Awoooo! Hissss! Grrrrrr! THWIP!
The latest issue of TwoMorrows’ Back Issue — Issue #116 — has a really nifty article by Dan Johnson and the mag’s editor Michael Eury highlighting the Bronze Age battles between Marvel’s super-heroes and the House of Ideas’ monsters.
I dug the idea so much I was inspired to do a 13 COVERS gallery — what with Halloween less than a week away. Only since I’m such a Spider-phile, I opted to make all of these Spider-Man covers.
So dig these groovy ghoulies — and do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Back Issue #116 at your local comics shop or directly through TwoMorrows. (Click here.)
(Oh, and click here for an EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT from the issue, about Michael Golden’s Man-Bat. You’ll dig it.)
Far out.
Gil Kane pencils, John Romita inks
Kane and Romita
Romita
Kane pencils, Tom Palmer inks
Ron Wilson pencils, Mike Esposito inks
Keith Pollard pencils, Al Milgrom inks
Ed Hannigan pencils, Milgrom inks
Don Perlin pencils, Milgrom inks
Hannigan and Romita
John Byrne pencils, Joe Rubinstein inks
Kane pencils, Vince Colletta inks
Romita pencils. Romita and Tony Mortellaro inks.
Romita. One of the first Spidey comics I ever got.
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MORE
— 13 COVERS: Celebrating THE MUMMY. Click here.
— The 13 GREATEST WEREWOLF COMICS. Click here.
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Cover images and credits from the spooky Grand Comics Database.
October 25, 2019
This is a very spook-tacular post!
October 25, 2019
I’ve always loved that cover to ASM 124, since I first saw it as a Power Record cover. The speech balloons always make me laugh.
October 26, 2019
Great post!
I have all 13 of those, beautiful stuff!
October 27, 2019
Not surprising that the number of appearances of Morbius and Man-Wolf predominate this group of covers, since they were originally designed as foes for Spider-Man. And of all the “monster-heroes”, Man-Thing was the one who seemed to mix most easily with the mainline superheroes as a guest-star. What’s more surprising is that after Morbius was spun off into his own series, he didn’t reappear as a co-star with Spidey in Marvel Team-Up.