>>16 I should Ban you for that low quality image

>>17 Fokoff pussy. It was the best I could find for this particular book. Shut up it may be a silly knockoff book but I like it. No bully.

I don't think I've ever read a novelization of something. I've heard about them, plenty, mostly regarding Star Trek episodes

>>30 Some of them can be okay. And plus for things like metal gear solid it provides an opportunity to flesh characters out more than its original media allowed.

>>16 Is this novel actually a novelization of a previous story, or a new story just based on properties originally from other media? I know a lot of novels based on comic book characters, but only a few that actually attempt to adapt comic book stories into novel form. But then why would I want to read the novel version of The Crisis on Infinite Earths, when I could just read the actual comic it's based on? An odd case I've always been looking for a place to discuss is this Spider-Man novel, Mayhem in Manhattan. I think it was the first Marvel novel, or at least it was the first in this series. But the odd thing about it is that it's canon to the actual comics, and referenced in an actual issue, somewhere around Amazing Spider-Man #200, from the late '70s (I forget the exact issue, as it's been a few years). I remember I was slowly reading through all of Spider-Man (including the spinoffs, Spectacular Spider-Man and Marvel Team-Up, where Spidey teams up with someone else every issue), when suddenly in one issue Spidey references the fact that Doctor Octopus has died, and the editor's note, which usually lists an issue number, instead cited this novel. So I went on Ebay and Amazon and stuff, and couldn't find a copy for like a year, but eventually I found it, for a reasonable price, and it was actually pretty good. It's written by comics veterans Len Wein and Marv Wolfman, and everything I've read from them is great. It's nothing mindblowing, but their Spider-Man comics from the time were great, and this novel is additional material of the same quality. Doctor Octopus has some plan involving an oil company or something and Spidey goes on one of his more far-reaching adventures to stop him. A little more epic than the average issue of Amazing or Spectacular Spider-Man, where he generally fights more street level plots, but then again, he was going to space like every month in Marvel Team-Up, so this isn't that epic compared to those. I wonder if the rest of the Marvel Pocket Novel Series, of which this is the first (according to the back of the book), is canon to the comics. I haven't come across any more comics that reference a novel as being canon, but I wouldn't be surprised if this particular series at least was made to be canon. I know I have some Spider-Man and X-Men novels from the '90s, and as far as I can tell, they are not canon, but I'm also not as knowledgeable about '90s Marvel as I am about '70s Spider-Man, so I could be mistaken there.

>>84 Not sure. But it has spiderman on the cover and it looks like a book so we will take it. Ah wolfman, and wein yeah above average for the bullpen even at the time. A lot of the older comics had two to three page short stories along with the actual comic material. Early writers got a start doing those backup stories. I dont remember when but yeah at some point they had a paperback division. The early stories being canon, and shilled in the comic is hardly surprising. Marvel did that a lot I recall. Cant read my old xmen without seeing the letters section pimping something that never went anywhere. That being said in the 90's these kind of books were pretty widely available. I bought a ton. I only have a couple now, but yeah usually a good read. The format allows for longer form, and more intricate stories. I have always had a weakness for xmen material from the time. Some of which are also canon. Yes good find OP. I wish there was an epub. I would love to read it some time.