Steve Skroce made his name on X-Man, a comic about a young Cable from an alternate reality hanging out on the prime Marvel Earth, so I guess they felt this needed to…
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ASM 419
Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That’s another guy. Or is it? That’s right, it’s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man!…
ASM 418
Halfway done. And it’s into this tumult that new regular (Or perhaps more accurately, “regular”) penciler Steve Skroce drops in. Skroce had been making a big splash in the X-Men comics. To…
ASM 417
Gasp! Everything I know is wrong? But I didn’t want to know in the first place! Time to awkwardly retcon everything DeMatteis was trying to do with these 2 losers because it…
ASM Annual ’96
The appearance of this comic at this time is SO jarring. Extremely un-90s Ron Frenz art, a cover full of dead people, 2 versions of the real Spider-Man. Very left field. Also…
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…
Maximum Clonage Alpha
I believe this is what they called a “chromium” cover. To date, I don’t know what that actually means. So, years prior to this, the Spidey titles ran an interminable 14-issue story…
TAC 226
While it’s true they’ve been sewing doubts and trying to get you to wonder about this for months, using this cover copy at all kind of tips their hand, in my opinion….
TAC 225
Another “SUPER COOL” holodisk! DEFINITELY worth the extra $2.50. This one shows a Peter Parker that sort-of-not-really morphs into Spider-Man. Very exciting. Cover by Scott McDaniel, because this is a stealth launch…
TAC 224
Certainly an intentional echo of ASM 39 there. I like that whoever colored this cover got to the text at the bottom and was like “Yeah, pants blue and sweater blue, done.”…