I never dreamed of owning this one. I got it half off at the 2019 Heroes Con. Hard to believe the long, long journey to the original Lift A Heavy Thing is…
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ASM 032
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…
ASM 031
Getting a hold of this one was a real challenge. When I finally found a copy I could afford, it was this UK edition (somehow). The only difference is the currency in…
ASM 027
Goofy cover copy like this is going to have dire ramifications down the line. People trying to be like Stan will be just as silly even into the 80s. This month, Stan…
ASM 026
Someone has clipped my corner box! Hope they had fun with it. This is a weird cover. A lot of empty space, and Green Goblin feels like an afterthought. The Crime-Master. I…
ASM 024
Pretty cool cover! That’ll get your attention on the stands. I feel glad to be part of the great new breed of magaziner reader. I guess this is the first reference to…
ASM 023
I somehow ended up with a Marvel Tales reprint of this as a youth. It was way out of my range, it was published in 1984. How’d I get it? I don’t…
ASM 010
Yes, another original, this time with most of its cover, even! Not only that, but there’s now just 1 reprint between here and ASM 129. I have managed to obtain all but…
UTS 04
We are back to Untold Tales with another all-new menace for Spider-Man to face. Gantry, Orbit, Satellite and Vacuum, The Spacemen. Not too Ditko-y to my eye. They bring the whole building…
ASM 052
This is another of those cheap Heroes Con comics with water damage. As it was explained to me, it wasn’t that they’s gotten soaked or anything, but they’d been stored in a…