Coming at this from the angle I am, it’s always a trip to hit a cover with an iconic Spider-Man on it that got used a lot in advertising and such, and…
Tag: Joe Robertson
GSSH 1
Wait, Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1? It’s true. Marvel tried this “Giant-Size” line for awhile, bigger comics with additional content. You may be familiar with the name of the most infamous of them, the…
MTU 020
If had to pick my absolute favorite Marvel characters, well, #1 would be obvious. Beyond that, it would be Captain America, Black Panther, Daredevil, Thor. I think they’re all tied for 2nd…
ASM 132
Beginning a Molten Man 2-parter with a script by Gerry Conway, surprise pencils by John Romita, and inks by Paul Reinman & Tony Mortellaro. Romita is Marvel’s Art Director by the time…
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 056
This looks bad for our hero! Let’s get right to it, as Spidey helps load The Nullifier into Doc Ock’s van and they all depart. But as the van speeds off, the…
ASM 055
In Ye Olden Times, the precursor to the photocopier was the photostat machine. Because of this, when something was to be duplicated in printing and in comics, specifically, it was “to be…
ASM 054
This is one of the ones I got for half off the marked price because they were water damaged. But ASM 52 and 93 ended up being perfectly legible inside, will this…
End of Block 17
This one represents my most serious attempt to ape McFarlane’s general style, but also Alex Saviuk on the mobster stuff and John Romita, Jr. on the Daredevil. Trying to mimic the various…
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…