Retro Review: Avenger Annual # 7

Welcome back!  For this week’s RETRO REVIEW, it’s time to pull out a comic book from the Marvel Comics vault!  So what am I feeling this week?  How about an Avengers book, featuring our heroes battling the villain, Thanos?  Sounds good to me, or should that be sounds bad?  Anyway, this week’s book is Avengers…

Review of FOOM Magazine # 1

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…

Retro Review: The Fly # 1

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…

DC Comic Book Foldees

As most of you know, I’m more of a Marvel guy than a D C guy, at least when it comes to collectibles, so I’m sure I’ve featured more Marvel Comics items than D C Comics items, simply because I have more in my collection.  But this week, I want to feature a D C…

Retro Review: Green Lantern # 40

Howdy campers!  For this week’s RETRO REVIEW, I’ve visited the D C Comics annex of my extensive collection and brought to light Green Lantern # 40, cover dated October 1965!  This comic features the first Silver Age team up of the Silver Age (SA) Green Lantern, Hal Jordan and the Golden Age (GA) Green Lantern, Alan…

1978 Captain America Hand Puppet

Hey kids, it’s another Fabulous Find!  It’s been a while, so I thought I better pull out something cool this week.  So I’m featuring the 1978 Captain America hand puppet from Imperial Toy Corporation!  Here’s mine, still sealed in it’s plastic with an unpunched header card! I think he’s pretty cool and as Captain America…

Retro Review: Strange Tales # 178

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 ……

Comic Review: Scorpion # 1

I’m just back from vacation, but have no time to write up a Fabulous Find, or even do a quick new review, so I’m again reprinting one of my first columns from 2010.  I suspect many, if not most, of you have not had the chance to read it, so for your reading pleasure ……

The Eye Special # 1

Welcome back to another in my series of Greg Turner’s Fabulous Finds!  Number twenty-one ( # 21) to be exact.  And this week I’ve rummaged around in my fanzine section of my collection and pulled out The Eye Special # 1, dated Spring 1965.  This fanzine is the work of “super-fan” Biljo White, who was located in the city…