This is yet another of the 77 MTUs I got for $44. After 2 months of Hulk & Ka-Zar, MTU is back to being the Spider-Man title it’s supposed to be. And…
Month: December 2020
TAC 055
Luke McDonnell tags in for pencils on the return of Nitro, the Human Bomb. This guy’s powers have never made sense to me, but fighting him gave the original Captain Marvel cancer,…
TAC 054
Marie Severin and Jim Mooney are back on art duties for this one. It opens with Spider-Man happening upon a car chasing and shooting at an ambulance! Spidey doesn’t like that, so……
SM and SM
Surprise! We’ve jumped back to 1981, and it’s time for the titans of the comics industry to reunite. This is, in fact, the final Marvel Treasury Edition, so they went out with…
End of Block 21
Not even Christmas stops the train around here… largely because I’m so far ahead in the read. I liked drawing the full figure heroes in the bottom. This whole one came out…
ASM 200
Merry Christmas! What better gift could there be than a cover by Jazzy John Romita? Here’s one I’ve had a very long time, but haven’t actually read in many years. I probably…
ASM 199
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, for fear of being caught and forced to read a Mysterio comic. Alright. As this especially silly…
ASM 198
For the first time since Block 17, we hit a book I’ve owned for a long time. So long I’m not sure when or where I got it. I’m certain I got…
ASM 197
Keith Pollard returns for a knockdown, drag out battle with the Kingpin. First he helpfully explains how he survived seeming death last time he appeared, and explains that the injuries he suffered…
ASM 196
Al Milgrom & Jim Mooney tag in for art on this one, many years before their extended team-up on Spectacular. Grim stuff on that cover, and it’s just as grim inside as…