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…
Fabulous Find Welcome back to another edition of Fabulous Finds! I know this should be a RETRO REVIEW week, but I thought I’d go ahead and hit you with part two of my Legion Outpost fanzine post. This week I’ll be focusing on issues six through ten of The Legion Outpost. So without further ado…
Fabulous Find Welcome back for another Fabulous Find! This time I’ll focus on a fanzine from the Seventies entitled, The Legion Outpost. If you can’t tell from the title, it’s a fanzine about D C Comics’ Legion of Super-Heroes comic book! The fanzine ran ten (10) issues. Though I’m only going to cover the first…
Happy New Year everyone! I’m back with a new RETRO REVIEW! And it’s a little different this time. What’s that? Well, my review isn’t really a comic book and it’s not that retro (i.e. old)! But I still feel it qualifies, so there! I first discovered this book, or if you’d rather call it a…
Greetings and Happy Holidays to my friends and blog/column followers. I’m taking a short break during the Christmas season, i.e. two weeks, but I’ll be back the second week of the New Year with another new RETRO REVIEW, to be followed with a new Fabulous Find the very next week! So please stay tuned. I…
Fabulous Find It’s time for another Fabulous Find, and this week I bring you something that even I don’t have in my own personal collection! And what is this collectable, you ask? It’s the 1963 Ben Cooper Spider-Man Costume! 1963: Marvelmania (Well Not Quite) Well, back in the Fall of 1963, things at Marvel Comics were still…
I Will Tell You #90: A Christmas Tale; or, Santa Claus and Superman Hang Out and Do Shots at The North Pole “Never have I ever . . . eaten 4 billion cookies in one night.” The older, heavier man ever so slightly wrinkled his brow upon hearing this sentence, stroking his long…
Greetings fellow comic fans! And happy Friday the thirteenth! This week I’ve unearthed a more recent comic book for my RETRO REVIEW column. It’s from Image Comics, released under their short-lived Cliffhanger banner … Battle Chasers # 1, cover dated April 1998! This first issue features a very nice wrap-a-round cover by creator Joe Madureira (or…
Fabulous Find Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve brought to light the convention program book from the 1976 Marvel Comic Book Convention, held in New York City, entitled; Marvel-Con ’76! This was one of the last small cons before cons became a really big deal. Quickly comic book conventions went from small…
RETRO REVIEW Happy day after Thanksgiving, or as they say in the retail trade, Black Friday! This week’s RETRO REVIEW is from DC Comics. The book in question is … Rip Hunter — Time Master # 18, cover dated February 1964. The original Rip Hunter series ran twenty-nine (29) issues, so this one is about two-thirds through…