Welcome back to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where movies that are awfully great (in a literal sense) get their due. This week, we will be examining the 1987 masterpiece of poorly executed action cinema known as The Miami Connection. What’s The Plot? A group of multiethnic orphan Taekwondo experts/rock musicians/college roommates/best friends…
DetailsWelcome back to One Out of Five – Would Recommend, a movie review column wherein movies that fail at drama are given respect for their unplanned comedy. This week, we’re singing the praises of 2003’s The Room. What’s the Plot? Saintly banker Johnny (played by writer/director/producer Tommy Wiseau) is cuckolded by his duplicitous future wife…
DetailsSaturday, March 28th – US & Foreign Coin Auction @11AM Eastern This session is both in the showroom and online – join us in person or live via Proxibid. 300 lots of gold and silver coins from the US And abroad. Type Coins from Large Cents to Dollars! Many pre-1900 and early-1900s dates represented. Browse the catalog, prebid and…
DetailsHey ho folks! This week it’s time once again to dig into the independent comic section of my collection. And I’ve come out with Planet of Vampires # 1, published by Atlas/Seaboard Comics and it has a February 1975 cover date. As most of you know Atlas/Seaboard was Martin Goodman‘s response to Marvel Comics for firing…
DetailsWelcome to 1 out of 5 – Would Recommend, where infamously bad films are given the respect they deserve. We start where the “genre” really takes off – 1959’s legendary Plan 9 from Outer Space! What’s The Plot? Aliens come to Earth to build an army of Zombie slaves in order to prevent mankind from…
DetailsWhile searching for something else to feature in this Fabulous Find column, I came across a forgotten program from a local Detroit convention I attended back in 1972. It was called the Detroit Tri Con 1972 and it was a spin off from the Detroit Triple FanFare conventions held during the same period. It was…
DetailsWelcome to yet another RETRO REVIEW. This week I have pulled out my copy of Flash # 123 from DC Comics. It’s cover dated September 1961, so it would likely have been on the comic book racks in June of ’61, right as summer vacation began for kids across the United States. In fact, the…
DetailsSaturday, February 21st – US and Foreign Gold and Silver Coin Auction @11AM Eastern This session is both in the showroom and online – join us in person or live via Proxibid. 285 lots of gold and silver coins from the US And abroad. Type Coins from Large Cents to Dollars! Many pre-1900 and early-1900s dates represented. Some paper…
DetailsI think it’s time for another look at one of my Big Little Books (BLB)from Whitman Publishing Company, Inc. of Racine, Wisconsin. So for this week’s Fabulous Find, I’ve reached for The Fantastic Four in The House of Horrors. It was published in 1968 in conjunction with Marvel Comics. Here’s the cover: The book has thick…
DetailsThis week it’s back to Marvel Comics for a new RETRO REVIEW. And I have selected Sub-Mariner # 8 for this one. The comic is cover dated December 1968, which means it was on the stands likely in September of 1968, just as summer was ending and all of us were going back to school. It features…
DetailsAnd a good day to all my fine readers! I hope everyone is doing well and thank you for coming back for another Fabulous Find. This week I’m looking at the fanzine; Infinity # 1. It was published in the summer of 1970 by Gary Berman with the help of Adam Malin and Richard Anders.…
DetailsIt’s time for a non Marvel and non DC Comics RETRO REVIEW this week, so I’ve dug through my boxes and have pulled out this Gold Key / Western gem of a comic, Doc Savage # 1, from November 1966. It’s features a great James Bama cover of Doc battling a snake! Take a look:…
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