Halfway done. And it’s into this tumult that new regular (Or perhaps more accurately, “regular”) penciler Steve Skroce drops in. Skroce had been making a big splash in the X-Men comics. To…
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SSM 11
Oooo, the secret of Gaunt! I wonder how long before this they figured out who he was, since it was decreed he could not be a reanimated Harry Osborn as originally planned….
TAC 240
Revelations! Internally called Book of Revelations for awhile, but perhaps that was too much. After two and a half years of nonsense spinning out of what was originally intended to be a…
ASM 417
Gasp! Everything I know is wrong? But I didn’t want to know in the first place! Time to awkwardly retcon everything DeMatteis was trying to do with these 2 losers because it…
SMTU 5
This obscure issue has 2 stories, and one is actually rather infamous in certain circles, because a big stunt is pulled in it. And not the usual kind of comics stunt. A…
SMU 14
Cover price: $2.95 (In 1996 dollars). Your price: 90 cents in 2019. It’s easy to see why I would skip this book as a kid. It cost way more, and yet it…
SM 74
Never unhappy to see DD in these pages (Well, maybe in the awful Web of Death story…). Never unhappy to see JRJR working on him again, too. And he kicks things off…
SM 73
Looks dangerous! The gang’s all here, Howard Mackie, John Romita, Jr., Al Williamson & Kevin Tinsley. Peter Parker is running across the rooftops of New York reminding us that when we left…
ASM Annual ’96
The appearance of this comic at this time is SO jarring. Extremely un-90s Ron Frenz art, a cover full of dead people, 2 versions of the real Spider-Man. Very left field. Also…
Redemption 4
Who looked at this cover and thought “Yeah, I’m slappin’ ‘Burning Bright!’ across the top. That’s totally necessary.” Cover copy is almost always terrible, but sometimes it’s just pointless.Anyway, after flashing back…