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	US: Marvel Comics;
Imprint	Sun Comics (Asahi Sonorama)
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 1970 – September 1971
Volumes	8

Spider-Man: The Manga 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.^[1] The comic began by loosely adapting American Marvel stories, but over time, Ikegami introduced more original material.^[2] The manga features Yu Komori as Spider-Man's teen alter ego, and takes place in a Japanese setting.^[3] Within the Marvel Comics multiverse, its reality is designated as Earth-70019.^[4]

^ Jimenez-Varea, Jesus; Pérez-Gómez, Miguel Ángel (2016). "Marvel and Toei". In McEniry, Matthew J.; Weiner, Robert G.; Peaslee, Robert Moses (eds.). Marvel Comics Into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s. McFarland & Co. p. 85. ISBN 9781476624112.
^ Clements, Jonathan (2010). Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade. A-Net Digital LLC. p. 344. ISBN 9780984593750. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ Stein, Daniel (2013). "Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man". In Meyer, Christina; Denson, Shane (eds.). Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 145–162. ISBN 9781441185235. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
^ "Alternate Earths Appendix" Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, no. 4 (September, 2008). Marvel Comics.

[1] Jimenez-Varea, Jesus; Pérez-Gómez, Miguel Ángel (2016). "Marvel and Toei". In McEniry, Matthew J.; Weiner, Robert G.; Peaslee, Robert Moses (eds.). Marvel Comics Into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s. McFarland & Co. p. 85. ISBN 9781476624112.

[2] Clements, Jonathan (2010). Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade. A-Net Digital LLC. p. 344. ISBN 9780984593750. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

[3] Stein, Daniel (2013). "Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man". In Meyer, Christina; Denson, Shane (eds.). Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 145–162. ISBN 9781441185235. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

[4] "Alternate Earths Appendix" Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z, no. 4 (September, 2008). Marvel Comics.

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