{"id":1672,"date":"2011-01-10T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2011-01-22T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T18:41:20","slug":"one-shot-at-greatness-41-marvels-comics-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/one-shot-at-greatness-41-marvels-comics-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Shot At Greatness #41 Marvels Comics: Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Because publishers want you to buy their product every month, comics are typically serial in nature. However, occasionally (and more often nowadays than ever before) publishers launch a comic title that is only meant to last for one issue. While ongoing series often have multiple chances to hook in new readers, the comics highlighted in this ongoing investigations only had <strong>One-Shot At Greatness<\/strong>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/marvels-comics-spider-man-1.jpg\" alt=\"Marvels Comics: Spider-Man #1\" title=\"Marvels Comics: Spider-Man #1\" align=\"left\"><\/a><b><u>Publisher<\/u><\/b>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics_Marvel-Comics_W0QQ_fsubZ19879011QQ_sidZ13296653QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322\">Marvel Comics<\/a><br \/><b><u>Cover Date<\/u><\/b>: July 2000<br \/><b><u>Cover Price<\/u><\/b>: $2.25<br \/><b><u>Writer<\/u><\/b>: Paul Grist <br \/> <b><u>Artist<\/u><\/b>: Kyle Hotz <\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Marvel published a series of one-shots that revealed what Marvel Comics would be like <i>in<\/i> the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>*Warning! Plot Spoilers Below*<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Loud-mouthed editor\/publisher <strong>T.T. Thomas <\/strong>is out to destroy Spider-Man&#8217;s image. He blames him for the death of his son, Jay T. Thomas and uses his paper to lambast the wallcrawler with every opportunity that presents itself. So, when Thomas is attacked by <strong>Professor Squid <\/strong>(who&#8217;s upset at Thomas&#8217; editorials that claimed his work was unscientific), it&#8217;s somewhat of a surprise to see <strong>Spider-Man <\/strong>come to Thomas&#8217; rescue. It makes us wonder what the motivation is for this silent, monstrous looking hero. Perhaps he&#8217;s just following well-developed morals &#8230; or perhaps there&#8217;s a connection between the two that has yet to be discovered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Hotz<\/strong>&#8216;s character designs for Spider-Man are incredible. The creepy looking smile hiding behind his mask on the last page hints that our hero may be more sinister than we&#8217;d like to think. The main battle between spider and squid isn&#8217;t all that impressive or page-turning but it&#8217;s the back-story, the main character&#8217;s mysterious origin and the under-handed subplots that make me want to know more about this developing storyline. Not to mention that art &#8230; that spooky, great-looking art!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/recommendometer4.gif\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22marvels+comics%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Marvels Comics<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22spider-man%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22paul+grist%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Grist<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22kyle+hotz%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Hotz<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On AtomicAvenue<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomicavenue.com\/atomic\/SellerIssues.aspx?XT=1&#038;T=marvels+comics&#038;S=cyberspacecomics\" target=\"_blank\">Marvels  Comics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because publishers want you to buy their product every month, comics are typically serial in nature. However, occasionally (and more often nowadays than ever before) publishers launch a comic title that is only meant to last for one issue. While ongoing series often have multiple chances to hook in new readers, the comics highlighted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-shot-at-greatness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}