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 ...
novels
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...
''The Amazing Spider-Man: Mayhem in Manhattan'' (1978)
No. 1 of the Marvel Pocket Novels. Written by
Len Wein
Leonard Norman Wein (; June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men ( ...
and Marv Wolfman. Doctor Octopus is blackmailing the top eight CEO's of various U.S. oil companies in order to get a stranglehold on U.S. oil. He also tries to convince those same CEO's that he has rendered their oil radioactive and thereby useless. For one year, they must secretly agree to buy oil from Doctor Octopus instead and, at the end of that time, they can go back to business as usual.
''The Amazing Spider-Man: Crime Campaign'' (1979)
No. 8 of the Marvel Pocket Novels. Written by
Paul Kupperberg
Paul Kupperberg (born June 14, 1955) is an American writer and comics editor. He is currently a writer and executive editor at Charlton Neo Comics and Pix-C Webcomics, and a contributing author with Crazy 8 Press. Formerly, he was an editor for D ...
. The plot concerns a TV anchorman whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Kingpin, who has forced the popular media frontsman to stand as Mayor. The Kingpin has taken millions of dollars from the other ganglords in order to cut them into his plan, which is to push his candidate into becoming Mayor. Peter Parker manages to convince J. Jonah Jameson into running for Mayor also. Secondly, Parker gets sent to cover a mayoral rally and thirdly, Silvermane's plan to secretly undermine the Kingpin's authority has him using a fake Spider-Man to threaten the Kingpin's candidate, and to lead the real Spider-Man into conflict with the Kingpin. While this is all happening, Jameson has hired a private investigator named Cindy Sayers to pretend to be his niece in order to find out how Peter Parker can get so many pictures of Spider-Man.
''The Hulk and Spider-Man: Murdermoon'' (1979)
No. 11 of the Marvel Pocket Novels and a sequel to ''The Amazing Spider-Man: Crime Campaign'', also written by Paul Kupperberg. The book begins with the Hulk fighting the U.S. military in a desert, but then cuts to Spider-Man intervening in a raid on a company doing research for NASA. The wall-crawler does not quite save the day but, returning to the ''Bugle'', he immediately gets dropped into a story to cover the latest StarLab spy-in-the-sky satellite, which is due to drop back out of the sky. That story takes Parker out to a U.S. aircraft carrier. But when the satellite vanishes from the radar, trouble arises. Meanwhile, Bruce Banner is reading a newspaper advertisement offering a potential treatment for his condition. He follows up on the ad, but finds himself kidnapped by the villain and, as the Hulk, gets brainwashed into fighting Spider-Man.
Dean Wesley Smith
Dean Wesley Smith (born November 10, 1950) is an American writer of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Smith has published nearly 200 novels and hundreds of short stories.
Smith has also written novels for licensed properties such as '' St ...
. A man named Catrall is on the run from the FBI because he has a serum that will drive anyone who comes into contact with it into a killer rage. He created the serum as a byproduct of studies designed to eliminate violent behavior. Meanwhile, an experiment is being run to try to kill the Carnage symbiote without killing Casady, its host. Catrall shows up because he thinks that he can destroy the serum in the firewall that is holding Casady. Catrall accidentally frees Carnage without destroying the serum. Carnage fights with Spider-Man, but escapes before he can be defeated. Spider-Man looks all over New York, finds Catrall, and finds out about the experiments that led to the serum and that Carnage found Catrall first, and took the serum. Carnage is planning to put the serum in a meal being made for some homeless people during a fundraiser being put together by Jonah Jameson. Spider-Man finds Carnage, fights in front of the audience, and then defeats Carnage. He takes the serum to Reed Richards to be kept out of the wrong hands.
''Spider-Man: Goblin's Revenge'' (1996)
A sequel to ''Spider-Man: Carnage in New York'' also written by Dean Wesley Smith. After Spider-Man leaves the serum with Reed Richards, the Green Goblin steals the unsecured serum from Richards. The identity of the Goblin is in question for most of the book, although there are clues early on. After the serum is stolen, Peter begins to have nightmares; he dreams that New York is covered with blood. Peter is about to go insane, in part because of the serum, partly because of sightings of the supposedly dead Norman Osborn, and partly because the Goblin is about to push Mary Jane off of the Brooklyn Bridge, in a scene that is designed to draw him back into the death of Gwen. The book ends with Spider-Man defeating both Carnage and the Goblin at the bridge and finding out the identity of the Goblin.
''Spider-Man: Valley of the Lizard'' (1998)
Written by John Vornholt.
''Spider-Man: Wanted: Dead or Alive'' (1998)
Written by Craig Shaw Gardner.
''Spider-Man: Venom's Wrath'' (1998)
Written by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Jose R. Nieto.
David Liss
David Liss (born March 16, 1966) is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his BA degree from Syracuse University ...
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''Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury'' (2020)
Written by Diane Duane. The trilogy consists of the books, ''Spider-Man: The Venom Factor'' (1994), ''Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction'' (1995) and ''Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda'' (1996).
''Spider-Man Super Thriller''
A young adult novel series consisting of five books. ''Spider-Man: Midnight Justice'' (1996), ''Spider-Man: Deadly Cure'' (1996), ''Spider-Man: Global War'' (1997), ''Spider-Man: Lizard's Rage'' (1997) and ''Spider-Man: Warrior's Revenge'' (1997).
''Doom's Day'' trilogy
Consists of the books ''Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk: Doom's Day Book One: Rampage'' (1996), ''Spider-Man and Iron Man: Doom's Day Book Two: Sabotage'' (1997) and ''Spider-Man and Fantastic Four: Doom's Day Book Three: Wreckage'' (1997).
''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow''
Consists of the books ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 1: The Past'' (1998), ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2: The Present'' (1998) and ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 3: The Future'' (1998).
''Sinister Six'' trilogy
Written by Adam-Troy Castro. Consists of the books ''Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six'' (1999), ''Spider-Man: Revenge of the Sinister Six'' (2001) and ''Spider-Man: Secret of the Sinister Six'' (2002).
Film novelizations and comic adaptations
''Spider-Man'' (2002)
Written by Peter David.
''Spider-Man 2'' (2004)
Written by Peter David.
''Spider-Man 3'' (2007)
Written by Peter David.
''Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt'' (2014)
Written by
Neil Kleid
Neil Kleid (born 1975) is an American cartoonist who received a 2003 Xeric Award grant for his graphic novella ''Ninety Candles'' (2004). Raised in Oak Park, Michigan, he lives in New Jersey
Kleid wrote '' Brownsville'', a graphic novel about Mu ...
, this is an adaptation of the well-known comic book storyline " Kraven's Last Hunt".
Spin-offs
''Mary Jane'' (2003)
A young adult novel written by Judith O'Brien that serves as the origin of Spider-Man through Mary Jane Watson's eyes.
''Mary Jane 2'' (2004)
A sequel to the first Mary Jane book, also written by Judith O'Brien.
Appearances in other novels
* Spider-Man appears in the book ''New Avengers: Break-Out'' from 2013 by
Alisa Kwitney
Alisa Kwitney (born 1964) is a writer of comedic romance novels and graphic novels.
Biography
Kwitney grew up in New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side,prose
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