The “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series certainly goes a long way in setting things “right” about the identity of the Hobgoblin in that writer Roger Stern was finally given an opportunity to explain the story he was...
Tag: Tom DeFalco
For the past eight weeks, I’ve looked at a series of comic books that initiated one of the greatest and most clumsily handled mysteries in the history of Spider-Man . There are tons of scattershot...
The "legendary" Tom DeFalco, former Marvel editor-in-chief, writer on multiple Spider-Man titles for decades, and the creator of the Spider-Girl series, sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event in Trumbull,...
Lo, there shall be an ending! After spending my entire summer writing about the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” in full, I have reached Amazing Spider-Man #251, the final chapter in the story that was originally introduced...
I recently had an epiphany of sorts about a time in my life that I had long tried to forget. I’ve derided the Spider-Man “Clone Saga” so much on Chasing Amazing, that I'll universally dismiss...
I’m 32 years-old, been reading/collecting comic books since I was 7 years-old, and am obsessive enough about my hobby to launch my very own blog and co-host a comic book podcast, but this past weekend’s...
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...







