Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and play hype-man for the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection. Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them…
As you can clearly see, Magilla is front and center and that’s the Pet Shop owner, Mr. Peebles’ who is slipping on a banana peel on the right. Sorry but I don’t remember the weiner dog’s name on the left. The game itself is pretty simple. In turn, each of two to four players spins…
Greetings, friends, fans and family. I’m back with a brand new Fabulous Find this week. And once again digging through my fanzine collection, I bring you Heroes’ Hangout # 5, dated in 1967. My best guess it was sent out late spring or early summer of ’67. This fanzine was published by Rudi Franke. Earlier…
It’s been a while since I reviewed a Charlton Comics Group comic book, so I’ve excavated my copy of Captain Atom, Volume 2, number 83, cover dated November 1966. For a too short period during the sixties, Charlton Comics tried their hand at producing super-hero comic books, or in their vernacular, Action Heroes! The hero that…
Hey there all, I’m back with a RETRO REVIEW (finally, some might say). This week I have pulled from the comic book vault The Complete Rog 2000, dated July 1982, and published by Pacific Comics. It magazine sized, i.e. 8 and 1/2 by 11 inches, rather than comic book sized. The contents are reprints of…
I’m not sure what the weather is like where you are reading this, but here in Michigan it is bitter cold! But I’m not going to let that stop me from writing up a new RETRO REVIEW. This week, I thought I’d pick out a comic from DC Comics, so I rummaged around in the…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where today we’re reviewing two comics that are rendered effectively an elseworld by the vagaries of copyrights and licensing – Americomics #3 and Americomics Special #1! How’s It Different? These stories were intended as continuations of the original Charlton Comics universe, originally composed for the second volume of…
Welcome to a new RETRO REVIEW! This week I’ve unearthed a Charlton Comics comic book for us to take a look at. The comic is: Flash Gordon # 13, cover dated April 1969. Charlton had just assumed the publishing of this character, as the first eleven (11) issues were published by King Features from September…
It’s another Fabulous Friday, therefore, it’s time for a new Fabulous Find. This week I’d like to talk about the second volume of the fanzine known as: The Art Of Neal Adams Volume Two. This, like Volume One, was published by Sal Quartuccio, and it is dated 1977. Like the first volume that I featured…
Hey there comic book fans! Welcome back for another edition of Fabulous Finds. This week I’m only going back to 1984. Wow, still over 30 years ago. That is a time when I was most involved with comic book fandom, as is witnessed by the fanzine I’ve pulled from my collection this week; It’s A…