Ya asked me, the trickiest thing this series could do was new meetings with classic villains, as it’s about to start doing here. Spider-Man’s 2nd encounter with Sandman is set in stone,…
Tag: Liz Allen
ASM 007
I still feel a little weird about running the 90s retcons with the actual 60s stuff, but I must say, it gives me some variety switching back and forth, and that’s nice….
UTS 02
This one, I never understood. Why does Spider-Man need what’s more or less Man-Bat from the Batman comics? It’s weird and kinda silly in Batman, it’s even weirder in Spider-Man. Al Vey…
UTS 01
One of the many weird ideas Marvel tried as the bottom fell out of the 90s comics market and they were sinking into bankruptcy was a line of 99 cent books. Making…
ASM 006
The first appearance of The Lizard. The hits just keep coming. The splash has Liz commanding an army of alligators to attack our man. Another strong sales pitch! And this month’s villain…
ASM 005
75 cents! I could just use the “Collector’s Series” issues for this, but I may as well use this if I got it. I feel like you can see a little of…
ASM 004
Another month, another enduring concept. It’s really hard to overstate how insane early Marvel Comics are. Just month after month, Kirby, Ditko, Heck and the rest are churning out characters that will…
ASM 002
For most of these earliest issues, I have these. Some newspaper, I have now forgotten which, ran these reprints of the earliest Spider-Man stories in 2006. Each full-length issue of Amazing Spider-Man…
ASM 001
Another facsimile edition for another wildly expensive comic. 2 great feature-length Spider-Man thrillers! They really threw around phrases like “feature length” and “book length” for awhile there. So! Amazing Fantasy 15 was…
AF 18
Well, that escalated quickly. Paul Lee flies solo again to wrap this story up. We begin with Peter telling himself he’s not a superhero in his narration, even as Flash talks about…