About the author Ned Hartley writes comics and also sometimes books that are not comics. Ned is the writer of the best-selling Marvel Origins: Spider-Man, The Steel Commando, Marvel Museum, Tthe Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things, Together We Can, The Spider-Man Museum, Great Lives: Albert Einstein, Dark Tales: Hound of the Baskervilles, The Marvel Universe: An Atlas of Marvel, Marvel Heroes and Villains and many more books. Ned has writes comics for the Beano every week, and has also written for 2000 AD, Buster, Monster Fun and Wallace and Gromit comic. He lives in London with his wife and two children, and has not been bitten by anything radioactive as far as he knows.