Title: Superman Vs. The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 1-Shot
Release Date: March 1976
Highlights
- Superman and Spider-Man meet for the first time, and team up to face Lex Luthor and Doc Ock
- Almost one hundred pages of Superman and Spider-Man action
- Spider-Man is hit by a red sun beam from Lex Luthor that gives him the strength to go toe to toe with Superman
- It's epic in and of itself for the team up
- Hero and villain bio splash pages that give readers an introduction to each character
- Doc Ock's involvement is so miniscule that it verges on unnecessary
- Both Lois Lane and Mary Jane Watson equally serve little to no point to the story, the latter even less so
- Story is ultimately considered non-canonical
- Missed opportunity for DC and Marvel to collaborate on an all new villain more suited to be pitted against both heroes
Oddities
- Spider-Man being pulled through the skies on web skis by Superman
- Spider-Man knows how to fly space ships?
- Spider-Man says he's broken both of his hands, but promptly continues to battle throughout the remainder of the story without so much as a wince
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
Title: Marvel Treasury Edition (AKA Superman and Spider-Man)
Issue Number: 28
Release Date: January 1981
Highlights
- Sequel to the massive hit, Superman Vs. The Amazing Spider-Man from five years prior
- Superman and Spider-Man combine forces against Doctor Doom and The Parasite
- Reference is made to the rare Superman power, super ventriloquism
- Superman goes toe to toe with the Incredible Hulk
- Hulk punches Superman so hard, he launches the caped crusader miles away
- Peter Parker meets Jimmy Olsen
- Peter sells his photographs to Perry White, and gets three times what J. Jonah Jameson would have paid him, and then joins the Daily Planet as a new staff member
- Clark Kent goes to work for J. Jonah Jameson
- Peter Parker asks Lana Lane out
- Wonder Woman joins the story about 2/3 of the way in
- Non-canonical, just like its predecessor
- Another missed opportunity to create an all new villain
- Shameless promotion when Spider-Man is using a labeled Nikon camera
- Spider-Man sings the lyrics to Frank Sinatra's Call Me Irresponsible while fighting
- Pop culture reference overload. In addition to the above, the story references Big Macs, Kojak, Elvis Costello, and Star Wars
- Story doesn't flow as well as its predecessor, nor is it as epic
- Parasite feels like a third wheel, relatively irrelevant to the story, and reduced to nothing more than being a glorified battery
- Superman and Spider-Man are definitely in this book, but they spend very little time on the same pages actually interacting with each other
Oddities
- Super ventriloquism
- Spider-Man can easily clear his name with Wonder Woman by letting her use her magic lasso on him, but he evades her every attempt even after she told him why she wanted to do it, and yet he wants her to believe he isn't the enemy - Just cooperate!
- Editor's day off - Three panels repeat themselves, and it is a very clear and obvious error
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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For all their faults, kid me didn't notice or care. These were epic when they came out due to the crossover.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt. Major comic event.
DeleteI would think Spiderman would like to be tied up by Wonder Woman.
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