What's the difference between the various Spider-Man titles?

[El Terrible]

Hi im a new guy to Comics and I was wondering which series was better and whats the difference between the Spideman-Peter Parker Spiderman series and Ultimate Spiderman also is there a better series like Amazing Spider Man or what? Which ones the Best and whats the difference thanks?

[ZT4]

Hi im a new guy to Comics and I was wondering which series was better and whats the difference between the Spideman-Peter Parker Spiderman series and Ultimate Spiderman also is there a better series like Amazing Spider Man or what? Which ones the Best and whats the difference thanks?

Ultimate Spider-Man is set in the Ultimate Universe where Peter and MJ are lovers in high school with a similar, but radically different supporting cast consisting of Aunt May, Johnny Storm, Flash, Liz, Kitty Pryde, Kong, and Gwen "Carnage" Stacy. Peter has more difficulty keeping his identity a secret to friends and enemies here. It's used as the "testing ground" for things in ASM the same as the Ultimate Universe has been used to set the path for mainstream developments in other titles that belong to the regular universe.

ASM has sort of rebooted continuity as well, removing Peter and MJ's marraige, despite this frack-up of continuity, ASM is the "mainstream" title set in the regular Marvel Universe

Peter Parker, Spider-Man was set in the original, uninterupted mainstream Spidey timeline...who knows where it qualifies now. It mainly served as either a standalone title or crossed over with arcs spread over ASM and others at the time.

The best titles are USM, Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man (a testing ground for new writers, aimed at younger readers and free of continuity) and MC2's The Amazing Spider-Girl,, featuring Peter and MJ's daughter Mayday, it picks things up from the final issues of DeFalco's run on ASM back in 1998 and sets it sixteen or so years later

[Alan2099]

The Spider-man books have justed started with a new status quo. Peter's dealing with new villains, a few new mysteries, and new members of his supporting cast. If you're new to comics, it's a good place to jump on.

Ultimate Spider-man is set in another Universe. Spider-man's still a teenager there and still deals with school and al that. However it's written by Bendis. If you're not familiar with him, his writting tends to be heaven on dialog, short on action, and very decompressed.

[Matt Linton]

Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, and Amazing Spider-Man are all excellent books. Amazing Spider-Girl and Marvel Adventures Spider-Man are both a lot of fun.

[Alan2099]

Ah, didn't think to mention those other ones.

Spider-man loves Mary jane is a good book. it's very self contained though and a teenage mary jane features much more prominatley than Spider-man does. It's a pretty cool book but not exactly one to go for if you're looking for action packed Spider-man stories.

Spider-girl has a sort of retrco-retro feel to it. Essentially silver age stories told with a 90s style mentality (good 90s, not Spawn, Cable, and foil cover type 90s.) Spider-girl has her own supporting cast and characters, although Spidey himself has long since been crippled and retired.

Mary Adventures is Spider-man boiled down to it's most basics. It's very fun and fast paced but not too serious and doesn't realy effect anything other than itself.

[ZT4]

Oh, and the UK publishes it's own original Spider-Man magazine for younger readers. "The Spetacular Spider-Man" (no relation to the animated series or the original title) has a non-linear continuity, telling stories from the past and present of the character.

[Alan2099]

Oh, and the UK publishes it's own original Spider-Man magazine for younger readers. "The Spetacular Spider-Man" (no relation to the animated series or the original title) has a non-linear continuity, telling stories from the past and present of the character.

I wasn't aware of that one. Do they do new stories or just reprints?

[ZT4]

I wasn't aware of that one. Do they do new stories or just reprints?

No reprints, all-new stories.

Reggie posted a link to some of the artists on his blog, several peices of the art are on Deviantart

I think you'd like it, there updating all the looks for the villains too.

[Alan2099]

By all new, you do mean NEW new and not retelling old old with modern art and sensibilities right?

[ZT4]

By all new, you do mean NEW new and not retelling old old with modern art and sensibilities right?

There's continuity differences, but there all based in the background of the FOX animated series, but this by now is a mere footnote in the comics' orgins, and it's it's own thing now.

It's sort of like Simon Furman when he got his break on the UK Transformers comic, although he later paired the Marvel US canon with the UK canon, Bob Budiansky's stuff was the layering he was saddled with and he went on from there, deviating for as long as he did before he took over from Bob.

[austinwells]

hey guys you confused me in all these three geners of Spiderman.
I had only watch the all 3 Spiderman movies. And it seems that Spiderman Cartoons are very much boring rather than the movies.

[yadadaimhollaing]

The 2 titles to pay attention to are amazing spiderman and ultimate spiderman.
If you want to read the ongoing spiderman title from the 60s get amazing spiderman. Best place to start is the brand new day hardcovers volumes 1 & 2 and the new arc that started today with new ways to die. Its a very new reader frienly title.


Ultimate spiderman is really good. It is only about 8 years old and none of the continuity from the 60s spiderman exists. Its a real fun retelling of spiderman. There are 20 trade paperbacks that are excellent. They will collect issues 1-122 and currently issue 124 is the newest issue with 125 scheduled to come out next week.