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Marvel Masterworks Volume 5
Spider-Man 1st Print #11-20 Stan Lee & Steve Ditko click for larger image DESCRIPTION: Up for auction - a Near Mint first print of Marvel Masterworks Volume 5 featuring Amazing Spiderman issues 11-20 and published in 1988 . . These great adventures were written, plotted drawn and inked by the legendary creative team of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko “Turning Point" is the title of Amazing Spider-Man #11, which pits the web-slinger against Doctor Octopus for the second time in Peter Parker's short career in fighting crime. It could have been just another rote rematch, but the genius of Ditko and Lee overrode that possibility. How? Because the day-to-day battles with super-villains come and go, but the inner turmoil of life as a human being never stops! It's not a tiny brush stroke on the comic’s canvas when Stan Lee cast the nexus of this rematch of super-powered titans as none other than Betty Brant. The comics reading public were sure that Ms. Brant was simply just another supporting romantic interest for the costumed hero. However, Ms. Brant had a secret life sketched out with trauma all her own. More than just a foil for flirtation, more than just a cute girl in a skirt to fetch coffee for J. Jonah Jameson, she was emblematic of what was really going on in these Marvel comics, and these issues in Marvel Masterworks Vol. 5 are w we start to see these subtexts start bubbling up to the fore. Perhaps more important than Spider-Man's rogues gallery, the supporting cast of Amazing brings the high drama of Marvel Comics to bright relief. As mentioned, Betty is shy and inarticulate- much like Peter- because she too hides a sad secret. In hock to the mob, owing money to dark and sinister denizens of the back alley, with a brother who litigates on behalf of the mob (and owes formidable gambling debts to boot,) Betty Brant cuts just as tragic a figure as Peter Parker in these issues. Flash Thompson, the numbskull who always gives Peter a hard time in public, is cast by Lee and Ditko to have more than just one dimension, creating a delicious irony w Flash presides over a Spider-Man fan club w he is the most outspokenly loyal fan of Peter Parker's alter ego. J. Jonah Jameson has already been established as a miserly curmudgeon who runs the Daily Bugle. In this second volume of Spider-Man Masterworks we see his character even more fleshed out, as he goes to further and further lengths to get Spider-Man. Two other ladies in the comic that get more and more character development are Liz Allan and Peter's Aunt May. In the first batch of Spider-Man issues, Liz Allan played the along-with-the-crowd vamp who taunted Peter Parker as much as the next kid. But Stan and Steve weren't content to let their characters maintain a bland equilibrium of personality, and sure enough Liz would find through Peter's character and actions a reason to build up a genuine attraction for him, much to the chagrin of Flash Thompson! And Aunt May, while still serving as both Peter's rock-solid mother figure and Spidey-stumbling block, also brought her mortality to the story in this run of issues. Aunt May is no young person, and it certainly helped define the virtues Peter Parker would cling to as Spider-Man to have to be concerned about her welfare. Of course, t ... 
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