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…
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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 130
Well here’s the most unorthodox thing I’ve ever done on the blog. We’re seeing this issue before TAC 128 & 129. Because for some reason, this issue takes place before Gang War…
ASM 369
Electro! He’s not a robot! Or is he? Probably not. Spider-Man’s bouncing through the city, getting another low level Spider Sense warning, but with no idea why, because of all the little…
TAC 119
$1.95. That’s fair, I think. 2 cents less than somebody thought! Sabretooth continues to be a Spider-Man villain, and I continue to think that’s crazy. Crazy that he was just kinda laying…
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…
Spider-Man: Fear Itself
Welcome back to the very, very end of 1991, as we enter a block that will introduce a major new Spider-Man character AND one of the most insane twists anyone ever pulled….
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…