Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man #1

Book: The Amazing Spider-Man issue #1 written by Stan Lee

Rating: 4 stars

My Review:

Thanks to a Goodreads.com friend who graciously decided to share these amazing comics for the group to read and review through downloads. I was able to read the first issue of Amazing Comics that featured Spider-Man for the first time (Amazing Comics #15, I'll post a review for that too).

This "Amazing Spider-Man" issue #1, was Spidey's first solo series and it featured two Spider-Man stories for the whole price of 12 cent. Couldn't beat that price, now comics cost the average of $3-4 dollars or more.

Now on to my review.

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Poor Peter, trying to raise some money for him and his aunt, he goes back into entertainment with a paying performance. If only he had the hindsight to have had that check addressed to May Parker instead of Spider-Man (he had an awful time trying to get it cashed). Spider-Man should have mention that he recently caught the mugger who murdered Ben Parker and wanted to give the money to the widow and that would have solved some of his money issues.

It's not hard to feel bad for Peter when you have the worst journalist in the business going after him. J. Jonah Jameson is supposed to be non-biased but all he does is spend his time going after Spider-Man.

And it got worse after Spider-Man risked his life to save Jameson's son. Spider-Man should have been called a hero but Jameson turned it around and made it seem like Spidey manufactured the whole incident just for publicity and turned the mindless public against him.


The second story featured the Fantastic Four and was just as interesting as the first story. Like with most comics all five heroes start out fighting before the FF know the reason for Spidey to be at their residence.

The main focus of the second story was Spider-Man dealing with the Chameleon. Spidey had to stop the Chameleon who tried to frame him for stealing missile plans.

Another thing I found interesting was that Stan Lee made a mistake with Peter's last name. Peter Palmer, not very catchy, I'm glad it didn't stick.

Overall, I would say this was a good issue.