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As a kid growing up in the country, I didn’t have a comic store in my home town to pre-order the first issue and so I had to wait for our annual trip to London and hope I could persuade my parents to take me to a comic shop up there in order to get my dream comic. In the mean time I could just about keep my enthusiasm at bay by looking back over the old issue of Spidey I had accrued and also at some of the pencilled and inked pages from Spiderman that had appeared in the ‘Marvel Five Fabulous Decades’ hard cover book which I had tracked down and read cover to cover. However that was not enough and I knew I would have to get my hands on a full issue some day.
Unfortunately these were the decadent 90s and with this new title came the new and exciting multiple covers, polybags and limited edition foils. This was years before the market was over saturated and the speculators had killed my interest in comics ( as well as my wallet) and so as a magpie-like 13-year-old who poured over the pages of Wizard, I wanted them all, but knew I could never justify spending all of my pocket-money on a foil embossed Spidey #1. After months of waiting it was finally time for our trip to the big city and I persuaded my parents to take me to Tottenham Court Road, to Forbidden Planet where I spent, what at the time, was the grand sum of £5 on a silver webbed edition of the comic. Bear in mind this was at a time when a standard comic would cost you less than a £1 but it was to become my pride and joy. I poly-bagged it, boarded it and even double bagged it to protect it from finger marks (I’ve since bricked and graded it). But what about reading it? After all this anticipation, surely I would want to pour over every panel, and there in lay the dilemma of collecting comics in the early 90s. In order to read this masterpiece, but also keep it in pristine condition I ended up buying a second copy, followed by a further reprinted version of it in French while on holiday just to study the artwork. You ever wonder why sales went so berserk in the 90s it was kids like me driving the market mad with multiple purchases (and the publishers encouraging us!) I even had poster versions of the cover on my wall courtesy of a McFarlane cover poster book printed by Marvel UK. After all, I couldn’t damage my pristine first printing, it might be worth a fortune one day!
So 20 years on, it is released on the iPad and I have another chance to buy and own this book in yet another new format. I feel like a music collector who has to have Rubber Soul in every available format, but how does the book itself stand up to my more discerning eye? I have to admit, as I have grown up I have matured away from the bombast of McFarlane and his style over substance approach to comics. Thanks to the worlds of Miller, Moore, Mignola and Gaiman, I have learnt what true story telling is and looking back on the book and I can see it for what it is – a vanity project, from one of the periods biggest egos.
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