For this week’s RETRO REVIEW, I’m going way, way back to the beginnings of the Silver Age and bringing out Mystery In Space # 53. this comic was published by DC Comics, at the time National Comics. It is cover dated August 1959 and features the new star of the comic, Adam Strange. Adam Strange…
Welcome back (once more) to Strange Times & Places, where I’m still honoring Avengers: Endgame by discussing A-Next #1. How’s It Different? This is a Royale With Cheese, spinning off from a For Want of a Nail story. It’s part of the MC2 universe, of which Spider-Girl was the flagship character. Many years ago, around…
Welcome once again to a new Fabulous Find post. This week I’m sharing an old fanzine, though it’s a recent addition to my collection; Woweekazowie! # 2. This fanzine was published in the Fall of 1976. I am not entirely sure who the actual publisher was. In Dale’s Comic Fanzine Price Guide (2015 edition) it…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today, in honor of Avengers: Endgame, we are talking about What If? #55-56: “What If the Avengers lost Operation: Galactic Storm”. How’s It Different? This is a For Want of a Nail story, spinning out of the Avengers crossover “Operation: Galactic Storm”. Named for the then-recent first…
Greetings and salutations! I’m glad you found your way back for a brand spanking new RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ve pulled out a classic, cover dated January, 1976; Captain America # 193. This comic was published by Marvel Comics, as if you didn’t already know. This issue features the return of Jack Kirby to Marvel…
Howdy, to all of you that have made it back to my weekly column. This week, again I am featuring a Fabulous Find. And that find is an album, an lp, a long player, if you may. It’s by an obscure British band named; The Mighty Groundhogs and the album is; Who Will Save the…
Hey, I decided to come back from vacation after all. I definitely enjoyed my time away and almost decided to retire my columns, but here I am, at least through the end of the year. At the end of the this year, I’ll have been doing these columns for ten (10) years. Can you believe…
Welcome back folks! We’re taking yet another detour from the schedule, in part because I didn’t get around to Titanic: The Animated Movie and partly because the new Hellboy flick in theaters really isn’t 1 out of 5 fodder – despite what the reviews say. Minor spoilers abound The Good Lobster Johnson, in-universe “The Lobster”,…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re jumping into the modern age of Amalgams by looking at one of Marvel’s Infinity Warps, Iron Hammer! How’s It Different? Gosh….For Want of a Royale With Cheese? It’s an alternate present created by the merging of various Marvel characters, with the (appropriately) two issue mini-series filling…
Welcome back nerds, geeks, and hopelessly lost normal folk! I’m doing something outside my usual formats this week and writing an ode to my favorite kind of comic book super-villain: the costumed mercenary. Wait, What Kind of Villain? Whether they are a mob hitman with a super-whip, corporate security with a cold gun, shape-shifting biker…