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Comics : Funtastic Bumper Book (Movie Version)

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Background...

This is a re-release of Funtastic Bumper Book, but with a movie-tie cover.

Then when movie madness hit, Funtastic re-released their latest series of Spider-Man coloring and activity books with updated "Movie" covers... featuring the new look Spidey and Green Goblin. The interior was basically untouched, although a few of the drawings were swapped around, some were replaced by blank "Draw a Picture" pages. Also, some of the text and graphics were replaced with updated "movie-style" equivalents. The Funtastic Paint With Water Book appears to have been dropped for the second run.

In Detail...

Funtastic Bumper Book (Movie Version)
Publisher:  Funtastic Publishing
 
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No Month 2002 : SM Title : Spider-Man Color/Activity Books (Funtastic)

This is a tweaked version of the original, with the new cover being the most notable change.

Basically like the coloring book, but with 128 pages... over five times as many as the coloring book! Page after page of Spidey and/or Peter Parker, with hardly a Green Goblin in sight! Very little variation between the different pictures, and in fact several of the pictures are re-used within the book. In fact, most of them probably are, but since they're all so similar it's a little hard to tell!

In General...

The covers on the movie-look versions are all very pretty, but inside, it's just the same old sad dross. This really was a pretty cheap effort to cash in on the movie-generated hysteria. Quality and variety were both pretty far down on the list of priorities.

Overall Rating...

Disappointing really. Two webs.

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