Spider-Man's Tangled Web
Marvel · 2001–2003 · 18 issues
About the series
Over its 18-issue run from 2001 to 2003, Marvel's Spider-Man's Tangled Web offered a rotating anthology of standalone stories that put the focus on the villains, bystanders, and everyday people caught in Spider-Man's orbit, rather than on Peter Parker himself. Writers like Bruce Jones, Zeb Wells, and Darwyn Cooke, alongside artists such as Lee Weeks, Duncan Fegredo, and Leandro Fernández, brought a diverse, often noir-tinged sensibility to the series. It matters as a distinctive, character-driven experiment that broadened the scope of the Spider-Man mythos, giving voice to the city's unsung players and proving that the web-slinger's world was rich with stories beyond the hero's own.