Everyone who was looking forward to Marvel’s Spider-Man: The PSAs collection, here’s some bad news – It’s not going to be happening. In what’s a somewhat surprising product update, Marvel has released the following information to retailers:
SPIDER-MAN PSAS TP will now be titled SPIDER-MAN FIGHTS SUBSTANCE ABUSE TP and will be 200 pages, not the solicited 456 pages. The updated contents are Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #96-#98; Spider-Man, Storm and Power Man; Amazing Spider-Man: Skating on Thin Ice!; Amazing Spider-Man: Double Trouble!; Fast Lane #1-#4; Spectacular Spider-Man #1000. The price will be $24.99, not the solicited $34.99.
Quite why such a massive change remains a mystery, but let’s be honest: The original PSAs collection seemed a bit of a mystery as well, didn’t it? That new title is great, though.
December 23rd, 2011 at 5:54 pm
They probably didn’t want to include the one where Spidey cavalierly admits to having been molested.
December 24th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Alexa, that’s what I just thought of when I read this. They don’t want anyone to see the Spider-Man/Power Pack child molestation issue.
Just recolor the damn thing so it doesn’t look like the babysitter is actually Uncle Ben!
But really, you’re waiting till the last minute to do this? Bad move.
December 24th, 2011 at 7:44 am
What a weird coincidence. I was just going through a box of some old comics last night. I came across and read the Skating on Thin Ice issue for the first time. Not a bad story as far as these things go, but well below Dwayne McDuffie’s usual standard.
I wonder why they changed the Edmonton Oilers shirt in the recoloring of that McFarlane cover? Hockey does play a central part in the story. Now it just looks weird that he’s holding a hockey stick.
December 27th, 2011 at 9:47 am
It was almost certainly changed so they wouldn’t infringe on the Oilers’ trademark.