Special guest artist Frank Miller joins the story now, already in progress. Yeah, that Frank Miller, years before he put both himself & Daredevil on the map with his legendary run on…
Tag: Bill Mantlo
TAC 026
This issue picks up riiiight where the last one left off. Mr. Marauder says he’s been waiting to blind Spider-Man since Spidey & Daredevil first foiled his plans, which was apparently in…
TAC 025
It’s Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney and Frank Springer beginning an unusually long story for their era with the absolutely terrible title “Carrion, My Wayward Son.” Hooboy. We open on the headquarters of…
TAC 024
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……
TAC 023
Well, here we go. I’d assumed we’d never seen this goofy villain again, mostly just ‘cuz he was so terrible, but here he is. Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney & Mike Esposito on…
TAC 022
Have we talked about the “Marvel’s TV Sensation” thing yet? This banner has been affixed to the covers of the Spidey titles due to the success of a frankly not-so-hot, short-lived, live…
TAC 021
Behold, the first issue of Spectacular Spider-Man to appear on the blog. I’m told that, in this era where cost cutting led to much shorter comics, TAC was launched in part to…
MTU 47
This is it! The final part of this ridiculous 8-hit combo. This has been going on FOREVER. Let’s wrap it up. And look, a cover by Gil Kane, who drew Basilisk’s initial…
MTO 17
Inspired by the success of Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-in-One came about as the exact same premise, only everyone teams up with the ever-lovin’, blue eyed Thing instead of Spider-Man. Naturally, they’d occasionally…
MTU 046
This one is from the big cache of 77 MTUs won for $44 in one of the most insane things I’ve done on eBay. Most of those were in great shape, but…