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Fabulous Find: 1966 Marvel Super-Hero Cartoons

Greg Turner — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:00:47 +0000

Greetings and salutations, friends, fans and followers, it’s time for another Fabulous Find. This week I’ve set the wayback machine to 1966 where Marvel Comics’ characters hit the small screens of our televisions for the very first time. The animation may not have been much, but still, that was Marvel Comic book heroes on our…

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RETRO REVIEW: Tales of Suspense #80 & Tales to Astonish #82

Greg Turner — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:00:06 +0000

Welcome back! It’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’m stretching the review over two separate comic titles. First up is Tales of Suspense #80, then secondly Tales to Astonish #82. Well to be completely honest, I’m only looking at half of each of those comics. As most of you know, the…

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Fabulous Find: Amazing World of DC Comics # 15

Greg Turner — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:00:11 +0000

Welcome back to this week’s column/blog. I guess Chris and I are on the same wavelength, as he wrote about Wonder Woman in his column this week and I’ll be doing something similar today. For this week’s Fabulous Find I have dug around in the first box of fanzines I came across and pulled out Amazing…

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Fabulous Find: The California Pelican from 1965

Greg Turner — Fri, 12 May 2017 11:00:37 +0000

It is just about impossible to determine when and where the very first write-up on the still new and very cool Marvel Comics of the sixties was published, but in this week’s Fabulous Find, I just might have found one of the very first, if not the actual first publication. I don’t know for sure, but…

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RETRO REVIEW: X-Men #s 49 – 51

Greg Turner — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:00:58 +0000

It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW, so settle back and let’s turn the time machine back to 1968! This week I’ve unearthed from my collection X-Men numbers 49 through 51 from Marvel Comics. These three books are cover dated, October through December 1968, meaning that they would have been on the comic racks during the…

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Fabulous Find # 17: The Voices of Marvel Record

Greg Turner — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:54 +0000

Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve pulled out my copy of the 1965 flexible record entitled; “The Voices Of Marvel”. This was part of the 1965/1966 official Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit. Unfortunately, I did not join up back then, and therefore I do not have the rest of the kit, but I did…

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Retro Review: Tales of Suspense 57 Featuring Hawkeye and Black Widow!

Greg Turner — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:00:39 +0000

Greg Turner sets his wayback gaze upon the first appearance of Hawkeye in Tales of Suspense #57 from Marvel Comics, featuring Iron Man and the Black Widow. Full Text: This week I’ve dug into my collection and come out with Tales of Suspense # 57, from Marvel Comics. It is cover dated September 1964 and…

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