In this issue, John Romita, Jr. is paired with frequent inker Dan Green, and the difference is striking. Green worked over Romita’s pencils on his first full-length job (Iron Man 115), and…
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ASM 233
This is an awkward place to start, but as we will see, The Tarantula only attacks Spider-Man from the left on a on yellow background. Those are the rules. Welcome back to…
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 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 125
Really laying it on thick with that cover dialogue. This issue begins a long run on the title by penciler Ross Andru, and the last issue for inkers John Romita & Tony…
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…
ASM 052
This is another of those cheap Heroes Con comics with water damage. As it was explained to me, it wasn’t that they’s gotten soaked or anything, but they’d been stored in a…
ASM 051
Not too hard to get, this one. Kind of a surprise to me. But so much of this has been. Sure, 50 is ultra-famous, but it’s also the beginning of a storyline….