Happy Friday all! The weekend has arrived and also another edition of Greg Turner’s Fabulous Finds! This week I’ve dug into my basement wonderland and uncovered issue number five (5) of Jim Steranko’s Comixscene! It’s cover dated July – August 1973, and I purchased it at the 1974 Detroit Triple Fan Fair from Jim Steranko, himself! It’s the…
Hey kids, and those of us who refuse to give up the kid still inside of us, welcome back for another RETRO REVIEW. This week I’m going way back, to look at D C Comics’ Flash # 106, cover dated May 1959. The comic actually has two stories and it’s the second one that gets the…
Growing up, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Wolverine. I didn’t not like him, I just tended to lean towards a different set of characters. Every kid I knew loved Michelangelo from the Turtles, my favorite was Leonardo. When G.I. Joe was huge, every kid loved Snake Eyes, my loyalty was and will always be…
Welcome back to Fabulous Finds # 2! This week I want to talk about a 45 RPM record I recently purchased via eBay. It’s entitled; Nobody Loves The Hulk! and is done by The Traits! There is not a lot of information, that I can find, about the group; The Traits or this record. As everyone…
The winter of 1994 was when I discovered my first taste of freedom. Every Wednesday, since getting into comics the year previously, my mother was dealt the thankless task of picking my friend Chris and I up from school. Like the saint that she was, she would then take us to our local comic shop…
Tuesday August 28th would be the late Jack “the King” Kirby’s ninety-fifth birthday. In celebration of everything this legend has given us, it’s time we do our part in sharing all of his wonderful creations with others by taking part in the 3rd annual “Read Comics in Public” day. Why, not that long ago, comics were looked down…
Welcome back BTTP fans! This week for Greg Turner’s Retro Review I’ve pulled out Marvel Comics’ The Punisher #1, cover dated January 1986. It’s billed as the first issue of a four issue limited series, the first mini-series featuring the Punisher! The Punisher had first appeared twelve years earlier in Amazing Spider-Man #129, cover dated February 1974.…
Rather than another Retro Review this week, I thought I might start a new column that will alternate with my Retro Review column and I’ve decided to call it Fabulous Finds! Though the column name isn’t set in stone, so if you’ve got a better name for this column, please let me know in the…
This week RETRO REVIEW takes a look at a little known comic book, entitled; Redfox. This comic is published by English publisher Harrier Comics and is cover dated January 1986. The character of Redfox herself, first appeared in a fanzine, by the name of Dragonlords. Fox, the comic’s artist and creator, used the strip to comment…
It’s Friday, so that must mean it’s time for another RETRO REVIEW! This week to recognize the third and final Dark Knight series movie, I’ve pulled out Batman # 181, cover dated June 1966, from D C Comics. This is the issue that introduces Poison Ivy! It features a nice cover drawn by the team…