I thought scans from this annual were already posted here - I remember seeing previews somewhere but they don't seem to be up here.
Anyway, the sure-fire way to get me to buy a Spider-Man comic on the spot is to have Uncle Ben in it.
Included below the cut are two pages out of the 40-or-something pages of the annual from this year. I don't know if there are other earlier stories that showed what life would be like if Spider-Man didn't exist, but I liked the random earthquake-time-hopping aspect of it (and Uncle Ben's and Peter's interactions are ♥).
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Anyway, the sure-fire way to get me to buy a Spider-Man comic on the spot is to have Uncle Ben in it.
Included below the cut are two pages out of the 40-or-something pages of the annual from this year. I don't know if there are other earlier stories that showed what life would be like if Spider-Man didn't exist, but I liked the random earthquake-time-hopping aspect of it (and Uncle Ben's and Peter's interactions are ♥).
( Read more... )

Since it was my idea, I really should make a contribution for the My First week. It isn't going to be too interesting for me to write about the first comics that I read, since they're collections of Peanuts, or Calvin and Hobbes or Asterix or Tintin that I devoured at the time, but don't have any abiding affinity for. My first dips into ongoing DCU and Marvel titles were with Civil War and 52, but I'm going to write about my first ongoing solo book. It's also the book that gave me my favourite character and one that I've actually identified with.
In the process of going through my bookcase and my shortboxes for books to make another big post (this one is inspired by Word Balloon), I rediscovered 
Schmevil and I were talking Ms. Marvel the other day and the notion of reintroducing one of our favourite characters to the community. I'm not that interested in posting large chunks of Carol's history, so I'll stick to some of the cooler moments from her Brian Reed solo series.


