{"id":16705,"date":"2023-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16705"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T18:29:01","slug":"marvel-fanfare-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/06\/marvel-fanfare-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Fanfare 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that\u2019s a good McKay\u2019s price! Not a great background on that cover, Tony Salmons! Welcome back to 1986. A famously big year for comics, with the release of books like Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Crisis On Infinite Earths and American Flagg, to name but a few books that really did change comics forever, but for Spider-Man\u2026 not the best year. The inside front cover of Marvel Fanfare is always a comic strip of editor Al Milgrom talking to you called Editori-Al. He says the art in both stories this issue is \u201cunorthodox\u201d and calls Tony Salmons\u2019 stuff \u201cdesigny, graphic storytelling.\u201d The main feature in this issue of Fanfare is a DD story by Salmons and Bill Mantlo. His page construction is perhaps a little unusual (Tho not really in the realm of, like, a Frank Miller), but \u201cdesigny\u201d here seems to mean \u201canything he doesn\u2019t want to draw is barely sketched in\u201d in both the story and the cover. Ok! It\u2019s followed by a New Mutants gallery by original series artist Bob McLeod, which is pretty cool, and then the reason we\u2019re here, a Spider-Man story by Marc Hempel. Al said his stuff is \u201cpositively off-the-wall-crawler.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kind of a proto-Darwyn Cooke vibe. It\u2019s always interesting to see the rare line artist in comics who also colors their own stuff. There\u2019s just a wholeness to it. Anyway, our man falls further into the depths of boredom, first making little web sculptures, and then putting on his costume and shouting about how Peter Parker is Spider-Man, thinking it will be thrilling, but it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s gonna be one weird message for The Osborns. Our bored hero thinks there\u2019s only one person left to call, but even he\u2019s not that desperate. Who? He heads out swinging around looking for trouble, but nothing is happening, and then he sneezes so hard he falls on a rooftop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wacky one. I would certainly say Hempel\u2019s stuff seems more \u201cdesigny\u201d than Salmons\u2019. Pretty slick all around. He has a nice back cover, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wel, not the most consequential start to this block, but it was fun. Next post, things get weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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