Happy Friday everyone! It’s time once again for another Fabulous Find! And this week I’ve unearthed another great old fanzine. It seems I get the most feedback when I pull one of these babies out of my collection to share with you all, so I think you must like and appreciate my posts when I’m…
Hi kiddies … This is Greg Turner, your able caretaker of the RETRO REVIEW column! Come on in … I’m gonna tell you a story about this li’l comic book, published by DC Comics, called House of Mystery # 178! It’s cover dated February 1969, though technically it would be Jan. – Feb. 1969, as the comic was…
Hola amigos! It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW! And this week I’ve dug into the D C Comics section of my man cave, and pulled out Teen Titans # 20, cover dated April 1969! It’s got a nice moody cover pencilled and inked by Nick Cardy. And here it is for your viewing pleasure: The…
Welcome once again to another Fabulous Find! This week I thought I’d spotlight one of my favorite fanzines, CPL, or it’s proper name; Contemporary Pictorial Literature! With a name like like it’s got to be good, right? The issue I’m going to be speaking about this time around is issue number eleven (11). It was…
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 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…
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…
Welcome back to the fun that never ends! It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW, and this week it’s from D C Comics! And the comic in question is an early Silver Age gem, Action Comics # 242, cover dated July 1958. I wasn’t actually reading comics back in ’58, but I do remember picking up this…
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…
Bonjour, mes amies! or in good ol’ English, Hello, my friends! Why the French greeting, you ask? Well, why not, I answer! This week I’ve ventured into the D C Comics section of my huge back issue collection and uncovered The Brave and the Bold # 93, cover dated January 1971. The book features an…