I was visiting a friend in another city today and I swung by the nearest comic store to take a look, and they had a hardcover collection of Frank Miller's Spider-Man.

Does anyone know anything about this? The story? The art? Is it any good?

I like some of the Sin City stuff, and his Daredevil, but I wouldn't expect his style to fit on Spider-Man, and I didn't want to put the money into the book without knowing first if it's worth it.

I liked it. It has been awhile since I read it but I believe it was only art by Frank Miller I do not think he wrote anything.

Better than being a ##### who gives her marriage to the Devil.

True, true.

:cross-eye

From what I recall at least some of it wouldn't be considered very strong. It would have to start off with late-twenties issues of Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (#27 & 28), which were often hyped (rightfully) on the secondary market as Miller's first times drawing Daredevil, who guest-starred. How much of it was due to Miller's early style and how much Frank Springer's inks, it certainly never struck me as attractive; their styles didn't seem to mesh well.

Aside from that (now that I've checked), it includes a Denny O'Neill story with Spidey getting involved with Doctors Strange and Doom and Dormammu (ASM Annual #14), with Tom Palmer inks -- which I'm now curious to re-visit --, then the same writer but with Klaus Janson finishing over Miller's breakdowns in a Spidey & Punisher team-up against Dr.Octopus (ASM Annual #15), then (from Marvel Team-Up 100) it's Chris Claremont & Miller introducing Karma in a team-up tale between Spidey & the Fantastic Four, though Miller's only done breakdowns here, with Bob Wiacek finishing the pencils and doing the inks.

Generally speaking, it's not really much of a body of work -- really more of just another way of grouping the few comics Miller was involved with where Spider-man was somewhat the star. The biggest selling points would be that it's a narrow snapshot of some of Miller's earlier Marvel work, though a substantial amount of it is buried under other people's finishing pencils and inking styles. Still, it's likely to be much less expensive in this format than trying to buy the individual issues would be now. I had picked them all up as they came out and I can't recall being especially excited about any of them.

Thanks for that Miraclo. Definitely not gonna put money into it. If it was like Miller's Daredevil, or Dark Knight Returns, where he does story and art, I probably would have, but I can't stand collections of random, disjointed issues to showcase one person's work.