The Torch just keeps turning up in early Spider-Man (To Steve Ditko’s increasing frustration until he takes full control of the plot), I’m not sure he needed yet another appearance added. Al…
Month: October 2022
UTS 05
EVERGREEN Throw Mama From The Train reference on the cover. Brilliant. The way “SPIDEY” is emphasized has made it worse for me since the day it came out, for some reason. Let’s…
ASM 009
I do not own the first appearance of Electro. I am not made of money. I guess maybe that’s not a good excuse given some of the insane things I have managed…
UTS 04
We are back to Untold Tales with another all-new menace for Spider-Man to face. Gantry, Orbit, Satellite and Vacuum, The Spacemen. Not too Ditko-y to my eye. They bring the whole building…
ASM 008
Here it is, the new earliest Spider-Man comic I have. Back when this blog started in 2019, my oldest issue was 30, but no longer! Obviously not the nicest copy, it may…
UTS 03
Ya asked me, the trickiest thing this series could do was new meetings with classic villains, as it’s about to start doing here. Spider-Man’s 2nd encounter with Sandman is set in stone,…
ASM 007
I still feel a little weird about running the 90s retcons with the actual 60s stuff, but I must say, it gives me some variety switching back and forth, and that’s nice….
UTS 02
This one, I never understood. Why does Spider-Man need what’s more or less Man-Bat from the Batman comics? It’s weird and kinda silly in Batman, it’s even weirder in Spider-Man. Al Vey…
UTS 01
One of the many weird ideas Marvel tried as the bottom fell out of the 90s comics market and they were sinking into bankruptcy was a line of 99 cent books. Making…
ASM 006
The first appearance of The Lizard. The hits just keep coming. The splash has Liz commanding an army of alligators to attack our man. Another strong sales pitch! And this month’s villain…