EVERGREEN Throw Mama From The Train reference on the cover. Brilliant. The way “SPIDEY” is emphasized has made it worse for me since the day it came out, for some reason. Let’s…
Tag: George Stacy
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 008
Here it is, the new earliest Spider-Man comic I have. Back when this blog started in 2019, my oldest issue was 30, but no longer! Obviously not the nicest copy, it may…
UTS 03
Ya asked me, the trickiest thing this series could do was new meetings with classic villains, as it’s about to start doing here. Spider-Man’s 2nd encounter with Sandman is set in stone,…
UTS 02
This one, I never understood. Why does Spider-Man need what’s more or less Man-Bat from the Batman comics? It’s weird and kinda silly in Batman, it’s even weirder in Spider-Man. Al Vey…
UTS 01
One of the many weird ideas Marvel tried as the bottom fell out of the 90s comics market and they were sinking into bankruptcy was a line of 99 cent books. Making…
SM -1
I don’t remember this one, either, but the phrase “proto-goblin” fills me with dread. Probably not the way they’d want it to, though. Romita, Jr. sits this one out, but the rest…
ASM 274
You know it’s serious when they give the ad pages to the story. You also know it’s serious because the inside front & back cover are a poster of the front cover….
ASM 080
This month in credits, Stan Lee is “Author, Editor” (I think for the first time?), Buscema & Mooney share “Illustrators,” and John Romita gets “Art Consolidator.” Oh… kay. Peter Parker is working…
ASM 076
I think it’s interesting how many Lizard stories start with “My friend Curt Connors is here, hope he doesn’t turn into The Lizard.” You know? Like Curt will show up for a…