Spider-Man

This time around we meet Sandman. But we also see just how incredibly visionary Stan Lee was. He predicts Watchmen twenty years before it happens and alludes to Civil War and The Incredibles thirty years ahead of time. [video webm="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%205%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%204.webm" mp4="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%205%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%204.mp4" ogv="/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%205%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%204.ogv"] ASM 4 - Hooligans ASM 4 - Lawsuit ASM 4 - Liz is pissed ASM 4 - Pity Date ASM 4 - Watchmen Thesis Sandman Fight Mr Incredible Lawesuit Civil War Mr Negative Amazing Spider-Man #4 written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko ...

Stan Lee introduces us to one of Spidey’s most challenging foes, indeed the one who ultimately defeats him and ends the run of The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2: Doctor Octopus! https://youtu.be/VKu6CkpCGe0 ASM 3 - Cover ASM 3 - Doc Ock Explosion ASM 3 - Mind is Damaged ASM 3 - Spidey Punches Out Doc Ock ASM 3 - Spidey-Signal ASM 3 - The End of Spider-Man ASM 3 - Torch at School Assembly ASM 3 - Wishing for Harder Villains If the above video isn’t streaming, watch it on Youtube: ...

Even in the second issue of his brand new series, Spider-Man gains enemies that are still around today. https://youtu.be/2nFlhxpUWhg I forgot to mention in the video, it’s interesting that Parker is a teenager in high school and both his villains in this issue are very old men. 129728-29757-supreme-intelligence 812651-shiar1 890813-super\_skrull\_00 ASM 2 - Little Green Men ASM 2 - Peter Pays the REnt ASM 2 - Quiet Flying ASM 2 - Spidey Schaudenfreude ASM 2 - Spidey Taking Photos ASM 2 - Spying through Radios ASM 2 - Tinkerer Mask ASM 2 - Vulture Note ASM 2 - Wordy First Page ASM 2 - Working with Electronics Expert ASM 688 - Less Wordy Riddler\_02

Our Monday feature continues as we move from Spider-Man’s debut to the debut of his own comic. We take a look at how things have changed, what tropes were started in this first issue, and ask who in the world is Peter Palmer? https://youtu.be/hXS6GcO2eCk Images used in the video: ASM 1 - Aunt May ASM 1 - Breaking the Fourth Wall ASM 1 - Chameleon ASM 1 Cover ASM 1 - Featured Image ASM 1 - Lampshade Hanging FF and Antman ASM 1 - Paid by Check ASM 1 - Peter Palmer ASM 1 - Spider-Menace ASM 1 - Spider-Physics Amazing Spider-Man #1 written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko and lettering by Johnny Dee ...

Welcome to a new video feature appearing Mondays in which we take a look at Spider-Man starting from the very beginning. [video webm="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.webm" mp4="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.mp4" ogv="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.ogv"] Images used in the video: Atomic Energy Cover Page Flash Thompson Long Underwear Characters Parker Can't Dance Pete Talking to Himself Pete Thought Bubble The Science Hall Uncle Ben is Already Dead With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility If the above video doesn’t load because the server is loaded, here’s the youtube upload: ...

Spider-Man is without a doubt the most popular and enduring character at Marvel Comics. Each month his title whether it is Amazing or Superior is the top selling title from the publisher. The creation of Peter Parker in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko was a revolutionary moment in comic history ushering in the era of everyman heroes and opening the superhero genre up to teenagers who were more than just sidekicks. In 2012 Spider-Man celebrated his fiftieth anniversary and that year also saw the 700th issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Both were major mile stones and Marvel celebrated them by having Otto Octavius (Doctor Octupus or Doc Ock for short), one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes, switch minds with him and then promptly killed off the body that Peter Parker was in. They ended the publication of Amazing Spider-Man and started a new title as a part of the Marvel Now initiative called Superior Spider-Man which followed Otto’s attempts to prove himself a better hero and a superior version of Spider-Man than Peter had been. Fans were understandably upset.

This week instead of an episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC aired a special about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe was basically a documentary discussing the process that Marvel Studios went through to create their series of interconnected movies and at the end gave a few teases for upcoming projects. My friends and I, and according to the website Television by the Numbers more than four million other people all tuned in to watch. Four million viewers isn’t going to win any time slots but it was still good enough to give ABC third place for the hour and drew significantly more viewers than the rerun of S.H.I.E.L.D. they aired on February 20th. More interesting to me was the fact that ABC was willing to air it at all. They have enough faith in the popularity of comic book entertainment that they were willing to air a documentary primarily about movies that people have already seen during primetime. If that isn’t a sign that we are living in a new golden age for comic fans I don’t know what is. However, unlike the Golden Age of Comic Books this new golden age is on the big and small screen. In honor of this new era of superhero entertainment I thought I’d take a look at the current and upcoming live action superhero movies and tv shows from both Marvel and DC.

Dan and I take some time to discuss our top picks from the 2012’s Comics of the Year. http://youtu.be/Uifp0tTlYxA Top Marvel Book: right at the beginning Top DC Books: 7:20 Top Creator-Owned Book 12:40 sec Top Marvel Arc 19:14 Top DC Arc 23:46 Top Creator-Owned Arc 27:49 Best Old Comic 31:35 Biggest Surprise 40:14

Sorry that the audio’s a little off, I was originally just going to use the audio to write a text piece. But I decided it’d be better to let you hear Stan “the Man’s” voice yourself.

transcript: Intro: Welcome to the third episode of the Comic Pow! Video Reviews. This time around we’re discussing Spider-Men #1 Review: Let me just start off by saying what many of you were thinking. Heck, it’s what I wrote in my coverage of the announcement of the announcement of this mini-series. Marvel said, back when they created the Ultimate Universe, that if they ever had a crossover between the mainstream and ultimate universes it would mean they were officially out of ideas. So….there you go - Marvel’s out of ideas. ...