Back for more with Hobgoblin, and soon Carrion. We open on Hobgoblin attacking an armored car delivering a prisoner to The Vault, the supermax security prison for supervillains that nevertheless seems to…
Tag: Sal Buscema
TAC 161
Is this the first appearance of this very brief experiment with the head boxes? This only lasted a couple months, but little boxes with characters appearing in this issue started popping up…
TAC 160
Answer: Just… some robot? I have no idea who that is. Was this Acts of Vengeance thing working? Like I said previously, I only really ever read the Spider-Man, Daredevil and Captain…
TAC 159
Not only did I not buy this one at the time, I’ve never even read it before. My reading of Web and Spectacular was spotty at first, but I tended to get…
TAC 158
What? Yes. It’s at least as weird as it sounds. Also weird is my thinking “Now we’re back to Sal Buscema” when I see this cover. In spite of Sal doing plenty…
WEB 007
Pretty striking cover! Here’s another one I’ve had forever. I almost feel like it was in the magical box of Marvel comics discussed elsewhere on this blog, but it seems too old….
ASM 266
Yes. The cover alone tells you this is going to be the worst issue of ASM of the 1980s. I guess that might sound extreme or hyperbolic, but… I mean, look at…
MTU 133
First of all, I cannot imagine how last issue’s story could lead to Spidey and the FF fighting Dr. Doom who has apparently kidnapped Franklin, and second of all, the title of…
MTU 132
This cover is by the great Paul Smith, who was currently wrapping up a stellar run on X-Men when this issue came out (in 4 months, he would be succeeded on the…
MTU 130
Another very surprising Romita, Jr./Austin team-up on this cover. It’s weird how “regular comic book art” Vision looks compared to the rest of the image. Sal Buscema’s in on breakdown with Mike…