Ya know, I was feeling this during the black costume story, too, but having read just the ASMs of this era several times over the years, having to stop to see what…
Tag: Bill Mantlo
Marvel Treasury Edition 25
We wrap up this block with the last of the Treasury Editions featuring original Spider-Man content to be covered. This should be a wacky one. We got Bill Mantlo writing from a…
TAC 040
Sadly, Romita, Jr. is not hanging around for part 2. This month’s art team is Frank Springer & Ricardo Villamonte. Been a bit since Springer was on TAC, let’s see how that…
TAC 039
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…
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…