Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past 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 to them…
I have a confession to make! Yes, I am hooked on series characters. Comics, of course, but also books! I guess it stems from my elementary school days, when I read The Hardy Boys series, written under the house name of Franklin W. Dixon. In 1959, the series underwent extensive revisions and were reissued in…
It’s time for a non Marvel and non DC Comics RETRO REVIEW this week, so I’ve dug through my boxes and have pulled out this Gold Key / Western gem of a comic, Doc Savage # 1, from November 1966. It’s features a great James Bama cover of Doc battling a snake! Take a look:…
A month or so ago I wrote about the , The Shadow Secret Society, and I mentioned that there was also a similar club for Doc Savage, The Brotherhood of Bronze. So I thought I’d show you what that membership kit looked like. As with the Shadow, the club was the brainchild of artist, Jim Steranko and was…