As some you Spider-Man fans well know, comic books are not the only print medium where you could follow the wall-crawler’s adventures. Since 1977, Spider-Man has regularly appeared in a daily newspaper comic strip, which was originally written and illustrated by Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr. And while new strips of The Amazing Spider-Man are still being published and are available in print and online, wanting to read the original strips in their entirety takes a bit more work. Even though some of the older strips have been previously collected in hardcover, they did not include the full-color strips from the Sunday funny pages.
Until now, that is.
As announced at this year’s New York Comic Con:
Adding to IDW Publishing’s ever-growing partnership with Marvel, the publishers announced today at New York Comic Con they will be teaming up to bring the world’s most popular Super-Hero, The Amazing Spider-Man, to IDW’s Library of American Comics (LOAC) imprint.
The wondrous wall-crawler’s long-running newspaper strip by Stan Lee, John Romita, and others will be collected in a series of deluxe new hardcover editions that are sure to leave Super Hero fans and comic-strip collectors equally delighted. Consistent with the other newspaper strip reprints in the Library of American Comics line, each volume in the Spider-Man series will include full-color Sunday pages…
…LOAC’s Spider-Man series is designed by Dean Mullaney and edited by Bruce Canwell, both winners of multiple 2014 Eisner Awards for Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth.
The first volume of The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strips will go on sale in early 2015. Which not only means saving the trouble of having to hunt down old editions in a relative’s garage or the morgue file of your local paper, but an opportunity to read more classic Spider-Man.
Sources: Newsarama and Comics Beat.
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IDW is one of my favourite publishers.
I’m probably remembering it through rose-colored glasses but I have fond memories of the Rattler storyline. Maybe that’s when I started reading the strip in my paper. I’ve seen other storylines from that time and most of them I have no recollection of even though I know I read them.
“The Rattler” is one of my favorite newsprint stories ever! I have 5 or 6 of the collected digests containing that and other greats! !!
i have the 2 hardbacks. i love them. they are printed in a hard way to read though. i used to cut these things out and paste them in a notebook. damn.. i am old.
The Rattler!
…and right after I shelled out thirty bucks for the last paperback version!
Oh well; at least I didn’t waste my money on those horribly printed hardcovers (you know…THOSE ones).
This is awesome. I’ve only started reading the strip online about a year ago. I’d love to be able to read the original strips.