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…
Almost forgot to post today, but I hope you agree that it’s better late than never! At least I hope you feel that way. This week it’s time for another Marvel Comics review, so I’ve dug out Strange Tales # 130, cover dated March 1965. And for those is the know, they already know that…
Hello, once again, my friends and welcome to another Fabulous Find! Number twenty (20) if you’ve been keeping track. This week once again I search through my collection of comic related collectibles and I’ve come up with some items all relating to the comic strip and comic book character; Pogo! Pogo was/is the creation of…
Welcome back to another edition of Greg Turner‘s RETRO REVIEW! This week it’s time to turn our attention to a non D C or Marvel comic book, and as summer in Michigan has arrived, I decided to dig out Comico‘s Gumby’s Summer Fun Special, dated July 1987. It’s a really fun book and if you…
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…
Bonjour, mes amies! or in good ol’ English, Hello, my friends! Why the French greeting, you ask? Well, why not, I answer! This week I’ve ventured into the D C Comics section of my huge back issue collection and uncovered The Brave and the Bold # 93, cover dated January 1971. The book features an…
I Will Tell You #86: Motor City Comic Con 2013 The 24th springtime Motor City Comic Con is currently taking place at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI this weekend, May 17-19. This year’s show saw the usual mix of media celebrities including familiar names such as The Incredible Hulk’s Lou Ferrigno and Star…
Howdy folks! And welcome to another Fabulous Find! This week I’m going back into my 1960’s Marvel stuff and pulled out a couple of Marvel mini books from 1966. There were six books in the series, based on their Marvel Comic counterparts, but I’ve only managed to secure two of the six mini books for…
Face Front Fans! It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW. And this week I’m looking at the Fantastic Four Special King Size Annual # 3, from the summer of 1965! And yes, it really says that on the cover, see for yourself: It also boldly proclaimed that it contained “72 Big Pages”, but only 23 of them were…
Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve pulled out my copy of the 1965 flexible record entitled; “The Voices Of Marvel”. This was part of the 1965/1966 official Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit. Unfortunately, I did not join up back then, and therefore I do not have the rest of the kit, but I did…