Now here’s an extra weird case. I got this one in elementary school. It was at some kind of… bookshow or something? It was like a book convention or something, in a…
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ASM 241
This is a really unusual cover. It’s Terry Austin, best known for enhancing John Byrne’s supple linework, inking Romita, but it’s got that extremely rough, Frank-Miller-inking-himself look. Super gritty. Frank Giacoia taps…
ASM 220
It’s a fill-in issue, so all bets are off! “Ghost starring!” We got a story by Michael Fleisher, with pencils, inks & lettering all by Bob McLeod. Let’s see what they got….
TAC 007
The 70s are a pretty dark period for Marvel Comics, all told. There’s certainly bright spots, but a lot of the books were not too great, and there were other problems. Chief…
ASM Annual 11
ASM Annual was a book of nothing but reprints for a few years, but this issue is a return to the first story being original content. This one’s brought to you by…
ASM 057
Uh-oh, it’s Ka-Zar. We’ve seen him before, right? Yes. I’m sure LORD KEVIN PLUNDER will be able to help Spidey get his memories back. And look, they promise we’ll never forget it….
ASM 056
This looks bad for our hero! Let’s get right to it, as Spidey helps load The Nullifier into Doc Ock’s van and they all depart. But as the van speeds off, the…
ASM 055
In Ye Olden Times, the precursor to the photocopier was the photostat machine. Because of this, when something was to be duplicated in printing and in comics, specifically, it was “to be…
ASM 053
Hey, a Spider-Man comic! So, yeah, it’s ‘67, Stan Lee & John Romita at the reins of ASM, this issue in particular inked by Mike Esposito using his Mickey Demeo alias. Romita…
ASM 400
I’m told this cover was not actually supposed to be completely impossible to see. That they used the wrong kind of paper stock, so the embossed image and text (Which says “A…