Most people know the name of Siegel, but this was the first time reading The Spider. I love old school comics, and this really scratched a specific itch for me. I really enjoyed both of the stories presented here, and would love to read more. The layouts and art are beautiful.

I feel bad for only giving this three stars.

The black and white art in this has been beautifully preserved and the team working on this deserve a round of applause.

There is a sort of wild creativity that buzzes through the book where anything is possible so long as you don't think too hard. That said there is a raw and unsophisticated side to the writing. There isn't a hint of scientific accuracy and things just tend to happen. There is also little character development. In The Spider there is kernel of a fascinating character, what if the world's greatest supervillain did heroic deads to stop other villains from taking his crown as the king of the underworld? The Spider starts off and ends as a showboating pantomime evil-doer who revels in mocking those around him.

Both stories in this book are action-filled romps where both The Spider and the villains he faces try to outsmart each other in order to be the king of crime.

Anyone interested in seeing how far western comics have come should read this. It will make you appreciate how much innovation and refinement has happened within the medium in the last 60 years.

The Spider is a criminal. In a ceremony for the police commissioner’s retirement, the spider arrives to take the gold trophy from the police commissioner’s hand. Spider wants it as his trophy for he is the key of crime. There is a scientist who has a bad temper that has invented a machine that erases the evil in a man or animal. He tries it on himself first to see if it works. It does. Why did he invent it? An accident occurs changing the apparatus changes the scientist into evil. He finds that he can change himself into two different personas. He becomes Professor of Power. What will he do to Spider? In the second story, Mr. Mass is a genius evil inventor. His machine steals the jewelry from a party as Mr. Mass sits in his ship in the ocean. Spider fight Mr. Mass. Will Spider or Mr. Mass win? Who will be King of Crime?

The comic is a black and white British reprint with great art and good writing. This is a long-lost and fast paced adventure comic. It is a comic that I truly enjoyed reading. The two stories are quite clever and never boring. I hope to find the other Spider stories as they are fun to read and put me in a world different than the one I live in. The black and white illustrations were perfect. I do want to mention that this is not a Spider-Man comic.

I loved the layout and loved the overall look and feel. I was initially, just on a whim, drawn by the cover and boy am I glad I decided to take a chance. Action packed with wonderful illustrations, I thoroughly enjoyed it. 5 stars

The Spider: Crime Unlimited is a classic comic with an over-the-top villain, sycophantic henchmen, and drama galore. The Spider is certainly a ne'er-do-well and in typical Jerry Siegel fashion he is ruthless in the most fantastic ways. And, the fact that his nemesis is another villain, Professor Power, is so much more exciting than always having to battle the forces of good.
Anyone who has a soft spot for classic black and white comics will appreciate the nostalgia offered in this book.

I’ve never read anything of the Spider before. I know who Siegel is of course, so I am always keen to see his other writing. I would argue that this is required reading for everyone who is keen on knowing about the history of comics. The layouts here are unique and the pacing is relentless, but in a good way. Glad I came across this. I had a great time with it.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher Rebellion for an advanced copy of this pulp style adventure.
The Spider: Crime Unlimited by writers and artists Jerry Siegel, Donne Avenell, Aldo Marculeta, Giorgio Trevisan is an odd adventure series, featuring not the Spider from New York city who would kill criminals and mark them with his signet ring as proof, but another Spider who terrorizes a large city, making mockery of the police who attempt to stop him. Being a man of monstrous ego and no use for anyone, including his own henchmen, who he abuses or attempts to murder for the slightest of reasons, the Spider tends to turn to the side of good when a villain and his crimes tend to outshine the Spider. The stories seem a tad tongue- and- cheek, so it is hard to say, and there is also not as much violence, as this story would suggest.

Our "hero" looks like a mix of Green Goblin and Mr. Spock. And he hates criminals who do bigger crimes, say the criminal who figures out a machine to attract gold and diamonds to a giant vaccum mounted on a ship, or another who makes a deal with evil creatures from another dimension to take over the earth. There are a lot of explosions, and the fighting is more cowboys swinging wildly in a bar. Science here is also just to create things the characters need right now, gas that makes police think they are babies, rays that make evil men good, than on reality.

The art is good. Much better than some of the art of the era. The characters are consistent, the backgrounds are clear and the machinery and vehicles are all rendered nicely. The stories are of the era. Lots of ranting, numerous explanations of plots already explained. Jerry Siegel co-creator of Superman is a writer of the first story.

A different kind of comic book, that might be a hard sell in this quick flip comic era. I was never bored, but I could understand how some readers could be. If you enjoy pulpy tales of bigger than life heroes and villains, this is probably a comic for you.

I enjoyed this pulp-inspired graphic novel. It’s full of action, suspense, and nostalgia, and the art works well.

It's always fun finding another 1960s comic book collection (especially something in the pulp adventure or superhero genre). This one proved to be high-flying, tongue-in-cheek when it needs to be and still a fun ride decades later.

A welcome look back at two stories concerning a character I doubt many comics fans will have got on their shelves – but then, The Spider was always elusive. In the first story, penned by Jerry Siegel no less, a mad scientist type is ratted that The Spider is audacious enough to steal the police chief's retirement gift, from its own handing-over ceremony, and decides his latest ray-gun thingy will pacify him. Trying it on himself of course goes wrong, leaving a vicious Jekyll-and-Hyde criminal instead, of genius ability. Yes, quake as this world – and all its cathode-ray TVs – witnesses the fight between the Mechano-Spider and the Electronic-Toad! Needless to say, it's dated, cheesy hokum, but still enjoyable for all its daftness.

The second offering, which would appear to have not been in a previous Titan collection of the first three stories, being the fourth, has a criminal mastermind who first manages to attract all jewels and gemstones, whatever their chemistry, to float through the air to his offshore piloted perch of pillaging perfidy – sorry, a boat he's working from. This over-writing, as seen in almost every frame's caption here, is catching. He then does the same with gold, the bars floating out the bank windows because, you know, vaults and safes weren't around in the 1960s.

The originals then aren't exactly literary graphic novels (witness the number of people calling The Spider an insect...), but in having a brace of four-part stories we certainly have fun. The artwork has transferred well to the modern reprint – said prior book a bit bodged in that regard, apparently – and while the fascination with letting off nuclear weapons left, right and centre is only one thing to date the stories, their sprightliness lives on. Author biogs are the only thing stopping this from being totally vanilla, mind.