A not-so-subtle homage to the cover of Action Comics #1 is an unusual way for a Spider-Man comic to get going. This one opens with Spider-Man in a really weird position, and…
Category: 1980s
ASM Annual 22
Move over, Spidey, it’s Steve Ditko’s most embarrassing creation! Boy, the hoops we’re about to jump through behind the scenes. As I think has been mentioned previously, Ditko returned to Marvel in…
WEB 043
Here we go, big cult finale! Looks like those guys aren’t as benign as dumb ol’ Spidey was seeming to think. We rejoin the kidnapping of Betty Brant, already in progress, as…
WEB 042
I guess that’s one way to sell comics to the adolescent boys who made up the majority of the reading audience at this time. Ol’ Jazzy Johnny had to step back in…
WEB 041
More cult action! Looks like this could get weird. As we open, MJ is coming home with an old friend from high school who’s also become a model (That seems statistically unlikely,…
WEB 040
Well, I sure hope so! It’s the return of those “Part 1, Part 2,” etc banner things from the 4 months of weird crossovers. This is the first book on the blog…
TAC 142
This issue opens with Spider-Man swinging around Atlanta. What? Yes. Rather betraying the era Conway started out in, this is one of those where we start in the middle and then flashback…
TAC 141
Well, here we go. It’s The Punisher’s moment. He was popular from his inception, but as comics trend ever darker, meaner and more cynical in the late 80s & into the 90s,…
TAC 140
Seems like a meeting you don’t want to attend. It’s the day after last issue’s grim cliffhanger, and Robbie is in the hospital surrounded by his family, maybe paralyzed, maybe worse. Peter…
TAC 139
At last! I like how that caption reads more like it’s the cover of a tabloid. “This issue tells all!” It’s still Gerry Conway. Sal Buscema and Bob Sharen bringing us TAC….