“The World’s Most Collectable Comic Magazine!” Part of the gag of these issues is this period was characterized by Marvel’s most popular characters constantly popping up in other people’s titles in an…
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FF 348
“The World’s Most Commercialist Comic Magazine!” Now here’s a famous cover. I assumed these issues were very valuable. Everyone knows about “The New Fantastic Four.” That coupled with my love of Art…
FF 347
Surprise! “The World’s Goofiest Comic Magazine!” This post begins a truly infamous 3-part story that continues to be referenced today (As recently as the FF tie-ins to the 2020 Marvel event Empyre,…
Holiday Special ’91
The Marvel Holiday Special! A fun tradition on and off over the years, this one features 80 pages of material by a variety of talent using a variety of characters, starting with…
WEB 072
Yet another “Part 2” I’ve had since childhood without the part 1. What was I doing? Had I to guess, I would perhaps think I bought this to find out who drew…
WEB 071
With this issue, Gerry Conway is officially off Web. He’s semi-done with Spectacular, too, but we’ll get to that. And, look, the return of both Dominic Fortune and artist Dave Hoover to…
TAC 172
This one I’ve had since I was a kid. How and why I kept dropping in and out of the non-ASM titles in the middle of stories is really confusing to me….
TAC 171
They say “The ordeal begins!” like we would know what that means. Time to finally wrap up this long-suffering subplot about Puma’s debt to Spider-Man. I assume Puma will kill Spider-Man. As…
ASM 343
I was always puzzled by the use of “mo’ foes” there. It has only just occurred to me that maybe they wanted me to read that as “mofos” and not in the…
ASM 342
Back again with more powerless Peter, the exciting new series. This one starts with Pete & MJ arriving home after a movie. On the way, they saw a mugging, and Peter wanted…