I started this thing as “All The Spider-Mans I Have” with the implicit idea that I don’t have all of them. But since then, I’ve been slowly accumulating more and more and……
Tag: Bill Mantlo
TAC Annual 04
As difficult as it’s getting to keep the timeline straight, why not toss in another annual? Why not publish one more book to potentially contradict everything? Well, they did. Looks like a…
MTU 140
Ed Hannigan’s art already has a rather Frank Miller-esque feel, but teamed up with Miller’s long time inker Klaus Janson? You could be forgiven for assuming it was Frank. This is the…
TAC 070
What’d I say? Dying would’ve made way more sense than becoming a cyborg! These two issues come to us via The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018, and this one in particular came…
TAC 069
As we’ve seen, Cloak & Dagger were created in the pages of Spectacular just 5 issues ago, and it seems they must’ve been a hit, at least internally, because they’re back already….
TAC 068
So, here’s how this one starts… I was like “Is this Ben Urich?… So, no then.” I believe this is the first comic on the blog… and the first comic of its…
TAC 067
What lurks behind Ed Hannigan’s Frank Miller impression? Seems like a lot! It’s been a minute since I’ve seen a Spectacular. This one’s by writer Bill Mantlo, penciler Ed Hannigan, inker Al…
TAC 64
Spidey looks more like he’s just flopping around like a ragdoll there. Our first issue of TAC in a minute is one very recently acquired. It’s the debut of Cloak & Dagger,…
TAC 053
It’s a fill-in by Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney & Frank Springer this month, and that cover is not promising. Thanks to the magic of the internet, when I got Roger Stern’s Spectacular…
TAC 031
Well, that certainly looks different from where we left things last issue. Time for our team of Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney & Frank Springer to bring this 7-issue ramble to a close….