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[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #428

"Living Large!" - 23 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #427

"Sacrifice Play!" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

 

[masteryoda]

Amazing Spider-Man #429

The Absorbing Man regrets...appearing in this issue?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Amazing Spider-Man #427

"Sacrifice Play!" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

This story was terrible (of course! It had two common themes of terrible stories... comic-book resurrections and Steve Skroce art.)

But the redeeming feature was an awesome pull-out poster in the back by John Romita Jr of Doc Ock crawling out of his grave. It almost made it worth it.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #426

"Only The Evil Return!" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #425

"The Chump, The Challenge And The Champion!" - 39 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

 

[C. Pumpkins]

Nice post! Lovin that double spread. I liked this story too.

 

[masteryoda]

Steve Skroce did the story boards for the Matrix trilogy. I don't know why I wikied him but I did.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Steve Skroce is, if anything, a horrible name

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #424

"Then Came...Elektra" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Joe Bennett
Inker - Ralph Cabrera, Bud LaRosa
Cover - Joe Bennett

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

The spine of that issue is going right up Elektra's buttcrack

 

[masteryoda]

Yeah, not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous.

 

[mre]

Inappropriate.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Steve Skroce's nickname around my comicstore used to be "Steve Skruuuuaaaagh!!!"

In the pantheon of overrated artists, not even Rob Liefeld can match Steve Skroce. Liefeld's anatomy was bad, but Skroce's figures didn't even look human. It's like a baby threw up on a comic page and he signed it. The fact he replaced Mark Bagley made the sting even worse I think.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #423

"Choices!" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Joe Bennett
Inker - Ralph Cabrera, Harry Candelario, Bud LaRosa
Cover - Joe Bennett

 

[masteryoda]

We should call him Steve Scrotum from here on out.

 

[masteryoda]

Inappropriate.

Tell me about it.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #422

"Exposed Wiring" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Joe Bennett
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Joe Bennett

 

[mre]

The fact he replaced Mark Bagley made the sting even worse I think.

I agree.

But now that I can see it in front of me again, I think ASM #425 is a great cover.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #421

"And Death Shall Fly Like A Dragon!" - 22 Pages

Also: 8 pages as described below

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

II - "Hidden Agendas!" - 8 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Geof Isherwood

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #420

"'Twas' The Night Before Christmas" - 22 Pages

Writer - Tom DeFalco
Artist - Steve Skroce
Inker - Bud LaRosa
Cover - Steve Skroce

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Twas a Night Before X-Man? That doesn't even make sense. Who gets to write these covers?

 

[Themanofbat]

Methinks these people aren't at Marvel anymore...

They work for Larson... t: t: t:

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Twas a Night Before X-Man? That doesn't even make sense. Who gets to write these covers?

Writer: Tom Defalco.

That's what I'd assume. Unless editorial or the artist added it.

Dumb puns are nothing new to Marvel. They've been around since Stan's time. In fact, as fun as those stories were, the stupidest title I've ever seen is "How Green is my Goblin?"

What the hell does that even mean?

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

On an unrelated note, X-Man looks like he has a fried egg on his eye.