My understanding is that, because ASM was doing this big and important Gang War story, the other 2 titles were kind of meant to hang back. There’s a lot of flashback material…
Category: 1980s
TAC 123
I reshuffled my schedule a little cuz I just felt like getting this era done. This is the final block of this period, the end of the Hobgoblin mystery. But first: How…
ASM 283
It must be around the production of this issue, if not before, that, according to Christopher Priest, Jim Shooter had been pressuring him to fire DeFalco and Frenz for habitual lateness so…
TAC 122
This looks to be a weird one. Let’s start with the Arrested Development reference: Remember that show? Life was simpler then. This issue is awesome because they’ve finally, finally stopped doing the…
TAC 121
So, this is a wacky one. I guess Peter David had recently seen Rashomon or something, because this is him riffing on it. And, man, they didn’t have to go this hard…
TAC 120
Another of these covers, this one by Mark Beachum, who forgot the spider on his chest. My favorite part of Romita, Sr.’s border for this is The X-Men, because they look very…
ASM 282
The last of this blog’s 25th Anniversary covers. We’re treated to another issue by Rick Leonardi this month, now inked by Bob Layton with Nel Yomtov on colors. We open on Flash…
TAC 119
$1.95. That’s fair, I think. 2 cents less than somebody thought! Sabretooth continues to be a Spider-Man villain, and I continue to think that’s crazy. Crazy that he was just kinda laying…
WEB 024
I have absolutely no idea where I got a coverless copy of Web of Spider-Man 24. None. How could I have gotten then? When? Where? I guess I’ll never remember. I wonder…
WEB 023
Slyde! No one asked for this. Well, probably not no one. I didn’t, anyway. A Michelinie plot, a Len Kaminsky script, Jim Fern pencils, Vince Colletta inks, Bob Sharen colors. I don’t…