Target Spider-Man: Spidey Strikes Back

(Marvel, 2005)
™ and © 2005 Marvel Characters, Inc.

In the 1990s Marvel and DC began featuring their main characters in titles that did not require the reader to have a complete familiarity of the character’s continuity. Usually these titles were companions to an animated television show, (The Batman Adventures, Spider-Man Adventures etc.) and were an inviting option for new readers. In 2004 Marvel realized that the classic stories from their character’s early days also could be a similarly reader-friendly option. Calling them Marvel Age books and intended for all ages, Marvel re-told the classic tales from Spider-Man’s and The Fantastic Four’s formative years. But rather than just reprint the stories, (which had been done numerous times already anyway), the same plots were redrawn and rewritten with a more contemporary look and feel.

This title is a collection of Marvel Age Spider-Man issues #17-20, which in turn reimagined issues #18-21 of the Amazing Spider-Man. These stories retell the origin of the Scorpion and featured two Human Torch guest appearances.

— George Haberberger

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