The Scarecrow. Not that Scarecrow. Somehow or other, both Marvel and DC have one, and no one’s been sued into oblivion yet. I guess because they’re both relatively minor villains, but DC’s…
Tag: Green Goblin
ASM 018
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…
ASM 017
Coverless and cheap, that’s fine with me! That really could be Jason behind Liz on the splash. The way literally everyone in this class hates Peter except Liz is a bit over…
ASM 014
This one is going to be the weirdest issue I ever post, and it kind of delights me. I decided when I started all this I could only post about single issues…
TAC 200
I wanna say the first shiny foil cover I can remember is Jim Lee’s WildCATs (Covert! Action! Teams!) #2, and it looked a lot like this.Silvery with the rainbow hologram effect. That…
TAC 199
And we’re back. Castle’s still falling, heroes are recapping, it’s all happening. Archangel, being all tough and mean since he got transformed by Apocalypse, thinks they should just leave, but Cyclops won’t…
TAC 189
Here it is, the first of the oversized 30th Anniversary issues with fancy hologram covers. And so we truly enter the age of the gimmick cover. This would only get weirder and…
ASM 180
And so, at long last, we come to it, the 2nd of my very oldest Spider-Man comics. The coverless copy of ASM 148 and this battered old copy of 180 are the…
ASM 179
As has been mentioned, 70s comics always wanted you to think the hero couldn’t possibly win against the villain, while pitting him against some really terrible villains. It was a hard sell….
ASM 178
I mean, I would never say Andru drew the best Green Goblin, but there’s something pretty weird and creepy about him that you just don’t get from other artists. Gentleman Jim Mooney…