Greetings and welcome back for another edition of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW. This week, by popular demand, well actually maybe not, I bring to your attention, Dazzler # 1, cover dated March 1981, from the Marvel Comics Group! This comic is written by Tom DeFalco and is pencilled by John Romita Jr., with inks provided…
This week I’m writing about Jon Sable, Freelance # 1, from First Comics. The comic is cover dated December 1983 and features a very nice Mike Grell cover. It’s done as a black and white drawing with red accents, as you can see to the left. The story is entitled; The Target” and is is…
Greetings and salutations! This week’s Retro Review looks at D C Comics Blue Devil # 1, cover dated December 1984. It’s got a great ‘romance-style’ cover by artist Paris Cullins announcing that the book features Danny and Sharon’s first date! Wow, that certainly would have had the young boys lining up to buy this comic,…
This week I spotlight Nova # 1, from Marvel Comics. It’s cover dated September 1976, and features a pretty nice cover by Rich Buckler and Joe Sinnott, signed as B/S. With Marvel’s typical hype, it proclaims: “This is the Fabulous First Issue” and it is “in the Marvelous tradition of Spider-Man”. “It’s Marvel’s newest Bombshell!”…
This week I bring to your attention, Mr. Monster # 1, from Eclipse Comics. It’s dated January 1985, but not on the cover for some reason. This comic features a very nice drawing of our hero battling a werewolf, by creator Michael T. Gilbert on it’s cover. Mr. Monster is a fanatical monster hater with…
Cover dated, January 1984, from D C Comics, this week’s RETRO REVIEW is The New Teen Titans # 38. The book is written by Marv Wolfman, pencilled by George Perez, and inked by Romeo Tanghal. The cover also features George Perez artwork, though not his best in my opinion, showing a trenchcoat wearing Robin searching…
From Marvel Comics, cover dated November 1980, is the first Moon Knight # 1. The character debuted five years previously in Werewolf by Night # 32 and # 33, in a story written by Doug Moench and drawn by Don Perlin during August 1975. The character proved popular with Marvel readers, and soon also guest-starred…
Welcome to another edition of RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ll be talking about DC Comics’ Camelot 3000, cover dated December 1982. This is the first of twelve issues, in what was DC Comics’ first Maxi-Series! Nope, not a little three or four issue mini-series. No sir, this was going to be a whopping twelve issues,…
Welcome back to this week’s installment of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW, and this week we’ll be looking at Iron Man # 55, from Marvel Comics, with a cover date of February 1973. The cover features Iron Man in battle with two creatures, billed as The Blood Brothers, and a third figure who is crashing through…
Today I bring you Cerebus the Aardvark # 4, cover dated June 1978, from Aardvark Vanaheim. The little independent comic that just wouldn’t go away! Dave Sim began this comic with a one page submission, showing a funny aardvark character bouncing up and down on a horse, riding into a town, drawn in a…