Ditko, departed
In the summer of 1966, Marvel Comics suddenly went Steve Ditko-less. I’ve read a variety of reasons — money, locking horns with Stan Lee, fundamental disagreements about the series’ direction …
Tag: Amazing Spider-Man
Frustrated — by J. Jonah Jameson!
J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man’s perpetual nemesis cum comic relief character, doesn’t have as high a public profile as comics’ other famous editor, Perry White. Still, between the comics, the movies …
Thoughts on the New Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer
So the second Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer just dropped, and, like any self-respecting comics geek, I’ve watched and rewatched this thing about a half a dozen times now, trying to decode what the final movie is going to be like from three minutes of mostly new footage. Here are my predictions.
Mutants and missiles, selfish heroes and a crisis: more stories from 1963
In one of my previous Silver Age posts, I pointed out that in July, 1962, Stan Lee used a Circus of Crime in two different books. A year later, I …
Marvel Comics Digests: a post-mortem
For about a year, we were treated to digests from Marvel; here’s a rundown of what we got.
Successfully scratched itches
Following the lead of another Atomic Junk Shop regular who wrote about some itches that took years to be scratched, I take a look at a few comics stories that left itches I only managed to scratch decades after the fact
Comics You Should Own – ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ #238-251
Some good Spidey stuff below, so let’s get to it!