In December ‘98, a shocking zero mainline Spider-Man comics were published for the first time since August 1963. But they did publish this! Not much of a consolation prize. Having expanded AF15…
Tag: Chameleon
What If 7
Prior to getting to Volume 2, I got a couple odds & ends that I didn’t really have anywhere else to put, so why not now? Fewer than I thought, actually For…
ASM 389
Big finish. Big, dumb finish. JM DeMatteis makes his debut as writer of ASM. When I started his era, I obviously didn’t want to do it here. But we’ve managed to circle…
WEB 112
Time to see what kind of wheel spinning this team can get up to. Can Spider-Man raid another safehouse? Can Chameleon hire another goon/and or goons? Probably! All I remember about this…
TAC 211
Sal didn’t go to a big head for a cover too often. I must say, an effective cover. It’s what this story is all about boiled down to the essentials: Spider-Man is…
SM 45
One o the absolute craziest things about the comic book industry, in my opinion (And that’s a big setup) is how they absolutely cannot wait to ruin the endings of their own…
ASM 388
Annuals, of course, are 64 pages, and expected to feature 3-4 stories. Big deal anniversary issues are usually oversized, maybe double-sized/annual sized, and contain several stories, with at least the excuse of…
ASM 015
I saw a copy of a Stan Lee script not too long ago. His scripts were written to the letterer, since he was scripting from completed pencils. For the caption boxes, where…
Double Trouble
Behind that slick Dave Hoover cover lurks… Herb Trimpe. I thought I’d seen the last of him. The rest of the team from last issue hangs on, but Alex musta been too…
ASM 375
Yes, never one to let the chance to jack up the price of a comic pass them by in the 90s, it’s yet another oversized anniversary issue. ASM 365 celebrated the anniversary…