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Summary: Full of false hoods and mis facts.....
Review: Since this is an unauthorized book, You have to read it with a grain of salt. Are the facts true, Not Really.Here are the real facts; Steve Didko stopped drawing Spider-Man because he did not want to do it anymore, he and Stan Lee worked on many other projects afterward, most best known being Dr.Strange (this book does not acknowledge that).Even after making Titanic, James Cameron still wanted to do Spider-Man as his next project. He had gone so far as to writing a full script for it, but when he wanted Leo DeCapio to play the main role, Marvel declined and they parted company. (This book makes it sound like Fear Factor).All of the Spider-Man TV shows were failures; The 60's show, the Amazing Friends show, The one produced by John Septer, and the Unlimited show. There were always questions on just how good rateings really were. It seems the comic book sales data was more reliable. It was only in the comics and the recently made Movies that got it right. But this book and it's small minded author don't have the intelligence to figure it out.
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Summary: Spiderman, Behind the Scenes...
Review: This is a great book on all the politics and ego clashes that have gone into making all the various Spiderman incarnations throughout the years, on TV, the cartoons and the films. The one down side of it all is - no pictures. Then, too, it is also billed as an unauthorized bio so it would be fitting that Marvel Comics would not permit any artwork to be used (see the DC Comics approved Les Daniels histories if you want the watered down histories of comic book characters). Particularly of note is why Steve Ditko left drawing Spiderman in the first place (according to the book, he didn't like Stan Lee), why the great Spiderman cartoon of the 1990's was cancelled (network idiocy, according to series writer John Semper), and why James Cameron never got around to making the Spiderman movie (after Titanic was made, he felt he was too big for it). This is a no-holds barred look at the Spiderman franchise, all it's good incarnations and it's bad (like the awful Nicholas Hammond TV show and the last terrible Spidey cartoon, Spiderman Unlimited). It isn't a comprehensive book, but it is a valuable resource for those of us who always wondered why such a great character never received (until recently) a good screen treatment. In the past, according to the book, Marvel Comics was mostly just interested in making a buck on Spiderman, could have cared less how he had been portrayed. These days, since they're owned by Toy Biz, they have an interest, at least - to sell more Spiderman toys. The fact that so many pin-headed executive types have been involved with the character over the years makes you grateful that the character has been as creative as he has. Spidey's greatest villain is not the Green Goblin, it's all those network execs that have kept trying to dumb him down for televison or improve on an already good idea.
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Summary: Spiderman, Behind the Scenes...
Review: This is a great book on all the politics and ego clashes that have gone into making all the various Spiderman incarnations throughout the years, on TV, the cartoons and the films. The one down side of it all is - no pictures. Then, too, it is also billed as an unauthorized bio so it would be fitting that Marvel Comics would not permit any artwork to be used (see the DC Comics approved Les Daniels histories if you want the watered down histories of comic book characters). Particularly of note is why Steve Ditko left drawing Spiderman in the first place (according to the book, he didn't like Stan Lee), why the great Spiderman cartoon of the 1990's was cancelled (network idiocy, according to series writer John Semper), and why James Cameron never got around to making the Spiderman movie (after Titanic was made, he felt he was too big for it). This is a no-holds barred look at the Spiderman franchise, all it's good incarnations and it's bad (like the awful Nicholas Hammond TV show and the last terrible Spidey cartoon, Spiderman Unlimited). It isn't a comprehensive book, but it is a valuable resource for those of us who always wondered why such a great character never received (until recently) a good screen treatment. In the past, according to the book, Marvel Comics was mostly just interested in making a buck on Spiderman, could have cared less how he had been portrayed. These days, since they're owned by Toy Biz, they have an interest, at least - to sell more Spiderman toys. The fact that so many pin-headed executive types have been involved with the character over the years makes you grateful that the character has been as creative as he has. Spidey's greatest villain is not the Green Goblin, it's all those network execs that have kept trying to dumb him down for televison or improve on an already good idea.
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Summary: So, you want to know more about SPIDERMAN
Review: This is another book that capitalizes in the SPIDERMAN HYPE
after the movie, it is mostly a summarized review of the
comics, the Cartoons and the TV series that were made before
the movie.If you are a new fan of SPIDERMAN and you need to know how
does the story in the comics differs from the one in the
movie, you need to buy this book; but remember that there
is going to be lots of spoilers. The cartoons descriptions is Okay, including a very rare
summarization of a Japanese Animated version of spiderman
with weird storylines (please skip the chapter, the japanese
transformed SPIDERMAN into a POWER RANGER), unfortunately
there is no pictures to know how these animation looked like;
obviusly there is no reference pictures of the other animations. About the old TV series, it is mostly a behind the scenes of
the production, with an episode guide and some politics of
the showbiz. Now we get to the Movie, the book details the long process
since the movie was tried to be produced until today, please
note that there is big reference about the previous script
which had DR. OCTOPUS as the villain instead of the GREEN
GOBLIN.
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