Untold Tales is racing toward cancellation, but it’s not done yet, and here we have an interesting gimmick. Behind this Tom Lyle cover is a story that got a direct sequel in…
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UTS Annual ’96
If yer gonna do a retro comic like this, Mike Allred is pretty natural choice of artist. His whole thing is a kind of kitchy, 60s-influenced style that he’s used to great…
ASM 018
The story you never expected to read, but will read with remarkable frequency in the coming decades! The splash is mostly JJJ grinning like a goon in front of his expose on…
ASM Annual 01
This is ASM Annual 6, but it reprints the first one, so I saved myself a zillion dollars. I never really thought much of it before, but I think the Sinister Six…
MTU AN 02
This comic is very weird for a very specific reason wholly unique to my copy: The spine is missing, but it’s somehow not falling apart. I really don’t know what’s going on…
ASM Annual 05
Pretty unusual cover for this historic issue. For a 2nd year in a row, this annual is drawn by Stan’s brother, Larry Leiber, and inked by Mike Esposito. John Romita is credited…
TAC 177
People don’t think of Spider-Man’s web as being an offensive weapon like this, but if you think about it, if it can cover the distance between 2 skyscrapers in a second, the…
ASM 338
At last, indeed. A 6 part story called Return of the Sinister Six where they don’t do anything together ‘til part 4 seems a bit odd. But, then, what would Spidey do…
TAC 162
Back for more with Hobgoblin, and soon Carrion. We open on Hobgoblin attacking an armored car delivering a prisoner to The Vault, the supermax security prison for supervillains that nevertheless seems to…
TAC 161
Is this the first appearance of this very brief experiment with the head boxes? This only lasted a couple months, but little boxes with characters appearing in this issue started popping up…