80s Spider-Man is peak Spider-Man. I can't wait for you to talk about the DeFalco/Frenz run, I consider it to be the best Spider-Man run for all the development put on Peter and Mary Jane.
Peter got his bachelors degree in the Wolfman run, which is when you're considered 'graduated', but was getting his madters degree. Masters and docterate degrees are often called 'post-graduate' degrees
For a little context about Peter quitting school, I believe it’s supposed to be that he graduates from his 4 yr bachelor program and everything following that is his Masters degree program (normally a 2 year program, but might take longer if you’re working professionally while going to school). Masters/graduate school is a program in addition to your bachelors for more advanced degrees!
Before reading Stern's run, I never really looked at Hobgoblin as a particualrly good Spider-Man villain, and kind of always saw him as just a "knock off" Green Goblin, but boy was I ever wrong. After reading Stern's run, I can confidently say that Hobgoblin is my all time favorite Spider-Man villain, and he definetly is a top five Spidey foe for sure. In general Roger Stern's run on Spider-Man is just fantastic, and is an all time favorite of mine.
Stern's time on the comic is definitely something I catch myself coming back to fairly often. I can just pick up an issue and know it's gonna be some great stuff.
I’m in the middle of reading the Stern Spidey omnibus and have been enjoying the heck out of it. It’s probably the last great run of classic Spidey before McFarlane takes over and breathes new life into him.
I loved when Roger Stern was writing Spider-Man. The issues with Cobra & Hyde, the battle with Juggernaut, the intro of Hobgoblin and The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man are some of my favorites. Stern's run on Spidey is the best in my opinion. 🕷️
In Brazil, the publisher Panini Comics is republishing this run in a collection called: "A Saga do Homem-Aranha" (The Spider-Man Saga). It's been a really cool run to follow.
Stern was hands down the best Spider-man writer (and arguably the best Marvel writer). They manage to be fun, adventurous but adult at the same time. Plot, dialougue, action, it would never get better.
Have you read JM Dematteis's Spectacular Spider-Man run? If not I hoghly, highly, highly recommend it (and Kraven's Last Hunt too but every Spoder-Man fan has read that)
@@rickrivers2021 yeah, JM was fine, but his stories dont always feel like Spider-man stories. That and an odd obsession with Vermin. Ill take Stern, but Id rank JM better than most.
Stern's Amazing Spider-Man gets my vote for favorite run (along with Gerry Conway and JMS), and I agree with most of what you said. I'm a fan of the three Vulture issues, particularly the second one with the manga-like cover inked by Bob Layton. Light years ahead of anything that been done with Spider-Man in his own title since One More Day, because, apparently, validating Joe Quesada's ego is more important than engaging the readers. One other highlight of Stern's run is that his interactions with Aunt May were much less cringe. Fewer "Hey, pretty lady"'s and comparing her to Farah Fawcett or what not. Hobgoblin was definitely an improvement over the umpteenth Green Goblin, but now that Norman Osborn has been back for 20 years, it's long past time for the character to have been retired. By the way, Spider-Man did graduate college during Wolfman's run. He quit graduate school during Stern's run.
I've always called this the Spectacular Bachelor era. 1983-1987 Spider-Man would be about 20-21 during these years, 4 publication years = 1 marvel year. Spider-Man was 15 in 1962, making him 20 between the 1981-1984 publication years Also all the best Spidey comics take place when he lives at 410 Chelsea
You don't graduate a year of Collage. You pass a select number of classes to earn a degree, that's how it works. So no, all those comic books could not have been with in the course of a year.
1962-1973 was the golden age of Spiderman. 1974 -1975 was decline period. 1976-1981 the comic was in a rut 1982-1993 was Spider-Man's renascence era. 1994-2000 the messy years 2001-2003 last great era 2004-pressent ...No one cares about what the comics did from 04 onward.
As a fan of The Wrecking Crew Thunderball is one of my favorites. The problem now is Marvel has made them laughable as villains. The original Hobgoblin is in my top five favorite Marvel villians. Anyone remember when Jason Macandale, who was originally the Jack O' Lantern became the Hobgoblin for several years?
Honestly feel like not revealing the identity of the Hobgoblin would of been the best move as it really does fit in Stern’s intention with the character of being a true successor to the Green Goblin. Specifically with how Goblin was originally conceived by Ditko as being a completely unidentified villain who had little to no ties with the hero in question. Like, sure, that’s basically just Ditko’s way of reflecting his whole objectivist beliefs just to highlight how crime and the people who commit them are barely humanized individuals whose motives are never defined thus deserve punishment without sympathy, but it really seems like an interesting approach for villain especially in the Marvel Universe to not have a defining orgin to trace back why they want to commit crime.
This would be fascinating if not for the fact that Ditko said multiple times over the years, in both essays and to friends / pen pals, that he (Ditko) always intended Norman Osborn to be the Green Goblin. This is another Stan Lee tall tale that, in Lee's version of events, the "argument" over GG is why Ditko left Spidey. In fact, Ditko and Lee were not even on speaking terms at that time, and Ditko was speaking solely to Sol Brodsky. Ditko would turn in his fully plotted comics, Lee would tell changes to make to Brodsky (stuff like swap these character positions, etc), Brodsky told Ditko, Ditko did them, and Lee did the final dialogue. If we want to give Lee the benefit of the doubt, the "Wow, this is just some nobody!" revelation had been done multiple times in Spidey by that point, including Electro and Crime Master, so Lee may be getting it mixed up. But Ditko put his foot that he always intended Norman to be GG. It tracks if you read the comics, even ignoring Lee's dialogue. In Ditko's second to last issue, we learn that Norman is not only evil, but somehow has the ability of flight (shoots at Spider-Man from a window without a ledge). These are Ditko's own words: "Now digest this: I knew from Day One, from the first GG story, who the GG would be. I absolutely knew because I planted him in J. Jonah Jameson’s businessmans club, it was where JJJ and the GG could be seen together. I planted them together in other stories where the GG would not appear in costume, action…I planted the GG’s son (same distinctive hair style) in the college issues for more dramatic involvement and storyline consequences. So how could there be any doubt, dispute, about who the GG had to turn out to be when unmasked?"
The hobegobelin what a great Idea. It was better than to create an another green gobelin. It was great till they decide to trick Everyone on who was really was the hobegobelin
That was the whole point from dsy one though Hobby was good until Preist fired Defalco and couldn't figure out who to reveal so decided to shoehorn Ned Leeds despite already having him killed.
