My original copy of this one was another library sale pickup, and especially trashed. Though I’d started buying ASM for myself, that didn’t mean I could always find it. This was before…
Tag: Aunt May
WEB 056
Boy, I’m glad crazy stuff like white nationalist riots only happens in comics. Hang on, where’s this one come from? No mycomicshop sticker, no McKay’s sticker. I don’t recall owning it as…
ASM 321
Like, what is really going on with Spider-Man’s legs and pelvis here? Full dislocation? As tends to happen an annoying amount around here, the timeline’s getting all of whack. Conway references just…
ASM 320
Guys, remember Amazing Spider-Man? It’s been so long. Here’s a big personal milestone: I bought this issue from Walgreens with my allowance. It’s the first comic I ever bought. After reading ASM…
ASM Annual 23
Look out, Atlantis Attacks! This was a 14-part crossover threading through various 1989 annuals, including all 3 Spidey titles. Unlike The Evolutionary War the previous year, these annuals were more tightly connected,…
ASM 319
Uh-oh! Hammer has sent in the clowns! You’ll remember Blacklash from being a total screwup in MTU 145. Has he done anything since then? I have no idea, but I haven’t seen…
TAC 154
I am… pretty sure I know the master plan of The Puma? We’ll see. We open on Spidey reading The Bugle, wherein JJJ has credited “an unidentified passerby” with his rescue rather…
WEB 054
I feel certain I read this one as a kid. I didn’t have it, obviously (Tho I really thought I did, even). I was reading comics out of the library still, I…
ASM 317
I paid more like $8. This one I replaced while buying up old comics. I have a pretty nice looking copy from my youth which, I somehow vaguely recall, was purchased from…
ASM 315
1989 is back! As the stamps on the cover and inside will reveal, my battered copy of this issue originally belonged to my local public library. I began reading Spider-Man (And many…