Amazing Spider-Man #27 Plot: Spider-Man saves a cat that smells like poop from two Ralph Fiennes rejects. Likes: Not a whole lot. The highlight of the issue was a beautiful two-page spread where Spidey bonked the bad […]

Amazing Spider-Man#26 Plot:This issue delves into the relationships between fathers and sons. Specifically, Spider-Man’s relationship with his father, Richard Parker, and the Squid’s relationship with his father, Mike Callahan. Peter asks his Aunt if she […]

Amazing Spider-Man #25 Plot: Norman Osborn seeks to brainwash Peter into becoming his heir, the future Green Goblin. (CAUTION: This story and it’s conclusion are much darker in tone than standard Spidey stories…parents of young children […]

Amazing Spider-Man #24 Plot: This “Maximum Security” tie-in concludes the three-part “The Distinguished Gentleman From New York” story begun in ASM #22. Spider-Man finds himself battling several alien races in this issue…the Z’Nox, the Badoon and […]

Amazing Spider-Man #23 Plot: This story takes place on two fronts: in the present, where Spidey, Arthur Stacy and the Ranger battle Senator Stewart Ward and the alien Z’Nox, and the past where Arthur, Ranger […]

Amazing Spider-Man #22 Plot: Senator Ward captures Venom (you have no idea how painful it was for me to write that) in an effort to help him understand his own relationship with an alien virus […]

Amazing Spider-Man #21 Plot:  This issue concludes Mackie’s two-part Alistair Smythe story. Spidey has a real problem to deal with here…not only does he have to outfight Smythe’s newest and deadliest Spider-Slayer (while carrying his […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 20 Plot: Alistair Smythe threatens to kill Jonah Jameson’s family if he doesn’t agree to lure Spidey into his latest trap. Jameson agrees, of course, and places an ad in his paper revealing […]

Amazing Spider-Man #19 Plot: The story is dubbed “Mirror, Mirror,” just like the Star Trek episode where Spock has the Fu Manchu thing going on.  Apparently the human half of Venom (who is ironically really the […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 18 Plot: Down on your Parker is now scrubbing dishes at a greasy spoon. Strapped for cash, this is evidently the only job he can get. He then calls his Aunt May to […]