Tom DeFalco Archive

Could This Man Really Be the Hobgoblin?

September 6, 2013Blind Spots9 Comments

The “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series certainly goes a long way in setting things “right” about the identity of the Hobgoblin in that writer Roger Stern was finally given an opportunity to explain the story he was building before leaving Amazing Spider-Man at issue #250. But despite the fact that Stern

Amazing Spider-Man #289 and the Hobgoblin’s Identity Crisis

By Mark Ginocchio

September 3, 2013the big box of comicsNo comments

For the past eight weeks, I’ve looked at a series of comic books that initiated one of the greatest and most clumsily handled mysteries in the history of Spider-Man. There are tons of scattershot accounts of how the identity of the Hobgoblin was supposed to pay off – including

The “Legendary” Tom DeFalco Chats with Superior Spider-Talk

By Mark Ginocchio

September 1, 2013PodcastsNo comments

The “legendary” Tom DeFalco, former Marvel editor-in-chief, writer on multiple Spider-Man titles for decades, and the creator of the Spider-Girl series, sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event in Trumbull, CT, last weekend. The interview has just been released as an episode of the Superior

Amazing Spider-Man #251: The Original Hobgoblin Saga (Part 8)

By Mark Ginocchio

August 29, 2013Random Runs of Spidey, the big box of comics2 Comments

Lo, there shall be an ending! After spending my entire summer writing about the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” in full, I have reached Amazing Spider-Man #251, the final chapter in the story that was originally introduced by Roger Stern in ASM #238 and then fleshed out over the course of

Web of Death and Rethinking the 90s

By Mark Ginocchio

August 28, 2013Reading Experience1 Comment

I recently had an epiphany of sorts about a time in my life that I had long tried to forget. I’ve derided the Spider-Man “Clone Saga” so much on Chasing Amazing, that I’ll universally dismiss storylines that took place during this time period despite the fact that I haven’t

Dispatches from ComiCONN

By Mark Ginocchio

August 26, 2013Adventures in BloggingNo comments

I’m 32 years-old, been reading/collecting comic books since I was 7 years-old, and am obsessive enough about my hobby to launch my very own blog and co-host a comic book podcast, but this past weekend’s ComiCONN event in Trumbull, CT, marked the very first time I ever attended an

Amazing Spider-Man #259: The Way She Was

By Mark Ginocchio

June 24, 2013the big box of comics3 Comments

Origin stories have long been the bread and butter of superhero comics. Traditionally, a character’s origins are explained in the issue where he makes his first appearance (Spider-Man/Peter Parker’s in Amazing Fantasy #15, Doctor Octopus in Amazing Spider-Man #3, Sandman in ASM #4). Certain “special” characters make their first