Now that I’m officially done talking about the Hobgoblin on Chasing Amazing for some time, I thought I would use the remainder of September to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the debut of two of...
Category: Remembrance of Comics Past
This post was originally published on May 3, 2011 The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was working my campus job in a computer lab. My shift started at 8:30. The morning shift was typically...
The recent “DC 52” reboot of the publisher’s entire line of comics has brought my memories back to this ASM homage to the 50 th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1. It’s...
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...
When you’re a little kid, you don’t always get to pick your childhood heroes. Sometimes, they’re picked out for you. Marvel can thank me for the FREE advertisement I’m providing for Captain America: The First...
For years, the oldest Spider-Man comic book I owned was my copy of Amazing Spider-Man #25 – a comic I was basically embarrassed to have in my collection because I purchased it as a teenager...
Front seat conversation between my wife and I during long car trips inevitably devolve into something along the lines of me randomly asking, “name your top five (insert just about anything here, i.e. songs, bands,...
Ten years ago this week, I picked an interesting time to leave the borders of the United States for the first time ever. A college friend had convinced me to spend my Spring Break in...
One of the first “Remembrance of Comics Past” posts I made on this blog was a story about a big box of comics I received from a friend of a friend that contained more than...
On the topic of real-life political figures being featured prominently in comic books, I decided this week’s spotlight will be about the grand-daddy of them all, Amazing Spider-Man #583, aka, the Obama issue. Ah, the...