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RETRO REVIEW: Swamp Thing # 7

Greg Turner — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:22:05 +0000

This week, I bring to light Swamp Thing # 7, published by DC Comics, it is cover dated December 1973. It features a moody cover of the Swamp Thing clinging to a side of a building with the Batman swinging through the air, toward him, on his bat-rope. The cover is both penciled and inked by…

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Fabulous FInd: Anomaly # 2

Greg Turner — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:00:28 +0000

In the words of Roy Orbison, I’m lonely and blue on a rainy, cold day in April, when it should be warm and sunny! But it brighten up my day, and hopefully yours, here is this week’s Fabulous Find. Lately I’ve been digging into my fanzine collection and so I’ve unearthed a nice fanzine for…

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RETRO REVIEW: Batman # 237

Greg Turner — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:00:36 +0000

I’m still in the midst of the “Big Move” So once again this week, I am bringing back one of my oldest RETRO REVIEWs for you reading enjoyment. This was originally posted in January 2010, so most of my readers of today will have not seen it before, and I suspect only of couple of…

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Fabulous Find: The House of Mystery paperback books

Greg Turner — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:00:05 +0000

Welcome back for another Fabulous Find. This week I’ve pulled from my collection two (2) paperback books that were published by Warner Paperback Library in conjunction with National Periodical Publications, i.e. DC Comics in 1973. They are The House of Mystery # 1 and The House of Mystery # 2. Both books contain short stories written…

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Fabulous Find: The Studio Book

Greg Turner — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:00:56 +0000

Hey ho everyone! Sorry that I’ve been missing for the last two weeks. Hope you didn’t miss me too much. What’s that? You didn’t even know I was gone? Well, whether you missed me or not, I’m back this week, with a new Fabulous Find. And I’ve brought along the 1979 first edition book, entitled;…

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Fabulous Find: Infinity # 1 Fanzine

Greg Turner — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:00:37 +0000

And 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.…

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Fabulous Find: Esquire Magazine March 1972

Greg Turner — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:30:48 +0000

Hello and welcome to a new Fabulous Find! This week it’s a little off the beaten track, but I think it’s pretty cool comic related collectible. Hope you do to! What I’ve pulled out of my collection is the March 1972 issue of Esquire Magazine. This magazine was published by Esquire , Inc. out of…

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1975 ACBA Sketchbook

Greg Turner — Fri, 02 May 2014 11:30:25 +0000

Salutations friends and family! It’s once again Friday, and that means it’s time for another Fabulous Find! And this week I’m headed back into the fanzines I own and pulled out the 1975 ACBA Sketchbook! It was published by the Academy of Comic Book Arts, or the ACBA, for short. It’s basically a forty-eight page…

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Witzend Fanzines # 6 – 12

Greg Turner — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:30:26 +0000

Welcome back to part two, in my two part, Fabulous Find column on the Witzend fanzines from Wally Wood and company! Though with issue # 6, Wally Wood is now only listed as the “illustrious founder” and the fanzine/prozine is now published by Ed Glasser and edited by Bill Pearson! Witzend # 6 I’ve owned my…

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CPL # 11, a 1974 Fanzine

Greg Turner — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:30:25 +0000

Welcome once again to another Fabulous Find! This week I thought I’d spotlight one of my favorite fanzines, CPL, or it’s proper name; Contemporary Pictorial Literature! With a name like like it’s got to be good, right? The issue I’m going to be speaking about this time around is issue number eleven (11). It was…

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