Spider-Man vs. The Black Cat

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963-1998) #194-195, 204-205, 226-227

by Marv Wolfman, David Michelinie, Roger Stern

Acrobatic adventures by some of yesteryear's top names! Is she heroine, criminal, or both? What motivates her madcap mischief? That's for the Black Cat to know and Spider-Man to find out in his first fights with one his most famous femme fatales! Only available in North America. Collects the first six appearances of the Black Cat from Amazing Spider-Man #194, 195, 204, 205, 226, and 227.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Spider Man, Comic Book, Superheroes, Fantasy

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2005

About the author

Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.

Reviews

[bri 🧸 · Rating 4 out of 5]

the duo of all duos tbh <3

[Katherine (Kat) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5 Stars
Individual Issues Rated Below -

Amazing Spider Man #194: 3.5/5 Stars
Amazing Spider Man #195: 4/5 Stars
Amazing Spider Man #204: 3/5 Stars
Amazing Spider Man #205: 2/5 Stars
Amazing Spider Man #226: 2.5/5 Stars
Amazing Spider Man #227: 3/5 Stars

[Rylan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s interesting seeing how Black Cat first started out and comparing it to how far she’s come now.

[Erik · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ahhhh yes 1970 Spider-Man comics. Aunt May is always at deaths door. A sandwich,coffee and cake was a quarter. Annnddd you had a jewel thief who enjoys flirting off and on. What did you think?

[Evione · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ez a kötet Black Cat első hat megjelenését tartalmazza, ennyi a különlegessége, sztori szempontjából bőven felejthető. Főleg az összecsapásokra van kihegyezve, illetve Spidey és Black Cat közötti kapcsolatra, amiről legyen elég annyi, hogy Black Cat egy femme fatale.
A rajzolás, színezés nagyon tetszett, azt kb. nagyobb élményként éltem meg, mint magát a története(ke)t.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent little Spidey book. Your better value would be the more recent book, Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 19 which includes most of this book and much more in true sequential order.
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 19

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I got into comics, I was a huge Spider-Man fan. Huge. I might never have gotten into comics if it weren't for the appeal of Spidey. That said, I've noticed recently that I haven't read a Spider-Man comic in - at a guess - 7-8 years now (written in 2006). So I got this mostly for the excuse of having some good, old school, Spider-Man fun. And it was fun. Wolfman's chapters were somewhat text heavy, but Stern's chapters were terrific.

I enjoyed the Black Cat's mix of wanting to do right, but compulsion to live on the edge. Pete Parker is well-handled, although I wanted somebody to punch his face in after he shouts at poor Betty Brant in the first arc of this book. The slightly awkward part of this book is that it reprints the first six Black Cat stories - three two-parters - so subplots are introduced in one chapter and immediately drop out as the book skips forward ten months to the next Black Cat story. But I wasn't expecting any different. It's nothing earth-shaking, but it's good, fun super-hero comics.

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Black Cat she is one of my favourite marvel characters so when I saw this I had to read it.

This collects the first issues that she appeared in and the start of hers/Spidey's relationship.

This is a nice little read but it misses continuity due to it only being Black Cat vs Spiderman stories, there is a book that has the stories from this book + issues continuing after making for a more understandable read.

Overall though it is a good little book and I'd reccomend it to any Black Cat fans.

[Marco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collection of the first three two-parters featuring Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat.
The best (in my opinion) is the last story, written by Roger Stern. But then Stern is still my favourite writer on the Amazing Spider-Man ever, so go figure...

[nat · Rating 2 out of 5]

spiderman is so dumb bru how many times can a girl rob a museum before you finally stop being wooed and put her in jail

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice collection of the first few Black Cat issues.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book collects the first three appearences of Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, Marvel's sorta/kinda Selina Kyle clone. All three were originally two-parters from THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, written by Marv Wolfman, David Micheline, and Roger Stern, and drawn by Keith Pollard, Pablo Marcus, and John Romita, Jr. It's a good sampling of the best of mainline comics of thirty-some years ago, but shows some signs of dating... as it's entitled to, I suppose. In the first half of the second story written by Wolfman Felicia steals a gem called the Rajah Ruby, but in the second half written by Micheline it's become the Eye of Eros Diamond... apparently the continuity wasn't as much of a priority then! There are some events that are a little confusing without the framing stories (what's up with Jonah and Aunt May?), but I think Felicia remains as one of the most interesting characters introduced in that era.

[Ham · Rating 1 out of 5]

Now I know why I never read classic comics.
It's like watching a movie with a really bad cliche-riddled script.
Half of it's predictable and the other half is too random to make me care.
It's also annoying that the characters have to carry on the obvious narration in their dialogue. "Oh no, he flipped and knocked the gun from my hand!"
I guess it's great for little kids...except if it really is geared toward eight and nine year olds, what's with all the sexy women busting out of their spandex?
My two year old daughter saw the Black Cat's ample clevage and said, "Gross."
Right on, Syd.

[Korynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meet Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, otherwise known as Marvel's knock-off of DC's Catwoman. This volume collects her introduction as a cat burglar who seeks Spider-Man's affection whilst trying to steal and/or kill him depending on her mood. The art varies tremendously depending on the inker but is reprinted in glorious color. There are no end of other Spidey plotlines dangling in the background and Felicia, written badly, plays a screwy feline fatale past plausibility like many comics plots. Spidey injects his normal amount of bad luck, witty patter and spidey sense.

[Matt Shaqfan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Black Cat's first appearance (ASM #194, 1979) and a few follow up adventures. This collects 6 issues, the first 4 by Marv Wolfman (nice name) and Keith Pollard, and the last 2 issues by Roger Stern and John Romita Jr.

Wolfman's stories introduce us to Black Cat, but Roger Stern is a much better writer (more noticeably in the dialogue and Spidey's quips) and it's always cool to see a modern day (iconic) artist like JR JR's early stuff.

Overall nothing mind blowing, but good little collection classic Spidey comics.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book introduces the Black Cat, who is only trying to free her father from prison. She then continues to do crimes and is vastly misunderstood by Spiderman. He also quite fancies her a bit. Finally an intriguing female presence, not trying to be Catwoman but someone whose legacy means everything to her. A good read.

[Ashley Kempkes · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5
Not bad, and I did like some parts of this comic. Black Cat is a pretty cool character! But I felt like the story didn't flow very well. For example, Peter's aunt dies, but it doesn't affect him in the next issue. What? That doesn't make any sense.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is pretty bad and altogether not very good at all.

[Ivan Leong · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Black cat first appearance in the Amazing Spider-man series features a very important plot to Black Cat's affection towards Spider-Man. MUST READ