Weird arm cradling that kid on the cover, Mr. Romita. Kinda looks broken. Now we’re in the Len Wein era of Amazing. This is actually really vexing me. This is his 3rd…
Month: April 2019
End of Block 2
End of block 2! Kinda hard for anything but poor Gwen to be the focus of this one, but so much other noteworthy stuff happened, too. Fun to try to cram it…
ASM 122
It’s another reprint. I can’t afford this issue, either. I mean, obviously. My next reprint is ASM 129, but other than that, it’s all originals to the end of the volume. Spider-Man…
ASM 121
That’s a pretty crazy cover. Who could walk past that on the rack? This, obviously, isn’t an original 121, because I am not rich, but this era of Marvel Tales reproduced the…
ASM 120
We’re back with the rest of Spidey’s Hulk situation. Now Gil Kane’s drawing with John Romita & Tony Mortellaro on inks. In the flood, The Hulk throws a huge piece of the…
ASM 119
The original version of this post explained that I had to read ASM 119 & 120 out of a reprint in ASM Annual 12 because these issues were too pricey for me….
MTU 011
Time for the grand finale (I think?) of this time traveling caper. Mike Esposito swaps in on inks for the home stretch. As we get going, Spidey has secured a ride to…
MTU 010
I appreciate that the “Nuff Said” has a question mark, because… probably not. So its Kang Vs. Zarrko for the fate of time itself, and since one of them is the enduring…
MTU 009
That is… some cover copy. Musical chairs continues as Ross Andru returns to the penciling job and Gil Kane shuffles off to more ASM. He’s not inked by his pal Mike Esposito,…
MTU 008
Oh boy. As it happens, I have already read a sequel to this issue published several years later, but even if I hadn’t, you can tell this one’s gonna be rough. “Man-Killer.”…