This book collects some of the stranger Spider-Man adventures and features some good stories by famous creators. While not all the stories are great they are mostly solid works.
The first storyline has Spider-Man heading to the Savage Land in order to find the man known as Karl Lykos (formerly Sauron) who is no longer controlled by his pterodactyl-counterpart and wants to lead a lonely life in the Savage Land. But with Spider-Man and Angel mutated into monsters can Ka-Zar save the day? Perhaps, if Lykos is willing to do something no one hope he would do. This story is forgettable but fun. Nothing worth noting really, except it marked the return of Sauron.
The second story has Spider-Man trying to remove his powers but instead gaining four more arms. Taking refuge in Curt Conners lab Spidey runs afoul a new foe: Morbius the Living Vampire! Who is he and what happened to him to make him a vampire. And will Spidey survive when the Lizard shows up? A cool Stan Lee and Roy Thomas written-tale that features a great first act, as well as a great moment in which Spider-Man tries to picture his new life with six-arms. The story slips a bit with the introduction to Morbius but overall is a great Spider-Man tale.
Next is a Howard the Duck tale by Steve Gerber himself, one that will hopefully make you forget about the Howard the Duck movie. This romp features Howard one of the series main characters as he has to acts as a warrior to assist an evil wizard to save his new friends neck. While not the best Howard tale, it does have it's moments as well as some great art in certain points. The introduction of Spider-Man to the story, however, feels really forced.
The last tale has Frank Miller art but is probably the least of the bunch. Still good though. Spider-Man is called upon to save Dr. Strange from a villain who emerges from the team-up of Dr. Doom and Dormammu. But how can Spider-Man succeed where the sorceror supreme has failed?
Overall a good set of obscure Spider-Man stories that's good for trade paperback fans who don't by back issues with good stories.

This is the Elektra saga excerpted from the Daredevil comics. They took bits and pieces of the original stories and tried to put it together in a book that emphasized Elektra. Not a good idea as a lot of the origianl storytelling elements were lost in the transition. Hopefully Marvel will rerelease the original Frank Miller Daredevil series in their complete form.

I love Superman, and I have a fondness for Stan Lee, so I bought this title hoping for at the very least a good read. John Buscema is also one of the masters of comicbook art, so I expected a visual treat. All I can say is, expectations were crushed by the terrifying waste of paper and time that is this book.

The writing is ham-handed and campy, and the characterizations are broad and silly. The plot is unimaginative, being parts Silver Surfer, parts I don't know what. It seemed like Lee sat down with a list of things he wanted to put in, and just lightly sewed those things together with as little thought as possible.

This book is painfully bad, and the artwork does not in the least save it. There is a fun little story in the back that is amusing, but not nearly amusing enough to save the whole package.

Save your money - save your sanity - avoid this title. Buy the Just Imagine Wonder Woman title...

I rather liked this story. Stan gave the Superman story a more believable premise and it was a good page turner. Good artwork also.

Is this Rod Underhill related to Roy Underhill? I see they're credited together for writing quite a few books together. Even if I was married to this guy his book isn't very good. Maybe he should stick to woodworking.

Did you know that gullible was printed twice in the 1996 Merriam Webster dictionary?

Can gold still be found in the DotCom mines of the year 2000? Evidently so, but intrepid miners have to make some choices. Join somebody's team early on and hope for the best and perhaps find "founder" millions? Join late in the game but arrive at a decent long term career? Or go for broke and start you own start up and try to become the next Bill Gates? Okay, maybe try not to become so successful that the Gov't cuts your business in two, but maybe collect a few hundred million dollars in the process.

Stock options, bad internet biz ideas, and other pitfalls are cheerfully explained in this very well researched book. If you are getting just a little jealous about how you keep hearing that some goofball you went to high school with just made a few million at a DOTCOM, this book will give you both a reality check and a head start at the same time. That's no easy feat to pull off.

Plus, the jokes aren't too terrible.

When Batman was first created in 1939, Bob Caine and his partner Bill Finger created a very human/complex character. With all due respect to Stan Lee, his take on the Batman story just does not work,although I give him credit for at least trying. I think most of the other Just Imagine stories that he's done have been good or fairly good books to read and hope DC releases them all in a collected Trade paperback book some day.

I bought this book thinking that Stan Lee would be re-creating Batman with some spark so you could go WOW but once you have read it was more like OH the story as to how he became Batman was crap, the Batman costume was disgusting there was just nothing that I liked about it, I was very disapointed with it, I would really think twice before buying this book. I hope that I have helped you.

Comics legend Stan Lee teams with fellow icon Joe Kubert to give a new spin to legendary DC character Batman. (Lee was the co-creator of such Marvel Comics as Spider-Man, Thor, The Hulk, etc.) This is Stan's first attempt at doing DC characters, and the result is a nostalgic mixture of Modern DC and classic Marvel.

Stan gives us Wayne Williams, an inner-city teen framed by gangster Handz Horgum. Wayne languishes in jail, building his body and mind, waiting for the day when he can have his revenge.
Of course, he adopts the guise of a bat.....and in a tip of the hat to Spider-Man, Batman becomes a world-famous professional wrestler.

The only place where the story really stumbles is when Stan tries to lay the groundwork for the rest of the series by introducing another villain. It doesn't really fit with the tone of the book.

Fans of Stan Lee's classic Marvel work will find this first chapter of Just Imagine a trip down memory lane. (And how great is Kubert's art?)

This tpb has fights with Venom, Carnage, Mysterio, Electro, Kingpin, Vulture, Hobgoblin and Doc Ock. the reason i gave this book 2 stars is because a few storys were cut short and supposed to continue for another chapter or two, and didnt, it was pretty dissapointing.

The storys that didnt get cut off, (Mysterio, Carnage, Vulture, Hobgoblin and Doc Ock) were all very good. If you can get it VEEEEEERRY cheap used, just for the few good stories and artwork, that would be the way to do it.

If you want to read some really good Spider-Man tpbs check out Kravens Last Hunt, Spider-Man Vs. Green Goblin (you can see my other review on this book) or Spider-Man: Carnage.

This book presents a lot of interesting, even entertaining facts and trivia anecdotes, which, by themselves, would be entertaining and enjoyable, but I'm forced to agree with other Amazon customer reviews: the "witty" comments by Stan Lee are insufferably lame, even angering at times. By the time I was halfway through the book, I wish I'd had someone black out Stan Lee's punishingly unfunny, obnoxious commentary with a marker. Also, those familiar with desktop publishing will take exception to the lame, cookie-cutter, public domain computer graphics that pepper every page like discarded, randomly arranged confetti. Be warned: the book's humor value is severely comprimised by the fact that it's downright shoddy and unfunny.

I thought this book was worthwhile because of the interesting factoids about the worst things in the world, like the worst insect, worst movie, worst food, and so on. However, the author has tried to interject humor by putting little supposedly witty one-liners below each fact. Example: one is about a train falling into a 200-foot crevice and getting covered with dirt, and the one-liner is "bet the engineer's getting awfully bored down there." Also, the book is kind of cheesily arranged with ugly computer clip art on every page. If you like facts, this book is worthwhile, but brace yourself for the stupid jokes that are supposed to add the element of humor.

Visionary is certainly a fitting description of the late Gil Kane. His career as an Artist spanned decades, and his unique perspectives and "camera angles" influenced countless artists. It's only fitting that Marvel honor him with his own volume in the "Visionaries" series.

If you're coming into this book to appreciate Kane's art, you'll love it; If you're going to judge the book by the overall package, as I'm doing here, it leaves a lot to be desired. The book starts out with a nice introduction by Kane's frequent collaborator, Writer/Editor Roy Thomas. From there we get a series of stories that span Kane's career at Marvel. The problem here is, most of the stories aren't especially well-written. There's a brief (And dreadful!) Hulk story that absolutely belonged here, since it was Kane's first published work at Marvel. After that is a drawn-out four-part Captain America story, which is notable for the first pairing of Kane and Inker Joe Sinnott. The Adam Warlock story is overwritten (By the aforementioned Roy Thomas) to the point of stupefaction, as is their first Captain Marvel issue, and the Jim Shooter scripted "What If...?" #3 is maybe the worst comic I've ever read. Tony Isabella's "What If...Gwen Stacy hadn't died?" fares MUCH better; I remember reading that story when I was just a kid, and it hasn't lost any of it's power. It's one of the most heart-wrenching Marvel stories ever. Kane and Thomas team up again, for the semi-readable origin of Iron Fist, and Shooter contributes an intelligence-insulting Daredevil story. There's an ok Kid-Colt western short, and a real blast-from-the-past Stan Lee Spider-Man issue, from Marvel's socially-conscious days, that deals with overcrowded prisons. The book closes with some sketch, pencil, and pencil/ink pages, including the uncensored version of one of the Kid-Colt pages (Marvel doesn't allow exit wounds to be depicted in their books, which makes drawing a gunfight a little tough!). Some of the pencil roughs are from issues that are VASTLY superior to the ones reprinted in this book, such as the "Death of Gwen Stacy" and the introduction of The Abomination; Too bad they didn't toss those stories into the book....

The art is beautiful, and I hope Kane's family makes a few bucks off of this book, but people looking for a great read will probably want to look elsewhere.....