This cover is completely baffling. I can’t even guess what “The Spectres of the Sixties” are. I assume this one is going to be insane. This issue is brought to us by…
Tag: Mike Esposito
MTU 099
Hey, look, it’s Marvel Team-Up. My first issue since 95, been a minute. And that price tag marks it as a recent acquisition from the dude at the flea market. Ah, Machine…
ASM 186
Marv Wolfman and Mike Esposito are joined by new penciler Keith Pollard in this issue, and it’s a big difference. Pollard’s pages are snappier, less draped in shadow and gloom, and his…
TAC 023
Well, here we go. I’d assumed we’d never seen this goofy villain again, mostly just ‘cuz he was so terrible, but here he is. Bill Mantlo, Jim Mooney & Mike Esposito on…
ASM 185
It’s the graduation of Peter Parker! Eventually. Maybe. First, we gotta get him out of this vat of burning oil. Pete has been fond of pointing out his web is flame retardant…
ASM 184
It’s like someone challenged Wolfman to come up with the worst villains in the world. Two issues in a row! We kick things off with the mysterious woman who came to Peter’s…
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…
ASM 183
I mean, you already know, right? Does the comic even have to tell you what this is if you saw last issue? Well, it’s gonna. We pick things up with Peter Parker……
ASM 182
It is now 1978, and new writer Marv Wolfman is here to more or less continue the same general feel and tone Len Wein started. Stalwart Ross Andru hangs on as the…
MTO 17
Inspired by the success of Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-in-One came about as the exact same premise, only everyone teams up with the ever-lovin’, blue eyed Thing instead of Spider-Man. Naturally, they’d occasionally…