This is the 2nd appearance of The Hobgoblin, but for me, this is where it all started. Having been reading the ASM of my era, the late 80s, early 90s, the 300s…
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ASM 238
We finally made it to ASM 238! This one was an eBay acquisition from the turn of the century. This one’s pretty pricey in the present, and I actually remember I got…
ASM 237
Hey, look, we haven’t seen ASM in a bit. Everybody’s on break this month. Stern plots, but Bill Mantlo scripts. Bob Hall does breakdowns and Frank Giacoia finishes. We open on Wilbur…
ASM 236
Did I pay $6 for this? I can’t rightly say. I don’t remember the acquisition of most of this set. It’s been a long time. We rejoin the insane situation we left…
ASM 235
Things sure got weird quickly around here, didn’t they? This month, yet another inker jumps on, our old pal Frank Giacoia. We can depend on him to hew pretty close to the…
ASM 234
In this issue, John Romita, Jr. is paired with frequent inker Dan Green, and the difference is striking. Green worked over Romita’s pencils on his first full-length job (Iron Man 115), and…
ASM 233
This is an awkward place to start, but as we will see, The Tarantula only attacks Spider-Man from the left on a on yellow background. Those are the rules. Welcome back to…
ASM 128
We’re back with Spider-Man falling to his death, as he so often does. Turns out, he just makes a big web net and bounces right back up. He finds out he’s emptied…
ASM 127
Just noticed the insides of the letters being black on the cover was actually done by someone with a pen, so you know this is gonna be a good one. The culprit?…
ASM 126
“I realized I’m the bottom of the villain barrel, but I promise I’m scary now!” Strap in for what can’t be a terribly good issue if The Kangaroo is in it. Jim…