In the 70s & 80s, this one would have certainly said “Spidey Goes Wild!” on the cover. Ditko gets his plot credit back this month. The surprisingly boring splash is just The…
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UTS 24
It’s weird to me how the core creatives more or less bailed on this book with only a few issues left. Pat Olliffe gone to do 3 whole issues of MTU, Vol….
TAC 042
The great Mike Zeck joins Bill Mantlo writing, Jim Mooney on inks and Janice Cohen on colors for this one. Mike Zeck before he was a big name, I think, in this…
ASM 006
The first appearance of The Lizard. The hits just keep coming. The splash has Liz commanding an army of alligators to attack our man. Another strong sales pitch! And this month’s villain…
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 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…
ASM 166
Comic book people used to throw the word “holocaust” around like it was nothin’. Jewish guys, even. Stan Less, Jack Kirby, Len Wein, they loved it. It feels super weird, but I…
ASM 165
Hey, remember how Len Wein created the extremely silly villain Stegron, The Dinosaur Man in MTU 19 & 20? Well, Len’s got ASM now, so guess who’s back? Still ross Andru &…