It’s been a while since I’ve been able to cross off another vintage copy of Amazing Spider-Man and narrow my chase down by another issue, but I was able to do just that when Santa...
Mark Ginocchio
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.
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In the final pages of the lead story of Amazing Spider-Man #700, we learned that Doctor Octopus, having taken control of Peter Parker’s body, would carry on his legacy of power and responsibility (maybe) as...
I've had months to prepare for what inevitably transpired at the end of Amazing Spider-Man #700 – starting this past summer when writer Dan Slott first started to stir the pot about fans with pitchforks...
The inevitably changing direction of the Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s universe has come under fire since the twist-filled closing pages of ASM #698 hit newsstands and took an even darker turn last week when...
As someone who started reading Amazing Spider-Man comic books 296 issues (and 25 years) after they debuted, I've always come to understand Peter Parker/Spidey’s origin story in a roundabout way. Given some of the expected...
I opened the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #698 with a little bit of trepidation. While I know the general assumption is that at some point, some semblance of a status quo will return to Peter...
I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but when I started reading Spider-Man comic books in the 1980s, I was a little late to the Hobgoblin party. Trust me, as a long-time collector and enthusiast,...
People who have read or heard me talk to them about comic books and specifically my Amazing Spider-Man collection have described me with a number of adjectives – most of them positive: “passionate,” “dedicated” and...
Before I begin, let me first insert the standard line I've been using over the past three months about what a delinquent blogger I've been. You know it, I know it, the American people know...
I know how ridiculously absent I’ve been with my posting lately but given the recent turn of events related to the subject of my chase, Amazing Spider-Man, I thought it was time for me to...