Fabulous Find Welcome back for another Fabulous Find! This time I’ll focus on a fanzine from the Seventies entitled, The Legion Outpost. If you can’t tell from the title, it’s a fanzine about D C Comics’ Legion of Super-Heroes comic book! The fanzine ran ten (10) issues. Though I’m only going to cover the first…
Fabulous Find It’s time for another Fabulous Find, and this week I bring you something that even I don’t have in my own personal collection! And what is this collectable, you ask? It’s the 1963 Ben Cooper Spider-Man Costume! 1963: Marvelmania (Well Not Quite) Well, back in the Fall of 1963, things at Marvel Comics were still…
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…
Howdy partners! And welcome back for another Retro Review! This week in honor of the new Thor movie, I thought I’d pull out a Thor issue, which actually turned into three issues! So heads up, I’ll try to make it quick … I’m looking at Marvel Comics’ Thor # 167 through # 169, cover dated,…
Happy Friday everyone! And to start off the weekend, I bring you a new Fabulous Find! Number twenty-six if you’re counting. This week I’ve dug out some early Comic Reader fanzines from my collection. I don’t have a complete run but I do own each issue from number ninety (90) to the end of it’s run with issue…
Quite a while ago I wrote about the 1973 D C Comics 7-11 Slurpee cups and I promised that I’d be back with the 1975 Marvel Comics 7-11 Slurpee cups. Well, here I am and it’s time! In 1975 I was in college and working in the college’s bookstore to earn some extra bucks and…
Welcome back! For this week’s RETRO REVIEW, it’s time to pull out a comic book from the Marvel Comics vault! So what am I feeling this week? How about an Avengers book, featuring our heroes battling the villain, Thanos? Sounds good to me, or should that be sounds bad? Anyway, this week’s book is Avengers…
Hey Ho, Faithful Followers, it’s Friday, so it’s time for another Fabulous Find! I hope you’re as excited as I am! Today I’ve pulled out the very first issue of FOOM magazine. And what exactly does FOOM stand for? Well, I’m glad you asked, it stands for; Friends Of Ol’ Marvel, coined by none other…
As most of you know, I’m more of a Marvel guy than a D C guy, at least when it comes to collectibles, so I’m sure I’ve featured more Marvel Comics items than D C Comics items, simply because I have more in my collection. But this week, I want to feature a D C…
Hey kids, it’s another Fabulous Find! It’s been a while, so I thought I better pull out something cool this week. So I’m featuring the 1978 Captain America hand puppet from Imperial Toy Corporation! Here’s mine, still sealed in it’s plastic with an unpunched header card! I think he’s pretty cool and as Captain America…