Sunday, January 26, 2014

70s Spider-Man Covers Were The Best





6 comments:

j-swin said...

Marvel 70's anything is like the hallmark of my comic memories.

Kal said...

Mine too. I so remember looking at the spinner rack and noticing the Spider-Man comics first.

Jordan said...

That first run of "The Amazing Spider-Man" -- from issue 1 through to about issue 200 -- is the single best run of any comic book I've ever read, ever.

It's absolutely electrifying. #1 picks up exactly where "Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spidey's origin) leaves off, and the Ditko run is sheer magic, followed by the early Romita run which is different but nearly as good. It's just incredible, incredible storytelling. Seeing these covers makes me want to go read them all again.

Hobgoblin238 said...

I started with 224. But I do wish comics today were like the comics in my youth.

david_b said...

Classic covers, my very first Amazing Spiderman issues when I started collecting actually.

My first 'new' ASM when I got sucked into the Marvel Universe circa '73 was ASM ish 125, but a local Shopko back then had those bags of '3 recent comics for 49cent' deals.., so I picked up ASM 122-124, plus just-missed Avengers, Iron Man, Daredevil, and Captain America that way.

I apparently JUST missed Gwen's death in ish 121 by a few weeks, but I finally forked over a hundred for it a few years back. I was surprised with which panels were missing from the vintage Marvel Tales reprint I had of that issue.

Ah, the last of John Romita. Ross Andru was alright, but if you start your first issues with Romita, it's hard to accept Andru.

Kal said...

Romita was the master. I ate most of that MARVEL 70s stuff with a spoon. I still do. It's great visual storytelling that many artists today just can't replicate. It's an art.