The Haul: ASM #8 (Very Good minus) ASM #19 (Good plus) Final Tally : 21 issues to complete the run. Let me start by saying it's sheerly coincidental that the month where I started to...
Monthly Archives: May 2011
I walked into a comic book shop down the street from where I worked on a lunch break recently and there on the new release rack there was a comic book seemingly taunting me. The...
Like most of my earliest comic book purchases , I picked up a copy of ASM 300 when it first came out at the local corner candy/tobacco shop in my hometown of East Rockaway, NY....
I wanted to refer you to an enjoyable read over at The Capital in Annapolis, MD , which hits upon a point that currently has a lot relevancy in the world of Chasing Amazing: the...
When I first started reading Amazing Spider-Man comics in the 1980s , it was towards the bitter end of the “black suit” saga – the first truly long-standing alternative costume used by Spidey in the...
Part of the reason I started Chasing Amazing was because I felt the site filled a niche on the blogosphere that was otherwise unfilled – a site dedicated to the passion of collecting comic books...
This coming weekend in New York City there’s the Big Apple Comic Con “Spring Edition,” one of the city’s biggest gatherings of all things comic books and nerd culture. On paper, the event probably sounds...
I wonder how the artistic community would react if some retailer found a beat-up old Picasso painting and decided instead of trying to resell the whole thing, he’d cut the painting up into multiple 4...
When I was a kid, a free comic book featuring Spider-Man would be something found inside a cereal box or some other promotional giveaway (I even have a memory of a Spider-Man comic being a...
When Marvel announced a few months ago that Spider-Man would be joining the Fantastic Four – now calling themselves the “Future Foundation” in the wake of the death of their youngest team member Human Torch/Johnny...
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