I believe this issue marks the beginning of one of the great comics mysteries of its time: Why does Erik Larsen draw little triangles on The Punisher’s lips? If there’s an answer,…
WEB 063
That more or less looks like the demon Spider-Man Flash Thompson (And Betty, a little) fought during Inferno in TAC 148, AND kinda looks like Venom, and yet, isn’t either of those…
TAC 163
The Deadly Duo! Not sure that’s gonna catch on. As this one begins, someone somehow took a picture of Spidey being dragged into the sewer last issue, and it’s on the news,…
TAC 162
Back for more with Hobgoblin, and soon Carrion. We open on Hobgoblin attacking an armored car delivering a prisoner to The Vault, the supermax security prison for supervillains that nevertheless seems to…
TAC 161
Is this the first appearance of this very brief experiment with the head boxes? This only lasted a couple months, but little boxes with characters appearing in this issue started popping up…
WEB 062
As this issue, by the usual suspects, begins, Spider-Man is back in a sewer, searching for someone. No one should be in sewers this often. The bit is it seems like he’s…
MCP 39
The first appearance on the blog for Marvel Comics Presents, a weekly anthology title that also served as a sort of 2nd solo book for Wolverine in this period, with him frequently…
PWJ 15
We are back with more Punisher War Journal. Another rare Jim Lee Spider-Man. Same creators inside, as the cultists kill The Daily Bugle’s security guards and use their access to get up…
PWJ 14
Sadly, X-Men superstar and future DC Comics bossman Jim Lee only provides covers for this 2-part Punisher story featuring Spider-Man. He had been the regular penciler on Punisher, but he’s out the…
ASM 329
The Tri-Sentinel! Acts of Vengeance is over. Presumably, the bad guys all realized Loki was manipulating them, took their ball and went home. Like I said, I don’t really know. It’s Larsen’s…