The Amazing Spider-Man : Mayhem in Manhattan

STUPENDOUS!

Of course it's stupendous. It's ol' Spidey himself in his first amp;mdash; yes, first amp;mdash; full-length novel.

SINISTER!

When a baddie drops out of a sky-high window (Did he jump amp;mdash; heh heh amp;mdash; or was he pushed?), Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson wants Spider-Man to take the rap. Has the wall-crawler come to the end of his rope? Does his life hang by a slender thread?

GLOBAL!

To swing clear of this one, he's got to snoop on an international oil conference. There's blackmail! Radioactivity! And a welcoming committee of death-dealing arch-villains!

DIABOLICAL!

Who's behind it all? Think hard, `cause we're not telling. But it just might be that too much tendril looms large in Spider's formidable future!