This is the 2nd appearance of The Hobgoblin, but for me, this is where it all started. Having been reading the ASM of my era, the late 80s, early 90s, the 300s…
Tag: Roger Stern
ASM 237
Hey, look, we haven’t seen ASM in a bit. Everybody’s on break this month. Stern plots, but Bill Mantlo scripts. Bob Hall does breakdowns and Frank Giacoia finishes. We open on Wilbur…
ASM 236
Did I pay $6 for this? I can’t rightly say. I don’t remember the acquisition of most of this set. It’s been a long time. We rejoin the insane situation we left…
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 234
In this issue, John Romita, Jr. is paired with frequent inker Dan Green, and the difference is striking. Green worked over Romita’s pencils on his first full-length job (Iron Man 115), and…
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…
Marvel Vs. DC, Part 4
So, the event’s over, you’d think I’d be out of rambling to do. About 8 months after the event, DC published a 4-issue mini called DC/Marvel: All-Access by Ron Marz, Jackson “Butch”…
SMTU 2
What is this? Well, see, not content with 4 monthly titles and a quarterly, it was decided that Spidey needed to get back into the team-up business, too. This one is also…
ASM 252
I first read this issue as part of “The Saga of the Alien Costume,” a trade paperback collection I got when I was a wee lad in the 6th grade. So I’ve…
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,…