Spider-Man Volume 1 - The Complete Story

Power and Responsibility was the chromium-covered four part flip book epic that kicked off the Spider-Man clone saga. No, not the original clone saga from the 70’s.  No, not the awesome “What If” follow up that looked at what would have happened if the clone had lived. Although, wait... the clone DID live. And this isn’t what happened. But no time for thinking about that.  And no, this isn't your typical Spider-Man vs. "Spider-Man" fight. This is the definitive Spider-Man vs. "Spider-Man" saga . Any and all previous stories involving Spider-Man fighting a crappy version of himself are officially obsolete. No time for that shit. No time for anything except figuring out how you’re gonna locate and pay for back issues of Maximum Carnage. Speaking of which, Power and Responsibility has 14 pages of ads for the Maximum Carnage video game in 4 issues, just like how there were 14 parts in the Maximum Carnage “story”! Each issue had an ad ...

Predator and Prey Hoo-ha! Now these two comics bring me back. I bought both of these off the newsstand at the local Quickie Mart (and they have the barcodes to prove it!) I remember it seemed like an eternity waiting for part 2 of this story. Obviously, it didn’t help that Spec was always the last Spider-title to come out each month, so I kept seeing all these Spider-Man comics coming out, but never the right one. Even after all these years, I’ll never forget the order: Web, Amazing, Spider-Man, Spec. I read Spectacular 215 so many times that to this day, I still remember every panel. I thought it was so cool that the Scorpion told that old man in the sewer to “take a freakin’ powder.” I remember getting in trouble for telling a kid in my class to “take a freakin’ powder” when he took the computer I wanted during computer class. While I wasn’t familiar with the etymology of that particular colloquialism, it was good enough for the scorpion so it was good enough for me....