num_pages: 552
description: While attending a demonstration on radiation, high school student Peter Parker was bitten by a spider that had been exposed to radioactive rays. Learning he had gained great arachnid-like abilities, the timid teenager donned a colorful costume of his own design - seeking fame and fortune as the Amazing Spider-Man! But his Uncle Ben's death - tragedy he could have prevented - taught Peter that with great power there must also come great responsibility...and on that day a legend was born!Volume #1: Reprints Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-20, and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
language: English
title: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
titlecomplete: Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1
genres: Spider Man, Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Adventure, Marvel, Comics, Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Book
ratings_count: 4196
series: The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998), Essential Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Amazing Adult Fantasy (1961)
publisher: Marvel Enterprises