Happy Friday! And welcome back to another RETRO REVIEW! This week I’m going a little outside the box and bringing to your attention the first issue of Chili from Marvel Comics, cover dated May 1969. And just who the heck is Chili, you ask? Well she’s been Millie the Model‘s friend, rival and fellow model…
Welcome back to another Fabulous Find brought to you by Greg Turner! This week I’ve dug deep into my collection of cool things and dug out some H-O scale micro super-heroes based on the Marvel Comics characters! And what the heck am I talking about you ask? Well, hang on, and I’ll tell and show you!…
Avengers vs. X-Men has reached its conclusion, leaving the intrepid Cyclops rotting in a cell. A fitting result for the leader of the X-Men? Sean Pigeon offers a few examples of AVX justice from the Avengers side, like Scarlet Witch and Namor, and questions the outcome in this video segment that all Avengers and X-Men…
Welcome back to another RETRO REVIEW and happy Friday! This week I’ve dug out The Trouble With Girls # 1. It’s from Malibu Comics and is cover dated August 1987. The comic is black and white with a cover cover drawn by Tim Hamilton. The story is entitled; “Meeting Girls” and it is created and written by…
Welcome back to another Fabulous Finds (# 5)! This week I’m featuring one of my all time, personal, favorite, fabulous finds, The 1967 or 1968 Marx Marvel Super Hero Express Train. I’ve heard that this is considered the Holy Grail of Marvel Collectibles. According to the 2007 Marvel Silver Age Collectibles book by J. Ballman, it…
Sean Pigeon becomes a fan of sex robots after reading Casanova, by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba! He’ll tell you all about it in this quick video review of Casanova Book 1-3.
This week’s RETRO REVIEW looks at DC Comics’ Doom Patrol # 104, cover dated June 1966. It features a rare wedding in a comic book, between two comic book characters. But it didn’t make the headlines like the marriage of Reed and Sue (Storm) Richards or Peter (Spider-Man) Parker & Mary Jane Watson over at…
Hi, Greg Turner here, with Back To The Past Pop Culture TV, and I’d like to talk to you about those, by gone days, when the only thing featuring Marvel super-heroes were the comic books themselves. Or at least that was so until 1966 and 1967, when Lancer Books published six “Collector’s Albums”, reprinting some…
This week we’re looking at another cool Silver Age comic; Daredevil # 43 from Marvel Comics. It is cover dated August 1968, so it likely was on the comic spinner racks at the beginning of the summer of that year. The great cover, by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott, jumps out at you and grabs your immediate attention!…
I love the character Cyclops. I’ve never in all my years reading comics ever understood why people thought he was a boring character. Especially X-Men fans who feel that way, when the final page of the X-Universe is written it’ll be from Scott Summers perspective. He was Xavier’s first X-Man, and I would assume that…