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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785129974
ISBN number: 0785129979
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: April 02, 2008
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 591820
Studio: Marvel Comics
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The second massive hardcover collecting the status-quo-shattering 'Back in Black' saga! Reeling in the aftermath of Civil War, Peter Parker has plenty of reasons to consider a change of wardrobe: Black is his state of mind. But the worst is yet to come for Spider-Man! In Sensational Spider-Man, as Spider-Man and his family get used to the new status quo...other Spider-Men begin appearing all over the city. Younger, less-experienced versions of our web-spinning hero, causing havoc wherever they go.Who's creating these arachnid dopplegangers and why? And will Peter Parker be able to stop them, and whoever's behind them, before more lives are lost? And in Spider-Man Family, Peter Parker and his supporting cast get all-new, untold tales featuring the original alien symbiote grey costume. Collecting Sensational Spider-Man #35-40 and Annual #1, Spider-Man Family #1-2, Spider-Man: Back in Black Handbook and Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man Back in Black .
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A fine (if not great) very first half, followed by a second half made up of junk. If I want a Marvel Encyclopedia, I'll buy one. Lower the price and lose the last part!
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I want you to carefully look at the issues in this book. That's Sensational Spider-Man #35-40 and Annual #1, Spider-Man Family #1 and 2, an Official Handbook and a Marvel Spotlight.
The latter four issues have weak relevance to Spider-Man's transition to a darker mood after Aunt May's shooting. They are merely Spider-Man in the grey costume.
That said, that means that six issues are worth looking at if you want to examine Peter's reaction to May's shooting, all of them in Sensational Spider-Man.
Issues 35-37 have a nice juxtaposition between Spidey's dark transition and Calvin Zabo's dark transition, but they're only a side story that has little influence on the Spidey books. Issues 38 and 39 are about Eddie Brock's struggle with the inherent symbiote inside him, and although it's a good story, whatever substance it contributed to the event of "Back in Black" has been nulled in One More Day. Issue 40 is a nice retrospective story, which is also nulled by One More Day. The Annual was a touching tribute to MJ's and Peter's relationship.
Which was also nulled by One More Day.
These stories were fairly good. They really were. It's just a shame that they have little meaning due to One More Day, and that they're piggybacked with meaningless issues of Marvel Spotlight and Official Handbook. Honestly, you can probably get those Sensational issues as back issues for a cheaper price, and if not, by the time you get this book, it won't be relevant to Spider-Man as a character at all. It's not even relevant NOW, in fact.
If you really like the grey costume and are willing to gobble up any of its numerous appearances, regardless of story integrity or book integrity, then I wholeheartedly recommend it. I really do.
I doubt, however, that that's the case.
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Collecting Sensational Spider-Man 35-40 and Annual 1, Spider-Man Family 1-2, Marvel Spotlight:Spider-Man and Spider-Man:Back in Black Handbook, this is the second book of two Back In Black hardcovers detailing Spider-Man's life after the Civil War events in the Marvel Universe, where his identity as Peter Parker had been publicly revealed.
The storyline in the Sensational arc was good, dealing with a rash of Spidey-wannabees, although the climactic battle resolving that was not very dramatic. The Eddie Brock side story was of more interest to me.
The second half of the book was almost a waste, though - they sell Marvel Encyclopedias which serve as villain rosters and character bios, filling half of a $35 hardcover with that was very disappointing.
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