It’s another Conway/Andru/Esposito production. Spider-Man is swinging around, thinking he wants to get out of New York… Gerry Conway’s Spider-Man is a just a jerk, man, sheesh. The TV show Spider-Man is…
Tag: The Lizard
ASM 077
When I was hunting down all these back issues, I often got this one and Annual 4 confused. Torch in more or less the same pose on a black background. Look at…
ASM 076
I think it’s interesting how many Lizard stories start with “My friend Curt Connors is here, hope he doesn’t turn into The Lizard.” You know? Like Curt will show up for a…
ASM 075
Another very famous cover from this period. But who’s gonna die? Stan’s back to “Author” this month, but the credits are otherwise unchanged. The switch from Heck & Esposito to Mooney has…
SM 05
One more time for The Arachknight. Gregory Wright tags in on colors this month, so things look professional again. Page one is cops being alerted to a huge explosion and fire, letting…
SM 04
I may have been a relative newcomer to comics at this point, but one of the only comics I owned was ASM 313, so I knew enough to wonder “since when is…
SM 03
The cover lets you know we’re in for more Kraven stuff, but as a kid, I’m not sure I would’ve seen Kraven yet. This issue would’ve been very weird for me, for…
SM 02
What is an Arachknight? I feel like this deserves an explanation, but none is forthcoming. We open with a couple of gross Wall Street guys being gross (One of whom looks remarkably…
SM 01
Welcome back to 1990! We’re here with Todd McFarlane’s Adjectiveless Spider-Man, the first comic since the 1940s to sell over a million copies. The message that sent was clear: Flashy art was…
WEB Super Special
Of all the people who could’ve illustrated this final chapter, I never expected it to be cover artist for the first and final parts Steve Lightle. His stuff has always seemed so…