annuals Archive

Yes, it’s time for Chasing Amazing to talk about another Amazing Spider-Man Annual. I’ll spare you all the usual rants I make about annual issues and instead dive into my thoughts on Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (vol. 3 for those keeping score at home). Like a traditional Spider-Man annual

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Marvel has been telling us for months that Superior Spider-Man Annual #1 “counts.” As someone who probably has an unhealthy amount of skepticism regarding the “legitimacy” of the Spider-Man annual issues, you could only imagine what my expectations were for Marvel’s first Superior Annual. Now that I’ve read this

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This is a totally unoriginal thought, but the exhibitor area at New York Comic Con is a terrible place to buy comic books. Not because there aren’t plenty of people selling comic books – I could walk two feet and find someone hawking some cherished issues of Spider-Man like

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Long-time readers of Chasing Amazing are well aware of my love-hate relationship with Annual issues. Sure, Marvel has long used Amazing Spider-Man Annuals to introduce key events and storylines – the first appearance of the Sinister Six, Spidey trying to join the Avengers, the origin of his parents and

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The Marvel “Point One” issues remain a bit of a conundrum to me as a collector since I’ve advertised myself as a “completist” of the Amazing Spider-Man series. As I’ve argued about “Annual” issues in the past, as a mail subscriber to ASM, I have a hard time accepting

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Since I’ve been pouring on the love for Peter and Mary Jane the past two weeks, I thought I would bring this nostalgic chatter to a temporary hiatus by remembering ASM’s 21st annual issue. Of course I reserve the right to talk about Mary Jane and Peter again, any

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I walked into a comic book shop down the street from where I worked on a lunch break recently and there on the new release rack there was a comic book seemingly taunting me. The Amazing Spider-Man Annual for 2011. Those stupid annuals. I’d like to say they’re the

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