![]() ![]() It doesn’t attempt to break down the Spider-Man mythos and start all over again a la the far inferior Spider-Man Chapter One. There’s nothing overly flashy or extraordinary about Untold #1. In terms of an inaugural issue, there may be no Spider-Man “B” series that immediately hooks me as well as Untold Tales of Spider-Man #1. ![]() What I would have discovered was a series that was both reverential to the original source material (similar to Dan Slott and Ramon Perez’s “Learning to Crawl” miniseries), while also taking some well calculated risks that led to some of the most fun and breezy Spidey stories since the Tom DeFalco/Ron Frenz era on Amazing Spider-Man. It could be argued that things would have been very different for me as a comic book fan if I had just ignored the “mainstream” Spider-Man books and instead opted for this curious little series that was pumped out by creators Kurt Busiek and Pat Olliffe (and at 99 cent an issue, I would have had a little more money in my wallet at the end of the month). Instead, I was too busy wasting my time following the meandering “Clone Saga” from book to book, getting increasingly frustrated to the point that I flat out quit reading comics for a number of years until Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man franchise reinvigorated my interest in the medium. ![]() I think one of my biggest regrets I’ve had as a Spider-Man fan is the fact that I missed out on the Untold Tales of Spider-Man series the first time around. ![]()
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