To celebrate the Fourth of July, AKA Independence Day, Back to the Past is counting down our Top Four Patriotic Superheroes! We’ll also give a rundown of each character’s key appearances for the collecting-minded among us. From the Golden Age to today, these are the most entertaining of comicdom’s many patriotic crusaders. #4. Liberty Belle…
Welcome back to My Hero! Each week, Back to the Past uses this column to tell you why the obscure characters from our custom action figure collection are great! 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…
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…
This week I’d like to feature the oversized magazine/book entitled; The Steranko History Of Comics. It was published in 1970 by Supergraphics, i.e. Jim Steranko himself. While researching this item on the internet, I’ve discovered my cover is actually a second printing, rather than the first printing I thought it was. This was determined by…
First let me open by wishing all my readers a Happy Fourth of July! And in honor of this most patriotic day, I choose to do a RETRO REVIEW on a patriotic hero! No, not the obvious, Captain America, who was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, but another lesser known patriotic hero, also…
Fabulous Find Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! This week I’ve brought to light the convention program book from the 1976 Marvel Comic Book Convention, held in New York City, entitled; Marvel-Con ’76! This was one of the last small cons before cons became a really big deal. Quickly comic book conventions went from small…