. Captain America fight.

3. The first issue with Hobgoblin in it, great set up.