This is the first one since SSM 0 I actually kind of remember. Because of the art, naturally. This story may be rather silly, but I mean look at this splash: Venom…
Category: 1990s
ASM 410
This one’s weird from page one because Spider-Man is swinging Peter & the corpse through Manhattan. Didn’t they drive to the Avengers’ place? Why is this necessary other than it’s a more…
SSM 3
Nothing says “no, thank you” for me like the appearance of Carnage, but here we go. I can’t imagine my reaction in ‘95. “Hey, we’re doing this fake Spider-Man thing, and now…
TAC 232
Yeah, so, at this point, Dr. Octopus has been killed and replaced. And it’s dumb and I’m not even going to talk about it if I don’t have to, because we’ll see…
SM 66
I just noticed Romita doing it, and then went back and looked, and it seems all the artists have abandoned the unnecessarily complicated web pattern on this Spider-suit in exchange for the…
ASM 409
Every artist as their own approach to character design. A lot of guys have tells that make it easy to guess a character is theirs. The new characters on this cover are…
SSM 2
So, Spider-Man swings to work on some really pointless internal monologue about how Tarzan never had to worry about getting to work on time and other banalities. It’s two whole pages of…
TAC 231
Yes, it’s Kaine! But also: Oh no, it’s Kaine! Kaine, as I’m sure this comic will awkwardly explain, is yet another clone of Peter, but a failed and deformed one that dressed…
SMTU 2
What is this? Well, see, not content with 4 monthly titles and a quarterly, it was decided that Spidey needed to get back into the team-up business, too. This one is also…
SM 65
Time for the thrilling(?) conclusion to Media Blizzard. Looks like deadlines got the better of JRJR on this one, as the middle of the issue is drawn by Tom Morgan and inked…