This issue picks up riiiight where the last one left off. Mr. Marauder says he’s been waiting to blind Spider-Man since Spidey & Daredevil first foiled his plans, which was apparently in…
Tag: Jim Mooney
TAC 025
It’s Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney and Frank Springer beginning an unusually long story for their era with the absolutely terrible title “Carrion, My Wayward Son.” Hooboy. We open on the headquarters of…
TAC 023
Well, here we go. I’d assumed we’d never seen this goofy villain again, mostly just ‘cuz he was so terrible, but here he is. Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney & Mike Esposito on…
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…
MTU 011
Time for the grand finale (I think?) of this time traveling caper. Mike Esposito swaps in on inks for the home stretch. As we get going, Spidey has secured a ride to…
MTU 010
I appreciate that the “Nuff Said” has a question mark, because… probably not. So its Kang Vs. Zarrko for the fate of time itself, and since one of them is the enduring…
MTU 008
Oh boy. As it happens, I have already read a sequel to this issue published several years later, but even if I hadn’t, you can tell this one’s gonna be rough. “Man-Killer.”…
ASM 118
As we dive into the final chapter of this odd story, The Smasher has, uh, smashed his way into The Daily Bugle to kidnap Joe Robertson (Instead of smashing into George Stacy’s…
ASM 117
Yo, cops beating protestors on the cover of ASM is pretty wild. Anyway, we’re back as Peter Parker fails to stop the ceiling from collapsing in the convention hall! This is a…
ASM 116
Things are about to get a bit weird. This issue begins reprinting & expanding the story from Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine #1 by Stan Lee & John Romita. SSMM was a stab at…