It must be around the production of this issue, if not before, that, according to Christopher Priest, Jim Shooter had been pressuring him to fire DeFalco and Frenz for habitual lateness so…
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ASM 280
Alright, with the whole missing stunt out of the way, we can check back in with a more normal issue of ASM. Why yes, that is The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man under…
ASM 278
Striking cover. I wonder who did it? I can’t quite guess. And as the text suggests, The Scourge of The Underworld isn’t done with this title yet. In this era Tom DeFalco…
ASM 275
Just 25 issues after that passive-aggressive-seeming “special normal-sized 250th issue” blurb, an extra-sized 275. I have always thought it was funny when old comics called an issue “book length” and it’s, for…
ASM 273
The power of The Puma. Which isn’t much, to be honest, especially in the face of a reality-warping god from space. But, somehow, this is the moment Puma was created for. It’s…
ASM 271
After a couple short blocks, we’re back to a longer one. I broke up the Stern and Wolfman eras a little more just to keep them in the mix, but there’s about…
MTU 138
Sandman goin’ legit. Or is he? This should be about the time it happened. Never excited to see The Enforcer. Some concepts are just too silly to me. As a kid reading…
TAC 085
So, at some point in the 21st Century, having completed my quest for the Stern/Romita ASM run and feeling good about it, I saw Roger Stern’s bibliography on Wikipedia, and found out…
ASM 152
Mike Esposito & Frank Giacoia swap in on inks this issue. Spidey’s still up to his neck in a flooding sewer as we begin, and page two is another common Ross Andru…
ASM 151
151 begins Len Wein’s run as writer on Spidey. Marvel clearly liked what he did on Team-Up enough to give him the keys to the car. Ross Andru stays on as regular…