NEW villains? Or just some of those losers from The Circus of Crime without The Ringmaster? Asked & answered! The letterer gag is pretty good this month. Usually they’re kinda mean. The…
Category: 1960s
ASM 021
We are back to the tail end of 1964! Given there’s only 1 title in this period, this block will take us almost to the end of 1966 and close out the…
ASM 020
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…
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…