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Bell English IV/Period 6 September 3, 2013 The Amazing Spider-Man The Spider Man comics are one of the longest comics series ever written by the Marvel Company. It shows how peter parker grows from being a shy awkward teenager, to becoming a heroic young man. When Peter Parker realizes he is now the super hero in town he has to face some pretty big obstacles in his way that he was never use to before. With his new powers he will have to learn how to use it and only use it for those who need the protection of him.

History of Comic Books The comic books go all the way back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century where they first started as scripts of political and social life aspects. In those centuries the comic books were basically just about speech no pictures or comedy. The comic books didnt really start getting known for pictures and text until the nineteenth century. This is the century where the comic books became key and started to become well known. Rodolphe Topffer was a Swiss artist who became well known for adding illustration to the text of the comic books. After illustrations became known for comic books it started to become a known hit in the U.S. In the 1960`s two known publishers became the biggest publishers of the comic book. The publishing companies were Marvel and Detective Comics (DC). DCs original name for the longest time was National Periodical Publication. Marvel was known as Timely Comics from 1939 to about 1950, and then as Atlas Comics for much of the 1950s. DC and Marvel published most comics

Wood 2 such as Spider Man, The Flash, Batman, etc. When most of these comics were published in the mid nineteenth comics became a big hit! Most of the comics were so successful that they still make them today.

Super Hero Character Spider Man a comic was created in 1962 by Stab Lee and was published by Marvel comics. Spider Man is about a teenage boy named Peter Parker who lives with his uncle and aunt in New York City. Parker lived a normal teenage life. He was a photographer for a newspaper company. His life seemed pretty normal until he got his bite from a rare spider. When Parker got his bite he started to notice some unusual changes in his life. He notices that he has super strength , he can climb walls, shot webs from his hands, and has his spidey sense which lets him know when there is trouble nearby. With all that power comes responsibility for parker. Parker has to learn how to use his powers for good and not for evil. After his Uncle Ben dies it changes his whole life. He creates a personal vendetta to get revenge in the man that killed his uncle. Parker realizes that people need protecting in the crime field city of New York. While protecting the crime field city of New York he encounters several villains such as the Green Goblin, Dr. Octo , the Lizard, the Sandman , and Venom.

Information on Artist or Writer The writer and creator of the Spider Man comics is Stan Lee. He started writing comic books back in 1939. He assisted in Timely Comics and published it in 1941. In 1961 Lee saw a big change in his work. He started gaining more ideas and creating a lot more comics and characters. He was told to form a team of characters so him and his partner Jack Kirby produced

Wood 3 a super team called The Fantastic Four. This comic really put lee on the board. He started to become popular and shortly after he produced the fantastic four he came out with two others which were the amazing spider man and the hulk. Lee came up with some nicknames for himself which were Frantic Marvelite and the sayings Nuff Said and Exceslior. Lee had a lot of success with his comic book writings. Lee saw great success using the marvel method to write his comic books. Lee saw a lot of success in his comic boom career he was basically the face of Marvel Comics and still on this day makes comics. Todd McFarlane was the writer of the Amazing spider man issue #1 part of the torment series. McFarlane really put his name on the board in the late 80`s and early 90`s when he came out with the spider man comics. He got offered more jobs at DC and Marvel for his writings and illustrations. McFarlane helped with a lot of comics such as Wolverine, Bat Man and Spider Man. McFarlane had his own productions. He came out series for one of his comics called Spawn. McFarlane still continues writing and plans on foe awhile.

Summary of Comic In the Amazing Spider Man issue #1 part of the torment series its about how spider man is doing his daily duty of keeping his eye on the city of New York. Spider Man starts to notice some peculiar things in the city. He starts to notice some murders that seem a bit unusual. Killings that look like it didnt take place by a human. Spider man soon realizes that these murders are the act of the evil lizard. The lizard is a evil character who is under a evil spell. The person who put the evil lizard under the spell was Calypso. Calypso was a old foe of spider mans who used the lizard to take him down. Calypso put some poision on the claws of the lizard to make sure he would get spider man. On one evening spider man was hanging from a building

Wood 4 and all off a sudden his spidey senses were tingling. He shot his web in the direction to soon find out the the evil lizard was following him. The lizard claws spider man with the poisoned claw and spider man soon realizes he is in trouble and can not function his body. The lizard could have killed him but Calypso said no let him suffer. In the end spider man ends up getting thrown in a dumpster by the lizard. He realizes that he is hallucinating and sees some of his old friends in front of him. It turns out that those were not his friends they were the lizard and Calypso. Spider Man soon starts to try and get some of his sense back by thinking about his wife Mary Jane. As he is in deep thought he gets enough sense and strength back to fight off the lizard. They end up fighting and Calypso braziers fall over them. The contents of spider man and the lizard ignite the brownstone until a giant explosion tears through the building

Review I came in between with this article. Some things I liked and others I didnt. I like the story of this comic. I think Todd McFarlane did a good job on most parts of the action in this comic. He went into good detail on how Calypso planned on taking down Spider Man. He went it to good detail. He explains the lizard as a blood thirsty killer and went into good detail about the blood splattered on the wall saying CNNR. I dont think he used the characters as good as he could though. What I mean by that is he only explained Mary Jane (MJ) as like a partier. I fell like she was kind of like a waist of a character in this comic. She really didnt do or say much just described her always being out with her friends having fun no action really. McFarlane also didnt really explain Peter Parkers character. Just how he was spider man and he had a watchful eye of the city. McFarlane did well on the illustrations of these comics but it was a little to cluttered for me. He had the illustrations in strips and it looked a little too close for me. His

Wood 5 illustrations with the comics confused me a little but dont get me wrong McFarlane is still a really good writer, he is very experienced with his writing and the company loves him. They love what he has dine fir them, McFarlane helped out with a lot of the comics that DC an Marvel published and are still publishing today.

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