At the New York Comic Con on Saturday, IDW Publishing and Marvel Comics announced their latest collaboration, with The Amazing Spider-Man set to swing into IDW’s Library of American Comics. The imprint will be collected the wall-crawler’s long-running newspaper strip in a series of deluxe new hardcover editions, with Volume 1 collecting the daily strips from 1977 to 1979 including the full colour Sunday pages. Here’s the official description for the collections:
Launched in 1977, the Spider-Man newspaper strip begins with Peter Parker’s arachnid alter-ego facing off against the deadly menace of Doctor Doom! Classic Spidey villains, including Kraven the Hunter, Doctor Octopus, Mysterio, and the Kingpin, make appearances in pulse-pounding tales drawn by master Spider-artist John Romita Sr. and written by none other than Spider-Man co-creator Stan “The Man” Lee! As the series unfolds, the artistic torch was passed to Larry Lieber (Stan’s younger brother), Paul Ryan, Alex Saviuk, and legendary inker “Joltin’” Joe Sinnott. No matter the artistic interpretation on display, The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip features the kind of fast-paced action and genuine human emotion that has made Peter Parker a star in movies, theatre, TV, video games, and the comic books that started it all back in 1962 with Amazing Fantasy #15.
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Strip Collection Vol. 1 will go on sale in early 2015.
Originally published October 13, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
