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…
Tag: Vince Colletta
MTU 028
The stakes on this cover are so obvious that Spidey feels like he’s overselling it. What, like Herc would just drop it? I don’t know why there’s a sticker on there saying…
ASM 297
For the record, I have no memory of buying or ever reading ASM 296 & 297. I think I’ve had them for many years, but I don’t really know. Some evidence suggests…
ASM 296
That cover copy feels really perfunctory. “Force of Arms.” What’s that got to do with this weird image? I’m also very interested by the “1985” next to John Byrne’s signature. This cover…
TAC 136
Alright, let’s do it. This cover seems like it’ll have a hard time coming to pass, but we’ll see. We open with Peter reading about his dumb move on that TV show…
TAC 134
For a time after TAC 100, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man got the tagline “The All-New, All-Daring” above the title. It wasn’t really all-new or all-daring… same cast and all… but it…
WEB 034
Safe to say… this is gonna be a weird one. It’s written by Jim Shooter, which is super weird off the rip. At this time, Jim has JUST been forced out as…
ASM Annual 21
Who else could possibly do this cover other than John Romita, Sr.? The interiors are just Paul Ryan, though. Not that Paul Ryan. This Paul Ryan is a workhorse comic artist whose…
ASM 292
Alex Saviuk swaps in on pencils here. In a few months, he’ll begin a very long run as penciler on Web of Spider-Man. First, though, this issue of ASM, as things heat…
ASM 291
Romita, Jr. switches to just layouts and Colletta to finishes, and George Roussos tags in on colors for this one. Also: That’s it, show’s over folks! Oh, wait, there’s 23 more pages….