The folks at McKay’s saw that $1 sticker and were like “too much!” Spidey travels to London on the trail of Knight & Fogg. His first trip since chasing Gwen there in…
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TAC 161
Is this the first appearance of this very brief experiment with the head boxes? This only lasted a couple months, but little boxes with characters appearing in this issue started popping up…
ASM 131
Whoever came up with that web joke… you can feel how proud of it they were just looking at the cover. As we saw at the end of last ish, Doc Ock…
ASM 130
Look at that perfect Romita Spider-Man on the cover. Welcome back, welcome to another issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Same creative team as last issue, Gerry Conway on script, Ross Andru on pencils,…
TAC 157
Hey, Electro is back. It’s been exactly 100 issues since he last appeared in Spectacular. Also: “him.” Weird cover. Mike Esposito continues to ink as Electro is very annoyed. He spent a…
WEB 055
Back in the post about TAC 154, Eduardo Lobo said he & his brother had to wait for the next full moon to finish their war with Kingpin. And I thought, “That’s……
TAC 154
I am… pretty sure I know the master plan of The Puma? We’ll see. We open on Spidey reading The Bugle, wherein JJJ has credited “an unidentified passerby” with his rescue rather…
TAC 153
Wow, Sal really went in on the denser web pattern here. But my first reaction was it looks like mid-80s Al Milgrom covers, like MTU 148. Al was already tinkering with the…
WEB 053
Werewolf problems continue! And it looks like this cover is where Alex Saviuk starts doing a more McFarlane-ish Spidey. But not inside, where Mark Bagley once again guests on pencils. And where…
WEB 051
So we’re now into this weird era where, with one guy writing 2 out of 3 monthly titles, it’s like there’s two Spider-Man continuties. ASM references what’s going on in the other…