Amazing Spider-Man #607 (Ongoing)

Spider-Man first appeared in the comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). The series was canceled with that issue, but response to the character was so positive that a solo title, The Amazing Spider-Man, was launched with a March 1963 cover-date. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, and the pair produced 38 issues from 1963 to 1966. title is the character's flagship series. Most of the major characters and villains of the Spider-Man saga have been introduced here, and it is where key events occur. The title was published continuously until 1998 when Marvel Comics relaunched it with a new issue #1 (Jan. 1999), but on Spider-Man's 40th anniversary, this new title reverted to using the numbering of the original series, beginning again with issue #500 (Dec. 2003) Issue #607 is part 2 of the story arc began last week, "Long-Term Arrangement" where perhaps for the first time ever, we have four--repeat, four-- gorgeous babes fighting over ol' webhead. I just hate it, however, when those incompetents in charge of solicitations at Marvel Comics and at marvel.com botch something as simple as a solicitation. Lately a lot of people have been noticing lapses in grammar and other such amateurish stuff in Marvel's product solicitations. But to miss an entire issue and instead repeat the previous one's solicitation and publish it, as in this case where the solicitation for Issue #607 is a word-for-word rehash of that of Issue #606, is unforgivable. Something's not right at Marvel. Fortunately the story arc is interesting enough but if this sloppiness continues, especially with the flagship series of one of Marvel's most popular and most enduring comic book superheroes, a lot of true believers will start getting turned off. Bring back Stan Lee!


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