Comics Corner: Giant-Size Spider-Man 5

   

Title: Giant-Size Spider-Man
Issue Number: 5
Release Date: July 1975

Highlights

• Reference is made to Giant-Size Spider-Man 2, as well as The Amazing Spider-Man 6, and 145
• Second story is a reprint of The Amazing Spider-Man 21

Low Points

• Pretty boring

Oddities

• Editor's Day Off: "Take it from the the girl who knows."
• Spider-Man bites Lizard's tail

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Comics Corner: Giant-Size Spider-Man 4

   

Title: Giant-Size Spider-Man
Issue Number: 4
Release Date: April 1975

Highlights

• First appearance of Moses Magnum
• Reprints the first story of The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 2
• Reference is made to The Amazing Spider-Man 135, 141, and 142

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• Colorist's Day Off - In a panel of Spider-Man sitting on a bed, the left half of his costume is flesh colored - It's so goofy, I have to show it

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Comics Corner: Giant-Size Spider-Man 3

   

Title: Giant-Size Spider-Man
Issue Number: 3
Release Date: January 1975

Highlights

• First appearance of Desinna
• Secondary story which reprints The Amazing Spider-Man 15
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 28

Low Points

• This story is long and boring

Oddities

• None

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Comics Corner: Giant-Size Spider-Man 2

   

Title: Giant-Size Spider-Man
Issue Number: 2
Release Date: October 1974

Highlights

• Reference is made to Bruce Lee
• Reference is made to Master of Kung Fu 15, 18, and Daredevil 112
• Spider-Man uses Thing's catch phrase, "It's clobberin' time!"
• Lots of action
• Issue contains a second story, which is a reprint of The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 3

Low Points

• Multiple use of racial slurs for Asian people - Not cool, Marvel

Oddities

• None

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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Comics Corner: Giant-Size Spider-Man 1

   

Title: Giant-Size Spider-Man
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: July 1974

Highlights

• First appearance of  Anthony Cavelli, A.J. Maxfield, Dexter Bixby, Elvira Kaufman, Seymour Simms, and Whisperer
• Spider-Man launches an all new ongoing series - Though it didn't last long
• Reference is made to Marvel Team-Up 23, an issue we'll talk about next time in my chronological reading of Spider-Man
• Death of Whisperer, and Anthony Cavelli
• Issue contains a second story, which is a reprint of Strange Tales Annual 2, an issue that takes place after The Amazing Spider-Man 17

Low Points

• The whole plot revolves around Peter Parker trying to find a doctor who has a new vaccine for a flu strain that has Aunt May sick
• It's never explained why Dracula wants to kill A.J. Maxfield

Oddities

• None

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Order Of Battle: Giant-Size Spider-Man Comic Books 1 - 6

 

Due to the increasing size of my comic book collection, I have found it necessary to not only break them up by title, but for some of the larger series, by groups. This will be an ongoing post of my Marvel published Giant Size Spider-Man comic books issues 1 through 6, as I obtain them. All photos are actual scans.

Giant-Size Spider-Man (and Dracula) 1

Giant Size Spider-Man (and Master of Kung-Fu) 2

Giant-Size Spider-Man (and Doc Savage) 3

Giant-Size Spider-Man (and The Punisher) 4

Giant-Size Spider-Man (and The Man-Thing) 5

Giant-Size Spider-Man (Guest Starring The Human Torch) 6

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