It’s the thrilling(?) conclusion to TAC 42. Someone’s written “3-4” on the front in pencil. Behind that cover by Al Milgrom and the legendary FF inker Joe Sinnott, we have Bill Mantlo…
Month: March 2023
TAC 042
The great Mike Zeck joins Bill Mantlo writing, Jim Mooney on inks and Janice Cohen on colors for this one. Mike Zeck before he was a big name, I think, in this…
MTU 092
This is like the cover to a children’s book. This issue of MTU is brought to us by writer Steven Grant, inker Pablo Marcos, and to my surprise, legendary penciler Carmine Infantino….
TAC 041
This is one I didn’t have last time I read this batch, so that’s nice for me, an actual new story. Not that I’m expecting much from this one. Tom DeFalco tags…
ASM 203
Once upon a time, this was some of the first material I was covering. I started around ASM 176 and went forward. Obviously, plans changed a lot. Then, when I finally got…
ASM 367
Lookit these jokers. Even as a callow youth I was like “This is lame.” Faux-Cap is obviously the worst. He looks like a backup dancer for Paula Abdul. And then the other…
ASM 366
This should be interesting. I haven’t read this since it came out, and had never seen ASM Annual 5 at the time. I just read a paragraph about Peter’s parents in Spider-Man…
ASM 365
We’ve made it to the last of the anniversary books. Technically, 2nd-to-last, though for its content, it should not have been, and also, it’s ASM, you’d expect it to be first or…
SM 26
No idea on this hologram. Romita, Sr. maybe? Could be Mike Zeck. No idea. Last issue promised this one would reunite the DeFalco/Frenz team with Erik Larsen inking. I don’t know why…
SM 25
Issue 25 and they still don’t know what to do with this title following McFarlane’s abrupt departure almost 10 months prior. No regular creative team, no direction. And now this wacky bit…