Knowing that people think enough of these stories to seek them out - decades later - is an honor I truthfully never expected' In his introduction to the book Roger Stern says ' I want to thank you for buying this book. I often took my time just lingering on some pages re-reading them and appreciating the art.

The art by Romita Jr and others is also for the most part, excellent and brings to life the stories. Roger Stern is definitely a great writer and though I didn't pay much attention to the writers when I collected comics as a kid, I knew there was something special about these stories. The second half of the book switches to Amazing Spiderman tales and here it is becomes far more intense and the happy-go-lucky light heartedness disappears as Spidey faces some real tough and dangerous opponents such as Juggernaut and the Hobgoblin. There are quite a few innovative new villains that are introduced.but what I liked is that we really saw how powerful and fear-inducing Spiderman really is and should be portrayed as such especially when he is facing ordinary villains. I collected this run in the 1980s and it was fun revisiting these stories. We get to see a lot of Peter Parker's life as a graduate student/teacher assistant at Empire State University. The first half of the book are Peter Parker the Spectacular Spiderman stories and these are entertaining, light hearted and interesting adventures.

It collects a continous run of some of the best Spidey stories ever written and are from 1980-1984 and the ends with the time Spiderman returns from the Secret Wars with the black symbiot costume. This Omnibus is beautifully made, really high end luxury in comics reading experience.

Spider man by stern omnibus