Ron Frenz Archive

Not just superheroes get origin stories. In my next installment of my favorite Peter/MJ stories on superiorspidertalk.com I highlight Amazing Spider-Man #259 by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, aka the “origin” of Mary Jane Watson. A lot of you love MJ. Now find out some more about the issue

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Going back to one of the very first installments of “Spider-Verse” (which, believe it or not, took place in August), the character of Karn – an Inheritor who appeared to be the black sheep of this totem-hunting family – struck me as someone who would likely be a key

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Alright, true believers. After spending the past few weeks harping on all of you to tell me some of your favorite Spider-Man storylines, Chasing Amazing’s second annual Reader Request Month is here! I can’t guarantee I’ll get to cover as many suggested stories as I did last year (seriously,

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I have a confession to make that is bound to make me a pariah of the Spider-Man internet community (a community, which depending on the day of the week and the message board you’re reading, has a bunch of pariahs already). I can count on one finger the number

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We have arrived at the final installment of my summer overview of the “Alien Costume Saga,” and I hope it’s been as much fun for you all as last year’s “Original Hobgoblin Saga” retrospective. Maybe next year, I’ll pick a run of issues that don’t fall within the 1983-84

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In many ways, I’ve been waiting all summer for my opportunity to write about this one specific issue, and despite the fact that I’m almost always let down by heightened anticipation, Amazing Spider-Man #257 is as good as I remember it being. For me, this comic is when the

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  After a bit of a breather that focused on silver-haired burglars and crazy scientists with disappearing apes, the “Alien Costume Saga” begins its acceleration towards the finish line in Amazing Spider-Man #256. We get another new villain named after an animal flashcard (Puma), a more prolonged look at

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I’ve already talked at great length about how Amazing Spider-Man’s “Alien Costume Saga” has an almost “origin story” vibe to it, but I haven’t spent much time examining another thematic element that is on display in this run of issues. While it would be a few years before various

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After the success of my issue-by-issue review of the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” last year, I thought it would be fun if I made this kind of long-form storyline analysis an annual summer tradition – call it Chasing Amazing’s “summer concert series” of posts. While I certainly could have been

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After our successful debut episode earlier this month, the Amazing Spider-Talk is back with a special, Spider-Talk and Their Amazing Friends edition. In these episodes, Dan Gvozden and I interview creators and other personalities associated with Spider-Man comics. This time around, we welcome the fantastic writer Kevin Shinick (Superior

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