My Golden Age: The Superior Crescendo

Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #698-Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Superior Spider-Man #1. So this is the grand finale, the crescendo of demise. This is the happy ending where the bad guy goes down and dies. – James Allen (Glasvegas) The first question out of a person’s mouth when they find out that I enjoy/collect comic…

RETRO REVIEW: The Punisher # 1

Welcome back BTTP fans!  This week for Greg Turner’s Retro Review I’ve pulled out Marvel Comics’ The Punisher #1, cover dated January 1986.  It’s billed as the first issue of a four issue limited series, the first mini-series featuring the Punisher!  The Punisher had first appeared twelve years earlier in Amazing Spider-Man #129, cover dated February 1974.…