With great power comes great responsibility. When Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider he becomes super agile and amazingly strong. He makes a disguise and calls himself Spider-Man. It's not long before Spider-Man realises that New York City needs a superhero.

Young fans won't want to miss this junior novel based on the upcoming Marvel film, Spider-Man.

The story of how Peter Parker acquired super powers and became Spiderman.

The Story of the Amazing Spider-Man tells the tale of how Peter Parker came to have the powers and relative strength of a Spider!

Spider-Man faces a stranger who will change how he views himself, the events of September 11, Aunt May discovering his identity and Dr. Octopus in California.

Travel back in time to witness the creation of the world's favorite web-slinger as dreamed up by comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who redefined what it meant to be a hero. In this Hulk-sized, collector's dream, the first 21 Spider-Man stories from 1962-1964 have been meticulously photographed from the most pristine copies of these rare comic books--a fine art celebration of the teen super hero in this inaugural volume of TASCHEN's Marvel Comics Library series. Also available in a Collector's Edition of 1,000 numbered copies