Kind of a weird cover this month. That gentleman with the questionable fashion choices is The Foolkiller, but there will be more on that in a bit. The surer hand of Bob…
Tag: J. Jonah Jameson
ASM 224
We jump ahead now to somewhere in the last half of 1981. The cover date is the date the book was supposed to be removed from the rack rather than the month…
ASM 216
Same creative team as of late, picking up where they left off last issue. Let’s see how Spidey’s doing on… a Spring morning? In spite of it being November last issue and…
ASM 212
Picking up from last issue, Denny O’Neil, John Romita, Jr., Jim Mooney, it’s going down. Literally, the crew from last issue are lowering the generator into the ocean in the new location…
MTU 103
I haven’t even opened the book and Taskmaster’s dialogue has made me uncomfortable. Future Spidey scribe David Michelinie makes another early appearance on this blog, along with artist Jerry Bingham & Mike…
TAC 052
Roger Stern is joined by the great Rick Leonardi on this one, with Jim Mooney inking, and things are looking grim from page one! Man, I am a big fan of Leonardi,…
TAC 048
As Bellandonna continues to taunt Spider-Man through the porthole in her death room, Spidey webs up some masks for himself and the new Prowler to fight off the gas, and eventually manages…
ASM 188
That cover is a pretty clear nod to the cover of ASM 28. Keith Pollard and Mike Esposito are back for this one. We get rolling with the reason Electro was hired…
ASM 186
Marv Wolfman and Mike Esposito are joined by new penciler Keith Pollard in this issue, and it’s a big difference. Pollard’s pages are snappier, less draped in shadow and gloom, and his…
TAC 021
Behold, the first issue of Spectacular Spider-Man to appear on the blog. I’m told that, in this era where cost cutting led to much shorter comics, TAC was launched in part to…