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What If? Classic, Vol. 2
by Roy Thomas, Jim Shooter, Don Glut, Jim Craig, Herb Trimpe, Gil Kane
from Marvel Comics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• What if issues 7-12 of Marvel What if where compiled into one book?
  This is the 2nd vol. of Marvel what if classics. That has issues 7-12 of the comic that dares to ask the question...what if? I liked the first one a little better but this vol. did have good what ifs in it.
  What if someone else besides Spiderman had been bitten by the radioactive spider?: This is a 3 part story taking place in 3 different alternate universe but all the endings have the same result. In all three universes Peter isnt bit by the spider that turns him into Spiderman. Instead we find out... more info

• An uneven collection of stories
  While I enjoyed the old What If? stories more than most older series, this collection was a little weak. At this time, the series was just starting to stretch its wings and get creative, so the stories have their hits and misses. The Spider-Man story had a few good moments, especially seeing Flash Thompson as his version of the hero (Spider-Man without the webs...interesting). The Daredevil story is perhaps the strongest in the collection, though the discovery of his blindness is a little contrived. The... more info

• What If... we could get more stories per book???
  While I appreciate Marvel's effort to get a second volume of WHAT IF CLASSIC into print, their incentive for doing so is not so much to give the classic series more attention, but to wring more money out of their latest round of modern What If comics. There is really no reason why Roy Thomas' classic series couldn't have been reprinted as an Essential Edition. By using their expensive glossy trade format for the collecting of What If Classic, Marvel sticks us with only six issues per volume for twenty-five... more info

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