Part of what keeps me coming back to Spider-Man years after opening up my first Amazing Spider-Man comic book is his long-standing hopefulness. What makes this hopefulness so effective is the fact that it’s contrasted...
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
There’s not a lot in my life that’s managed to remain apolitical, but I would like to think my love of comic books and Spider-Man is one of last things that has more or less...
Amazing Spider-Man #219 was published in August 1981, which means this month this issue is celebrating a milestone 30 th anniversary. I know this because, in addition to knowing basic math, today is my 30...
Peter Parker/Spider-Man has been a staple in the Marvel superhero universe for nearly 50 years. During this time, numerous heroes and villains have been introduced, killed off, retired, married, etc. But there’s never been a...
The Haul: ASM #35 (Good plus) ASM #27 (Good/Very Good) ASM #22 (Good plus) Final Tally: 16 issues to complete the run. Let me preface this post by saying that every issue of Amazing Spider-Man...
As Chasing Amazing concludes its first ever theme week, I’ve been asking myself why am I still drawn to Venom more than 20 years after seeing him in a comic book for the first time....
One of the biggest changes involving the Venom character since his inception in the late 1980s is the changing of the guard of-sorts involving who is actually wearing the black alien symbiote. Eddie Brock, the...
In yesterday's post, I talked about Venom/Eddie Brock's warped sense of honor and duty where he valued the lives of "innocents" but only if they cooperated with him in his quest to kill Spider-Man. Since...
I thought we’d get a bit thematic here at Chasing Amazing and spend the week talking about one of Spider-Man’s most polarizing villains, Venom. In recent years, I’ve found that Venom has become a "love...
Probably the most common question people ask me when they find out I have an extensive comic book collection is “how much is your collection worth?” I couldn’t say. I’m obviously well aware of how...