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Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Vol. 1: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 1 Kindle & comiXology

by Tom DeFalco (Author, Contributor), Mike Lackey (Author, Contributor), Howard Mackie (Author, Contributor), Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 45
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Collects Spider-Man: The Parker Years, New Warriors (1990) #65-66, Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1, Web Of Scarlet Spider #1-2, Amazing Scarlet Spider #1-2, Scarlet Spider #1-2, Spectacular Scarlet Spider #1-2, Green Goblin #3 and Sensational Spider-Man (1996) #0.

Meet Ben Reilly, clone of Spider-Man! When Peter Parker decides to retire, Ben takes up the job as the new web-slinger in town, the Scarlet Spider! And there's no shortage of foes waiting to fight him - including Dr. Octopus, Venom, Carnage, the new Green Goblin, Kaine, the High Evolutionary, Joystick and the Looter! Plus: The Scarlet Spider joins the New Warriors!
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    Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic
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    401 pages
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    English
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    Marvel
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    July 7, 2016
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01H0X8R1S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (July 7, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 401 pages
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Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comics writer and editor, well known for his association with Marvel Comics and in particular for his work with Spider-Man.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Tom Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars sensational
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2015
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i think ben reilly is the greatest hero in spider-man besides spider-man so I ordered this expecting the best but I got better the book was in great shape and everything so thank you. yours, Ben
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natedogg
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017
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arrived on time and undamaged
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Jacob C.
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Character story, very 90s plot
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2023
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Virtual reality & cyberspace shows Ben Reilly at a crossroad. Peter and MJ have left to live their lives and start a family. This leaves Ben as the sole spider-protector of NYC. This 6 issue mini-series shows Ben struggling to accept the mantle of Spider-Man Peter passed to him. I never realized how makeshift the Scarlet Spider mantle was. However this alter ego allows Ben to realize that he does indeed wish to take up the webbed legacy.

Now while the story does Ben justice. I won't lie everything else is kinda white noise to that. A gang war between the new Doc Ock and a mob boss named Two results in Steward Trainer, Ben's Whistler to his Angel, being put into a coma while his mind is trapped in cyberspace.

Ben accidentally ends up being tied up with Tso while trying to find a job.

It's not a bad plot, but it's Ben's personal arc that really shine for me.

I didn't pay attention to either of the New warriors issues too much aside for the Scarlet Spider parts.

The annual was really really good. One man's villain is another's hero and all that.

All in all, I feel like this should've been a vol 2 rather than Vol 1. You're expected to know Ben Reilly and Steward Trainer and the new Doc ock already. I recommend grabbing the clone saga epic and reading half way into that before hoping into this. The Scarlet Spider isn't as well known as Spider-Man so jumping into a story arc isn't as easy for new fans of the character.

All and all fantastic read for fans of Ben Reilly. 8.5/10
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Loonbob
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016
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Very good
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Robert Glidden
3.0 out of 5 stars A good character stuck in some questionable stories.
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2011
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Spoiler Alert: These reviews are meant for those who remember the Clone Saga.

For a while, I thought these collections had stopped but then I found out the name had changed to "The Complete Ben Reilly Epic." I see what you did there, Marvel. I suppose it makes sense, given that Peter Parker retired from Spider-duty after finding that he was the clone and Ben was the original. The only time we see him in this volume is at the start, during the "Spider-Man: The Parker Years" one-shot. This is mostly just a recap of the last 15 years or so worth of Spidey-history up until that point, though readers following the Clone Saga will surely appreciate Mary Jane's zinger that "self-pity can be endearing in small doses, but after a while it can really suck." MJ, why didn't you speak up during "Maximum Clonage?!"

After that is an issue of the New Warriors, who the Scarlet Spider was somewhat affiliated with. He appears in about five panels. After that, we get a massive story called "You Say You Want An Evolution" which is definitely the lower point of this collection. It seems to exist solely to provide a lengthy answer to a question asked by The Jackal right before his death in Maximum Clonage - "Don't you want to know about Joyce Delaney and the High Evolutionary?" The correct answer was "No, just go away." This story goes on forever and is quite a chore. In general, a grandiose villain like The High Evolutionary is better off in the pages of something like The Avengers or X-Men.

Next is the four-part "Virtual Mortality" story, another crossover between all the Spider-Man titles. This time, it's a twist because all the comics have been renamed. For instance, "The Amazing Spider-Man" became "The Amazing Scarlet Spider." Still, if we're basically establishing a new status quo with Ben Reilly as our main man, I'm not sure why we still need the "event" crossovers. If you were a kid in the 90s with a limited allowance, this constant pressure to get four comics a month rather than one could get rough.

Anyhow, the funny thing about this story is that the travails of Ben's personal life are far more interesting that the ludicrous stuff going on while he's in the costume. He's got no money and winds up working at a sleazy club. He meets a potential love interest who has a different hairstyle every time she appears (you figure the artists would coordinate crap like that) and of course, keeps having to worry about getting mistaken for Peter. The main story is a high-tech gang war between the new female Doctor Octopus (aka Carolyn Trainer) and a mobster named Jason Tso, who is in the employ of longtime Spidey nemesis Alistair Smythe. Keep in mind, we're in the mid 1990s here and the "internet and virtual reality will kill us all" paranoia is in full swing.

This plotline continues in another crossover called "Cyberwar." Starts out promising, but when characters start talking about "reality merging with virtual reality," you know we've gone off the rails. At least we find out an interesting twist about Stunner, who you may remember as the girlfriend of the late Dr. Octopus (the original). She herself is a virtual reality projection. Yeah, we need a Keanu Reeves-esque "whoa" right about now. In this collection, the Cyberwar storyline is interrupted by an issue of the short-lived but underrated Green Goblin comic (the heroic Phil Urich incarnation) and another New Warriors issue. The Goblin comic dovetails nicely with the main plot. The New Warriors story is almost totally irrelevant.

The Lady Octopus character is not very interesting, but she's smart. Using her virtual reality technology, she frames the Scarlet Spider for a lot of destruction and utterly tarnishes his fledgling reputation. What to do now...why, it's time to go back to the original. Yep, Reilly is going to take on the mantle of Spider-Man. This transformation is showcased very well in "Ultimate Commtiment," a debut story from Dan "Death of Superman" Jurgens. A new title, The Sensational Spider-Man, was crafted just for him.

Jurgens is no slouch - within this one issue, he deftly introduces a bunch of new characters and builds a solid foundation for continued Reilly adventures. Ben also dyes his hair blond to try and further distance himself from Peter Parker. A new version of the Spider-Man costume is sewed (after a lot of mishaps, poor Ben just doesn't have many resources) and we're good to go. I have to say, these stories are a lot more pleasant with the knowledge that Ben's tenure as lead character was only temporary. At the time, however, we really had no clue what was going to happen with all this and even though Ben was a likeable guy, he wasn't the guy we had gotten attached to for so long. Still, there was a lot of the Clone Saga left to go.
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mkronck
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, solid clone stuff.
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2012
I admit that I may be completely biased here because I began reading comics with the Clone Saga. Either way, I love the Clone Saga. Ben Reilly is one of my all-time favorite characters. I won't go into explaining what the Clone Saga is, at this point you most likely know if you like it or don't. If you have not read the Clone Saga, my only hope is that you don't judge a book by its cover: don't jump on the Clone Saga-bashing bandwagon. Try it out for yourself in these volumes (start with the "Clone Saga" TPB's first).

All issues are beautifully reprinted: no blurry reworked art or text boxes. It's all crisp and sharp. Beautiful!
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dee edwards
4.0 out of 5 stars Great price
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2020
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Gave as a gift. No issues with delivery.
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Riley Davis
3.0 out of 5 stars Is this collection in color?!?!
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2014
Contemplating on buying this series but am afraid to buy it if its in B+W. Please comment, would be helpful.
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Belmont
5.0 out of 5 stars Book recd in very good condition
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2024
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Australia on January 1, 2019
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This is by far the best spider-man comic series i've read, and i've read a lot. It can be confusing, but you start to understand it quite quickly.
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Joseph Donald Pavich
2.0 out of 5 stars I bought this to relive the comics I read when I was a child and like most things when your very young it doesnt age ...
Reviewed in Canada on October 4, 2014
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This book is everything I expected it to be. I bought this to relive the comics I read when I was a child and like most things when your very young it doesnt age very well against my current sensibilities. The physical production of the book has no complaints, it reproduces the pages well. Buy if you want to revisit the extreeme 90's otherwise there are much superior spidy stories to be found.
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kieron evans
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2016
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Awesome book if u like the Scarlett spider
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bigdunc
3.0 out of 5 stars The Scarlet Spiders last stand
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2011
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Having started reading Spiderman comics just as the clone saga kicked off I never felt the hatred for it others seem to, I always liked the character of Ben Reilly and felt his story was and still is more interesting than 90% of other superheroes out there. This collection picks up after the complete clone saga epic book 5 Peter Parker has quit and handed over the webs to Ben who is still in the guise of the Scarlet Spider.
It opens with a fairly bland story of Peter and Mary Jane looking back over his career an apparent farewell to that character then we get an issue of the New Warriors which Ben was part of and an issue of Spiderman Unlimited which hints at a return for Kaine who was killed off in volume 4 both stories were fairly dull and a slog to get through. Next we get the Web of Scarlet Spider, Amazing Scarlet Spider, Spectacular Scarlet Spider and Scarlet Spider issues which were all brand new No 1 issues at the time replacing the Spiderman titles. There were only two issues of each containing two 4 part stories 'Virtual Mortality' and 'Cyberwar' the second story is the best giving a good reason Ben quitting as the Scarlet Spider and featuring some decent villans including the Green Goblin and Dr Octopus (at this point Harry and Norman Osbourn are dead as is Otto Octavius so its not the Green Goblin and Dr Octopus you may expect).
Then we get the really quite splendid Sensational Spiderman #0 in which Ben takes on his own identity not only as Spiderman but as himself (changing his apperance so he is different to Peter) and gets a job, plus the new Spiderman costume is great. the villian in the story isnt a classic but you wont remember that.
Credit to Marvel for making sure these collections really are the complete story (this even contains a Wizard mini comic which was a taster of sensational spiderman) this doesnt always benefit the overall story the New Warriors issues seem pointless but it does make these collections unique.
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