Back for more with Kraven, or is it Kraven? Maybe they’ll get around to turning over their cards, I don’t actually remember when they do. But peep the completely incorrect credits on…
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SM Annual ’97
Oh boy. I think this is Calypso’s first appearance since McFarlane’s first arc, some 7 years later? That seems almost impossible. And… The Marvel Zombie. In the 70s, when The Comics Code…
TAC 248
At least I paid a fair price for it! If I understand the cover dates correctly, this issue actually published in June of 1997. The month after I finished high school. We’ve…
TAC 247
Last issue’s letter column said this Jack O’Lantern was created in Mark Gruenwald’s seminal Captain America run. That’s untrue, tho editorial may not have known it at the time. That was a…
TAC 246
Sigh. Big sigh. Ross’s Spider-Man is really off-model from his usual McFarlane-by-way-of-Campbell impression here. Looks like he jumped to the future and started aping ballpoint pen-era Steve McNiven. That’s a very inside…
SSM 18
So, wait, is the DK thing not over? What’s going on? Whatever, look, cover credits! DC had been doing this for years before Marvel finally got on board. Cover credits are cool…
SSM 17
Pulling issues out of the box for this block, I assumed issues 16 & 17 of SSM were standalone issues looking at the covers. You literally can’t judge a book by its…
SSM 16
Follow-up question: Why is there a new Prowler? Perhaps we’ll find out in this tale by Todd DeZago, Mike Weiringo, Richard Case and Gregory Wright. Did “the accident” happen off-panel? Is it…
TAC 245
Rrrrrrandom Romita, Sr. cover out of nowhere, hello! It’s become hard to remember my life before this Chameleon story. It just feels like it’s been going on forever. To open, Flash Thompson…
TAC 244
Yay, he’s back. Or is he? This is a lot of Luke Ross for a guy to have to sit through in sequence. Man, this time period. Lotta ups & downs in…