Elbonia General

Scott Adams is back in the hospital. He’s receiving radiation treatments. I can relate.

Having had a large chunk of melanoma carved out of my scalp eight years ago, a spot that recently appeared on my stomach concerned me. My dermatologist was quick to assure me it’s nothing.

Two spots on my leg, however, were immediate candidates for biopsy. I’m now waiting for the results.

He Does What, Exactly?

He does whatever a spider can, of course!

In 1968, Mighty Marvel was undeniably on the move.

Marvel was freed from competitor DC’s restrictive distribution deal and they expanded immediately. The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man were already back-to-back Saturday morning TV cartoons.

Perhaps the most interesting Marvel project in 1968 was The Spectacular Spider-Man, a magazine format comic that ran for only two issues. Like the first two Beatles movies, the first issue was in black & white, and the second was in color. I bought both of them as a 12-year-old in Norwalk, CT.

The Spectacular Spider-Man #1, 1968

Marvel is reprinting both issues together, in a smaller format than the originals. The second issue was, itself, smaller than the first.

For the merely curious, who use Kindle on a tablet with a reasonably large screen, the e-book download costs only five bucks.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1302965050

Screen grab from the digital edition