Book description
This is a series of reproductions of original Spider-Man comic books from the 1960's, and includes some of the earliest issues and the introduction of many villains for the first time
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1 author picked The Amazing Spider-Man as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Great art and literature liberates – from whatever ties that are constricting you. And it can be found anywhere. As a kid, Marvel comics rescued me from what I saw as a banal existence. And Spider-man was the first. It literally changed my life because I ended up working for Marvel, writing for them, and coming up with Earth 616, which in the Marvel multiverse is the one where all the stories including the movies take place.
Reading them, my mind was totally blown away. What was the secret of their haunting magic?
To my young mind, it seemed as…
From David's list on books that changed my life.
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