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STRANGE TALES
#100: “The Man in
the Crazy Maze” |
Bob Gale (writer of “Back to the Future” and upcoming AMAZING SPIDER-MAN)
“Okay, I’m really dating myself here, but when I was ten or eleven years old, I read STRANGE TALES #100. I didn’t have a very big comics budget back then, so I read it in the drug store. The cover story was “The Man In The Crazy Maze” by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, about a guy who found himself stuck in a spook house from which the only exit was literally hell. I can’t say it exactly scared the crap out of me, but being a normal 5th grader who loved going into spook houses, I thought it was pretty creepy! And due to my overactive imagination, I think that NOT owning the comic always made it scarier in retrospect.”
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AMAZING
SPIDER-MAN #138:
The debut of Mindworm |
Bill Rosemann, (Marvel editor):
“So there I am, about eight years old, and I’m flipping through an issue of MARVEL TALES, which at the time was running reprints of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Anyway, this one issue reprinted AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #138, featuring the first appearance of Mindworm. I don’t know if it was his giant head, his bugged-out eyes, his bizarre mouth, his thinning but still long hair, his overly-muscled but pale body, his funky brown shorts or his hippy sandals…BUT HE SERIOUSLY FREAKED ME OUT!”
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