Despite only making his first appearance a handful of issues ago, Hobgoblin’s rapid ascension to power in both the fictitious world of Spider-Man comic books, and the real world of public perception is on front...
Category: Random Runs of Spidey
What’s so unique about Amazing Spider-Man #239 is how writer Roger Stern takes his new creation, the Hobgoblin, and expertly crafts the villain as a legitimate physical and psychological threat to Spider-Man, while also exposing...
Granted, I’m aided by the power of 20-20 hindsight, but there’s something about Amazing Spider-Man #238 that just comes across as being “special.” Even from a collectability standpoint – when I first started buying pricier...
As I mentioned in my post about Amazing Spider-Man #136 last week, part of what made Harry Osborn as the second Green Goblin such a captivating character was his unique relationship to the man underneath...
I never found a way to be successful at that whole comic book speculator thing. That’s part of the reason why I chose to dedicate my collection to only one title, Amazing Spider-Man, because otherwise...
In my Amazing Spider-Man #530 write-up, I mentioned some of the defining character differences between Tony Stark and Peter Parker as demonstrated by the first two parts of 2006’s “Mr. Parker Goes to Washington,” arc....
Amazing Spider-Man #530 is a significant entry in the title’s history because it’s the first issue that explicitly starts to outline the proposed parameters of the government’s Superhero Registration Act – a piece of fictional...
I often wonder what my appreciation for Iron Man/Tony Stark would be without Robert Downey Jr.’s incredible (and funny) portrayal of the character in the 2007 film. Up until then, I had viewed Iron Man...
Amazing Spider-Man #144, the second part of the “Delusion Conspiracy” arc which sees Peter Parker and Mary Jane get closer just as Gwen Stacy’s clone makes her existence known, reminds me of another form of...
Some quick house-cleaning/sausage making updates before I proceed with today’s post. Since we here at Chasing Amazing pride ourselves on creating content that both looks back and looks forward at the Spider-Man universe (two days...
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