Bacon Man is still in the building. I don’t even wanna dignify the title with an acknowledgement. A “J. Tartas” pitches in with the usual guys on line art, and Irene Vartanoff…
Tag: Bill Mantlo
TAC 013
I mean, where to start. As if the villains from last issue weren’t dopey enough, we get this. Love the hook “I’m invulnerable from the back.” Well, you have 3 other sides,…
TAC 012
We return to the fledgling Spectacular Spider-Man, rounding out its first year on the stands. It hasn’t exactly been essential reading so far, and this cover sure doesn’t have me excited. No…
WEB 011
That’s a striking cover. Some bold choices by the uncredited colorist. My copy of this issue had some problems in the printing process, with the spine and all pages misaligned. We’ll see…
TAC 089
Here goes everything. Glynis Oliver tags in on colors this month. The issue starts with one of Kingpin’s underlings recapping how Kingpin gave Spider-Man information to stop Doc Ock, and then Spider-Man…
TAC 088
That is certainly a take on Mr. Hyde! I really prefer the sort of crude, choppy inking Milgrom applies to his pencils to the flat, faux-John Romita, Sr. thing Jim Mooney does….
TAC 087
Sure looks like things are going to go well! Mantlo, Milgrom, Mooney & Christie Scheele on deck as Spider-Man and Black Cat cavort through the city on the way to Peter Parker’s…
TAC 086
The bottom corner feels like JRJR, but who knows? Maybe it’s a dead-on impression. Is this a bigger or smaller stunt than MTU 137? On the one hand, MTU was absolutely ludicrous….
TAC 085
So, at some point in the 21st Century, having completed my quest for the Stern/Romita ASM run and feeling good about it, I saw Roger Stern’s bibliography on Wikipedia, and found out…
TAC 084
In this issue: SAC-MAN Fever! This issue brought to you by Bill Mantlo, Dave Simons inking his own pencils, Glynis Oliver, and SAC-MAN. This issue has one of the weirdest intros of…