In time for this summer's movie sequel, Marvel Entertainment launches a new series about the earliest days of the wall-crawling super hero.

If The Amazing Spider-Man 2 inspires new fans of the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, Marvel Entertainment will have a new way for them to get onboard the character's comic book adventures. Launching in May, The Amazing Spider-Man, Year One revisits the first twelve months of Peter Parker's crime-fighting career.

"When you're looking at things in [the original 1960s] issues, you're going: 'Wait a minute! How did this happen? How did he get this? Where did this come from? Why didn't Aunt May ever wonder about that?'" explained writer Dan Slott, who'll juggle this series with his work on the regular Amazing Spider-Man comic book. "You start looking at it closer and closer and you go, 'There's a story here that we're not seeing.'"

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