What lurks behind Ed Hannigan’s Frank Miller impression? Seems like a lot! It’s been a minute since I’ve seen a Spectacular. This one’s by writer Bill Mantlo, penciler Ed Hannigan, inker Al…
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ASM 415
Onslaught! It’s happening. What is it? I don’t think Spider-Man really knows, so I’ll save the exposition for later. Al Milgrom helps Larry Mahlstedt out on inks this month, as Peter &…
ASM 225
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…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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 47
This is it! The final part of this ridiculous 8-hit combo. This has been going on FOREVER. Let’s wrap it up. And look, a cover by Gil Kane, who drew Basilisk’s initial…
ASM 122
It’s another reprint. I can’t afford this issue, either. I mean, obviously. My next reprint is ASM 129, but other than that, it’s all originals to the end of the volume. Spider-Man…