Spider-Man: The Manga
| Spider-Man | |
The cover of the first volume of the 2002 Bunkoban re-release, published by Media Factory. | |
| スパイダーマン | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Superhero |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kōsei Ono Kazumasa Hirai |
| Illustrated by | Ryoichi Ikegami |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Sun Comics (Asahi Sonorama) |
| Magazine | Monthly Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | January 1970 – September 1971 |
| Volumes | 8 |
Spider-Man: The Manga, published simply as Spider-Man in Japan, is a Japanese superhero manga series written by Kōsei Ono and Kazumasa Hirai and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami which retold the story of Spider-Man in a Japanese setting. It was originally published in Japan from January 1970 to September 1971 in Monthly Shōnen Magazine. The comic began by loosely adapting American Marvel stories, but over time, Ikegami introduced more original material. The manga features Yu Komori as Spider-Man's teen alter ego, and takes place in a Japanese setting. Within the Marvel Comics multiverse, its reality is designated as Earth-70019.