The Most Underrated Spider-Man Stories

[Mister Mets]

Scott Allen of CBR has a list of the top ten underrated Spider-Man stories.

https://www.cbr.com/underrated-spider-man-stories/

What say you guys?

I disagree with #9 mainly because it's on pretty much every list of the best Spider-Man stories.

[Snoop Dogg]

I feel like entire eras where Marvel had enough financial incentive to blast Spider-Man issues out of a cannon several times a month can't really be underrated, except on like, the internet.

The most underrated Spider-Man story is the Inferno tie-in from Spectacular where Flash and Betty fight demons civie-style.

[WebSlingWonder]

None of these are terribly underrated though, so it's just weird to see all of these stories there.

[Huntsman Spider]

I agree with Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1-12 being on this list. Probably the best work Mark Millar ever did for Marvel, and I still wish more had been done with the revelation that many of the early supervillains were products of a consortium of corrupt corporate industrialists and politicians trying to distract the early superheroes either from going after them for their greater crimes and wrongdoings or using their own powers and abilities to change the world for the better (and thus more than likely bite into those industrialists' and politicians' bottom lines). It's a good update for many Marvel villain origins that were rooted in the Cold War, since thanks to the sliding timescale, the Cold War isn't nearly as contemporary or recent as it used to be.

[WebSlingWonder]

I agree with Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1-12 being on this list. Probably the best work Mark Millar ever did for Marvel, and I still wish more had been done with the revelation that many of the early supervillains were products of a consortium of corrupt corporate industrialists and politicians trying to distract the early superheroes either from going after them for their greater crimes and wrongdoings or using their own powers and abilities to change the world for the better (and thus more than likely bite into those industrialists' and politicians' bottom lines). It's a good update for many Marvel villain origins that were rooted in the Cold War, since thanks to the sliding timescale, the Cold War isn't nearly as contemporary or recent as it used to be.

Yes, I love MKSM! The story is amazing.

[Mister Mets]

I agree with Marvel Knights Spider-Man #1-12 being on this list. Probably the best work Mark Millar ever did for Marvel, and I still wish more had been done with the revelation that many of the early supervillains were products of a consortium of corrupt corporate industrialists and politicians trying to distract the early superheroes either from going after them for their greater crimes and wrongdoings or using their own powers and abilities to change the world for the better (and thus more than likely bite into those industrialists' and politicians' bottom lines). It's a good update for many Marvel villain origins that were rooted in the Cold War, since thanks to the sliding timescale, the Cold War isn't nearly as contemporary or recent as it used to be.

This is one I'm a bit iffy on. This has nothing to do with quality, since it's probably one of my top ten favorite Spider-Man stories, but I'm not sure it's really so underrated. It's on a lot of best-of lists, but I can get the argument that it doesn't get the attention of other Millar Marvel comics like Civil War and Old Man Logan.

[Scott Taylor]

Marvel Knights was ok. I found it to be somewhat derivative of USM, in concept.

Still underrated, though, as it was a good story. It does tend to get ignored, though.

There are several famous Romita stories during the Lee/Romita years that are famous and many that are not, even though the run itself is famous. Some of those specific storylines, like the Tablet Saga, deserve a mention here.

[Snoop Dogg]

The Stone Tablet Saga must have felt like a linewide event back in the day.

[Huntsman Spider]

This is one I'm a bit iffy on. It's on a lot of best-of lists, but I can get the argument that it doesn't get the attention of other Millar Marvel comics like Civil War and Old Man Logan.

Because Millar with Marvel Knights Spider-Man just told a really good story. Civil War and Old Man Logan were deliberately intended and written to be as shocking and provocative as Marvel would let him get away with, so there was a lot of mainstream buzz that his MK Spider-Man didn't get. That, and the very premise of Civil War was shocking and provocative as well --- superheroes going to war with each other over whether or not they should allow themselves to be regulated by the government and/or other state or state-sanctioned actors, precipitated by a literally disastrous attempt at crimefighting by reckless young superheroes.

[ngroove]

Most of them on list are overrated.

How about:

1. Amazing Spider-Man Annual #4 - Spider-Man & the Human Torch, vs Mysterio & Wizard, throughout a movie set, complete with giant robot gorilla
2. Amazing Spider-Man #59-61 - Spider-Man vs the Brainwasher, aka Kingpin, Mary Jane's club dancing, and temporary difficulties with Gwen Stacy over George's brainwashed attack
3. Amazing Spider-Man #130-131 - Doctor Octopus almost married Aunt May
4. Amazing Spider-Man #143 - 144 - #143 primarily because of Peter Parker & Mary Jane's first kiss
5. Amazing Spider-Man #191-192 - Professor Smythe's dying revenge, involved strapping a bomb on Spidey and Jonah
6. Amazing Spider-Man Annual #19 - J. Jonah Jameson & Marla Madison's wedding
7. Amazing Spider-Man #307-309 - Mary Jane kidnapped by obsessed fan, Jonathan Caesar, while Spidey contends against Styx and Stone
8. Spectacular Spider-Man #186-188 - Vulture, at the time with cancer, murdered Gregory Bestman, and feeling remorse for Nathan Lubensky's death, seeked Aunt May's forgiveness
8. Spectacular Spider-Man #190 - Green Goblin (Harry Osborn) paid Rhino to assault Spider-Man, with telling him to keep on repeating "Parker" for extra rattlement
10. Untold Tales of Spider-Man #13 - To all whose read Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Sally Avril was actually a pretty fun character once