Welcome, one and all, to a brand spanking new RETRO REVIEW, brought to you, as always, from myself and the good folks at Back To The Past. Hard to believe that I’m in my ninth year of providing content to their website. Time definitely flies when you’re having fun! But enough with the cliques, time…
I’m back with a new Fabulous Find for you. And this week I’m featuring the 1978 Milton Bradley – Marvel Comics’ Incredible Hulk Game with the Fantastic Four. The game is intended for ages 7 to 12, so there is not a lot of skill involved in this one folks, but it can still be fun…
So we meet again. This week’s RETRO REVIEW features an independent comic book from Dancing Elephant Press. The comic is Jack Staff # 1 and it is cover dated April 2000. The comic was created, written and drawn by writer/artist Paul Grist. Or as it says on the interior of the front cover; Paul “The…
Hey, how you doin’? I’m back this week with a repeat Fabulous Find, looking at the 1975 Marvel Comics Slurpee cups. In 1975, I was a young man attending college and working in the college’s bookstore to earn some extra bucks and I discovered that the chain store, 7-11, was selling their slurpees in plastic cups…
Welcome back all, this week I’m once again going into the DC Comics annex of the comic book vault and I’ve pulled out the mini-series; Legends. There were six (6) issues in this mini-series and this is the comic book/series that John Byrne made his DC debut. These issues came out just before his Superman…
Greetings and salutations friends, fans and family. It’s time once again for a new Fabulous Find and this week I’ve gone to my bookshelf and pulled off the shelf, two books written by Walter Gibson, writing under the pseudonym of Maxwell Grant. The books in question are; Norgil The Magician and Norgil: More Tales of Prestigitection. The…
For this week’s RETRO REVIEW, I’m looking at the two issue series; The Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect that was published by Marvel Comics. The first issue is dated December 1992 and the second issue is dated January 1993. Or are they? My copies were bought fresh off the comic book rack when they came out and…
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a new edition of Fabulous Finds! I’m feeling in the mood for a little Barry Windsor Smith artwork, so I’ve pulled from it’s place of honor, on my shelf, the 1975 Gorblimey Press Shelf Stuff sketch book from the incomparable Barry Windsor Smith! This was published in 1975. It sold…
I’m not sure what the weather is like where you are reading this, but here in Michigan it is bitter cold! But I’m not going to let that stop me from writing up a new RETRO REVIEW. This week, I thought I’d pick out a comic from DC Comics, so I rummaged around in the…
I know I’m a couple of days early, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year before the year is over. 2017 has been a tough year on a lot of people, both physically and mentally, but we’ve manged to survive and get through it! Here’s to the new year, and I hope…