Welcome back BTTP fans! This week for Greg Turner’s Retro Review I’ve pulled out Marvel Comics’ The Punisher #1, cover dated January 1986. It’s billed as the first issue of a four issue limited series, the first mini-series featuring the Punisher! The Punisher had first appeared twelve years earlier in Amazing Spider-Man #129, cover dated February 1974.…
DetailsAnother Saturday of fun is coming up on August 25th from 12 noon to 4PM as we host the Monsters of Carnage film-making crew and their bevy of beautiful bikini girl cannibals! Swing by and enjoy a hot dog, some nifty horror related collectibles and other surprises to be revealed. Enjoy yourself and help a…
DetailsRather than another Retro Review this week, I thought I might start a new column that will alternate with my Retro Review column and I’ve decided to call it Fabulous Finds! Though the column name isn’t set in stone, so if you’ve got a better name for this column, please let me know in the…
DetailsThis week RETRO REVIEW takes a look at a little known comic book, entitled; Redfox. This comic is published by English publisher Harrier Comics and is cover dated January 1986. The character of Redfox herself, first appeared in a fanzine, by the name of Dragonlords. Fox, the comic’s artist and creator, used the strip to comment…
DetailsIt’s Friday, so that must mean it’s time for another RETRO REVIEW! This week to recognize the third and final Dark Knight series movie, I’ve pulled out Batman # 181, cover dated June 1966, from D C Comics. This is the issue that introduces Poison Ivy! It features a nice cover drawn by the team…
DetailsSan Diego Comic-Con 2012 As Comic-Con International San Diego, as it’s officially known, or SDCC, as it’s known to Twitter sitters, concludes, it’s clear that the con is unwilling to let something as absolute as physical space deter or stunt its growth. On the contrary, a trip outside any of the exits of the cavernous…
DetailsBack to the Past Comics & Pop Culture Warehouse in Redford, MI is tickled green to be hosting the Zombies of Carnage fundraiser carwash in association with a bikini-clad throng of hot zombie girls! It’s weird, it’s fun and it will help a local Motor City film project get funded! A donation of $10 gets…
DetailsONLINE ONLY Eclectic Pop Culture Auction Thursday, July 26th at 6:00 pm Excellent online-only 300 lot auction featuring comic books, paper, ephemera, postcards and more! Says auctioneer Andy Cirinesi, “Leading Up To Our HUGE Multi-Session Fall Collectible Spectacular (This September/Details To Follow), we Offer This 300 Lot Auction of Comic Books (Golden Age, Silver Age…
DetailsWelcome! I’m glad you found your way back to my weekly RETRO REVIEW column, here at Back To The Past.tv. This week I’ve pulled out Adventure Comics # 306, from D C Comics, cover dated March 1963. It’s a book showcasing two separate series. The cover featured; Superboy and the back up story featuring the…
DetailsSan Diego Zombie Con With reports nationwide of crazed individuals eating their own intestines, or other people’s faces, or even the family dog, many have fancifully proclaimed the onset of a pending zombie apocalypse. In San Diego, California, there are indeed signs of such an apocalypse that not-so-coincidentally ties into next weekend’s Comic-Con International, but…
DetailsThis week the RETRO REVIEW is back from vacation and looking at The Amazing Spider-Man # 50, from Marvel Comics, cover dated July 1967. The story is written by Stan Lee, with the pencils by John Romita Sr., with inks provided by Mike Esposito, under the name of Mickey Dimeo. It features a classic cover drawn…
DetailsI WILL TELL YOU #63: Salvage Hawkman I think it’s high time to give some credit to comic fandom’s favorite whipping boy, Rob Liefeld. Now, I won’t say this poor guy gets picked on, but he takes more crap than my living room carpet after my dogs got into my stash of Miralax. And I’d…
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