Tantalizing! The clues are now tantalizing! I have trouble remembering my own reaction to all this. I suspect I was just kind of going with the flow. I know exactly how I…
Tag: Mark Bagley
ASM 369
Electro! He’s not a robot! Or is he? Probably not. Spider-Man’s bouncing through the city, getting another low level Spider Sense warning, but with no idea why, because of all the little…
ASM 368
Invasion of the Spider-Slayers. I haven’t seen this since it came out, but I recall not being too into it. Peter’s parents being confined to the one title makes this whole thing…
ASM 365
We’ve made it to the last of the anniversary books. Technically, 2nd-to-last, though for its content, it should not have been, and also, it’s ASM, you’d expect it to be first or…
SM 26
No idea on this hologram. Romita, Sr. maybe? Could be Mike Zeck. No idea. Last issue promised this one would reunite the DeFalco/Frenz team with Erik Larsen inking. I don’t know why…
ASM 364
Startling developments! We begin with The Shocker, who, it turns out, Bags does a fine rendition of, attacked by some kinda flying thingy. Last time being The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #4,…
ASM 363
This one seems to have been bought off the rack. Maybe I got smart. “Hey, Bags, you’ve had some serious work to do lately, this cover can just be big heads.” So,…
ASM 362
$4! I somehow paid less for the first appearance of Carnage than the second! How? Why? Where? I have this itch in the back of my mind that I got this at…
ASM 361
I love that sticker. $3! Yes, young me chose to pass on Carnage at first, I guess. I don’t have any strong memory of it. Might’ve just missed it, might not have…
ASM 358
As we bring it on home, Milgrom can’t let this whole thing go by without contributing to the art, so he gets to ink this gatefold cover. I like the rougher, scratchier…