A dire warning indeed! Another one with a frustrating history behind it, maybe the dumbest one. In 2018, when I was at Heroescon and discovering that, like, Silver age comics don’t cost…
Tag: Stan Lee
ASM 015
I saw a copy of a Stan Lee script not too long ago. His scripts were written to the letterer, since he was scripting from completed pencils. For the caption boxes, where…
Tales To Astonish 57
It’s kinda weird how Spider-Man guest starring in other comics almost always set him up like a villain. This one vexed me for a long time. Not unlike my long battle with…
ASM 014
This one is going to be the weirdest issue I ever post, and it kind of delights me. I decided when I started all this I could only post about single issues…
ASM 013
I faced an unusual dilemma with this issue. I actually have an original copy. But… it’s graded. I hate comics grading. I hate everything about it. I think it’s an entire cottage…
ASM 012
Now here’s a famous story. It’s wild to me to now own so many big moments in Spider-History. I somehow obtained a copy of Spider-Man Classics #13, reprinting this issue behind a…
ASM 011
1964! We’re back! This one I got at Heroescon 2019. 2018 was the year I found out that you could get Silver Age comics for less than hundreds or thousands of dollars,…
Holiday Special ’93
Ho ho ho and such, it’s another Christmas adventure with another great cover by “Lil Artie Adams.” It’s another wraparound cover, and the back doesn’t make much sense, frankly, but who cares?…
ASM 365
We’ve made it to the last of the anniversary books. Technically, 2nd-to-last, though for its content, it should not have been, and also, it’s ASM, you’d expect it to be first or…
Spider-Man: Fear Itself
Welcome back to the very, very end of 1991, as we enter a block that will introduce a major new Spider-Man character AND one of the most insane twists anyone ever pulled….