It’s part 3 of this weird SHIELD story. Same creative staff. The first scene is on the SHIELD helicarrier, now completely under the control of our villains: Boomerang, Silver Samurai, and Viper,…
Tag: Sal Buscema
MTU 083
Part 2 of this insane storyline. Same staff as the previous one. Page one, Spider-Man is laid out in the snow. Claremont’s typically flowery prose says he was, “in a word, murdered.”…
MTU 082
I don’t want to sound like an old man… Although I guess I am an old man by some metrics… But they really don’t make covers like this anymore. Covers that dare…
FF 207
Wait, what? Yeah, this issue of FF is actually important, so I got it when I found out. Marv Wolfman was working on both titles at the same time, you see. He’s…
TAC 010
A city trembles! Get a grip, city, it’s just 2 guys kicking each other. Oh, no, this is one of those weird comic bags where instead of a flap taped over, the…
TAC 009
I tried to look up why and how The White Tiger could be “Marvel’s most controversial creation” and came up empty. But he was created by newly-minted TAC writer Bill Mantlo, so…
Nova 12
The Man Called Nova! Nova was supposed to be the new Spider-Man. I’ll wait for your laughter to die down. His first issue said “In the Marvelous Tradition of Spider-Man!” right on…
TAC 008
Oh, ok. Gonna be quite the margin of error on that one. Could Paul Gulacy have gotten Spidey’s web any more wrong here? We rejoin the story right where it left off…
TAC 007
The 70s are a pretty dark period for Marvel Comics, all told. There’s certainly bright spots, but a lot of the books were not too great, and there were other problems. Chief…
MTU 058
Len Wein is killing me. I cut my first block from his run awkward and short because it picked up so many threads from the end of Conway’s and I didn’t want…