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Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (Spider-Man) by Diane Duane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (Spider-Man) about?
When an innocent man is killed in a Manhattan warehouse, signs point to the criminal known as Venom, who normally avoids killing innocents, and Spider-man worries that another suspect, Hobgoblin, may be involved. Reprint. From Publishers Weekly That a full-color Spider-Man trading card will be bound into the first edition of this mediocre kick-off volume to the Marvel Comics Novels series clarifies just who is considered the target readership for the new line of books based on popular Marvel superheroes. Unfortunately, teens may be put off by Duane's (Spock's World) soap-operatic take on the characters, while nostalgia-crazed baby boomers are likely to find the pacing slow, at least until late in the story. The plot concerns how Spider-Man matches wits with archenemies Venom and Hobgoblin and uses an unnamed alien creature (who has a fondness for eating radioactive material) to try to keep Hobgoblin from destroying New York. The assorted characters' complex histories, drawn from decades' worth of Spider-Man comics, are recapped in chunks of prose that are as stale as Duane's handling of the acting career of Spider-Man's wife, Mary Jane Parker (whose forays into auditions don't ref
Who reads Spider-Man: The Venom Factor (Spider-Man)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Diane Duane
- Publisher
- Byron Preiss Multimedia Co. : Berkeley Boulevard Books
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781572970380
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
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