{"product_id":"marvel-comics-library","title":"Marvel Comics Library","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9783836591577\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: TASCHEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eTheir collaboration on Spider-Man couldn't last forever-but the five-years of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's remarkable partnership lasted long enough for their character to evolve into a timeless icon and create a fandom that would last generations. TASCHEN's second volume of Amazing Spider-Man stories collects the latter half of the duo's magnum opus, featuring brand new arch-villains the Scorpion, Molten Man, and the Crime-Master, return engagements with Kraven the Hunter and the Green Goblin-and the three-part \"Master Planner Saga\" that reignited a feud with an iconic mystery villain, and left behind what many comics critics declare to be the greatest super hero story of all time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the action that faced Spider-Man-all choreographed with aplomb by the master stylist Ditko-there was also the matter of Peter Parker's maturation during a decade of social upheaval and change. With Stan Lee's blend of soap opera melodramatics and finger-on-the-pulse social sensitivities, Peter graduated from high school to college and started to deal with a myriad of adult struggles, mirroring the life experiences of the book's readership. A scrawny teenager no more, Lee and Ditko would widen his network of friends and frenemies, debuting Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, and, in a series of hilarious cameos, Mary Jane Watson-all characters that would develop into one of the deepest and most substantive supporting casts in all of comics. Also introduced is Harry's father, Norman Osborn, the short-tempered industrialist who would later be revealed as Spider-Man's most dreaded foe. Meanwhile, Peter's up-and-down romance with Betty Brant would reach its culm","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41837361332357,"sku":"PR430797","price":620.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TT6NBQ3JHN2C.jpg?v=1788136376","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/marvel-comics-library","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}