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How Powerful is Captain Atom?

Chris Walker — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:00:30 +0000

Welcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! 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…

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The Story of the Golden Age Blue Beetle

Chris Walker — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:00:42 +0000

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…

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Fabulous Find: Magilla Gorilla Board Game

Greg Turner — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:00:13 +0000

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…

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Fabulous Find: Heroes ‘ Hangout # 5

Greg Turner — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:00:30 +0000

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…

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RETRO REVIEW: Captain Atom # 83

Greg Turner — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:00:47 +0000

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…

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RETRO REVIEW: The Complete Rog 2000

Greg Turner — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:00:35 +0000

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…

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RETRO REVIEW: Man of Steel # 1

Greg Turner — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:00:42 +0000

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…

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Strange Times & Places: Americomics feat. Charlton Heroes

Chris Walker — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:00:03 +0000

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…

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RETRO REVIEW: Flash Gordon # 13

Greg Turner — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:00:23 +0000

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…

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Fabulous Find: Art of Neal Adams Volume Two

Greg Turner — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:00:33 +0000

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…

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