Four down and I’ve already hit a wall! Unfortunately, due mostly to bad planning on my part, I don’t have the next four things I need to read. Marvel Tales 235 (Story 2) Marvel Tales 235 (Story 3) Marvel Tales 248 (Story 2) Marvel Tales 251 (Story 2) I went to about four or five [...]

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Claus Encounter!! Story & Art: Fred Hembeck Originally published: February 1990 This is another of Hembeck’s ‘Petey’ stories, though this time it’s set “long before” he became Spider-Man. I wonder if I got my chronology wrong… [SPOILERS] This is a crazy story. It’s Christmas and Petey’s upset that May and Ben treat him like a [...]

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Petey: The Adventures of Peter Parker Before He Became Spider-Man! Story & Art: Fred Hembeck Originally published: 1989 This is one of Fred Hembeck’s ‘Petey’ stories (the first?), which tell “the adventures of Peter Parker before he became Spider-Man!”. The stories basically insert Peter Parker and his school friends into a Dennis the Menace/Archie comic [...]

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Chapter One: A Time of Marvels Writer: Kurt Busiek Artist / cover artist: Alex Ross Lettering and interior design: Richard Starkings Logo design: Joe Kaufman Originally published: January 1994 Perhaps it is ironic that I’m starting this project with an issue that does not feature, does not even mention, Spider-Man. Since he appears in the [...]

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I have been a fan of Spider-Man for a long time. I was born in 1981 and my childhood was filled with Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the Electric Company, the 1990s Spider-Man cartoon, and (of course) reruns of the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. When I was a kid I also read some of the Spider-Man [...]

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