Surprise! We’ve jumped back to 1981, and it’s time for the titans of the comics industry to reunite. This is, in fact, the final Marvel Treasury Edition, so they went out with…
Category: 1970s
End of Block 21
Not even Christmas stops the train around here… largely because I’m so far ahead in the read. I liked drawing the full figure heroes in the bottom. This whole one came out…
ASM 200
Merry Christmas! What better gift could there be than a cover by Jazzy John Romita? Here’s one I’ve had a very long time, but haven’t actually read in many years. I probably…
ASM 199
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, for fear of being caught and forced to read a Mysterio comic. Alright. As this especially silly…
ASM 198
For the first time since Block 17, we hit a book I’ve owned for a long time. So long I’m not sure when or where I got it. I’m certain I got…
ASM 197
Keith Pollard returns for a knockdown, drag out battle with the Kingpin. First he helpfully explains how he survived seeming death last time he appeared, and explains that the injuries he suffered…
ASM 196
Al Milgrom & Jim Mooney tag in for art on this one, many years before their extended team-up on Spectacular. Grim stuff on that cover, and it’s just as grim inside as…
ASM 195
4 different plots AND “the most shocking climax ever?” Sounds worth your 40 cents! This one is inked by “M. Hands.” Like Many hands, ya know? ENOUGH WE GET IT. Black Cat…
ASM 194
There it is. Right there on the cover. Not even in the story yet and it’s already “never let a black cat cross your path.” Ah, well. Here we are, the momentous…
MTU 085
It’s time to bring this saga to its sense-shattering conclusion… or really drop the ball, you can’t know going into these. So, last issue, Spider-Man fell out of the SHIELD Helicarrier, and…