The Spider: King of Crooks from Titan Books

Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Posted By: Rik Offenberger

TITAN BOOKS PRESS RELEASE

THE SPIDER
KING OF CROOKS

24 JUNE 2005 • HARDBACK • £14.99 • ISBN: 1-84576-000-X


Fresh from the Silver Age vault of classic British comics, and perfectly timed for his fortieth birthday, comes arch-criminal and twisted mastermind THE SPIDER! Bursting onto the pages of Lion back in the 60s, The Spider was a breath of foul air in a world of four-color good guys and square-jawed heroics. Imagine a villain equipped with an amazingly versatile exoskeleton and the brains to match… one with ambitions to become the Kingpin of Crime. Now meet the Spider!

In order to achieve his goal, the Spider ‘liberates’ a gang of specialists from their murky cells, including ‘Professor’ Pelham, a brilliant but crooked scientist, and Roy Ordini, ace safecracker! Featuring adventure, invention and wit to spare, these delightfully fiendish tales offer up the best of the period and are still strong, stylish and sought-after today!

With Titan’s expertise, honed during the reissue of Dan Dare, Charley’s War, James Bond and Modesty Blaise, The Spider has been rescued from the IPC archives and restored beyond its original glory! The rare strip is collected, for the first time ever, in a gorgeous hardback library edition; featuring extensive background material, fully restored art, and a painted cover by Garry Leach!



“I DOUBT WHETHER THE POLICE WILL BE ABLE TO
TRACK US DOWN. I AM TOO CLEVER FOR THEM!”



As well as Titan’s Collectors Edition of the original comic, the legendary Alan Moore, along with scriptwriters Leah Moore & John Reppion, artist Shane Oakley and cover artist Dave Gibbons, are currently hard at work on Albion, a miniseries from DC Comics that brings the Spider – and his IPC stablemate The Steel Claw – into the modern day!

With the Spider returning to wreak his own personable brand of havoc on the comics world, there has never been a better time to strap on your exoskeleton and organise a prison break-out or two…


The Spider © IPC 2005
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