I first read this issue as part of “The Saga of the Alien Costume,” a trade paperback collection I got when I was a wee lad in the 6th grade. So I’ve…
Month: August 2019
MTU 140
Ed Hannigan’s art already has a rather Frank Miller-esque feel, but teamed up with Miller’s long time inker Klaus Janson? You could be forgiven for assuming it was Frank. This is the…
End of Block 6
Made it through another one. No way the Juggernaut fight wouldn’t take center stage this time. Prepping this one, it struck me how little was going on in Peter’s personal life in…
MTU 121
This is one of the 75 MTUs I got for $48. I keep bringing this up because I still can’t believe it happened. You might think I’d lose track, but I can…
ASM 232
It was years and years before I obtained and read the end of this 2-parter. It’s one of those weird things about decades of collecting comics. I read ASM 231, I’m sure,…
ASM 231
This one’s been with me for a long time… but where’d it come from? I’m not sure. It’s pretty beat up. Feels like it didn’t come from a store. Like it was…
MTU 120
The blog debut of Dominic Fortune. Now here’s an odd one. Not really in-universe, but behind-the-scenes. When founder Martin Goodman sold Marvel Comics in the 70s, he did so with the stipulation…
TAC 070
What’d I say? Dying would’ve made way more sense than becoming a cyborg! These two issues come to us via The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018, and this one in particular came…
TAC 069
As we’ve seen, Cloak & Dagger were created in the pages of Spectacular just 5 issues ago, and it seems they must’ve been a hit, at least internally, because they’re back already….
MTU 119
With this issue, Herb Trimpe is off Marvel Team-Up, and penciler Kerry Gammill and inker Mike Esposito are in! This is good news for me personally. I have no idea where this…