Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
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ASM 434
This striking cover by Mark Buckingham is the egregious swipe of Joe Bennett from SMU 18 I caught last time we were in this period. I always liked this cover, it stuck…
ASM 432
I forgot to mention last post that awful font is back. They love it. Strangely, Romita, Jr. is here to draw Joe Bennett’s regular title. Romita’s handling parts 2 & 3 of…
To The Death
Here we have an extremely hyped, doomed to disappoint stunt so intense it comes square bound to indicate its importance: The reunion of Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr.! Perhaps the best…
TAC 208
This is maybe the least Sal Buscema-looking drawing since he stopped letting other people ink him. Very interesting. Inside, we pick up where we left off. Spidey quickly learns even his biggest…
TAC 207
The Shroud. Was it Steven Grant who wrote his appearance in MTU? Yep, MTU 94. That’s interesting. Well, we open on Spider-Man swingin’ around, getting hit so hard by his Spidey Sense…
TAC 206
Ok, so, Tombstone killed Spider-Man last issue. For sure. We come back to that same moment, and he recaps how he did it, and then Black Cat swoops in and attacking him…
TAC 205
Well, that’s not a very nice way to go. Lance Bannon has arrived on the scene as, around the corner, Flash continues to defend that ambulance. For all the good that’s gonna…
TAC 120
Another of these covers, this one by Mark Beachum, who forgot the spider on his chest. My favorite part of Romita, Sr.’s border for this is The X-Men, because they look very…
ASM 206
Note: In this issue, Peter Parker does not go wild in the least. “Well, who’s gonna be doing this fill-in since Marv and Keith bailed, probably the usual, Bill Mantlo and Sal…