The Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie

There’s the two-page story he did for “What The - ?!?” featuring “Bat-Man”. It also includes the short story McFarlane did for a “Spectacular Spider-Man” annual featuring The Prowler, as written by Glenn Herdling. This book aims to compile all of the Marvel-owned work McFarlane did with Spider-Man in it through this run, It goes beyond even those issues, though. Maybe Omnibus editions need to meet a page count? Maybe they wanted to give you some material to compare and contrast to McFarlane’s style? It worked for me on that last point, and I discussed it in the McSpidey Prelude article. The Omnibus also includes “The Amazing Spider-Man” #296 and #297, the two books before McFarlane’s run began.

I’m afraid to see what the letters column looked like a couple of months later. If you want to talk about stylistic whiplash, imagine going from McFarlane to Doran. Erik Larsen drew two of those fill-in issues, and Colleen Doran did the other one. The omnibus collects issues #296 through #326 of “The Amazing Spider-Man.” That will give you every issue of the series that Todd McFarlane drew, plus a couple of fill-in issues that he didn’t, and the one issue after he left that completed that storyline. I have 30 other articles talking about the story contents inside of it, so let’s just talk about the book now. It only makes sense, then, to review the book, itself. The McSpidey Chronicles started as an excuse to read through this Omnibus after I had purchased it in 2011.

The Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie