Spider-Man by Todd McFarlane: The Complete Collection

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million copies eventually printing, including special bagged editions and a number of variant covers. At the same time, there is always something vaguely unsettling lurking just beneath the surface of the Spider-Man mythos. Todd McFarlane was one of the rising stars at Marvel in the late eighties, and it’s no exaggeration to suggest that his work on The Amazing Spider-Man (along with Jim Lee’s work on Uncanny X-Men) had a massive influence on how the company would develop during the nineties. I don’t need to pull up the originals to confirm that the new reprints can be brighter than expected. He was a fan of comics creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez, as well as the writing of Alan Moore.

The very first page of this collection opens with a charming Peter Parker moment – Spider-Man walking down the street because his webshooters ran out. I have to admit that I liked the small cameo for Stan and Steve during the confrontation between the Hulk Spider-Man.Todd McFarlane became a superstar illustrating AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, but he changed the industry forever with his next project: the "adjectiveless" SPIDER-MAN!

I think the company only really suffered after the pair (and other notable artists of the time) left to form Image.In collaboration with New Line Cinema, it produced the 1997 Spawn film and a new Spawn movie, planned in 2008.