''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' is an

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series starring

Spider-Man Spider-Man is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in the anthology comic book '' Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in the ...

published by

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for 26 issues (#1–25, with a #-1 issue (July 1997) added between issues #22 (June 1997) and 23 (August 1997)) and two ''Annual''s (''Annual '96'' and ''Annual '97'') from September 1995 to October 1997. The series was preceded by three Spider-Man flashback stories in ''

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'' #16-18 (December 1995-March 1996). In February 1999, a

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issue called ''Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounter'' was published. Finally, ''The Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #37 (2010) featured another interconnected story that ended the series. The series was part of an experiment for Marvel, where they published a number of new titles for only 99 cents in the hopes that they would attract new, young readers who might have been put off by the then- U.S.$1.50/$1.95 standard prices for comic books at the time. Uniquely among those titles, ''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' presented new stories set in the early days of Spider-Man's

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career. The series was primarily written by

Kurt Busiek Kurt Busiek ( ) (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book writer. His work includes the ''Marvels'' limited series, his own series titled ''Astro City'', a four-year run on ''The Avengers (comic book), The Avengers, Thunderbolts (comics ...

and penciled by

Pat Olliffe Patrick Olliffe is an American comic book artist and penciller. His most notable clients include Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Disney Publishing, and Aftershock Comics. Career Olliffe is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on ''Untold Tales of ...

, though

Roger Stern Roger Stern (born September 17, 1950) is an American comic book author and novelist. Biography Early career In the early 1970s, Stern and Bob Layton published the fanzine ''CPL'' (''Contemporary Pictorial Literature''), one of the first platfor ...

Tom DeFalco Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on ''Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Thor'', and ''Fantastic Four''. Career While in college, DeFalco "wrote fo ...

Glenn Greenberg Glenn Greenberg (born New York City) is an American journalist and comic book and fiction writer. At the beginning of his career, he became a regular Marvel Comics writer, penning stories for ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'', ''The Rampaging Hulk'', ...

(writing under the pseudonym "G.L. Lawrence"), and

Ron Frenz Ronald Wade Frenz (born February 1, 1960) is an American comics artist known for his work for Marvel Comics. He is well known for his 1980s work on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and later for his work on '' Spider-Girl'' whom he co-created with writ ...

also contributed.

Collected editions

External links

''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' at The Grand Comics Database

* ttp://www.spiderfan.org/comics/title/spiderman_untold_tales.html ''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' on SpiderFan.org {{Spider-Man publications Spider-Man titles Comics by Kurt Busiek