Last week, as you’ll remember, I talked about how DC Comics once again, inadvertently, found themselves victims of poor timing by publishing a story that didn’t set too well with some, in part because of its proximity to a real life event. The story, of course, was Superman renouncing his U.S. citizenship in Action Comics…
This week I spotlight Nova # 1, from Marvel Comics. It’s cover dated September 1976, and features a pretty nice cover by Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott, signed as B/S. With Marvel’s typical hype, it proclaims: “This is the Fabulous First Issue” and it is “in the Marvelous tradition of Spider-Man”. “It’s Marvel’s newest Bombshell!”…
It’s often been said that when comics pick up on a trend or world event, it’s pretty much history by that point. And that observation is usually noted with a sense of implicit criticism, rooted in the belief that either comics are just notoriously slow to keep up, or that they seem to be a…
This week I bring to your attention, Mr. Monster # 1, from Eclipse Comics. It’s dated January 1985, but not on the cover for some reason. This comic features a very nice drawing of our hero battling a werewolf, by creator Michael T. Gilbert on it’s cover. Mr. Monster is a fanatical monster hater with…
As I’ve mentioned in this column ad nauseum, the Detroit-area convention scene had been humming along comfortably enough with the annual and once-dominant Motor City Comic Con each spring, and for a time also included a smaller show each fall. That is, until last year, when Detroit Fanfare came along in October, establishing itself as…
Cover dated, January 1984, from D C Comics, this week’s RETRO REVIEW is The New Teen Titans # 38. The book is written by Marv Wolfman, pencilled by George Perez, and inked by Romeo Tanghal. The cover also features George Perez artwork, though not his best in my opinion, showing a trenchcoat wearing Robin searching…
For over two decades, Motor City Conventions pretty much had the metro Detroit comic / pop culture convention circuit to themselves, putting on the Motor City Comic Con, the only such large scale convention every spring, and for many of those years, also in the fall. That dynamic changed last year with the launch of…
From Marvel Comics, cover dated November 1980, is the first Moon Knight # 1. The character debuted five years previously in Werewolf by Night # 32 and # 33, in a story written by Doug Moench and drawn by Don Perlin during August 1975. The character proved popular with Marvel readers, and soon also guest-starred…
Last week, I thought I had finished my say regarding the topic of digital comics, and here I was all set to take a week off, but sure enough, I thought of a couple of footnotes. Like what, you’re dying to know? I will tell you, and you can’t stop me. In IWTY #22, I…
Welcome to another edition of RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ll be talking about DC Comics’ Camelot 3000, cover dated December 1982. This is the first of twelve issues, in what was DC Comics’ first Maxi-Series! Nope, not a little three or four issue mini-series. No sir, this was going to be a whopping twelve issues,…