urrutiap Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 The original Amazing Spiderman from the 1960s to the 1990s. Worst issues I think are from 161 to 186. Peter didnt graduate from college because he skipped Gym class silversurfer275 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bababooey Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 (edited) The original Amazing Spiderman from the 1960s to the 1990s. Worst issues I think are from 161 to 186. Peter didnt graduate from college because he skipped Gym class Wrong.... the worst issue is the one with this page in it and only because of this page. Edited November 26, 2016 by bababooey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Amazing Spider-Man #208 was such a let down to me that I did not read another amazing spider-man for 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeezy McSphincter Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 (edited) I was venturing into ASM back issues at the time and was on a tremendous hot streak until I hit ASM 264. It's near the top of my all-time comic disappointments. Red 9! Edited November 26, 2016 by Bubb Rubb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldust40 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 ASM 361, the first Carnage ish. The title had been on the downturn for some time, but this was pretty tired stuff, despite its popularity. Led to even worse things, especially Maximum Carnage, which was horrendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisInBaltimore Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 The original Amazing Spiderman from the 1960s to the 1990s. Worst issues I think are from 161 to 186. Peter didnt graduate from college because he skipped Gym class That 161 to 186 run was pretty awful. Those issues were so cookie cutter too that it felt really boring. Worse issue for me was without a doubt the One More Day stuff, but you did say the 90s. I survived a lot of bad stuff, but I still struggle with Spidey since OMD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 ASM 361, the first Carnage ish. The title had been on the downturn for some time, but this was pretty tired stuff, despite its popularity. Led to even worse things, especially Maximum Carnage, which was horrendous. Not really too keen on Mark Bagley's early work. He did get a lot better. The preceding issues by Erik Larsen haven't aged well. Storywise, downhill for quite a while during this period. I preferred the J. M. Dematteis stories in Spectacular Spider-Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageComics Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Amazing Spider-Man #208 was such a let down to me that I did not read another amazing spider-man for 10 years. That was the first issue I ever received through subscription. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnusX Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 [font:Book Antiqua]“Sins Past” (ASM #509-514) J. Michael Straczynski [/font] :sick: :sick: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Amazing Spider-Man #208 was such a let down to me that I did not read another amazing spider-man for 10 years. That was the first issue I ever received through subscription. Mine was Nova 18. Another classic. One of the preceding issues had a crossover with ASM 171, not distributed in the UK, and I shouldn't have bothered hunting down a copy because it's an incredibly lame murder 'mystery'. Terrible issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazingbob Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Silver age issues of AS #36, 38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Agree, the first appearance of the "guy named Joe" issue #38 was lousy, but the next issue #39 was the greatest ASM issue of them all !!!!! FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 There are a couple of good things in 38. Norman Osborn hiring thugs to take out Spidey, Spidey punching the dummy because it reminds him of Ned Leeds. But the main story is pretty bad. silversurfer275 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I stopped reading it shortly after 300, but I'd say the worst run was in and around the 180s. As a general rule, I find late 1970s Marvels lack the certain secret sauce that most Marvels have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zosocane Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I stopped reading it shortly after 300, but I'd say the worst run was in and around the 180s. As a general rule, I find late 1970s Marvels lack the certain secret sauce that most Marvels have. This and this. I stopped reading around #288 or so, and the post-Hobgoblin issues (after the mid 250s) were bad. Story but particularly art. I dropped the title to go to college, little did I know that a Spidey Renaissance came starting with issue 298. At one point I was enjoying PPTSS much more than ASM. I learned that while Al Milgrom wasn't the greatest technical artist, he was a terrific story-telling artist a la Ditko. Yes, late 70s Marvels were God-awful. Then JIm Shooter took lead and the ship was righted. Von Cichlid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 The original Amazing Spiderman from the 1960s to the 1990s. Worst issues I think are from 161 to 186. Peter didnt graduate from college because he skipped Gym class Wrong.... the worst issue is the one with this page in it and only because of this page. What many do not realized is that Romita JR was brought in to do that DPS after the comic had already been scripted and written. Even Marvel had no idea what they were really doing which is why at the bottom there is the disclaimer that says, "Don't ask us." I agree... it is the worst issue ever. It actually caused me to lose my enchantment with comics in general. However, it did make me stop buying almost all current books and focus on Silver keys and some Golden Age that I wanted to focus on. Instead of a $100 a month habit, I started using that money in other places. So... at least there is that. silversurfer275 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatfund Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 The original clone story, 139-150. bad idea then, got worse later years later, and then got even worse. You can't beat a bad one that keeps coming back to haunt you. Of course you did have spidey keeping the golden typewriter or whatever it was and then the brand new day storyline; but nothing compares to the clone storyline. Readcomix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urrutiap Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 From 161 to 186 of the original Amazing Spider Man, the things that were just awful weird Punisher guest star issues even the one with Jigsaw. Punisher acted weird. Didnt even act like the gruff violent Punisher at all. the Reptron bad guy or whatever his name was. A rip off of The Lizard basically lousy Kingpin guest starring the so called wonderful college graduation for Peter. He missed Gym class of all classes. Yeah he goes around flipping through the city in the air with the spider webs and his agility but come on. He ditched Gym class the whole time in college? silversurfer275 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peakerjer Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 A Brand New Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Aldred Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 I was in the LCS soon after this appeared, and a guy I’d never seen before was quietly talking about comics with one of the employees, when he suddenly moved out, stood in the middle of the store and shouted … “HAVE YOU READ THAT ONE MORE DAY? IT’S BLOODY MINT !!!” I was very impressed with someone being capable of enthusing about comics quite so intensely, an ability I lost a long time ago, too jaded now, and over such an atrocious storyline. Never seen him since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
