Reading Amazing Spider-Man #250 is like watching the season finale of a television show where the showrunner or writer knows he or she is leaving the show (either willingly or acrimoniously) and thus decides to...
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After months of planning, plotting and misdirection, Amazing Spider-Man #249 shows an invigorated Hobgoblin who is finally starting to make his master plan of conquest apparent to his intended victims. Beyond the Hobgoblin’s initial introduction...
Amazing Spider-Man #245 reminds us of a period of the Hobgoblin’s existence where his secret identity was not the source of such hand-wringing and controversy. As he did for the character’s three previous appearances in...
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...
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...
In honor of Independence Day, I thought it was appropriate to discuss Amazing Spider-Man #325, a David Michelinie/Todd McFarlane issue that was one of the few instances I can think of where Spider-Man’s patriotism and...
Origin stories have long been the bread and butter of superhero comics. Traditionally, a character’s origins are explained in the issue where he makes his first appearance (Spider-Man/Peter Parker’s in Amazing Fantasy #15, Doctor Octopus...
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...
JM Dematteis and Mike Zeck’s presentation of death and rebirth, and how they often mirror each other is one of the themes that elevates “Kraven’s Last Hunt” from a great storyline to a legendary one....