I don’t actually know where this came from. I know I got it as an adult. I suspect my Mom gave it to me, having picked it up at a thrift store…
Category: 1970s
What If 7
Prior to getting to Volume 2, I got a couple odds & ends that I didn’t really have anywhere else to put, so why not now? Fewer than I thought, actually For…
ASM 180
And so, at long last, we come to it, the 2nd of my very oldest Spider-Man comics. The coverless copy of ASM 148 and this battered old copy of 180 are the…
ASM 179
As has been mentioned, 70s comics always wanted you to think the hero couldn’t possibly win against the villain, while pitting him against some really terrible villains. It was a hard sell….
ASM 178
I mean, I would never say Andru drew the best Green Goblin, but there’s something pretty weird and creepy about him that you just don’t get from other artists. Gentleman Jim Mooney…
ASM 177
Feels unlikely that the guy being shot in the face has a chance to say “How can we STOP him?!?” I like the one goon shooting the floor as GG drags him…
ASM 176
It’s the tail end of 1977 as we rejoin Len Wein & Ross Andru on ASM. This month, they’re aided & abetted by Tony DeZuniga on inks and the great Glynis Oliver…
MTU 090
One of the 77. We’re back to Marvel Team-Up, this issue brought to us by Steven Grant, Mike Vosburg & Bob McLeod. And it irks me a little on page one: Not…
ASM 201
10 issues into this block before a regular monthly ASM. Wild. And look who it is. Really mowing them down. It’s Marv Wolfman, Keith Pollard & Jim Mooney on deck for this…
TAC 038
You heard it here first. Mayhem is the man called Morbius. Hard to imagine how this lightning gag is going to factor into the book, if at all. On art this month,…