Out of the Blue (Into the Fire)
Writer: Eric Stephenson
Penciler: Keith Giffen
Inker: Andy Smith
Originally published: April 1999
Broken!
Writer: Eric Stephenson
Penciler: Keith Giffen
Inks: Andy Smith, Jimmy Palmiotti, Scott Elmer, Rodney Ramos
Originally published: May 1999
With Everything to Lose
Writer: Eric Stephenson
Artist: Andy Smith
Originally published: June 1999
The notes on the first issue say that this occurs right after Silver Surfer Vol. [...]

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Unmasked at Last!
Writen by: Stan Lee
Illustrated by: John Romita, Jim Mooney
Lettered by: Sam Rosen
Originally published: August 1970
Awesome cover and splash page. They both look fantastic.
Pete is still in front of that microscope, and finally decides to take a look and see if he’s losing his powers. When he tries, though, he realizes he can’t focus [...]

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Then Came…The Black Widow
Writen by: Gary Friedrich
Drawn by: John Buscema
Inked by: John Verpoorten
Lettered by: Artie Simek
Originally published: August 1970
First Black Widow issue. Kinda stupid. I mean, she uses her stupid “widow’s web” to pick up the damn phone from like three feet away. Just use your hands!
I did learn that the reason she can stick [...]

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Beware… the Black Widow!
Author: Stan Lee
Illustrators: John Romita, Jim Mooney
Letterer: Sam Rosen
Originally published: July 1970
It totally threw me off that Spider-Man claims the Black Widow is a “female copy of [him]self”. I’m not crazy familiar with the character, but she’s shown up in a bunch of Avengers stuff that I’ve read and I never noticed [...]

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Back to Amazing Spider-Man after a long break. The timing of ASM 86 with respect to the previous few non-Spidey titles is a bit confusing. The splash page of this issue implies that not much time has passed since the last Amazing Spider-Man – that Spider-Man might, in fact, still be on his way home [...]

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