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…
Tag: Spectacular Spider-Man
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…
TAC 160
Answer: Just… some robot? I have no idea who that is. Was this Acts of Vengeance thing working? Like I said previously, I only really ever read the Spider-Man, Daredevil and Captain…
TAC 159
Not only did I not buy this one at the time, I’ve never even read it before. My reading of Web and Spectacular was spotty at first, but I tended to get…
TAC 158
What? Yes. It’s at least as weird as it sounds. Also weird is my thinking “Now we’re back to Sal Buscema” when I see this cover. In spite of Sal doing plenty…
TAC 110
Never liked that Daredevil logo. We’ve arrived at the stunning conclusion of The Death of Jean DeWolff, a story whose title seems a little more weird the further we get from her…
TAC 109
It’s always a weird thing, what you do and don’t find at McKay’s. Did whoever sold the first 2 issues of this story not have the last 2? Did I just get…
TAC 108
What… did you think would happen? This cover doesn’t bode well. Joe Rubenstein, Kyle Baker & Pat Redding all pitch in on inks alongside Brett Breeding this issue, and George Roussos swaps…
TAC 107
It’s All-New & All-Daring, folks. I had previously assumed this would be a pricey issue. $1.95. I guess it’s not historically considered that big a deal. And yet it was one of…
TAC Annual 05
This is going to be pretty much exactly what it looks like, so just strap in. About to be a Purple Rain of pain on Spider-Man. It’s Peter David, Mark Beachum, Joe…