This week I’d like to feature the oversized magazine/book entitled; The Steranko History Of Comics. It was published in 1970 by Supergraphics, i.e. Jim Steranko himself. While researching this item on the internet, I’ve discovered my cover is actually a second printing, rather than the first printing I thought it was. This was determined by…
Happy Friday everyone! It’s time once again for another Fabulous Find! And this week I’ve unearthed another great old fanzine. It seems I get the most feedback when I pull one of these babies out of my collection to share with you all, so I think you must like and appreciate my posts when I’m…
Welcome back to part two, in my two part, Fabulous Find column on the Witzend fanzines from Wally Wood and company! Though with issue # 6, Wally Wood is now only listed as the “illustrious founder” and the fanzine/prozine is now published by Ed Glasser and edited by Bill Pearson! Witzend # 6 I’ve owned my…
Welcome back for another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve pulled out the first five (5) issues of the fanzine, Witzend! The fanzine was the brainchild of artist Wallace (Wally) Wood. The first issue was dated the Summer of 1966 and issue five was dated October of 1968. As Wood stated on his “Statement of NO…
It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW, so settle back and let’s turn the time machine back to 1968! This week I’ve unearthed from my collection X-Men numbers 49 through 51 from Marvel Comics. These three books are cover dated, October through December 1968, meaning that they would have been on the comic racks during the…
Quite a while ago I wrote about the 1973 D C Comics 7-11 Slurpee cups and I promised that I’d be back with the 1975 Marvel Comics 7-11 Slurpee cups. Well, here I am and it’s time! In 1975 I was in college and working in the college’s bookstore to earn some extra bucks and…
Hey Ho, Faithful Followers, it’s Friday, so it’s time for another Fabulous Find! I hope you’re as excited as I am! Today I’ve pulled out the very first issue of FOOM magazine. And what exactly does FOOM stand for? Well, I’m glad you asked, it stands for; Friends Of Ol’ Marvel, coined by none other…
Hello fellow comic book fans and welcome to another RETRO REVIEW! This week it’s time for another review of a comic that doesn’t come from the big two, i.e. Marvel or D C Comics! So I’ve dug deep into my collection and brought to light The Fly # 1, cover dated May 1983, from Red Circle (an…
Well when it rains it pours. First vacation interrupts my column and now computer problems cause a major slow down and eventual fix! But because of this, I’m running yet another reprint. But unless you’ve been here from the very beginning of my columns, I doubt you’ve read this one! So without further ado ……
Hello again! It’s time for another edition of Fabulous Finds! Number eighteen (18) to be exact, and this week I’ll be writing about the Marvelmania club magazine entitled, oddly enough, Marvelmania Magazine! But the interesting story is that there were actually two separate number one issues! Say what? Yep, there was a sixteen page trial run…