RETRO REVIEW: Avengers # 201

It’s RETRO REVIEW week folks, and this week I’m looking at Avengers # 201 from Marvel Comics.  It is cover dated November 1980, and features an unusual cover, pencilled by George Perez and inked by Terry Austin, featuring Jarvis, the Avengers’ butler.  Take a gander: The comic actually has two separate stories within it’s covers.…

RETRO REVIEW: Showcase # 100

This week it’s time for another DC Comics RETRO REVIEW.  The comic in question is; Showcase # 100, cover dated May 1978.  It features a cover drawn by Joe Staton (pencils) and Dick Giordano (inks) and it proclaims the this “awesome Anniversary edition” showcases (yes, pun intended) “sixty (60) super-stars in a story it took…

RETRO REVIEW: Demon Hunter # 1

Welcome back to another Retro Review!  This week I’ve brought up from the comic book vault; Demon Hunter # 1, from  Atlas/Seaboard Comics.  It’s actually the one and only issue published, as the second issue never saw the light of day, as Atlas Comics collapsed only months after this first issue was published!  But that doesn’t mean that this…

The Heroine Addict Fanzine

This week I’ve decided to write about the fanzine, The Heroine Addict.  This fine fanzine, dedicated to Super-Heroines, was published beginning in September 1974, and ran till it’s final issue, #11, in the summer of 1977.  Actually it then became Heroines Showcase, but I’ll leave those issues for another edition of Fabulous Finds!  That version…