This cover is by the great Paul Smith, who was currently wrapping up a stellar run on X-Men when this issue came out (in 4 months, he would be succeeded on the…
Tag: Mike Esposito
MTU 131
I have mentioned often on this blog how JM DeMatteis only has 2 settings: sad and silly. We’ve seen the awful, stupid depths of sad in his 90s Amazing Spider-Man. Time to…
MTU 130
Another very surprising Romita, Jr./Austin team-up on this cover. It’s weird how “regular comic book art” Vision looks compared to the rest of the image. Sal Buscema’s in on breakdown with Mike…
MTU 129
Ed Hannigan inked by John Byrne on the cover there. Looks like Byrne spent all of 5 minutes on it. Weird cover in general. 1983 brings us back to the JM DeMatteis,…
MTU 112
King Kull! A lesser known character from Conan creator Robert E. Howard, and licensed alongside Conan to Marvel at this time. Gonna be hard to get him and Spider-Man together, but let’s…
MTU 111
Devil-Slayer! One who slays devils! I know literally nothing about this character! That’s kinda rare around these parts. Who knows what lurks behind this terrible, terrible cover? It’s JM DeMatteis, Herb Trimpe…
MTU 110
Team-Up time. Same art team as usual recently, with Herb Trimpe credited with the plot to this one, and David Michelinie back on the script. As the story opens, Spider-Man swings over…
MTU Annual 4
Here we go with a pretty big team-up cast and the comic that famously inspired Brian Michael Bendis to create Jessica Jones’ backstory with the Purple Man. Frank Miller writes, Herb Trimpe…
MTU 109
David Kraft jumps back in to finish the story of Thermo, The Whatever-it-was Man. When last we saw our hero, he was being murdered by Thermo, The Lunchbox Thermos Man outside a…
MTU 108
MTU is still looking for a regular writer, it seems, as David Michelinie tags back in to script over a plot by editor Tom DeFalco. Herb Trimpe & Mike Esposito stay on…