Is that a new trade coming out?
Essential Spider-Man Vol.11,which collects awesome Roger Stern/Bill Mantlo stories and features the beginning of the Hobgoblin character...quite possibly my favorite Spidey villain.
Are those the stories that took place around gang war and Hobgoblin revealed stories? Those were good stories.
Yes to new TPB and it collects ASM #'s 232-248 + Annuals 16 & 17.
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That's an odd pick of issues for one volume.
Roger Stern's AMAZING SPIDERMAN run is one of my favorites, from 224-250. They could do it in two color trade volumes, 224-237 in the first. And the Hobgoblin storyline in 238-250 in a second volume.
Stern also had a preceding run in SPECTACULAR SPIDERMAN 43-61, already collected in MARVEL VISIONARIES: ROGER STERN SPIDER-MAN, vol 1.
I wish they'd do a vol 2 and 3 as I described.
DC recently screwed up my other favorite of the period, in an odd compiling of the Levitz/Giffen LEGION series in two hardcovers. They had LSH 284-296 in vol 1. But 296-297 is a two-part story! So you get an incomplete story in the first volume. I'm even less impressed with the second volume, and can still enjoy them in their original form.
A hardcover I picked up a few months ago is DREADSTAR: THE BEGINNING hardcover by Starlin, collecting all Starlin's painted art from EPIC ILLUSTRATED 1-9 and 12, THE PRICE graphic novel, and DREADSTAR graphic novel. Great work, in a nicely collected volume.
