Does whatever a Spider can

Yesterday I picked up on eBay a set of four original art pages from Web of Spider-Man #45: pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Keith Williams. Not a great issue, as this review on the SpiderFan site will attest, but there are some extremely cool images on the pages I bought:

• Page 2 is my favorite of the group: five panels of Spidey webslinging his way through downtown Las Vegas. (Two of my favorite things in the world — Spider-Man and Vegas — together at last. Sweet!) We catch glimpses of the Golden Nugget sign as well as the façade and signage of Binion's Horseshoe.
  
  
• Page 19 depicts an aerial battle between Spidey and his old nemesis the Vulture. Six panels, with some great action sequencing.
  
  
• Page 21 features a 2/3-page splash panel of the Wall-Crawler delivering the coup de grace to end the fight, before passing out from the drug the Vulture injected into him back on page 19.
  
  
• Page 22 wraps up the story with some flirtacious byplay between Spidey and an attractive government intelligence agent whom he met earlier in the story, in her cover guise as a flight attendant. The two of them literally walk off into the Nevada sunset. (Sigh!)

Alex Saviuk was the regular penciler on Web of Spider-Man for seven years, beginning in 1988 — a remarkable tenure given the volatile nature of the comics business. He also was the primary artist on Marvel's youth-oriented Spidey titles, Spider-Man Adventures and Adventures of Spider-Man, both of which tied into the then-current Spider-Man animated TV shows running on FOX, as well as the Amazing Spider-Man Sunday newspaper strip which he draws to this day. Aside from his Spidey work, Saviuk is probably best-known for the X-Files adaptation series Topps published in the late '90s.

Keith Williams regularly inked Saviuk's pencils on Web for more than four years, from February 1988 until February 1992. He's worked on a number of Marvel titles over the years, most notably Silver Surfer and Warlock, as an inker primarily. Since 1995, he's inked the daily version of Lee Falk's perennial Phantom newspaper strip, over George Olesen's pencils.

The scans wouldn't do justice to the pages in the size I'd have to make them to fit in the blog template, but I'll try to work on getting up a linked page elsewhere on the site for viewing purposes.