The Torch just keeps turning up in early Spider-Man (To Steve Ditko’s increasing frustration until he takes full control of the plot), I’m not sure he needed yet another appearance added. Al…
Tag: Al Vey
UTS 04
We are back to Untold Tales with another all-new menace for Spider-Man to face. Gantry, Orbit, Satellite and Vacuum, The Spacemen. Not too Ditko-y to my eye. They bring the whole building…
UTS 03
Ya asked me, the trickiest thing this series could do was new meetings with classic villains, as it’s about to start doing here. Spider-Man’s 2nd encounter with Sandman is set in stone,…
UTS 02
This one, I never understood. Why does Spider-Man need what’s more or less Man-Bat from the Batman comics? It’s weird and kinda silly in Batman, it’s even weirder in Spider-Man. Al Vey…
UTS 01
One of the many weird ideas Marvel tried as the bottom fell out of the 90s comics market and they were sinking into bankruptcy was a line of 99 cent books. Making…
Backlash/Spider-Man 2
More Image madness with our friends Backlash & Spider-Man. Note the cover date. Another hallmark of the early Image era was chronic lateness. I don’t know if this was scheduled to come…
Backlash/Spider-Man 1
What the hell is this, you may be asking yourself. Rightly so! Welcome to the first of Spider-Man’s crossovers with characters from Jim Lee’s Wildstorm comics universe. Wildstorm was Jim’s corner of…
ASM 576
The fist is on the other face now! 3 more people join Tim Townsend on inks this month, including Bachalo, Jamie Mendoza and Al Vey. As we begin, Spider-Man’s typically-undeer-Joe-Kelly terrible internal…