Spider-Man: Chapter One
Spider-Man: Chapter One is an American comic book miniseries starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 13 issues added between issues #6 and 7 from December 1998 to October 1999. The entire miniseries was written and illustrated by John Byrne. This storyline is designated as taking place on Earth-98121 in the Marvel multiverse and is not part of the mainstream Marvel Universe of Earth-616.
Issues involved
Spider-Man: Chapter One #1–6, 0 and 7–12 was a modern-day adaptation of many, but not all, of these particular issues that chronicled the early days of Spider-Man's superhero career:- Amazing Fantasy #15 and, years later
Reception
Spider-Man: Chapter One, though not a sales record-breaker, finished out its run as planned, even adding a #0 issue between issues #6 and 7. On that basis, Byrne was later asked to do a second miniseries to be called Spider-Man: Chapter Two, but turned down the offer.
Since Byrne left the Spider-Man titles, his successors have shied away from making any references to the miniseries, and according to Official Index to the Marvel Universe #1–14, it is now Marvel's stance that the original stories have regained their canonical status.
Spider-Man: Chapter One also brought controversy over the former ongoing series Untold Tales of Spider-Man ; also including two Annuals, a #–1 issue that occurred between issues #22 and 23, a one-shot issue called Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounter, where all the stories presented therein were brand-new stories also set in the early days of Spider-Man's superhero career, but taking place in-between the original stories by Lee and Ditko. The non-canonical Spider-Man: Chapter One ignores the canonical continuity of Untold Tales of Spider-Man entirely.
Similar versions
Spider-Man's early adventures would be retold, again with a modern twist, in Ultimate Spider-Man, an ongoing series that Marvel launched in October 2000 and that lasted until June 2011. This series sidestepped the canonical/non-canonical continuity question by setting its stories in an entirely new alternate universe Earth-1610.Another modern re-telling of the early Spider-Man stories came in 2004 with the launch of Marvel Age Spider-Man #1–20, later relaunched as Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #1–61. These two series, which were each aimed at young readers, also retold many of Lee and Ditko's original stories in all 20 issues of the Marvel Age Spider-Man series and the first three of the 61 issues of the Marvel Adventures Spider-Man series, although both of the contemporary-set series were clearly meant to take place outside of the mainstream Marvel Universe continuity.
Collected editions
A trade paperback collecting the entire miniseries was published in January 2012. It was also included in Spider-Man by John Byrne, a Marvel Omnibus published in September 2019.Legacy
A few of the supervillains' costumes from the miniseries were later briefly used for their mainstream Marvel Universe counterparts in a two-part story called "Another Return of the Sinister Six", which was chronicled in The Amazing Spider-Man #12 and Peter Parker: Spider-Man #12.''Hulk: Chapter One''
In Hulk Annual 1999, Byrne revised the Hulk's origin, similar to what was done in Spider-Man: Chapter One. In this revised origin, the gamma bomb that was being tested was now a gamma laser, and a Skrull was responsible for Rick Jones' presence on the base during the test. The contemporary setting removed the Cold War context of the original story and served as a tie-in issue to the miniseries Marvel: [The Lost Generation], created by Byrne and Roger Stern.This storyline is designated as being set in Earth-9992 in the Marvel multiverse.