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Time Capsule
The Amazing Spider-Man: 500 Covers
Written by: Jonathan Couper-Smartt & Kit Kiefer
Marvel; 304 pages; $49.95
So: On the surface, this seems like a "can't miss" project for Marvel... well they don't. The 304-page volume delivers in more ways than expected.
Despite not running each cover at full size, there's plenty of room to ensure that no key issues get slighted, frequently running three and four consecutive full-pagers to see that all the greats get their due.
Beyond that however, the book gives us chapter dividers for each year to give readers a sense of historical perspective, both in Spidey's world and our own. Each has a top paragraph with a synopsis of the wall-crawler's escapades over the 12 issues (so you can find out exactly what happened during that clone-saga you skipped) as well as a second paragraph which recaps the current and cultural events of the year. It's great to get a sense of just what Spidey was doing when Texas Instruments introduced the pocket calculator, when Fernando Valenzuela led the Dodgers to the World Series, and even when 1989’s Batmania ran wild at the B.O.
The book's print quality was a welcome surprise, with Marvel using scans of actual comics instead of attempting to recolor the covers as with other reprint volumes (a process which damages line quality in lettering and detail areas). So yes, we see all the "dots" in the color. I'm glad. The choice only contributes to the sense of history the book evokes so well. Grade: A
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