Line #11 ComicBook/SpiderManChapterOne


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3	In 1998, the Franchise/SpiderMan franchise was suffering from the fallout of the overly-long ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', and many of the stories afterwards hadn't helped. Creator/MarvelComics decided to reboot ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' and get Creator/JohnByrne, still riding high after reinventing ComicBook/{{Superman}} with ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'', to draw ''Amazing'' and retell the origin to make it more contemporary. Thus was born ''Spider-Man: Chapter One'', an attempt to retelling [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko the early]] Creator/StanLee and Creator/SteveDitko stories with more modern sensibilities.
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5	''Chapter One'' was an attempt to condense the original Lee-Ditko run, and adopted the format of overlapping two-part issues. For instance Spider-Man battles the Chameleon for two issues but the same issue where Chameleon loses also sets up the next villain and so on. It ran for 13 issues, with a follow-up ''Chapter Two'' announced but shelved when John Byrne declined to continue it. In either case, the idea that ''Chapter One'' serve as a proper replacement to the Lee-Ditko originals didn't sit well with either fans, or creators and even some of Marvel's editors, so even before the series was over, Marvel had stricken it from continuity and restored the original stories.
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7	In either case, the series did serve as a reintroduction to the classic stories from the Lee-Ditko era to new readers who didn't read the back-issues and some of its ideas such as a redesign of Electro with a bluer less ostentatious costume did eventually find its way in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' and ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' as did the wider MythArc of Peter's early RoguesGallery formed by TheManBehindTheMan which came in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''.
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10	!! ''Spider-Man: Chapter One'' provides examples of the following tropes:
11	* AdaptationDistillation: Serves as this for the Lee-Ditko original run. It condensed some 17 issues in 12 issues by the time it was canceled. For instance, Goblin is always shown on his glider, rather than the Broomstick he used in his very first appearance.
12	* AdaptationOriginConnection:
13	** Spidey's origin is tied to the same accident that created ComicBook/DoctorOctopus as the same demonstration Peter went to here was a test that was conducted by Octavius that went very awry.
14	** The series also made Norman Osborn a GreaterScopeVillain for its events.
15	* AdaptedOut: The Sinister Six does not appear at all in the story likely due to Sandman not showing up until much later, while in the original comics Spidey's fight with them occurred before his second battle with the Green Goblin. The Living Brain, the Big Man, the Enforcers, and Bennett Brant are all removed from the story as well.
16	* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Sandman doesn't appear to the public until after Spidey is considered a coward due to running out on his second battle with the Green Goblin, while in the original stories he was one of Spider-Man's earliest foes, appearing long before the Green Goblin first showed up.
17	* ArmedWithCanon: Byrne decided to disregard ''ComicBook/UntoldTalesOfSpiderMan'' when he did ''Chapter One'' in his attempt to update the original stories. As mentioned elsewhere, Marvel didn't even wait for the series to end before declaring it not-canon--and not only that, ''Untold'' was back in canon as events like Sally Avril's death would be mentioned and characters like Scorcher would reappear after this.
18	* CanonDiscontinuity: And Marvel didn't wait before it was even finished! When Creator/PaulJenkins asked which version of the backstory to go with for the "The Show Must Go On" (the story where the Chameleon seemingly commits suicide after confessing to loving Peter) for the anthology series ''Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man'', he was told to go with the classic version. Officially, ''The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe'' classified the story as happening on Earth-98121.
19	* DeathByOriginStory: As usual, Peter getting caught up in his own fame caused him to allow Uncle Ben's future killer to escape.
20	* GreaterScopeVillain: Norman Osborn is established as a major behind-the-scenes player and backer of some of Spider-Man's RoguesGallery and the comic dials down the mystery of the Goblin's identity, which by TheNineties had long been established and widely known.
21	* HereditaryHairstyle: Byrne noticed that Sandman sporting a similar hairdo to ComicBook/NormanOsborn and tried to {{retcon}} that they were cousins.
22	* MythologyGag: For the first two issues, the spider symbol on the back of Peter's costume is blue instead of red, but he later changes it to the familiar red color. This is a nod to how in the original version of ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 the spider on the back of the costume was blue, before it was changed to red once ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' first came out, and most reprints of the original story editing it to red as well.
23	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Sandman and ComicBook/NormanOsborn were cousins, apparently based on the fact that both of them had very similar hair-styles in the original Lee-Ditko era.

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