Bookshelf #31

This week's bookshelf is the final one on the little white unit we've been examining the contents of the last few weeks and, as you can see, it is filled with Marvel digest collections, the vast majority of which are branded Marvel Adventures. As the word "Adventures" has long since come to denote that a particular comic is all-ages or geared toward kids, these are thus mostly kid-friendly comics. Most of the book are Spider-Man ones, with seven of them being volumes of Marvel Adventures Spider-Man with volume numbers on the spines, and one without. And no, at this point I have no idea why I seem to have bought them at random, as you can see from the numbering on the spines. These trades all tend to feature a handful of issues of high-quality, evergreen, done-in-one stories apiece, often involving Spider-Man meeting guest-stars.The creators involved include the likes of writers Peter David, Paul Tobin and Fred Van Lente and artists Pop Mhan, Mike Norton and Ryan Stegman, among…