In the early 90s, they printed a “Marvel Milestone Edition” of this issue, so I finally got to read it. I later secured an original copy just out of some weird desire…
Tag: The Jackal
ASM 148
We’re finally here! My first Spider-Man comic. Technically, one of two, but I got them at the same time, so I count the oldest one, and that’s this. My Mom got ASM…
ASM 147
As has been mentioned previously and will be mentioned again, The Tarantula only attacks Spider-Man from the left, and only on a yellow background. Yes, ol’ pointy feet is back. Let’s see…
ASM 146
A caption on page one notes this ends Gerry Conway’s 3rd year on the title. They say it’s all downhill from here. I wonder if they knew 149 would be his last…
ASM 140
Which one will fall? I mean, we can assume it’s The Grizzly, but let’s find out. We pick up where we left off, as The Grizzly carries Peter Parker (in a bear…
ASM 139
We are back to 1974. Back to Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia & Dave Hunt, back to the ongoing mystery of The Jackal, and just in time to meet… The Grizzly….
Maximum Clonage Omega
I can do this, I can do this. Can I do this? I don’t actually know. The Alpha & Omega issues cost $4.95. FIVE DOLLARS! In a time when comics cost $1.50,…
TAC 227
Would that it were. The opening splash this month looks weirdly nothing like Sal at all. Not the posing, not the figures, nothin’. Color Separations by Malibu, for all the fans really…
SM 61
Howard Mackie retains scripting duties this month, breaking Todd DeZago’s streak. Having one person script this whole event might have been helpful if the story wasn’t garbage and that scripter wasn’t writing…
ASM 404
Todd DeZago scripts from a JM DeMatteis plot this month, presumably because even ol’ JM was like “This is too stupid for me.” That’s 3 parts of this terrible tripe in a…