Aunt May Archive

After recently reading the first installment of famed Spidey scribe Gerry Conway’s latest “Gang War” storyline, I thought I’d continue my new series on Spider-Man underworld stories with a spotlight on the very first Conway “Gang War” story, the three part “Who the Heck is Hammerhead” (as featured in

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For all the debate that’s been had about how Dan Slott is wrapping up his most ambitious story arc ever in the Superior Spider-Man, today’s final issue would have to be so incredibly dreadful for it to even approach the awfulness that was put forward when Marvel ended its

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We have just recently concluded arguably one of the most controversial and polarizing years in the history Spider-Man comics. We got the “death” of Peter Parker, the beginning of the “Superior” era, a host of new series like Superior Foes of Spider-Man and Superior Carnage, and the re-branding of

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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 representation of the genre. So without further ado, I bring you the forgettable mid-90s submission,

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If Superior Spider-Man #23 was a case study of what often frustrates me about reading a Dan Slott comic, than Superior Spider-Man #24 is a prime example of what I love about his work. Like its preceding issues, Superior #24 moves at breakneck speed, with a countless number of

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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 things that normal human beings can’t do, some of my all-time favorite Spider-Man stories

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The bar was set so high after the first half of David Morrell and Klaus Janson’s “Spider-Man: Frost” story (better known via Marvel’s innocuous numbering system as Amazing Spider-Man #700.1) that one might have assumed a letdown was inevitable. It was probably incredibly premature and presumptuous for me to

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After the self-contained stories of Superior Spider-Man #20 and #21 and the slow-simmering set-up for the title’s next major arc in Superior #22, the creative team of Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Humberto Ramos slam their foot on the gas pedal in Superior #23, giving me a lot of

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Marvel’s resurrection of the Amazing Spider-Man franchise this month was marketed to fans as the “return” of Peter Parker, one year after he was ingloriously killed off by Doctor Octopus in ASM #700. Leading off a month of “point one” issues – arguably Marvel’s most confounding numbering gimmick – is

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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 – especially as it relates to the Amazing Spider-Man. It’s not like the ASM creative

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