Well, here we go. It’s The Punisher’s moment. He was popular from his inception, but as comics trend ever darker, meaner and more cynical in the late 80s & into the 90s,…
Tag: Gerry Conway
TAC 140
Seems like a meeting you don’t want to attend. It’s the day after last issue’s grim cliffhanger, and Robbie is in the hospital surrounded by his family, maybe paralyzed, maybe worse. Peter…
TAC 139
At last! I like how that caption reads more like it’s the cover of a tabloid. “This issue tells all!” It’s still Gerry Conway. Sal Buscema and Bob Sharen bringing us TAC….
ASM 128
We’re back with Spider-Man falling to his death, as he so often does. Turns out, he just makes a big web net and bounces right back up. He finds out he’s emptied…
ASM 127
Just noticed the insides of the letters being black on the cover was actually done by someone with a pen, so you know this is gonna be a good one. The culprit?…
ASM 126
“I realized I’m the bottom of the villain barrel, but I promise I’m scary now!” Strap in for what can’t be a terribly good issue if The Kangaroo is in it. Jim…
ASM 124
Boy, Spidey just can’t get away from werewolves! We’re told on the splash page it’s been 10 days since Gwen died, as we see Spider-Man swing by a newspaper stand on a…
MTU 012
Now over to Marvel Team-Up, where the future ASM team of Len Wein and Ross Andru are on duty, with Don Perlin providing inks and Gerry Conway providing the plot. This is…
ASM 123
Time to jump back to 1973, the Conway era, and the immediate aftermath of the deaths of Gwen Stacy & Norman Osborn. Gerry Conway still writing, John Romita & Tony Mortellaro on…
TAC 138
Hey, remember these guys? Been a second. This issue opens with Captain America helping La Tarantula brutally murder Spider-Man by stabbing him in the chest with a flying kick. He keeps kicking…