



Even better is "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" (#248), a hero-meets-young-fan type short story that cranks the melodrama up to eleven – and succeeds beautifully. Organized chronologically, the book starts out with "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut" and "Hyde & Seek" from Roger Stern & John Romita Jr.’s acclaimed run (the selected issues are 1982’s The Amazing Spider-Man #229-32), and both stories turn out to be great Silver Age-style fun in the Lee-Romita Sr. This is a sampler of some of the most popular Spider-Man comics of the 1980s, complete with a (not particularly informative) Bendis introduction and a rather fanboy-ish (but slightly more informative) foreword to each story arc.
