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RETRO REVIEW: Godzilla # 1 & 2

Greg Turner — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:00:25 +0000

Glad you found your way back for this week’s RETRO REVIEW. Thanks for following my meager efforts! As I promised, this week I’ve dug deep, deep, into the vault, and I was back in the Marvel section once again. While there, I unearthed a comic featuring another big, green, guy, but not the Incredible Hulk…

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Fabulous Find: 1976 Marvel Bicentennial Calendar

Greg Turner — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:00:52 +0000

It’s time for another new Fabulous Find. And since it’s been quite a while since I focused on those great Marvel Comics calendars (in fact it’s been almost four years, see my post, dated August 10, 2012), I think it’s time to look at the second one, from 1976, I bring you The Mighty Marvel…

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Fabulous Find: Blast Magazine # 1

Greg Turner — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:00:14 +0000

The weather is terrific here in Michigan, so let’s blast off with a new Fabulous Find on this fine Friday! And from the depths of the vault I bring you … Blast Magazine # 1, cover dated February 1971. Blast was a Mad Magazine wanna be. It was published by G & D Publications of…

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RETRO REVIEW: Spectacular Spider-Man # 1

Greg Turner — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:00:56 +0000

Time for a new RETRO REVIEW, and this week it’s The Spectacular Spider-Man # 1, from Marvel Comics, cover dated July 1968. This is the black and white magazine issue that sold for 35 cents back in 1968, when regular comic books were still 12 cents a piece. This is the only issue of this magazine…

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