Beginning with a novella by Spider-Man’s co-creator Stan Lee and veteran Marvel writer Peter David retelling the wall-crawler’s origin, this exciting anthology has original stories featuring one of the world’s most enduring heroes.

From Tom De Haven and Dean Wesley Smith’s look at Spidey’s early career to David Michelinie’s portrait of a dying reporter who wants his last story to be the revelation of Spider-Man’s true identity and Lawrence Watt-Evan’s tale of a boy whose web-slinging hero-worship leads to tragedy—plus stories by Craig Shaw Gardner, Richard Lee Byers, Ann Nocenti, and many more—here are spectacular new Spider-Man adventures!