This month, Jim Mooney takes over penciling & inking, and the credit under Lee & Romita is “artistically aided by Jim (Madman) Mooney.” Doing the vast majority of the work, here! But…
Tag: Vulture
ASM 064
During The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018, I quickly found I could get most issues in this range for under $10 if I was vigilant and not too picky. But for some…
ASM 063
Welcome back to 1968! Feels like it’s been forever since I saw stuff this old. There’s so much stuff from the Michelinie era. Anyway, this is gonna be a nice, long stretch…
SMU 09
The craziest part of this story is, as the sticker indicates, I didn’t get this concluding chapter as a kid. I have, in fact, never read it. Most of the time I…
ASM 339
Sometimes the covers of comics in the 90s made it challenging to bring them home. My folks were largely hands off with this dumb hobby, but “DIE DIE DIE DIE” isn’t really…
ASM 338
At last, indeed. A 6 part story called Return of the Sinister Six where they don’t do anything together ‘til part 4 seems a bit odd. But, then, what would Spidey do…
ASM 337
The bad guys are huge! Spidey doesn’t stand a chance! Sorta reminds you of the cover to Uncanny X-Men #4. With cover inks by the great Walt Simonson, no less. Terry Austin’s…
ASM 336
Golly, who could that be? Mike Machlan slides into the inker chair as The Vulture is demonstrating his powers for The Kingpin and some other business people by destroying a dummy. Larsen…
WEB 003
Figures the real Vulture was gonna get after these wannabes sooner or later. So now John Byrne is doing covers for 2 out of 3 monthly Spider-Man titles? Maybe they thought the…
ASM 241
This is a really unusual cover. It’s Terry Austin, best known for enhancing John Byrne’s supple linework, inking Romita, but it’s got that extremely rough, Frank-Miller-inking-himself look. Super gritty. Frank Giacoia taps…