What I remember:

This is a important book in my childhood collection. I had a few issues of this series when I was younger, which reprinted the early issues of The Amazing Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.

When I first read it, I thought it was dated. The art looked cartoony. I was used to the Todd McFarlane/Mark Bagley style that was popular at the time. When I read the book and the other issues that I had when I got a little older, (middle school age) I found myself connecting to Peter Parker in ways that I never did in the more contemporary issues.

The mainstream books featured a more confident Spider-Man with a decent job and a supermodel for a wife. He was engrossed in the Clone Saga, that pretty much said that every Spider-Man book I had ever read didn’t feature Spider-Man but a clone. This Peter Parker was a lot different. The only experience with this Peter Parker was this Spider-Man cartoon that I had of VHS: