Four down and I’ve already hit a wall! Unfortunately, due mostly to bad planning on my part, I don’t have the next four things I need to read.

Marvel Tales 235 (Story 2)
Marvel Tales 235 (Story 3)
Marvel Tales 248 (Story 2)
Marvel Tales 251 (Story 2)

I went to about four or five different comic shops this weekend [...]

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Claus Encounter!!
Story & Art: Fred Hembeck
Originally published: February 1990
This is another of Hembeck’s ‘Petey’ stories, though this time it’s set “long before” he became Spider-Man. I wonder if I got my chronology wrong…
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This is a crazy story. It’s Christmas and Petey’s upset that May and Ben treat him like a kid – Ben dresses [...]

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Petey: The Adventures of Peter Parker Before He Became Spider-Man!
Story & Art: Fred Hembeck
Originally published: 1989
This is one of Fred Hembeck’s ‘Petey’ stories (the first?), which tell “the adventures of Peter Parker before he became Spider-Man!”. The stories basically insert Peter Parker and his school friends into a Dennis the Menace/Archie comic kind of setting.
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This [...]

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Chapter One: A Time of Marvels
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist / cover artist: Alex Ross
Lettering and interior design: Richard Starkings
Logo design: Joe Kaufman
Originally published: January 1994
Perhaps it is ironic that I’m starting this project with an issue that does not feature, does not even mention, Spider-Man. Since he appears in the rest of the Marvels issues, though, [...]

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I have been a fan of Spider-Man for a long time. I was born in 1981 and my childhood was filled with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the Electric Company, the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon, and (of course) reruns of the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon.
When I was a kid I also read some of the Spider-Man comics [...]

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