Amazing Spider-Man 50 Archive

As some of you might already know, a few months ago, I reached a major milestone in my life with the purchase of Amazing Spider-Man #3. With that acquisition, I achieved my goal to own every ASM issue (Nos. 1-700). The “chase” in Chasing Amazing was effectively over. But

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After much talk (seriously, Dan and I have been talking about doing this for months now) Amazing Spider-Talk has released its first episode in our brand new “Essentials” series. Listen up as the greatest Spidey podcast on the world wide web discusses stories that are essential to the Spider-Man

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For a comprehensive gallery of all of the images featured on Chasing Amazing, along with other cool visuals I stumble upon while surfing the internet, be sure to follow my Pinterest page. Here are some visuals from my Gwen Stacy gallery which are all images of Peter Parker’s first true love, Gwen Stacy,

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Today, as part of my ongoing acknowledgement celebration of the 50th anniversary of Daredevil this month, I’m conducting a bit of a blogging experiment between Chasing Amazing and Longbox Graveyard. This post, along with one I guest blogged for LBG, look at one of Marvel’s greatest rogues, Wilson Fisk,

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An article of mine was published today on a blog that has a lot in common with Chasing Amazing. Among other things, The Longbox Project runs personal stories and recollections from comic book readers/collectors about what a specific issue means to them. I was very fortunate to have my

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2. Amazing Spider-Man #50 (script by Stan Lee, pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Mike Esposito)

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Chasing Amazing is looking at Mark’s favorite Amazing Spider-Man covers this week. Today, we look at choices #2 and #1.

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When Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben died in the origin story of Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15) because Peter earlier in the story willfully failed to apprehend the criminal who went on to kill his Uncle – the ultimate lesson Parker learned was that with this great new power he received

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Let me preface this by saying of all of the Spider Island tie-ins slated to be in the rotation, probably the one I was least looking forward to reading was the Spider-Girl miniseries. Just as a general rule of thumb, I’ve never been terribly engaged by the idea of

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Love and marriage is on the mind today as I’m in Atlanta, GA, celebrating the wedding of two of my best friends. So I thought for today’s reminisce, I would share a story about a comic that was added to my collection because of true love. Amazing Spider-Man #50

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