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…
Tag: Steve Hopkins
TAC 058
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…
TAC 056
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…
TAC 055
Luke McDonnell tags in for pencils on the return of Nitro, the Human Bomb. This guy’s powers have never made sense to me, but fighting him gave the original Captain Marvel cancer,…
TAC 054
Marie Severin and Jim Mooney are back on art duties for this one. It opens with Spider-Man happening upon a car chasing and shooting at an ambulance! Spidey doesn’t like that, so……
MTU 148
That’s a great cover. Been noticing that when he inks himself in this period, Al Milgrom does a lot more webs on the suit than everyone else. Also, he’s writing and drawing…
MTU 147
Spider-Man makes his first appearance in MTU since losing the alien. I’ve got the publication timeline all out of whack now, for the record. This issue came out the same month as…
ASM 232
It was years and years before I obtained and read the end of this 2-parter. It’s one of those weird things about decades of collecting comics. I read ASM 231, I’m sure,…
TAC 069
As we’ve seen, Cloak & Dagger were created in the pages of Spectacular just 5 issues ago, and it seems they must’ve been a hit, at least internally, because they’re back already….
TAC 063
Greg LaRoque swaps in on pencils this month. The long awaited return of Harry & Liz. Reading these things out of order, I have no concept of how long they’ve been gone….