Here’s something for mih. It’s from 1970, during Wally Wood’s brief return to Marvel.
The Other Doctor
Category: Cartooning
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.
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
Peanuts Advent-ure
The 60th anniversary of A Charlie Brown Christmas is next Tuesday, the 9th. To celebrate, my twinster Jean sent me this fun and nifty Peanuts tabletop mobile, counting down “the 12 days leading up to Christmas.”
Peculiar thing about this mobile. It isn’t a 24-day Advent calendar, neither is it a way of marking the Twelve Days of Christmas that start on Christmas Day.
The instructions say, “Ask an adult for help.” As soon as I find someone with the necessary maturity and patience to assemble the stand, I’ll put a photo of it here.
I put it together all by myself, with Obi Wan’s words of encouragement. 😉
Dear, Old Dad
I have reading glasses of different strengths, but I don’t combine them the way my late father liked to do. He had a system.
Yesterday and Today
Yesterday, Scott Adams stopped while podcasting to get an oxygen boost.
At least he was at home, because today he was at the hospital.
The Underground Ex-Press
R. Crumb’s new comic book is out from Fantagraphics. It’s as wordy as it is artsy, and I have a copy for you, mih. To be hand delivered, Wednesday, December 10, at noon.
Click the pic to see the original line art.
Here’s a fun fact. R. Crumb has been buddies with George DiCaprio, since before his son Leonardo was born.
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/11/24/art-robert-crumb-george-dicaprio-david-zwirner/