Doc Savage has been a staple of Bantam paperbacks over the years, and Greg Turner shares a brief history in this video! Check out Greg’s previous retro reviews on Doc Savage here for Doc Savage Magazine #1 and here for Doc Savage Comics #1 and #2. Full text: Hi, Greg Turner here, at Back To the…
This week with all the hype about the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers Versus the X-Men storyline/crossover I’d like to go back thirty-four (34) years and look at Marvel Comics’ Avengers # 53, cover dated June 1968. Take a look at the cover below and tell me if you notice something a bit similar. Yes, that’s right,…
Welcome back to the second Retro Review covering the pulp character, Doc Savage, in the comic books. This week I’ll be reviewing Doc Savage B & W Magazine # 1 from Marvel Comics. The magazine is cover dated August of 1975 and features a still of Ron Ely, as Doc Savage, from Doc Savage: The Man of…
This week I’d like to write about Doc Savage, maybe the world’s first super-hero. Specifically Marvel Comics Doc Savage # 1 & 2. But before I get to that I want to first mention that Doc Savage was created by Kenneth Robeson, actually a house name for Street & Smith, for the pulps, back in the…
Marvel Premiere # 26, Nov. 1975 This week I’m back to Marvel Comics and specifically, Marvel Premiere # 26, featuring Hercules. Hercules was introduced into the Marvel Universe, back in 1965, ten years earlier, in the Journey Into Mystery Annual # 1, where he battled the Thunder God, Thor! And here ten years later, Marvel was…
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! And because it’s that time of the year, today I’m Retro Reviewing, yes, I just turned my column’s name into a verb, D C Comics’ Batman # 219. Well technically, this review will be of the second Batman story in this issue. The first story entitled; “Death Casts…
Hey kids, comics! And this week I’m looking at The Brave and the Bold # 84, from D C Comics, cover dated July 1969. As I am sure you know Brave & Bold was DC’s Batman team-up book. It didn’t start out that way, but that’s what it turned into a couple of years before…
Hello and welcome to another edition of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW. This week I’m going to look at another comic book, but one from two publishers! Yes, that’s right, it’s one of the Special Collector’s Issues, or in this case, a Marvel Treasury Special, i.e. one of the oversized, ten by thirteen inch comics that Marvel…
Happy Friday to all my regular readers! This week I’m still going through Marvel Comics’ Marvel Premiere series. And today, that brings me to Marvel Premiere # 15, featuring Iron Fist! The comic is cover dated May, 1974 and has a nice Gil Kane and Dick Giordano cover. The comic provides the reader with the first look, as…
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving and be careful out there on Black Friday! Just to mix things up and throw you a bit of a curve, this week I’m going to stay with Marvel Comics, and also with Marvel Premiere, this time issue # 3. This issue is cover dated July 1972 and features;…