"Though the world may mock Peter Parker, the timid teen-ager...

it will soon marvel at the awesome might of … SPIDER-MAN!"

With Spidey just about to come swinging over the filmic horizon in Spiderman 3 to don the alien symbiote suit and later beat on Venom, here is a buffet of links for you.

That rarest and most valuabe Spiderman comic above came out in 1962 for 12c. Now it's worth oh, about $42,000! Some appreciation. Actually, according to the Wikipedia on it, Spiderman actually started as Amazing Adventures in 1961. And here it is, I think ;-) , for sale at ebay.

Written by Stan Lee (aka Stanley Martin Lieber) and art by Steve Ditko, off it went to become well, this. Who knew huh? But then Spidey with his humanity AND powers - and smartass wisecracks and geekiness mixed with personal struggles - was always going to swing it long term. If Spiderman were to come to town now, would he work for the UN. I don't think so. He'd work for Microsoft. How dare you! I know, only joking. He'd photograph for National Geographic and conceal his identity of course and swing off to fight monsters we don't know about. I guess...

But before you see the film school it up on the villains in the links among my posts below. I've got youtube spiderman school videos biographies on the villains so you won't be going "what the story with that angry black dude?", and a veritable treasure trove of Marvel Universe and Wikipedia links and lots of other links to Spidey and Spiderman 3 film stuff including the black alien symbiote suit and how Spiderman got it in the first place. Go I say. Scroll!

Then come back here if you still want more...cause over at Comic Book Movie Spiderman's getting some serious news coverage. At the No Sheep blog there's also a discussion of the black suit and it's comic origins.
This is a link to the Spiderman soundtrack site (usual soundtrack fodder but a few decents) and here is a great Spiderman book which you can browse at Amazon which I have and it's money!

cheers. enjoy friends.