And so, we reach a big milestone in my personal comics collecting habits: the moment when I stopped individually bagging comics. I decided it was both easier and more convenient to put…
Tag: Gregory Wright
SM 88
Now here’s a cover I really really remember. Excellent concept & execution. So good they didn’t even plaster some stupid copy over it and ruin it. I don’t much recall what’s inside,…
SSM 24
Time to do something that hasn’t happened in quite awhile in this period: Read every book that came out this month. Except I also have to include the previous month’s ASM because…
SSM 23
So much eyesore text in this era, my goodness. Ok, let’s wrap this up. Spidey’s in trouble, Doc’s in trouble. Doc is now racing back to his physical form, tho, a detail…
SSM 22
90 cents! Really getting this story for a bargain. Scott Hanna pitches in on inks this month. We open on Dr. Strange, apparently having gone through some things lately but recently restored…
SSM 21
75 cents! What a deal! I’ve said it before, but the possibilities opened up to letterers by desktop publishing in the late 90s were a gift and a curse. Look at that…
SM 87
And now we’re just quoting the Beatles. And presumably rehashing ASM 33. I remember this cover, but not the issue. Spider-Man Must Lift A Heavy Thing may be pretty well-trodden ground, but…
SM 86
F- minus for this cover copy. Concept and execution. But who cares, JRJR is back. Look how much more incredible the end of last issue looks at the beginning of this issue:…
Double Trouble
Behind that slick Dave Hoover cover lurks… Herb Trimpe. I thought I’d seen the last of him. The rest of the team from last issue hangs on, but Alex musta been too…
Skating On Thin Ice
What’s this? What is this comic? A Todd McFarlane cover? Yes, it’s all happening. This is the first of 4 special issues made to want kids about various things. I believe it…