Woof. That cover. Is anything not wrong with it? Illegible type, weird composition, sloppy drawing, muddy color and no background. Sheesh. Another pull from my local flea market. Will it even be…
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ASM 235
Things sure got weird quickly around here, didn’t they? This month, yet another inker jumps on, our old pal Frank Giacoia. We can depend on him to hew pretty close to the…
ASM 233
This is an awkward place to start, but as we will see, The Tarantula only attacks Spider-Man from the left on a on yellow background. Those are the rules. Welcome back to…
TAC 216
Still really unwilling to call that Cussler guy “an innocent.” Should he have gotten Spider-punched? No. Is he the villain of this story who got Spider-punched for attacking the hero with a…
WEB 113
I have yet to mention that Danny Fingroth is back as Spider-Man group editor, and he’s brought yet another continuity nightmare with him. We’re getting into an awkward spot here, where all…
ASM Annual 18
That’s right, True Believer, they got Stan to script this one, his first Spidey script in 12 years! And it is often very weird! Also featuring a plot by Tom DeFalco, breakdowns…
ASM 232
It was years and years before I obtained and read the end of this 2-parter. It’s one of those weird things about decades of collecting comics. I read ASM 231, I’m sure,…
ASM 231
This one’s been with me for a long time… but where’d it come from? I’m not sure. It’s pretty beat up. Feels like it didn’t come from a store. Like it was…
TAC 066
Crazy cover by Hannigan & Milgrom. The abstract expression of Manhattan below just using text is really cool. Big, random shoutout to Epic Illustrated, Marvel’s creator owned imprint of the time, too….