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...
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
The issue was called "The Death of Spider-Man." Why were you surprised that he died? The art of “spoiling” has certainly accelerated in recent years with the exponential rise in usage of blogs, Twitter, Facebook,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...