Volume 15, Number 6

Vol. 15, No. 6
June 2004
whole number 174
2004 pages 000-xxx

Volume 15, Number 5

Vol. 15, No. 5
May 2004
whole number 173
2004 pages 000-xxx

Volume 15, Number 4

Vol. 15, No. 4
April 2004
whole number 172
2004 pages 000-xxx

Volume 15, Number 3

Vol. 15, No. 3
March 2004
whole number 171
2004 pages 000-xxx

Volume 15, Number 2

Vol. 15, No. 2
February 2004
whole number 170
2004 pages 000-xxx

Volume 15, Number 1

Vol. 15, No. 1
January 2004
whole number 169
2004 pages 001-xxx

Volume 14, Number 12

Vol. 14, No. 12
December 2003
whole number 168
2003 pages 000-xxx

Volume 14, Number 11

Vol. 14, No. 11
November 2003
whole number 167
2003 pages 000-xxx

Volume 14, Number 10

Vol. 14, No. 10
October 2003
whole number 166
2003 pages 000-xxx

Volume 14, Number 9

Vol. 14, No. 9
September 2003
whole number 165
2003 pages 000-xxx

Volume 14, Number 8 - Extra Tags

Vol. 14, No. 8

Extra Tags

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Volume 14, Number 8

Vol. 14, No. 8
August 2003
whole number 164
2003 pages 057-064

Steve Ditko is on the front and back covers of this issue with a late chapter of his long series "A Mini-History" on the creation of Spider-Man, 13. "Speculation".  He features a then-recent quote by Lee on national TV discussing his tired old "saw a fly on the wall" version of the creation of the character, which even Lee admits might be made up. This also leads to one of my favourite Ditko quotes on the matter:

"A leap from a fly to a spider is like from man to a cannibal." -- S. Ditko

He goes into detail on what aspects of the creation he's familiar with and some thoughts about what might have been and what "creation" and "co-creation" means.

Matt Murphy talks about working with the then-recently passed Helen Meyer, publisher of Dell back in their heydey. 

Part 12 of the Robert Kanigher bibliography "Riddle Of The Sphinx" looks at part of 1976, which includes Ragman, Tarzan and some unpublished work like Savage World and Sextet.  

Part 11 of Paul Newman's bibliography, "Just Imagine", is up to 1955 and has him working at Dell, Timely, Avon, ME and Trojan, and that's just the A to F titles.

Lots of discussion in "Under The Gun", Snyder on Al Capp, a handwritten note by Hy Eisman on his career, Mark McMurray and David Transue on Ditko's "Avenging Mind", Murray Ward on Helen Meyer, Nick Caputo on an earlier "Mini-History" chapter, Jim Amash on Les Zakarin, Gary Kato on Mr. Jigsaw, Mike Ambrose on Jerry Grandenetti

Volume 14, Number 7

Vol. 14, No. 7
July 2003
whole number 163
2003 pages 000-xxx