In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, because October has a fifth week, we head back to October 1983 to see a memorable visit between Spider-Man and the kid who collects Spider-Man!In September 1983, Marvel tried out an unusual company-wide event. Dubbed “Assistant Editors’ Month,” it was the brainchild of Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief at the time, Jim Shooter, but was directed mostly by Mike Carlin. Carlin recalled the origin of the event to Danny Fingeroth in a great discussion about it in TwoMorrows’ Back Issue #19:As a general rule, the books that participated went for humorous approaches to stories (with some of the comics only even acknowledging the month-long event in a humorous back-up that had nothing to do with the main story in the issue.), but there were some exceptions, and one fo them was “The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man,” a short story that Roger Stern had written with the intent for regular Amazing Spider-Man artist, John Romita, Jr. to draw it, but instead, editor Danny Fingeroth assigned it to Ron Frenz, and it was published as part of Assistant’s Editor Month (it came out in very early October, so it was a late story for Assistant Editor’s Month, but there was no September 1983 issue of Amazing Spider-Man, so it was all good). It was published in Amazing Spider-Man #248’s second story, “The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man” by Stern, artist Ron Frenz, inker Terry Austin, colorist Christine Steele and letters by Joe Rosen.25 Years Ago, Spider-Man’s History Restarted With a ‘Chapter One’
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, because October has a fifth week, we head back to October 1983 to see a memorable visit between Spider-Man and the kid who collects Spider-Man!
In September 1983, Marvel tried out an unusual company-wide event. Dubbed “Assistant Editors’ Month,” it was the brainchild of Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief at the time, Jim Shooter, but was directed mostly by Mike Carlin. Carlin recalled the origin of the event to Danny Fingeroth in a great discussion about it in TwoMorrows’ Back Issue #19:
As a general rule, the books that participated went for humorous approaches to stories (with some of the comics only even acknowledging the month-long event in a humorous back-up that had nothing to do with the main story in the issue.), but there were some exceptions, and one fo them was “The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man,” a short story that Roger Stern had written with the intent for regular Amazing Spider-Man artist, John Romita, Jr. to draw it, but instead, editor Danny Fingeroth assigned it to Ron Frenz, and it was published as part of Assistant’s Editor Month (it came out in very early October, so it was a late story for Assistant Editor’s Month, but there was no September 1983 issue of Amazing Spider-Man, so it was all good). It was published in Amazing Spider-Man #248’s second story, “The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man” by Stern, artist Ron Frenz, inker Terry Austin, colorist Christine Steele and letters by Joe Rosen.
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