Eh, seems reasonable enough. I never find any of these on the cheap, so a pleasant surprise: from 1977,
Spidey Super Stories #22, "Ms. Marvel, Ms. Marvel" Written by Jim Salicrup, pencils by Win Mortimer, inks by Mike Esposito.
The title's a riff on
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, an oddball soap opera of the time; I have heard the name somewhere but never saw it. This easy-reading issue probably isn't as weird, as J.Jonah Jameson tasks editor Carol Danvers and photographers Amber and Peter with getting the scoop on Ms. Marvel. JJJ is then kidnapped by the Beetle, in his clunky original outfit: I met the Beetle way back in
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #60, where he had the look he would keep pretty much up to his Thunderbolts days. Ms. Marvel and Spidey give chase to save their boss, with Peter neglecting to take any photos, which probably cost him the job at Woman Magazine.
Also this issue: "The Lizard Lives!" Written by Kolfax Mingo, pencils by Win Mortimer, inks by Mike Esposito, alterations by John Romita. A tadpole is turned into a dinosaur and the Lizard returns, but it's all wrapped up within 12 pages. Romita may have made some adjustments or corrections on this one, but that just means it looks like Romita Spider-Man, and nothing wrong with that.
Wait, the Lizard came back because a tadpole turned into a dinosaur? Was that tadpole the Lizard? That'd be weird but very on brand for the wackiness of comics.
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Oh man, I love Spidey Super Stories. I found a whole bunch of them a few years back- the dialogue's like that pretty much every issue but they had so many restrictions that things got weird fast. Carol actually showed up in a bunch of issues, which would be weird if that wasn't around the time of her first series.
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Just now noticed the bottle labeled cure just randomly laying on a nearby tree stump. Jesus, haha.
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