As “Forever Evil” remains the focal point for the DC Universe, in my most recent “Gimmick or Good?” entry at Comics Should Be Good, I look at 1993’s Eclipso The Darkness Within #1. This comic was notorious for featuring a plastic “diamond” on the cover. In terms of 90s gimmick covers, it’s pretty silly, but what did I think of the comic itself?
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Mark Ginocchio is a professional writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. He's been collecting Amazing Spider-Man comic books since the late-1980s and launched Chasing Amazing in 2011 as a way to tell his story about Spider-Man, comics, collecting and everything else in-between. You also find Mark's writing at Comics Should Be Good at Comic Book Resources, WhatCulture.com and Longbox Graveyard. Follow him on Twitter for comic book chat @ChasingASMBlog.
