Greetings fellow comic fans and welcome to another edition of Greg Turner‘s Retro Review! This week I’m looking at D C Comics‘ The Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Man numbers three (#3) and four (#4). Issue number three was cover dated August 1982 and number four is cover dated September 1982, therefore both these books…
This week I’ve decided to write about the fanzine, The Heroine Addict. This fine fanzine, dedicated to Super-Heroines, was published beginning in September 1974, and ran till it’s final issue, #11, in the summer of 1977. Actually it then became Heroines Showcase, but I’ll leave those issues for another edition of Fabulous Finds! That version…
This week’s RETRO REVIEW looks at DC Comics’ Doom Patrol # 104, cover dated June 1966. It features a rare wedding in a comic book, between two comic book characters. But it didn’t make the headlines like the marriage of Reed and Sue (Storm) Richards or Peter (Spider-Man) Parker & Mary Jane Watson over at…
Happy Friday all! The weekend has arrived and also another edition of Greg Turner’s Fabulous Finds! This week I’ve dug into my basement wonderland and uncovered issue number five (5) of Jim Steranko’s Comixscene! It’s cover dated July – August 1973, and I purchased it at the 1974 Detroit Triple Fan Fair from Jim Steranko, himself! It’s the…
Hey kids, and those of us who refuse to give up the kid still inside of us, welcome back for another RETRO REVIEW. This week I’m going way back, to look at D C Comics’ Flash # 106, cover dated May 1959. The comic actually has two stories and it’s the second one that gets the…
Welcome! I’m glad you found your way back to my weekly RETRO REVIEW column, here at Back To The Past.tv. This week I’ve pulled out Adventure Comics # 306, from D C Comics, cover dated March 1963. It’s a book showcasing two separate series. The cover featured; Superboy and the back up story featuring the…
I WILL TELL YOU #63: Salvage Hawkman I think it’s high time to give some credit to comic fandom’s favorite whipping boy, Rob Liefeld. Now, I won’t say this poor guy gets picked on, but he takes more crap than my living room carpet after my dogs got into my stash of Miralax. And I’d…
Greg Turner revisits a very odd comic, indeed! Plop #1, debuting from DC Comics in 1973, looked to claim some of the readership of Mad Magazine. Here’s Greg’s retro review in video! Full Text: Hi, Greg Turner here, with something new this week, a video Retro Review! And for April Fools Day, I thought I’d…
Action Comics #1, for those who may not know, is the first appearance of Superman. Created by Joe Shuster & Jerry Siegel, this comic debuted with a 200,000 copy print run in 1938 with a cover price of ten cents. It’s likely the most recognizable classic comics cover, and has been reproduced and imitated countless…