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Big Box of Comics: Amazing Spider-Man #200

February 4, 2013Remembrance of Comics Past, the big box of comics1 Comment

One of the first “Remembrance of Comics Past” posts I made on this blog was a story about a big box of comics I received from a friend of a friend that contained more than 100 issues of Amazing Spider-Man from the 1980s and 1990s. I’ve long credited this

Remembrance of Comics Past: Amazing Spider-Man #298

By Mark Ginocchio

April 23, 2012Remembrance of Comics Past, the big box of comicsNo comments

People will say timing is everything. Yet sometimes using the power of 20-20 hindsight, timing doesn’t always seem to add up and make sense. Take the story – or better put, non-story – of my acquisition of Amazing Spider-Man #298. For those unaware of your ASM history, this issue

Remembrance of Comics Past: Amazing Spider-Man 252

By Mark Ginocchio

April 8, 2011Remembrance of Comics Past, the big box of comics8 Comments

It was probably a year or so before the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst was released when my then-girlfriend, now wife and I were at my parents’ house on a Saturday night for dinner. Typically, my mom always puts some coffee and dessert out after