Ladies & Gentlemen, Roger Stern! This issue begins Roger Stern’s 2-year run on Spectacular, which we’ve seen the end of in the time Denny O’Neil was on ASM, but now we’re back…
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The great Mike Zeck joins Bill Mantlo writing, Jim Mooney on inks and Janice Cohen on colors for this one. Mike Zeck before he was a big name, I think, in this…
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Sadly, Romita, Jr. is not hanging around for part 2. This month’s art team is Frank Springer & Ricardo Villamonte. Been a bit since Springer was on TAC, let’s see how that…
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Well, well, well. Who should be drawing this issue but a young man named John Romita, Jr. More than 2 years after his comics debut in ASM Annual 11, less than a…
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You heard it here first. Mayhem is the man called Morbius. Hard to imagine how this lightning gag is going to factor into the book, if at all. On art this month,…
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That Mike Nasser cover feels so different. Guys like him were doing stuff that seems much more contemporary now. Inside, Pablo Marcoss waps in on inks, but otherwise, same team. Spider-Man is…
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Now there’s a Ditko-inspired Spider-Man. And Swarm, the Nazi swarm of bees that walks like a man, last seen in these parts far in the future in Sensational #9. I believe this…
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Hoooooboy, this is gonna be a weird one. It’s Bill Mantlo, Ron Frenz, Mike Esposito & George Roussos bringing Spider-Man together with one of the goofiest heroes in the Marvel U. And…
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John Byrne and Vince Colletta come through the endless revolving door of artists on this book this time. Apparently Marie Severin was meant to be the sole artist during this run, but…
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This one is noteworthy for a couple of things. First, it features pencil layouts by Jim Shooter. At this time, Shooter is the controversial but undeniably great Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, presiding…