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The Spectacular Scarlet Spider
''The Spectacular Scarlet Spider'' is a short-lived comic book series starring Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider. The series was published by Marvel Comics for four issues in November and December 1995 in comics, 1995 in between ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' issues 229 and 230. During this time, all four primary Spider-Man series and his quarterly series were paused and briefly replaced by Scarlet Spider counterparts; the others being ''Web of Scarlet Spider'', ''The Amazing Scarlet Spider'', ''Scarlet Spider (comic book), Scarlet Spider'', and ''Spider-Man Unlimited (comics), Scarlet Spider Unlimited''. The five series were instituted as part of the Clone Saga after when Peter Parker gave up being Spider-Man to retire with his pregnant wife Mary Jane Watson, Mary Jane, and the Scarlet Spider took on his duties. ''Spectacular'' (along with ''Amazing'', ''Spider-Man'' and ''Unlimited'') returned to its old name and numbering when Ben Reilly left the Scarlet Spider identity behind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Buscema
Sal Buscema ( ; born Silvio Buscema, , on January 26, 1936) is an American comics artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he had a ten-year run as artist of ''The Incredible Hulk (comic book), The Incredible Hulk'' and an eight-year run as artist of ''The Spectacular Spider-Man''. He is the younger brother of comics artist John Buscema. Early life, family and education Born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Sicilians, Sicilian parents, Silvio "Sal" Buscema was the youngest of four siblings. His father, who was born in Italy and died in 1973, was a barber. Sal's brothers were Alfred and John Buscema, John, a celebrated comic book artist, and his sister was Carol. As a youth, Buscema was a fan of Hal Foster's ''Prince Valiant'' comic strip,Amash, p. 9 of George Tuska's comic book art, and of commercial illustrators such has Robert Fawcett and Norman Rockwell.Amash, p. 12 He acknowledged that his artist brother John was "greatly responsible for me pursuing drawing. ... John was defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |