Welcome back for another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve pulled out the first five (5) issues of the fanzine, Witzend! The fanzine was the brainchild of artist Wallace (Wally) Wood. The first issue was dated the Summer of 1966 and issue five was dated October of 1968. As Wood stated on his “Statement of NO…
This week’s RETRO REVIEW looks at Iron Man #s 10 & 11 from Marvel Comics. They are cover dated; February and March 1968. Issue number ten (10) sports a cover drawn by George Tuska and inked by Frank Giacoia. And here it is: Iron Man # 10 The issue is entitled; “Once More … The…
It’s Friday, so it must be time for another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve pulled out some small plastic figures that were only available from your local McDonalds‘ restaurants. Yep, this beauties were the happy meal toys from back in 1991. They feature Warner Brother cartoon characters with snap on super-hero costumes, featuring DC Comics…
Welcome once again to another Fabulous Find! This week I thought I’d spotlight one of my favorite fanzines, CPL, or it’s proper name; Contemporary Pictorial Literature! With a name like like it’s got to be good, right? The issue I’m going to be speaking about this time around is issue number eleven (11). It was…
Hi everyone and welcome to another Fabulous Find! This week, in honor of The Beatles first American television appearance, fifty years ago this week, on the Ed Sullivan show, I thought I’d share a couple of my Beatles collectibles for you viewing pleasure! And I might even link to a Beatles YouTube video if I…
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…
Fabulous Find Welcome back to another edition of Fabulous Finds! I know this should be a RETRO REVIEW week, but I thought I’d go ahead and hit you with part two of my Legion Outpost fanzine post. This week I’ll be focusing on issues six through ten of The Legion Outpost. So without further ado…
Fabulous Find Welcome back for another Fabulous Find! This time I’ll focus on a fanzine from the Seventies entitled, The Legion Outpost. If you can’t tell from the title, it’s a fanzine about D C Comics’ Legion of Super-Heroes comic book! The fanzine ran ten (10) issues. Though I’m only going to cover the first…
Greetings and Happy Holidays to my friends and blog/column followers. I’m taking a short break during the Christmas season, i.e. two weeks, but I’ll be back the second week of the New Year with another new RETRO REVIEW, to be followed with a new Fabulous Find the very next week! So please stay tuned. I…
Fabulous Find It’s time for another Fabulous Find, and this week I bring you something that even I don’t have in my own personal collection! And what is this collectable, you ask? It’s the 1963 Ben Cooper Spider-Man Costume! 1963: Marvelmania (Well Not Quite) Well, back in the Fall of 1963, things at Marvel Comics were still…