Fitting in with the end of an era, we’ve completed our Spider-Man reading order to include up to the end run of the Amazing Spider-Man series. Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos closed of this long running[…]
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Tag: Bronze Age Back Issues
Timeline of Events in X-Men Comics – 1963-2012
Below you will find a listing of major events in X-Men. This list will help you get up to date on how the X-Men got where they are today and how they came to be.[…]
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Best Superman Stories of All Time
We’re continuing our focus on Superman here at Comics Back Issues by counting down the top 25 best Superman stories of all time. We’ll be using our methodology used for other Top 25 lists, that[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’82-’85: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 6
It’s a great time to be a Spider-Man fan! In this edition of the Indispensable Spider-Man, we look at issues roughly between 1982 and 1985, which contains some of Spider-Man’s best stories. Nothing Stops the[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’79-’82: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 5
Hello Again, True Believers! The Indispensable Spider-Man returns once again this week, bringing you just the essential issues of the Spider-Man chronology between 1979 and 1982. You’ll notice that we are compressing the number of[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’75-’79: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 4
Thanks for “swinging” on by again, Spider-Fan! It’s time for another installment of our amazing, spectacular, sensational, deadly foe-y and, most importantly, essential – no, wait – indispensable (!) Spider-Man Chronology. This week, we look (mostly)[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’71-’76: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 3
Merry Marvelous Salutations, comic fans! As the week draws to a close, we bring you another installment of the Indispensable Spider-Man, this time featuring the Spider-Man chronology from ’71-’76. (No, you didn’t miss anything; Marvel hasn’t published[…]
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Amazing Spider-Man Movie Source Material
The Amazing Spider-man movie is coming to theatres this summer to reboot the entire series. The reboot means we’ll probably be getting a origin story or two. Hey, maybe even three. If you’re looking to[…]
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Spider-Man Revealed! and Other Times Spider-Man is Unmasked
A History of Spider-Man Revealed! We recently featured on this blog an essential issue reading list for Spider-Man’s girlfriends (see the lists for Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy and Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat). All of[…]
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Funny Comic Book Panels: Doctor Octopus Likes Chicken
Funny Comic Book Panels of the Amazing Spider-Man I discovered this gem going through my Essential Doctor Octopus Issues list. I figured I would share this strange, funny comic book panel with you:Back then, it[…]
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Gwen Stacy Spider-Man Comic Book Essentials
Our last posts featured Spider-Man’s main squeeze Mary Jane, but it would be unfair to leave out his first love, Gwen Stacy. Some of the most important, iconic issues in the bronze age of comics[…]
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Mary Jane Watson Comic Book Essentials Timeline
Mary Jane Watson (Sometimes Watson-Parker), is arguably the most important supporting character in the Amazing Spider-Man. Her history is spread out across decades of issues, as she weaves in and out of of Peter Parker’s[…]
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