RETRO REVIEW: The Punisher # 1

Welcome back BTTP fans!  This week for Greg Turner’s Retro Review I’ve pulled out Marvel Comics’ The Punisher #1, cover dated January 1986.  It’s billed as the first issue of a four issue limited series, the first mini-series featuring the Punisher!  The Punisher had first appeared twelve years earlier in Amazing Spider-Man #129, cover dated February 1974.…

RETRO REVIEW: Thor # 337

As part of Avengers month (plus), leading up to the opening of the movie; The Avengers, this week I am looking at Thor # 377, from Marvel Comics.  It is cover dated November 1983 and features a really strange looking image of the title character, Thor!  Or does it?  Who is this strange looking creature wearing…

Great Thor Stories!

Jim Johnson recounts some of the best Thor stories, since the character’s arrival in the Marvel Universe fifty years ago! From Jack Kirby and Stan Lee to Walt Simonson, you can’t go wrong with these classic tales. Full text: JJ here, Back to the Past Pop Culture TV, and this week I’m talking about the…