Hey, an actual ASM. Been awhile. Tip top Romita Spideys on this cover. Very, very, very confident blurb on the debut of this issue’s new character. Not… warranted. As we get rolling,…
TAC 005
Things look bad for our hero! But will they actually get so bad inside? We’ll see. On the splash, everyone reiterates where things left off, Hitman about to kill Spider-Man just to…
TAC 004
I mean… maybe. But this particular Vulture sure isn’t. Dave Cockrum is supplying covers for both ancillary Spider-Man titles now. I wonder why. Maybe he just really wanted to draw Spidey and…
MTU 055
One of 77. A Dave Cockrum cover, but he really nailed Jim Starlin’s Warlock face. Dave Hunt swaps in to ink as Spider-Man is hallucinating all his friends and foes while being…
MTU 054
One of the 77. Hulk is dead! Can’t believe they’d kill, at the time, their 2nd-most-popular character, and not even in his own comic! Wild. Oh well, sorry, Hulk fans. Same team…
MTU 053
I found this one could be hard to get at a reasonable price. At first, I thought it was like ASM 119-120, where it’s still just an early meeting between our hero…
MTU Annual 1
Here’s Spidey teaming up with the still very new “All-New, All-Different” X-Men. This one says it was written by Bill Mantlo from a plot by Mantlo, Chris Claremont & Bonnie Wilford. Bonnie…
TAC 003
Lightmaster. Have we seen Lightmaster? I read his 2nd appearance and even his 3rd real early in this Spider-Man journey, but that was before I’d decided how to break up the posts,…
ASM 166
Comic book people used to throw the word “holocaust” around like it was nothin’. Jewish guys, even. Stan Less, Jack Kirby, Len Wein, they loved it. It feels super weird, but I…
ASM 165
Hey, remember how Len Wein created the extremely silly villain Stegron, The Dinosaur Man in MTU 19 & 20? Well, Len’s got ASM now, so guess who’s back? Still ross Andru &…