ASM Classics Episode 5: ASM 5 & 6

Welcome back to Amazing Spider-Man Classics, where we are committed to taking you through every issue, every guest feature, and every cameo appearance we can find of the amazing Spider-Man!   This week, Jon, Josh, and Don are again joined by Zach (from Teenage Wasteland: An Ultimate Spider-Man Podcast) to go back to Spidey’s main book after our team-up time-out last week.  Spider-Man has to cross swords, or finger guns, with the metal-masked menace of the Fantastic Four — Dr. Doom!  And after that, he then takes the world’s shortest vacation to the Everglades to confront the Lizard! Two of…

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Amazing Spider-Man Classics Episode 4: Strange Tales Annual 2

Flamin’ fireballs!  It’s the first-ever Spider-Man team-up and the lucky sonovagun is the Human Torch!  Or, since technically this is Johnny Storm’s annual, maybe we should make him seem like the lead with Spidey the guest star?  Ah, well, it doesn’t matter.  This was a pretty wonky ride, so join Jon Wilson, Josh Bertone, and Donovan Grant, as they are joined by guest co-host Zach Henderson (from Teenage Wasteland: An Ultimate Spider-Man Podcast), and get ready for “one of the most epic thrillers of all time!!” We also take a brief look at Spider-Man’s backup appearance in The Fantastic Four…

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CSC Episode 73: Carrion & the Carrion Virus

SURPRISE! A new episode for CSC? Yes Please. This Episode is a solo effort by Zach to explain the long and sometimes strange history of the Carrion character and the Virus he would produce. Zach tackles nearly all the appearances of Carrion as follows: Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man 25-31 (original) Spectacular Spider-Man 149 (McBride) Spectacular Spider-Man 162-163 (McBride) Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage (McBride) Amazing Spider-Man 390-393 (McBride) Spider-Man: Dead Man’s Hand (Dr. Allen)

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CSC Episode 72: Revelations…Part Four & Osborn Journal

There is a sense of the beginning of the end of this show. Peter Parker: Spider-Man 75 was the first time I had read a comic starring Peter Parker that wasn’t a tie into the cartoon (Adventures of Spider-Man) or a back issue since my very first issue, Spectacular Spider-Man 223. It was an introduction to Norman Osborn that I had only seen in the 90’s show, that leveled him to the top of the food chain in terms of Arch-villains. It’s one of, if not my single favorite issues of Spider-Man of all time, notwithstanding other issues such as…

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