If yer gonna do a retro comic like this, Mike Allred is pretty natural choice of artist. His whole thing is a kind of kitchy, 60s-influenced style that he’s used to great…
Tag: Fantastic Four
ASM 018
The story you never expected to read, but will read with remarkable frequency in the coming decades! The splash is mostly JJJ grinning like a goon in front of his expose on…
FF 299
An awkwardly timed return to the pages of FF. this one hit stands the same month as the 2nd part of the oft-talked about Gang War story. I figured it should probably…
FF 374
3 non-standard titles in a row! And look at this! Should be a weird one. Still i what could charitably be called “one of the less popular runs of FF,” I guess…
FF 218
It’s the thrilling(?) conclusion to TAC 42. Someone’s written “3-4” on the front in pencil. Behind that cover by Al Milgrom and the legendary FF inker Joe Sinnott, we have Bill Mantlo…
FF 362
Hey, an FF comic. As far as I know, this is not a period remembered fondly. It hasn’t gotten into real, real bad territory yet, at this point. It’s our familiar friend…
SM 23
Big finish! Another triple-gatefold with a buncha people on it! This appears to be the first issue of this story I got at a comic book shop, as evidenced by Sandman’s mug…
ASM 008
Here it is, the new earliest Spider-Man comic I have. Back when this blog started in 2019, my oldest issue was 30, but no longer! Obviously not the nicest copy, it may…
ASM 001
Another facsimile edition for another wildly expensive comic. 2 great feature-length Spider-Man thrillers! They really threw around phrases like “feature length” and “book length” for awhile there. So! Amazing Fantasy 15 was…
TAC 089
Here goes everything. Glynis Oliver tags in on colors this month. The issue starts with one of Kingpin’s underlings recapping how Kingpin gave Spider-Man information to stop Doc Ock, and then Spider-Man…