Welcome back for this week’s Retro Review! And what do we have today? How about D C Comics’ Challengers Of The Unknown # 45, cover dated September 1965. The story this issue is entitled; “The Queen Of The Challenger-Haters!” But the first thing the comic buyer back in 1965 would have seen was the…
From Marvel Comics, cover dated January 1981, comes Daredevil # 168. It sports a cover drawn by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson and features a shadowing female figure poised above our hero, Daredevil. The caption on the cover reads; “Elecktra, once he loved her …now she is his most deadly enemy!” Well, except for…
This week I bring to you, Eclipse Comics’ Sabre # 1 & 2, cover dated August 1982 & October 1982. These first two issues of the new series from Eclipse Comics, though it actually repints the graphic novel, Sabre, published by Eclipse, four years earlier. All on-line information I could find says the graphic novel was published…
Picking up from his first appearance and origin story in DC Comic’s Showcase # 73 (cover dated April 1968), this week’s Retro Review features DC Comic’s Beware The Creeper # 1, cover dated June 1968. It features a very nice Steve Ditko cover, that he provides both the pencils and inks for, showing a rain spattered cityscape…
For this week’s Retro Review, I pulled out the three issue run of Captain America that Jim Steranko put together back in 1969. The issues were # 110, 111 and 113. Issue # 112 was written by Stan “The Man” Lee drawn by Jack “King” Kirby and was basically a point 1 (.1) issue, though…
With the return of Atlas Comics heroes to the comic shop this week, in the form of Wulf, I decided to pull out the original series from Atlas Seaboard, so this week’s Retro Review is of Wulf The Barbarian # 1 cover dated February 1975. The book would have hit the comic book stores /…
Welcome back to this week’s Retro Review. Today we’re looking at D C Comics’ The Brave And The Bold # 79 cover dated September 1968. It features a very nice Neal Adams’ cover of Batman and Deadman facing off against Deadman’s killer, the Hook! The story is entitled; “The Track Of The Hook“ and is…
This week for my Retro Review, I bring Marvel Comic’s Marvel Team-Up # 61, Featuring Spider-Man and The Human Torch, which is cover dated September 1977. The cover is not signed, but I believe it is penciled by Al Milgrom and inked by Joe Sinnott. It’s nicely done and features Spider-Man asking … “Why are…
This week I bring to your attention Dark Horse Presents # 1 published by Dark Horse Comics in July 1986. It’s an anthology book, the first in a series that ran for one hundred and fifty-seven issues, plus a number of annuals and the Fifth Anniversary Special that introduced the world to Frank Miller’s Sin…
Retro Review returns with the September 1967 issue of Sugar & Spike from D.C. Comics. As always with this comic book series, cartoonist Sheldon Mayer does it all, well at least, he writes and draws the thing! He did the cover as well. This issue is billed as one of the Summer Vacation Issues and…