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of 26 people found the following review useful:  Despite its
shortcomings, a visually faithful version of the famous web-
slinger!  Author: John Cassidy ( from Richmond, VA 21 April 2003
*** This review may contain spoilers ***  Well, true-believers,
here's a brief history on Spidey in Japan:  In 1970, a SPIDER-
MAN manga appeared in Shounen Magazine, illustrated by famed
manga artist Ryouichi Ikegami. It was pretty good, and very
faithful to the original story by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, but
that ends with the Mysterio story arc (previously, Electro, the
Lizard and a wrestling villain called "Kangaroo" appeared).
After that, it becomes an artsy-fartsy mess that focuses less on
Spidey and more on crime, violence, romance, rape, lust and
stuff like that. One gets the feeling that Ikegami lost interest
in the comic, and