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| ULTIMATE
SPIDER-MAN |
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Power
and Responsibility |
| by Brian Michael Bendis, Bill Jemas, and Mark Bagley |
Paperback: 192 pages
Marvel Books
ISBN: 078510786X |
$14.95
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| An outsider
even amongst his own peers, high school student Peter Parker is a young
man at the crossroads of destiny. Orphaned as a youth and raised by his
Uncle Ben and Aunt May, Peter finds himself the target of a constant barrage
of pranks perpetrated by school jock Flash Thompson and his burly bud,
nicknamed Kong. After Peter is bitten by an experimental spider from the
laboratory of Osborn Industries, industrialist Norman Osborn takes a deadly
interest in this development. Will Peter be able to avoid a violent case
of corporate downsizing? When backed into a corner, will our hero learn
that with great power there must come great responsibility? |
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| Ultimate Spider-Man
is the reinterpretation of Spider-Man's origin, updated for today's audience:
Starting over from the beginning, the story of how a tortured teen comes
to be imbued with the amazing abilities of an arachnid has been completely
re-imagined to appeal to the hi-tech, media savvy modern youth.
In the process, great steps
were taken to make the unfolding saga reader-friendly to the non-comics
reader. "Our characters have been around for almost 40 years," explained
Bill Jemas, Marvel`s President of Publishing and New Media, as he revealed
the reasoning behind Ultimate Spider-Man. "It's great that our comics are
so rich that storylines run forever, but we want the Ultimate books to
be accessible to the first-time reader. Someone will be able to pick up
an issue of Ultimate Spider-Man and have enough information to understand
and appreciate it." |
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| ULTIMATE
SPIDER-MAN |
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Volume
Three:
Double
Trouble |
| by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley, &
Art
Thibert |
Paperback: 144 pages
Marvel Books
ISBN: 0785108793 |
$17.95
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| The Ultimate
Doctor Octopus Strikes! |
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Dimensions (in inches): 0.38 x 10.02 x 6.64
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