Stan Lee Archive

In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall

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This next installment of my “Reader Request Month” comes at the behest of Sean Carr on Twitter: @ChasingASMBlog I’d love to see #82 featured, its the first comic I ever read. — Seán Carr (@pnedotie) October 19, 2013 Since I’m totally the kind of a guy who sympathizes with

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Now that I’m officially done talking about the Hobgoblin on Chasing Amazing for some time, I thought I would use the remainder of September to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the debut of two of Marvel’s greatest properties – the Avengers and the X-Men. While I’ve always been a

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There are times in my life when I feel like I’m fighting a giant sand monster armed with only a fly swatter and a paper cup. I am currently living in one of these moments, so it’s totally serendipitous that my “remaining chase” has been narrowed down to just

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For years, the oldest Spider-Man comic book I owned was my copy of Amazing Spider-Man #25 – a comic I was basically embarrassed to have in my collection because I purchased it as a teenager for all the wrong reasons. As silly as this may sound, it was beyond

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2. Amazing Spider-Man #50 (script by Stan Lee, pencils by John Romita Sr., inks by Mike Esposito)

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We are now in the “final four” of my favorite issues of Amazing Spider-Man countdown and I don’t think either of these choices are going to surprise you (though maybe my placement will turn a few heads). Regardless, this is the cream of the crop for Spider-Man comics, and

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As we start week two of my top ten list, we reach the the first two entries of my final “special six.” I’ll admit I’m a bit shocked I haven’t heard much criticism of some of the issues I’ve been throwing out there – in fact I got quite

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While the comic book medium is notorious for its “can you top that?” mentality, sometimes that old K.I.S.S. adage (depending the edginess of your audience, it’s either keep it simple silly or stupid) really holds true. While I appreciate backstories with incredible depth and development, or storylines with shock-twist

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