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Gold Key’s Owl: A Batman Knock-Off Twice Over

Chris Walker — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:58 +0000

Welcome back to My Hero, wherein we here at Back to the Past identify and delve into the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection. Years ago, we purchased the life’s work of an artist and comic fan whose chosen medium was granting forgotten comic characters the action figure immortality denied to them by…

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Fabulous Find: Pittsburgh Fan Forum # 9

Greg Turner — Fri, 06 May 2016 11:00:24 +0000

Almost fifty years ago a group of dedicated comic book fans came together in the city of Pittsburg, PA and formed the Pittsburgh Comix Club. Their love of comics became almost legendary, as their group got together and dressed as comic book characters and attended local comic book conventions, almost before “cosplay” was even invented.…

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Fabulous Find: Art of Neal Adams Volume Two

Greg Turner — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:00:33 +0000

It’s another Fabulous Friday, therefore, it’s time for a new Fabulous Find. This week I’d like to talk about the second volume of the fanzine known as: The Art Of Neal Adams Volume Two. This, like Volume One, was published by Sal Quartuccio, and it is dated 1977. Like the first volume that I featured…

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Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane # 34

Greg Turner — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:00:13 +0000

Welcome once again to a new RETRO REVIEW. This week it’s time to dig in the DC Comics section of my comic book vault. And I’ve brought up from the depths, Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane # 34. The comic is cover dated July 1962 and features a two-part imaginary story within the comic, plus…

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RETRO REVIEW: Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen # 72

Greg Turner — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:30:40 +0000

Welcome back for another RETRO REVIEW, and this week I’m going back to an issue in the early Silver Age, with D C Comic‘s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen # 72. This comic is cover dated October 1963 and sports a very nice Curt Swan and George Klein cover! The cover features a few of the many transformations that…

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