Came with a bonus comic!! Love the packaging, homemade drawing. My son loved it!! 😍
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Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham 1 Paperback – January 1, 2010
by
Steve Skeates
(Author),
Tom DeFalco
(Author),
Steve Mellor
(Author),
Mike Carlin
(Author)
&
1
more
When average pig Peter Porker gets the powers of a spider, he must balance his super-hero life with his job at the Daily Beagle and battle such threats as Ducktor Doom, Captain Reno, and Nagneto the Magnetic Horse.
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarvel Enterprises
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2010
- Grade level3 - 4
- Dimensions6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100785143521
- ISBN-13978-0785143529
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Product details
- Publisher : Marvel Enterprises (January 1, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0785143521
- ISBN-13 : 978-0785143529
- Grade level : 3 - 4
- Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,428,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,614 in Children's Superhero Comics
- #9,765 in Marvel Comics & Graphic Novels (Books)
- #28,308 in Children's Humor
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
- Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014I had a subscription to these as a kid and loved the silly parody humor. I got my daughter this out-of-print TPB of the 1st six issues (the 1st special, plus 1-5 from the series). She's 8 and cracked up. Her younger brother is 5 (not reading yet) loves the book. He asked for more for his birthday. Hopefully Marvel will make the possible and release the rest of the series someday soon.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015My first time I saw a Peter Porker comic book, I was 8 years old and waiting for my mother shopping while my father and I waited outside. We hung out at the newsstand and saw issue #15. My first impression was "wow, this must be another MAD magazine" my father bought it as he saw me staring at it for so long. Since then I collected most of the issues I could find.
This paperback only has 6 issues within but had the issues I was missing and never read. Art remains the same, but the coloring is a bit bland than the inks they used in the '80s. Old style was more colorful and detailed. This book is like it was made on a inkjet.
Other than that, I finally get to read issues #2, 3 and 6. Great book just wished they released the entire catalog, so I can leave my originals in their bags.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2015Great way to get a kid into comics, fun and goofy classic tales.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2015Good product sent very protected.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015There is a marked contrast in this collection between the extremely verbose writing of Steve Skeates in the main stories and the more tightly-written,. near-obsessively minimal back-up stories by Steve Mellor. In an interview, Skeates once explained that he created a world where Funny Animals "not only talked, but talked too much". This is a fair enough excuse for the gabby kvetching his characters constantly engage in, which, if you're not put off by the sheer wordiness of the work, has a certain charm to it...It's rather reminiscent of the early work of Neil Simon, where the characters ramble on about trivial minutaie in a kind of pre-"Seinfeld" comic style. Mark Armstrong's Anime-influenced cartooning gives a snappy energy to the visuals.
Steve Mellor brilliantly illustrates his own back-up features, which at their simplest, have a weird existential quality, as if Larry McMurtry were writing Colonel Bleep stories. Abandoning spoken dialogue altogether in his "Tales of Arfgard featuring Thrr, Dog of Thunder", his writing shows remarkable sophistication in a "Prince Valiant"-style narration that sends up Stan Lee's flowery use of King James Biblical / Shakespearean "Asgardian" speech. (Lee himself was self-effacingly humble in claiming a shaky grasp of old-style grammar, but his use of "thees" and "thous" was generally quite accurate, and dubious only if you consider that his Norse gods would most realistically probably be speaking in Ancient Swedish.)
Here's hoping that Marvel will eventually follow with Volume 2, when the series really took off with Mellor's parodies of Godzilla, E.T., and Miami Vice, and Skeates, Mike Carlin, and Mellor's own brother Mike turned the backup stories into small masterpieces of absurdist silliness....