Hello again! It’s time for another edition of Fabulous Finds! Number eighteen (18) to be exact, and this week I’ll be writing about the Marvelmania club magazine entitled, oddly enough, Marvelmania Magazine! But the interesting story is that there were actually two separate number one issues! Say what? Yep, there was a sixteen page trial run…
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…
Howdy folks! And welcome to another Fabulous Find! This week I’m going back into my 1960’s Marvel stuff and pulled out a couple of Marvel mini books from 1966. There were six books in the series, based on their Marvel Comic counterparts, but I’ve only managed to secure two of the six mini books for…
Face Front Fans! It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW. And this week I’m looking at the Fantastic Four Special King Size Annual # 3, from the summer of 1965! And yes, it really says that on the cover, see for yourself: It also boldly proclaimed that it contained “72 Big Pages”, but only 23 of them were…
Greetings and salutations all, and welcome back to another edition of my RETRO REVIEW column! This week I’ve pulled out a little known comic from Charlton Comics. It’s Space: 1999 # 1, cover dated November 1975. It features a pretty nice painted cover by artist, Joe Staton. Take a look: The comic itself is based on…
Welcome back for another RETRO REVIEW, and this week I’m going back to an issue in the early Silver Age, with D C Comic‘s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen # 72. This comic is cover dated October 1963 and sports a very nice Curt Swan and George Klein cover! The cover features a few of the many transformations that…
This week’s RETRO REVIEW is Marvel Comics’ Captain Marvel # 17. The comic is cover dated October, 1969, and features a very nice Gil Kane and Dan Adkins cover. Not only does it show the good Captain Marvel front and center, but it also gives the reader another Captain, Captain America, that is, plus Bucky, well not exactly Bucky, it’s Rick Jones in…
The Crow was the creation of writer/artist James O’Barr and the prelude to the initial Crow story is found here in Caliber Presents # 1. It’s a moody and violent story looking at pain, revenge, love, death and retribution!
So I’ve been on vacation, did you miss me? Well I missed you! And now that I’m back, it’s on with the show! This week I’ve unearthed The Omega Men # 3, dated June 1983, from D C Comics. It’s got the introduction of a couple of new characters, including one that will make quite a…
Welcome back for another Retro Review! This week I’ve brought to light the first book, in the second series, of Marvel Comics’ comic book Marvel Feature # 1, cover dated November 1975. This issue presents the first color Red Sonja solo feature! Roy Thomas had first brought Marvel readers Red Sonja in the pages of Conan # 23 & 24, that…