The Ultimate Spider-Man

“Authors contribute their personal visions, capturing both heavy action and the moral sentiment of the original comics series.” —Library Journal

New stories featuring Marvel’s most popular hero and his deadliest foes: Venom, DR. OCTOPUS, THE LIZARD, THE VULTURE, MORBIUS THE LIVING VAMPIRE, and many more!

Beginning with a novella by Spider-Man’s co-creator Stan Lee and veteran Marvel writer Peter David retelling the wall-crawler’s origin, this exciting new anthology has original, never-before-told stories featuring one of the world’s most enduring heroes.

From Tom De Haven and Dean Wesley Smith’s look at Spidey’s early career, to David Michelinie’s portrait of a dying reporter who wants his last story to be the revelation of Spider-Man’s true identity, to Lawrence Watt-Evans’s tale of a boy whose web-slinging hero-worship leads to tragedy, plus stories by Craig Shaw Gardner, Ann Nocenti, Robert L. Washington III, Greg Cox, Christopher Golden and many more—here are spectacular new tales of Spider-Man adventure!

Each story has a new or classic illustration by a Spider-Man artist from old favorites to today’s hot talents, including Steve Ditko, John Romita, Bob McLeod, Ron Lim, Mark Bagley, and Rick Leonardi.