Spider-Man
The Venom Factor

This was the first of many books in the Marvel series of prose books that kicked off in the mid-1990s from Berkley/Byron Preiss Productions that were edited (for continuity at least) by Keith R.A. DeCandido. They chose a good novel to launch the series (Face it, Tiger... you just hit the jackpot!),......more

Unlike most novelty comic book tie-in prose novels, the author doesn't expect you to already know the universe or characters. A good job of developing characters with multiple points of view and gives a better idea of who MJ and Peter Parker are that the movies never quite really get down. The final......more

I love Spider-Man so I had pretty high hopes for this book. It ended up being a pretty uninspired story about him saving New York from some bombs. In truth it shouldn’t have even been called “the Venom Factor” because Venom is more of a side character to the true antagonist in this book, the Hobgobl......more

Kinda wordy for a Spider-Man story. And maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but I didn't like Venom's voice in this book. Was he that eloquent in the comics in the mid-nineties?......more

Not bad. It concerns comic book superheroes so that gives it an immediate advantage for me. But I've never been a huge fan of Spider-man and the reason why shows up in this book. I get why he was such a big deal when he first hit the scene. A superhero with real problems. That was very different fro......more