Given that Superior Spider-Man readers are being promised a “goblin fight like no other” when the Green Goblin and the “original” Hobgoblin square off in Superior Spider-Man #26 later this week, I thought I would...
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In yesterday’s post about Spider-Man Tangled Web #21 , I tipped off today's entry by saying for Christmas Day I would discuss a holiday-themed Spider-Man comic that I thought didn’t hold up as a good...
I’m not going to lie to you (and why would I?). Despite being an ardent fan of the superhero genre where characters fly, stick to walls, fire optic blasts from their eyes and countless other...
Fresh off last week’s “Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan” retrospection , I thought I’d jump back four issues for another mid-80s “one-and-done” with the Peter David-scripted Amazing Spider-Man #267, aka, “The Commuter Cometh.” It’s a...
It’s a shame that the editorial chaos that consumed Marvel in the mid-to-late 1980s (aka, the end of the Jim Shooter-era) often overshadows the actual content of Marvel comic books during this time period –...
My next “reader’s request” is one that a number of you have asked me about on Twitter over the past year. Since I never wrote down exactly who initially asked about this story, I sent...
For anyone who’s a fan of the fun anarchistic version of Venom that was a staple of early 90s Spider-Man comics, then Amazing Spider-Man #317 is the story for you. Insane Spider-Man vs. Venom battle...
I often get a kick out of looking back at some of the first comic books I ever purchased as a 7-year-old. I obviously talk a lot about Amazing Spider-Man #296 (my first ever Spidey...
For the past eight weeks, I’ve looked at a series of comic books that initiated one of the greatest and most clumsily handled mysteries in the history of Spider-Man . There are tons of scattershot...
Lo, there shall be an ending! After spending my entire summer writing about the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” in full, I have reached Amazing Spider-Man #251, the final chapter in the story that was originally introduced...
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