10 Reasons Ultimate Spider-Man Is The GREATEST Spider-Man Run Ever

10. It Was Easy To Jump On And Start Reading

If you were to try and read the entire Amazing Spider-Man run, you'd have to slog through over 800 issues. While that in itself would be an achievement, not everyone has the time to read that many comics and not every issue or story arc is going to be good. Collecting these issues would also come at an extravagant cost to say the least.

Through these 800 issues you'd read through three different comic book ages, five different decades and a whole multitude of writers who take the story in different directions. It does mean that The Amazing Spider-Man lacks a certain cohesion which can sometime lessen the impact of the narrative, especially with all the retcons sprinkled in across the decades.

Compare this to Ultimate Spider-Man, which in its entirety is made up of 188 issues, it's understandable why many people would rather read the Ultimate Spider-Man series over the main continuity.

The comics are also easier to collect, with different story arcs being compiled in easy to find volumes with great covers to accompany them. Bendis also oversaw all the issues, meaning that from start to end it really does feel like one complete story.