Sal Buscema Archive

For me, Amazing Spider-Man #154 stinks. No, that’s not a critique about the quality of the Len Wein/Sal Buscema story (though seriously, that costume they picked out for Sandman during the 1970s was absolutely hideous). Nor is it really a comment on the overall condition of the comic (though

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It’s completely emblematic that in the midst of one of the most controversial periods for Spider-Man comics in the character’s history, Marvel would deliver a surefire classic in Amazing Spider-Man #400, and then follow-up that beautiful and tender story with the two-part “Aftershocks” (Spider-Man #57 and Spectacular Spider-Man #223)

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Editor’s Note: My real life schedule has been in a state of chaos the past two weeks so we’re going to run the final installment of my Superior Foes Spotlight today. Starting next week I will be attempting to get through all of the new releases I have not

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Demonstrating just how brilliant Peter David is able to weave together elements of comedy and tragedy, the 1988 Spectacular Spider-Man#134-136 arc “Return of the Sin-Eater” may just be the greatest Electro/Spider-Man story ever published, despite the fact that Electro is not technically the focal point of the arc. Instead,

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As many of you had already seen me tweet out multiple times today, there are some major changes on the horizon for the Superior Spider-Talk podcast which you’ve hopefully been listening to for the past year. After much debate, my co-host, Dan Gvozden, and I have decided to rebrand

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As I’ve discussed countless times in the past, different comics have varying levels of significance to different people. For some, the 1994-95 arc “Back from the Edge,” which was published in Amazing and Spectacular Spider-Man, was just another mid-90s story that in all likelihood, got lost in the shuffle since it

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Superior Spider-Man Team-Up currently exists this weird in-between zone where the end of the main “Superior” book has forced this series to run out the clock a bit until its cancellation in April. As a result, I’ve been a little anxious about what we were going to be getting

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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This next reader request comes from Matt Little, co-host of the fantastic Matt and Brett Love Comics podcast (which I appeared on a few months ago). Actually, for full disclosure, I solicited Matt on this one because I knew it was a favorite of his and I thought it

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I recently had an epiphany of sorts about a time in my life that I had long tried to forget. I’ve derided the Spider-Man “Clone Saga” so much on Chasing Amazing, that I’ll universally dismiss storylines that took place during this time period despite the fact that I haven’t

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