I Will Tell You #73: Top 5 Marvel Titles That Are Wholeheartedly Totally Awesome-like Hi folks; there will be no fables, personal anecdotes, or long-winded stories this week. It’s another back-to-basics look at the medium we all love: comics. And specifically, several comics that many of us really do seem to love. More specifically, Marvel…
Welcome back for another Retro Review! This week I’ve brought to light the first book, in the second series, of Marvel Comics’ comic book Marvel Feature # 1, cover dated November 1975. This issue presents the first color Red Sonja solo feature! Roy Thomas had first brought Marvel readers Red Sonja in the pages of Conan # 23 & 24, that…
I Will Tell You #72: Ramblings About Comics Buyer’s Guide and Stuff If you’re young enough to proficiently navigate your way to this page on a smartphone, then you might be a little too young to remember The Big Three in comics. I’m obviously not talking about Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Or Thor, Iron…
A month or so ago I wrote about the , The Shadow Secret Society, and I mentioned that there was also a similar club for Doc Savage, The Brotherhood of Bronze. So I thought I’d show you what that membership kit looked like. As with the Shadow, the club was the brainchild of artist, Jim Steranko and was…
Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #698-Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Superior Spider-Man #1. So this is the grand finale, the crescendo of demise. This is the happy ending where the bad guy goes down and dies. – James Allen (Glasvegas) The first question out of a person’s mouth when they find out that I enjoy/collect comic…
I Will Tell You #71: The Unsinkable Spider-Man Happy New Year, everybody! It’s a brand new day! For us and Spider-Man! Unless your smartphone is broken, your internet is out, and you’ve gained too much weight over the holidays to climb the steps out of your parents’ basement, you undoubtedly know that tomorrow sees the…
Welcome back to another Retro Review! This week I’ve brought up from the comic book vault; Demon Hunter # 1, from Atlas/Seaboard Comics. It’s actually the one and only issue published, as the second issue never saw the light of day, as Atlas Comics collapsed only months after this first issue was published! But that doesn’t mean that this…
I Will Tell You #70: The Year That Didn’t Suck Ever have one of those days that sucked so bad it was too depressing even for a country song? You know, one of those stereotypical girl-left-me, dog-ran-away, front-porch-toilet-is-clogged-again type songs. Of course you have. We all have. If I may, I will tell you about one of…
I Will Tell You #69: The Jester And The King 2013 It seemed like a dreary day as the king slouched in his throne, his mind unsettled, his tense and wrinkled brow resting against his hand, a hand that partially obscured his vision as though to shield his gaze away from the next troubling matter…
Trashman is a rare underground superhero created and drawn by Spain (a.k.a. Manuel Rodriguez) who appeared regularly in underground comix and magazines from 1968 through 1985. Trashman’s first appearance was as a full page serial comic strip in the New York City underground newspaper, the East Village Other. After Spain moved from New York City to San Francisco in 1970, three…