Title: Good Spidey anthology
Product review: Not quite as good as _Untold Tales of Spider-Man_, but this is still a fine collection of Spidey stories. Stan Lee & Peter David's origin retelling is pretty dumb, but David makes up for it with the brilliant closer "Five Minutes." There are also some excellent stories by Lawrence Watt-Evans, David Michelinie, Tom De Haven & Dean Wesley Smith, and especially John Gregory Betancourt & Keith R. A. DeCandido, whose "An Evening in the Bronx with Venom" is a sort-of prequel to DeCandido & Jose R. Nieto's great Spidey novel _Venom's Wrath_. Also fun are the tales by Greg Cox and Ann Nocenti. Surprisingly weak are Craig Shaw Gardner and Christopher Golden's stories - they've both done better. Still, the David and Betancourt/DeCandido stories are worth it all by themselves.
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