Here’s what the kids wanted. David Michelinie, Mark Bagley, Randy Emberlin, Bob Sharen on deck. Venom has arrived in New York, and seeing Carnage’s face on a newspaper, starts yelling at it…
Tag: Amazing Spider-Man
ASM 020
Good cover! That first iteration of Scorpion’s tail just seems so underwhelming in light of later ones. I mean, I came in with Todd McFarlane putting a blade on it. He’s the…
ASM 019
TWO Enforcers appearances in 5 issues! Madness. Banking everything on a cowboy, a tiny mobster, and a big dumb dude. We open on some dudes robbing a bank in broad daylight and…
ASM 018
The story you never expected to read, but will read with remarkable frequency in the coming decades! The splash is mostly JJJ grinning like a goon in front of his expose on…
ASM 017
Coverless and cheap, that’s fine with me! That really could be Jason behind Liz on the splash. The way literally everyone in this class hates Peter except Liz is a bit over…
ASM Annual 01
This is ASM Annual 6, but it reprints the first one, so I saved myself a zillion dollars. I never really thought much of it before, but I think the Sinister Six…
ASM 016
A dire warning indeed! Another one with a frustrating history behind it, maybe the dumbest one. In 2018, when I was at Heroescon and discovering that, like, Silver age comics don’t cost…
ASM 015
I saw a copy of a Stan Lee script not too long ago. His scripts were written to the letterer, since he was scripting from completed pencils. For the caption boxes, where…
ASM 014
This one is going to be the weirdest issue I ever post, and it kind of delights me. I decided when I started all this I could only post about single issues…
ASM 013
I faced an unusual dilemma with this issue. I actually have an original copy. But… it’s graded. I hate comics grading. I hate everything about it. I think it’s an entire cottage…