The story you never expected to read, but will read with remarkable frequency in the coming decades! The splash is mostly JJJ grinning like a goon in front of his expose on…
Tag: Doctor Octopus
UTS 19
Why would you do this? Why bring Doc Ock back right after the Sinister Six? This seems foolish. G. L. Lawrence is the latest name to show up on this blog, make…
ASM Annual 01
This is ASM Annual 6, but it reprints the first one, so I saved myself a zillion dollars. I never really thought much of it before, but I think the Sinister Six…
ASM 012
Now here’s a famous story. It’s wild to me to now own so many big moments in Spider-History. I somehow obtained a copy of Spider-Man Classics #13, reprinting this issue behind a…
ASM 011
1964! We’re back! This one I got at Heroescon 2019. 2018 was the year I found out that you could get Silver Age comics for less than hundreds or thousands of dollars,…
TAC 124
My understanding is that, because ASM was doing this big and important Gang War story, the other 2 titles were kind of meant to hang back. There’s a lot of flashback material…
Spider-Man: Mayhem In Manhattan
Sorta half way through this set comes this oddity. As the remit of this blog is obviously comic books, one would think a novel outside my purview. And beyond that, one would…
SM 23
Big finish! Another triple-gatefold with a buncha people on it! This appears to be the first issue of this story I got at a comic book shop, as evidenced by Sandman’s mug…
SM 22
Bout to get crowded again! By this point, it’s been 3 months since the end of the ASM 6-parter due to its accelerated production schedule, so maybe it didn’t seem overwhelming at…
SM 21
Well that seems weird! Cyborg Spider-Man seems like enough to get you to buy a comic. So, anyway, Solo’s about to execute Spider-Man, who he has been Mysterio’d into thinking is Doctor…