collected for the first time in one action-packed volume!J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr. introduce an enigmatic stranger who forever will change the way Peter Parker views himself... and the origins of his amazing alter ego! Plus, the web-slinger struggles to cope with the most horrific tragedy ever to befall his city: the events of Sept. 11.Paul Jenkins and Staz Johnson join an investigation in progress as a particularly resourceful private eye attempts to track down the most elusive quarry of all: Spider-Man!Greg Rucka and Eduardo Risso chronicle the last hours of a mob lieutenant marked for termination by the infamous Kingpin of Crime!Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo get under the rock-hard hide of the tortured soul that is the rampaging Rhino!Brian Michael Bendis and Bill Sienkiewicz reinterpret a classic Spider-Man team-up when the web-slinger finds himself caught in the crossfire of a clash between Daredevil and the Punisher!Reprinting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Vol. 2) #30-36, SPIDER-MAN'S TANGLED WEB #4-6, PETER PARKER: SPIDER-MAN (Vol. 2) #35 and ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP #6-8!

    The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and musical. Paired here with The Temple of My Familiar, which the author describes as “a romance of the last 500,000 years,” this edition brings together two works that established Walker as a major voice in modern fiction.

    This story was originally published in the Black Library Games Day Anthology 2012.

    From ribald tales of adultery to conversations between cosmic travellers, the stories in this collection pose moral, philosophical and social questions. Reader and protagonist alike find their assumptions challenged as Voltaire mingles rationality and fantasy.