Someone has clipped my corner box! Hope they had fun with it. This is a weird cover. A lot of empty space, and Green Goblin feels like an afterthought. The Crime-Master. I…
Tag: Betty Brant
ASM 025
Drawing those crazy tentacles seems like a nightmare. Well, here we go, the first Spider Slayer. We’ve seen a whole lot of later models, but here’s Ditko’s original vision. And for once,…
ASM 024
Pretty cool cover! That’ll get your attention on the stands. I feel glad to be part of the great new breed of magaziner reader. I guess this is the first reference to…
UTS: Strange Encounter
Almost a year after the publication of UTS 25, this was released, a squarebound one-off teaming Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Maybe for the first time? I have no idea where it’s meant…
UTS 25
Here comes the big finale of Untold Tales. I guess there’s no bigger way to send it off than with a Green Goblin story. But it still feels wrong to me. This…
ASM 023
I somehow ended up with a Marvel Tales reprint of this as a youth. It was way out of my range, it was published in 1984. How’d I get it? I don’t…
UTS 24
It’s weird to me how the core creatives more or less bailed on this book with only a few issues left. Pat Olliffe gone to do 3 whole issues of MTU, Vol….
ASM 022
NEW villains? Or just some of those losers from The Circus of Crime without The Ringmaster? Asked & answered! The letterer gag is pretty good this month. Usually they’re kinda mean. The…
UTS Annual ’97
Untold Tales is racing toward cancellation, but it’s not done yet, and here we have an interesting gimmick. Behind this Tom Lyle cover is a story that got a direct sequel in…
ASM 021
We are back to the tail end of 1964! Given there’s only 1 title in this period, this block will take us almost to the end of 1966 and close out the…