..I've been reading a lot of lists on Amazon recently, giving things like the reader's top 10 or top 25 graphic novels. Strikes me that there aren't too many Spiderman ones on there. you get your usual, Dark Knight Returns, year one Batman stuff and Superman red son, All star Superman, Watchmen etc. Just wondered why this is? What are the top Spiderman graphic novels? I'd love to know as I don't actually possess a Spiderman graphic novel yet, even though he has always been one of my top 10 favourite characters!

No-one? Oh well....guess nobody reads Spiderman graphic novels these days...

The only one that comes to mind is Spider-man:Reign

It's pretty good

Umm I can only think of collected issues. Like Spider-man Ultimate collection, or Back In Black

Cool, I've just ordered a Panini Edition of Spiderman "Life and death of Spiders Vol 3". Coz it was £0.01 on Amazon (plus postage) and got a couple of five star reader ratings. Will look up these others too. Cheers guys.

Kraven's last hunt.

Kraven's Last Hunt and Death of Jean Dewolff are the major one's.

Also Origin of the Hobgoblin, and The Wedding.

Death of Gwen Stacy, and Saga of the Alien Costume are also very good, but probably aren't strictly Graphic Novels as they're more like collections of related material and they don't have a defined beginning and end.

If you're just talking about stories created specifically for trades that aren't collected issues, then the only one I can think about worth reading is Parallel Lives, which is more of a Pete/Mary Jane origin story than an action tale.

Top 10????.......are there even 5 Spider-Man graphic novels out there?.....

This. None of the books listed above qualifies as a graphic novel (maybe except for Reign).

@thetrolldance: Yeah,only Reign....the 2nd comes out April 2014,the "Familly business". And it is an official "graphic novel".

Why isn't Parallel Lives a Graphic Novel?

Also Reign is just a collection of a mini series, no different to Blue, Deadly Foes of Spider-Man, Vs Wolverine etc

Under the current, general definition “A graphic novel, like a regular novel, is a stand-alone story that is published as a book" Kraven's Last Hunt would stand, as a story its very self contained.

@silent_bomber: Oh,yeah,"Spider-Man One" or "Year One" came out last year.....that's a GN too,i believe...

@silent_bomber: I didn't notice the part of your comment about Parallel Lives, my bad. And I still wouldn't consider Karven's Last Hunt a graphic novel.

Kraven Last Hunt and Dark Reign

@spideysense44:

MM? There is a difference between graphic novels and story arcs.

spiderman year one was good

Hooky was alright, very odd as a Spider-Man story, and definitely polarising, but I thought it was fairly entertaining seeing Pete completely out of his element, and I liked the artwork a lot.

I think Spidey's best work is definitely in his trade collections though.

Depends who you talk to

Surprisingly,yes.....

Spider-Man Reign

Spider-Man The Last Hunt

Spider-Man The Grim Hunt

Spider-Man Blue

Spider-Man The Hobgoblin Origin

Spider-Man The Clone Saga

Spider-Man Ultimate Collection

Spider-Man Parallel Lives

Spider-Man Noir

Spider-Man DeatH of Gwen Stacy

They are in no particular order. Just throwing em out there.

June'sVeryOwn

ehhemm it was called "Season One" ;P

spider-man noir. any noir really.

@turel_hash_ak_gik:

Not sure if the noir series are graphic novels, but yes spider man nor is really good.