Marvel Celebrates End of Spider-Man's Historic Comic Run

Dan Slott ’s decade - long political campaign onAmazing Spider - Manhas finally come to an final stage , and in honor of the occasion Marvel has released a video recording lionise his greatest issues . Slott ’s link a rotating gang of writers in 2007 , but contain over lonesome writing duties three twelvemonth subsequently . The TV runs through the covers of some of his most iconic outlet , charting the many ways Spider - Man has changed and arise throughout Slott ’s run .

Marvel ’s " Fresh Start " relaunch is see Slott at last step off from his Spider - Man duties , instead need over the new series ofInvincible Iron Man . Slott decide to bow out in style , and this weekAmazing Spider - Man#800 is the climatical end of his final Spider - Man epic , " Go Down swing . " The arc has see Norman Osborn bond with the Carnage symbiote , becoming the monstrousRed Goblin . Learning the Sojourner Truth of Spider - Man ’s mysterious identity , Osborn has launch a terrific attack on the bulwark - crawler ’s near and dearest . The landmark 800th subject seesone of Spider - Man ’s honest-to-goodness Friend die a zep ’s deathin order to break the Red Goblin ’s violent disorder . The next issue will serve as an epilog of sorts , tying Slott ’s remaining plot thread into a smashing little bow .

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In honor of Slott ’s decade - long stint , Marvel has eject a video showing some Greco-Roman covers from the Slott run . They give a sense of just how much the Spider - Man world has changed over the last 10 years , and showcase major arcs and case such as " Big Time , " " Spider - Island , " " To The Ends of the Earth , " and " Spider - Verse . " They also let in one of the most controversial Spider - Man arcs of all clock time , Slott ’s " Superior Spider - Man , " in which Doctor Octopus took control condition of Peter Parker ’s body . He wreak Mary Jane Watson back after the event ofOne More Day , gave her a brief but thrilling taste of wanderer - powers , and finally launch her into the life of Tony Stark as Stark ’s deputy !

It ’s fascinating to count back at the many change Slott has made to the wall - crawler ’s world over the course of the last decade . Comic Word of God typically coddle in what Stan Lee called " the illusion of variety . " As fabled mirthful Koran writerPeter Davidexplained it with point of reference to Lee ’s Spider - Man run :

" Over the days , Stan and Steve ( and later John ) put him through change . But when you get down to it , they fulfil the construct of illusionary modification . Peter went from high-pitched school to college … but he was still a scholarly person . Betty Brant and Liz Allen gave way to Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson , and nemesis Flash Thompson step aside for nemesis Harry Osborn . Otherwise , though , he was fairly much the same hombre . Sure , he got a motorcycle , which was the ultimate in cool … but he wound up having to betray it , thereby take the money trouble back to the forefront . It was evolution , but 360 degrees ’ worth . Same honest-to-goodness Spider - Man , same old Peter Parker , same old problems at the core . "

Spider-Man Noir

Slott , however , make bold to alter the game . His vision of Spider - Man was of a human being who dared to take brave and courageous dance step , even becoming chief operating officer of a successful transnational organization , Parker Industries . Slott ’s risky venture took Spider - Man to other world and other proportion , and saw him battle Doctor Octopus with the destiny of the world on the line . In the end , of class , the Parker Luck struck again , and Parker Industries came crashing down ; Slott has gradually repair Peter to a gloss of the one-time position quo , ready to hand over the billy club to the next author .

But Slott ’s bequest will endure . Under Dan Slott , the Spider - Man risible book trade name has become stronger than ever before . Even in the ' 90s , when every week saw the sack of a raw Spider - Man book , every one of them star Peter Parker . But Slott has launched countless originative new ideas , from side - fictitious character like Anti - Venom to alternate - reality takes on the bulwark - fishing worm such asRenew Your VowsandSpider - Gwen . The Spider - Man enfranchisement has been perfectly transformed .