My older brother was my first best friend. Since he’s five years older than me, he also was a bit of an authority figure for me too, especially when I was still in elementary school...
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.
Posts By Mark Ginocchio
I’m always interested to look back at comic books from 40 or 50 years ago and see what has aged well versus what seems dated for the time. Amazing Spider-Man #10, the second issue in...
I’ve always taken pride in my memory. I can think back to something that happened in my life 15 or 20 years ago and recount a number of mundane details, like the expressions on people’s...
If I’ve learned anything from popular culture is that a fictitious bully character has to have a back-story that generates a little bit of sympathy, or at least a better understanding of why the bully...
Apparently, if you’re a comic book collector looking to complete a run of a specific series, the two best things you can do is start a blog and have a milestone birthday. That way, all...
Sure, let's just put Spidey in ANOTHER series for people to buy. There are numerous things about Marvel’s newly minted FF series that have made me skeptical, all of which have nothing to do with...
My inability to negotiate is the stuff of legends. And let me tell you, that’s not something as a collector I should go about touting, but it’s true. When I was a little kid, my...
Maybe Amazing Spider-Man #664 should have the subtitle “How Eddie Brock Got His Groove Back” because this was the most I’ve been interested in Brock/Anti-Venom in years. As I said during Chasing Amazing’s “Venom Week”...
Considering how much pain and suffering Peter Parker has had to endure because of his secret life of Spider-Man, I’m always filled with the warm and fuzzies when something goes right for him. When Marvel...
On more than one occasion, when I’ve used Chasing Amazing as a soap box and stand on to yell about some of the undesirable qualities of the comic book industry – its overuse of “special...