Found a 1984 secret wars kids picture book at a thrift store : Spiderman saves the circus. It was illustrated by Marie Severin and had Spidey Investigating some odd happenings. The culprit turned out to be an unhappy clown worried about losing his job. He is arrested and sent off with out much sympathy from Peter. Basically Spidey's spirit just wasn't there.
What are some other stories that were like that?
Otto and Ben Reilly were interesting takes but Reign was an awful dark Knight ripoff. Spidey super stories has a goofy charm but the non speaking electric company version comes off like the Pulp fiction gimp to me.
How would you rate the tv and movie versions? Was Garfield a better Peter but a lesser Spidey?
Japanese Spidey ticks all the right boxes with his Wall crawling and acrobatics and villians but his motor biking riding alter ego is how hum.
Your thoughts on this?