Whoever inked this cover really did the bare minimum on The Lizard’s scales. The cover sums up the action on the opening splash, which itself sums up what’s gotten us to this…
Tag: Spectacular Spider-Man
TAC 033
Back for more reptilian adventure. Not the BEST cover, this one. I guess it gets your attention. We pick up right where we left off, with Spidey facing down this iguana creature…
TAC 032
Welcome back to 1979, where we’re picking up with Spectacular. So, as it turns out, this issue picks up rrrrright after the previous one, which, you may recall, ended a surprisingly long…
TAC 011
Why tho? I guess we’ll find out. This month, we got Chris Claremont in as guest writer, joined by penciler Jim Mooney, with reliable Mike Esposito still hanging in there on inks….
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…
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…
Spectacular Spider-Man 1
I have no idea what the history of this magazine is. In the 70s, Marvel would launch a whole line of very successful black & white magazines starring horror characters, Conan, Master…
TAC 157
Hey, Electro is back. It’s been exactly 100 issues since he last appeared in Spectacular. Also: “him.” Weird cover. Mike Esposito continues to ink as Electro is very annoyed. He spent a…