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,…
From Marvel Comics, cover dated January 1981, comes Daredevil # 168. It sports a cover drawn by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson and features a shadowing female figure poised above our hero, Daredevil. The caption on the cover reads; “Elecktra, once he loved her …now she is his most deadly enemy!” Well, except for…
It’s hard to believe that there was a time when once a comic saw print, it was, well, out-of-print. Miss that one issue, and you were screwed, especially in the distant days before the widespread existence of comic book shops. Maybe you’d luck out and find a tattered copy at the barbershop, or have a…
For this week’s Retro Review, I pulled out the three issue run of Captain America that Jim Steranko put together back in 1969. The issues were # 110, 111 and 113. Issue # 112 was written by Stan “The Man” Lee drawn by Jack “King” Kirby and was basically a point 1 (.1) issue, though…
With the return of Atlas Comics heroes to the comic shop this week, in the form of Wulf, I decided to pull out the original series from Atlas Seaboard, so this week’s Retro Review is of Wulf The Barbarian # 1 cover dated February 1975. The book would have hit the comic book stores /…
Welcome back to this week’s Retro Review. Today we’re looking at D C Comics’ The Brave And The Bold # 79 cover dated September 1968. It features a very nice Neal Adams’ cover of Batman and Deadman facing off against Deadman’s killer, the Hook! The story is entitled; “The Track Of The Hook“ and is…
This week I bring to your attention Dark Horse Presents # 1 published by Dark Horse Comics in July 1986. It’s an anthology book, the first in a series that ran for one hundred and fifty-seven issues, plus a number of annuals and the Fifth Anniversary Special that introduced the world to Frank Miller’s Sin…
Superman # 247, cover dated January 1972 was published by DC Comics. This issue features a nice Curt Swan/Murphy Anderson cover of the Guardians of the Universe passing judgement against Superman for “crimes against humanity!” Turning to the story inside, entitled; “Must There Be A Superman?”, it is written by Elliot Maggin, penciled by Curt…
Cover dated January 1965 was Marvel Comics’ Journey Into Mystery with The Mighty Thor # 112. The cover proclaimed “The Epic Battle of the Age!” “The Mighty Thunder God vs. The Incredible Hulk!” “Here it is! The battle you’ve been waiting for!” The cover was by Jack Kirby and showed the Mighty Thor in battle with the Incredible Hulk,…
The year was 1984, but don’t ask me exactly which month. I vaguely remember the late summer or early fall, but I could be wrong. I don’t remember, and the comic does not list any month on the cover, just the year 1984 and the fact that it was put out by Mirage Studies in the indicia on…