Welcome back to My Hero, where I tell you the story behind the weird and wonderful characters in our Custom Action Figure Collection. Today, we’re looking at a Marvel villain who only exists thanks to retcons, a version of the Red Skull whose main enemies are an outright fascist in a Captain America suit and…
Welcome back to My Hero, where we here at Back to the Past dip into our Custom Action Figure toybox and celebrate one of the obscure characters we find within. This week, that means we’re looking at Marvel’s Devil-Slayer! Our customized Devil-Slayer figure, currently on eBay. Atlas Comics Reborn From 1951 to 1957, the company…
Welcome to this week’s Fabulous Find, I hope you all are doing fine. This week I’ve pulled out of the vault the “King” Kirby Portfolio, dated 1971. This treasury size portfolio also goes by the name Kirby Unleashed. Why the two names? I’m not really sure. As you can see from the cover reproduced below, it simply…
Hey 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…