Well, well, well. Who should be drawing this issue but a young man named John Romita, Jr. More than 2 years after his comics debut in ASM Annual 11, less than a…
Tag: Bill Mantlo
TAC 038
You heard it here first. Mayhem is the man called Morbius. Hard to imagine how this lightning gag is going to factor into the book, if at all. On art this month,…
TAC Annual 01
Collector’s Item! So rare and so special that you can get a copy for $3.70 on mycomicshop.com at the time of this writing. Ock being gold on this cover makes an already…
TAC 037
That Mike Nasser cover feels so different. Guys like him were doing stuff that seems much more contemporary now. Inside, Pablo Marcoss waps in on inks, but otherwise, same team. Spider-Man is…
TAC 036
Now there’s a Ditko-inspired Spider-Man. And Swarm, the Nazi swarm of bees that walks like a man, last seen in these parts far in the future in Sensational #9. I believe this…
MTU 056
One of 77. I think Electro is kinda underrated as a villain, just because his power is so inherently dangerous, but I also know both of these dudes has beaten him alone…
MTU 055
One of 77. A Dave Cockrum cover, but he really nailed Jim Starlin’s Warlock face. Dave Hunt swaps in to ink as Spider-Man is hallucinating all his friends and foes while being…
MTU 054
One of the 77. Hulk is dead! Can’t believe they’d kill, at the time, their 2nd-most-popular character, and not even in his own comic! Wild. Oh well, sorry, Hulk fans. Same team…
MTU 053
I found this one could be hard to get at a reasonable price. At first, I thought it was like ASM 119-120, where it’s still just an early meeting between our hero…
MTU Annual 1
Here’s Spidey teaming up with the still very new “All-New, All-Different” X-Men. This one says it was written by Bill Mantlo from a plot by Mantlo, Chris Claremont & Bonnie Wilford. Bonnie…