Spider-Man: Homecoming isn't the first time a Marvel movie has showcased a high school-age Peter Parker, but it is the first one to really explore the chaos that comes when Peter tries to balance his school life with his superhero adventures. That's a dynamic that has been at the forefront of many classic Spider-Man comics. From the original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko Amazing Spider-Man to the modern revamp that is Ultimate Spdier-Man, here are the stories you should read if Homecoming has you craving more teen Spidey adventures.
(And be sure to check out our review of Spider-Man: Homecoming.)
If you crave some teenage Spider-Man in your life, there's no better place to start than with the wallcrawler's earliest adventures. And there's no better format these days for catching up with Marvel's classic stories than the Epic Collections, which offer a terrific bang for the buck. $35 for 19 Spider-Man comics is a pretty swell deal.
And not just any Spider-Man comics, but the comics that laid the groundwork for everything that came later. This massive book includes Peter Parker's debut appearance from Amazing Fantasy #15 as well as the first 17 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man and the first ASM annual. Writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko set the gold standard here, introducing classic villains like Chameleon, Green Goblin, Sandman, Electro and Vulture and establishing Peter Parker's struggle to balance his chaotic high school life with his even more chaotic superhero adventures.
We get it. As fun as classic Silver Age comics are, they can seem a little hokey and outdated to modern readers. So what's a Spidey fan to do if they want to experience the hero's early adventures through a more modern lens? Pretty simple, actually. Just check out Spider-Man: Amazing Origins.
Amazing Origins was originally published as Spider-Man: Season One. Like all the Season One graphic novels, this story adapts the earliest Silver Age adventures of its respective hero, filling in some gaps and basically trying to mold those comics into a more cohesive "Year One" origin tale. It retains the innocent, all-ages tone of the old ASM comics, while giving them a fresh coat of paint (courtesy of writer Cullen Bunn and artist Neil Edwards).
The only real difference between Spider-Man: Season One and Spider-Man: Amazing Origins trade paperbacks is that the latter also includes a reprint of Spidey #1 (a series we'll touch on a bit later).
As great and as influential as the classic ASM comics are, there's one series we'll always recommend above all others for newbie readers looking for a clean gateway into Marvel's Spider-Man books. The fact that Ultimate Spider-Man revolves around a teenage version of Peter Parker just makes it that much more perfect in this case.
Ultimate Spider-Man made its debut in 2000, as writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mark Bagley set out to reboot the iconic hero, retaining the best elements of the classic version and revamping Spidey to fit a contemporary audience. To say they succeeded is a bit of an understatement. Ultimate Spider-Man breathed new life into the franchise, spawning a sprawling saga that Bendis is still writing even now and essentially birthing the entire Ultimate Universe imprint in the process.
This first volume of the USM Ultimate Collections reprints the first 13 issues of the original series, covering Spidey's updated origin story, his first clashes with villains like Green Goblin and Kingpin and culminating with Ultimate Spider-Man #13, widely considered to be one of the best single issues Marvel has ever published. And if you like this first volume, rest easy knowing there's plenty more where that came from.
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