Monthly Archive:: June 2011

The Haul: ASM #15 (Very Good) ASM #23 (Very Good plus) Final Tally: 19 issues to complete the run. When a hobby or collection spans the course of many years, like my quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, you become really focused on benchmarks and milestones. When

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The art of “spoiling” has certainly accelerated in recent years with the exponential rise in usage of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. so I apologize that I’m having a bit of a difficult time wrapping my head around some of the Internet outrage over Marvel’s publicity grab for last week’s

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So despite the fact that I wasted some Internet space here a few months back disavowing the idea, I broke down last week and picked up a copy (two actually) of Ultimate Spider-Man #160, aka, “The Death of Spider-Man.” While I still maintain the belief that a “special” polybagged

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As I was growing up, my heroes were not only found inside the pages of a full-color magazines. In addition to characters like Spider-Man, Captain America and the Fantastic Four, I also collected a different set of heroes who could be found on small pieces of cardboard. Those heroes

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As you might have guessed from the décor around here, Chasing Amazing is a blog about Spider-Man comic books. While I originally intended to keep my focus on this site to the very narrow world of Amazing Spider-Man comics, I’m also a very pragmatic person, so I understood in

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Since I’ve gone “public” with my Chasing Amazing endeavor, I’ve had a number of people from my past either leave comments on the site or privately message me that they had no idea I was such a comic book enthusiast. I had maybe dropped some clues here and there

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Who here doesn’t love a great mystery? And going back and rereading the earlier years of Amazing Spider-Man has got my brain fixated on one of the most famous mystery-storylines ever told in the pages of ASM: the identity of the Green Goblin. The Goblin, who goes on to

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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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It’s always been the toughest choice Peter Parker has had to make: be a normal guy with normal relationships or be Spider-Man. When it comes to romance, he’s almost never been able to be both (the marriage he had with the one woman he was both openly Peter Parker

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While DC reboots every single one of their flagship comic books, Marvel announced earlier this week that they were going to introduce a new Spider-Man centric series in November entitled Avenging Spider-Man. As you might have deducted from the title, the series is going to focus exclusively on Spidey’s

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