Check it out, Groove-ophiles! While the honor-roll of Amazing Spider-Man artist are filled with an astonishing array of big-name talent (Ditko, Romita, Gil Kane and even...McFarlane...just to name names). Those of us who grew up during the Groovy Age have an abiding love for the underrated Ross Andru.
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Andru was mostly a DC guy during the Silver Age (Metal Men, Superman, Flash, World's Finest just to name a few), but during the Groovy Age, Ross made his Marvel doing a bit of work here and there before getting regular gigs on mags like Shanna the She-Devil, Doc Savage, and...you guessed it...Amazing Spider-Man. Ross's tenure lasted almost 60 issues--that's FIVE YEARS, baby--from ASM 125-185 (with a very few fill-ins). He outlasted two regular writers--Gerry Conway and Len Wein, then was called back to DC during Marv Wolfman's run.
Today we're gonna feature The Boss' work with Gerry Conway--a very, very important run, baby. After all, it was during the Conway/Andru spell we got The Punisher, Tarantula, Harry Osborne as the Green Goblin, the Jackal, Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker clones--okay, mebbe that's a good place to stop! Dig Andru's splashes from issues 125-149 (July 1973-July 1975), baby! Was he ever a master of dizzying, sky-high perspective!!
(And yeah, Eagle-eyed ones, some of these scans are from Marvel Tales--close 'nuff, will serve...)