Good cover! That first iteration of Scorpion’s tail just seems so underwhelming in light of later ones. I mean, I came in with Todd McFarlane putting a blade on it. He’s the…
Category: 1960s
Avengers 11
Surprise! Another guest appearance. It’s so crazy how that is distinctly a Steve Ditko Spider-Man sharing a cover with Jack Kirby Avengers. The interior art team is Don Heck and Chic Stone,…
ASM 019
TWO Enforcers appearances in 5 issues! Madness. Banking everything on a cowboy, a tiny mobster, and a big dumb dude. We open on some dudes robbing a bank in broad daylight and…
ASM 018
The story you never expected to read, but will read with remarkable frequency in the coming decades! The splash is mostly JJJ grinning like a goon in front of his expose on…
ASM 017
Coverless and cheap, that’s fine with me! That really could be Jason behind Liz on the splash. The way literally everyone in this class hates Peter except Liz is a bit over…
ASM Annual 01
This is ASM Annual 6, but it reprints the first one, so I saved myself a zillion dollars. I never really thought much of it before, but I think the Sinister Six…
ASM 016
A dire warning indeed! Another one with a frustrating history behind it, maybe the dumbest one. In 2018, when I was at Heroescon and discovering that, like, Silver age comics don’t cost…
ASM 015
I saw a copy of a Stan Lee script not too long ago. His scripts were written to the letterer, since he was scripting from completed pencils. For the caption boxes, where…
Tales To Astonish 57
It’s kinda weird how Spider-Man guest starring in other comics almost always set him up like a villain. This one vexed me for a long time. Not unlike my long battle with…
ASM 014
This one is going to be the weirdest issue I ever post, and it kind of delights me. I decided when I started all this I could only post about single issues…