While searching for something else to feature in this Fabulous Find column, I came across a forgotten program from a local Detroit convention I attended back in 1972. It was called the Detroit Tri Con 1972 and it was a spin off from the Detroit Triple FanFare conventions held during the same period. It was…
Welcome to yet another RETRO REVIEW. This week I have pulled out my copy of Flash # 123 from DC Comics. It’s cover dated September 1961, so it would likely have been on the comic book racks in June of ’61, right as summer vacation began for kids across the United States. In fact, the…
I think it’s time for another look at one of my Big Little Books (BLB)from Whitman Publishing Company, Inc. of Racine, Wisconsin. So for this week’s Fabulous Find, I’ve reached for The Fantastic Four in The House of Horrors. It was published in 1968 in conjunction with Marvel Comics. Here’s the cover: The book has thick…
This week it’s back to Marvel Comics for a new RETRO REVIEW. And I have selected Sub-Mariner # 8 for this one. The comic is cover dated December 1968, which means it was on the stands likely in September of 1968, just as summer was ending and all of us were going back to school. It features…
And a good day to all my fine readers! I hope everyone is doing well and thank you for coming back for another Fabulous Find. This week I’m looking at the fanzine; Infinity # 1. It was published in the summer of 1970 by Gary Berman with the help of Adam Malin and Richard Anders.…
It’s time for a non Marvel and non DC Comics RETRO REVIEW this week, so I’ve dug through my boxes and have pulled out this Gold Key / Western gem of a comic, Doc Savage # 1, from November 1966. It’s features a great James Bama cover of Doc battling a snake! Take a look:…
Welcome back to another Fabulous Find. I’m your host, Greg Turner, and this week I bring you a companion post to the Fabulous Find from two weeks ago. It’s the Paragon Pretty Girl Portfolio from Paragon Publications. Since both items came out in 1981, I’m not sure which one hit the market first, but I’m…
Bonjour, friends, fans and followers and anyone who has just stumbled upon my post. It’s once again time for a new RETRO REVIEW. And this week it’s time for the spotlight to shine on DC Comics. So I’ve pulled out a rather strange example of changing the status quo on a book from the late…
Since this week is a Holiday week, I thought I’d make it easy on myself and present a Fabulous Find that didn’t require a lot of writing on my part and I stumbled upon the perfect find while filing away something else entirely. It’s the 1981 Pretty Girl Sketchbook published, as a one-shot, from Paisley…
Welcome back for a new RETRO REVIEW. Anyone following the Back To The Past auctions know that last Saturday, December 13, 2014, we auctioned off a CGC graded, 9.8, Hulk # 181 for over Eighty-two hundred dollars. So I decided I’d pull out my own copy of that issue and use it for this week’s…