Marvel Comics Library. Spider-Man. Vol. 2. 1965¿1966

Their collaboration on Spider-Man couldn¿t last forever¿but the five-years of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko¿s remarkable partnership lasted long enough for their character to evolve into a timeless icon and create a fandom that would last generations. TASCHEN¿s second volume of Amazing Spider-Man stories collects the latter half of the duo¿s magnum opus, featuring brand new arch-villains the Scorpion, Molten Man, and the Crime-Master, return engagements with Kraven the Hunter and the Green Goblin¿and the three-part ¿Master Planner Saga¿ that reignited a feud with an iconic mystery villain, and left behind what many comics critics declare to be the greatest super hero story of all time. Beyond the action that faced Spider-Man¿all choreographed with aplomb by the master stylist Ditko¿there was also the matter of Peter Parker¿s maturation during a decade of social upheaval and change. With Stan Lee¿s blend of soap opera melodramatics and finger-on-the-pulse social sensitivities, Peter gradu