Due to modern technology, you’re reading this Retro Review while I am on a business trip out of state. So first let me say; Greetings from Cincinnati! Now on to the regularly scheduled Silver/Bronze Age review column. This week, I present The Silver Surfer # 4, cover dated February 1969. First you are hit by a…
DetailsCover dated November 1968, and featuring a nice Joe Kubert cover, cameThe Atom and Hawkman # 39, sub-titled; The Titan and the Fury! Previously there had been an Atom comic book and also a Hawkman comic book, but suddenly they were merged into one book, continuing the numbering of the Atom series. Obviously these two heroes…
DetailsWho am I? Why am I here? I will tell you. Eventually. But first, if you don’t recognize that opening line beyond its literal meaning, then your memory of politics doesn’t go back as far as mine. Which means you’re probably younger than I am. But that’s OK; lots of people are. And what does…
DetailsThis week, I present Marvel Comics’ Master of Kung Fu # 44, cover dated September 1976. It features a cover drawn by “big” John Buscema and inked by Al Milgrom. The story inside the comic is entitled; “Prelude:Golden Daggers (A Death Run)”. The book if you didn’t know, featured Shang-Chi, the son of the dreaded Oriental…
DetailsI love to pick up cheap trades at Cons, and at the recent C2E2 show I grabbed the second “X-Men vs. Apocalype” trade. This trade reprints the the “Twelve” story from the late 90’s early 2000’s, (I am too lazy to go look for the exact dates,) and while it isn’t a good store, it…
DetailsToday for your comic book collecting habit, I submit to you, DC Comics’ Metal Men # 45, cover dated May 1976. The original Silver Age Metal Men series ended with issue # 41, cover dated January 1970. Three years passed and then three reprint issues appeared (#s 42 through 44), then another three years pass and Metal Men # 45…
DetailsZombies have taken over comics, the mall, movies, and recently classic books by Jane Austin and Charles Dickens, and now they are coming for The Beatles! This takes place in an upcoming book, Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, by author Alan Goldsher. Pocket books has announced it’s purchase of the book, which asks; “What if…
DetailsGreetings fellow Back to the Past fans. I’m back again, to bring to your attention a comic from the Silver Age (this time)! The comic in question, Not Brand Echh # 2, published by Marvel Comics and cover dated September, 1967. Yes that’s right, it would have been on sale during the summer of love, 1967! …
DetailsDC Comics Presents # 26, cover dated October 1980 starred Superman and Green Lantern, plus it also featured a Sargon The Sorcerer back-up story AND also included a sixteen (16) page new Teen Titans special previwe comic story. WOW, all that for only 50 cents! The cover shows Superman being menanced by Green Lantern, who is…
DetailsI read all the time about the comic death of the comic book. This argument takes many different forms. Some say that with the dawn of the digital age, that it is only a matter of if, and not when comics go away. Others argue that if the price on books continues to go up,…
DetailsAs promised, here I am to write about the second part of the DC/Marvel crossover begun in DC’s Aquaman # 56. That story was cover dated April 1971, and the second and final part of the story took place in Marvel’s Sub-Mariner # 72, cover dated September 1974. Yep, it took three years to finally complete. The writer,…
DetailsThis week I’d like to offer up the final issue of DC’s Aquaman, # 56, cover dated April 1971. The story is entitled; “The Creature That Devoured Detroit!” and it is written by Steve Skeates and beautifully drawn by Jim Aparo. The story begins with a “normal joe” coming home and turning on the television to watch Johnny Carson on The…
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