Boy Howdy! It’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve visited the independent section of the comic book vault and brought up Mage # 1, of if you prefer, Mage The Hero Discovered # 1, cover dated May, 1984 published by Comico. Comico may have published this comic, but’s it’s the Matt…
It looks like spring/summer has finally arrived here in Michigan! And to celebrate here is a new Fabulous Find for you. This week I’ve got another pretty rare find, it’s the Marvel Comics Super 8 films from Ken Films. I only own two of the Marvel ones, but doing my due diligence online, I’ve identified…
Hello, hello, hello and welcome to this week’s RETRO REVIEW! It’s been quite a while since I wrote about one of my all time favorite fictional characters, the Shadow, so this week I’ve dug around in the DC Comics wing of my comic book vault and brought to light The Shadow # 2, cover dated…
In the words of Roy Orbison, I’m lonely and blue on a rainy, cold day in April, when it should be warm and sunny! But it brighten up my day, and hopefully yours, here is this week’s Fabulous Find. Lately I’ve been digging into my fanzine collection and so I’ve unearthed a nice fanzine for…
Hey there everyone! Time for a new RETRO REVIEW and this week it’s time once again to look at Marvel Comics. And with the movie doing so well, I thought I better select a Black Panther comic book, so I chose two, Black Panther # 14, cover dated March 1979 and Black Panther # 15,…
Welcome back to a new Fabulous Find. This week I’ve pulled out another terrific fanzine from my collection, it is The Golden Age # 2, published in 1966 by G.B. Love. Love was very involved in comic fandom during the early days and through the sixties. He is probably most well remembered as the publisher…
Greetings and salutations, all. Welcome to a new RETRO REVIEW and this week I’ve dug through the comic book vault and pulled out a couple of comics I forgot I even owned. They are Detective Comics # 569, cover dated December 1986 and Detective Comics # 570, cover dated January 1987. Both are published by…
I’m a little under the weather this week, so I’ve got to hurry this Fabulous Find, so it will be a “down and dirty” review of Abraxas # 1, a fanzine published in 1972 by Rickey Shanklin. It features a pretty cool cover by one of the great amateur fanzine artists that ever put pencil to…
Send up flare, or better yet, a rocket, it’s time for a new RETRO REVIEW! This week I’m looking at the magazine-sized Love and Rockets # 1 from Fantagraphics Books, cover dated September 1982. It’s a black and white comic book with color covers. And pretty much introduces the world to a trio of brothers, Gilbert,…
Hey ho, let’s go! I’m back with another new Fabulous Find this week and it has to do with that sixties Spider-Man theme song. I’m guessing that most, if not all my readers are familiar with that gem of a song. It was written and recorded for the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon/animated television show. It was…