This week, my Retro Review covers Nexus # 2 & 3 from Capitol Comics. Issue # 2 is dated June 1982 and is printed in a larger magazine size (7 & 3/4 by 10 & 3/4), as are issues # 1 & 3. Each of the original three issues, a mini-series, are printed in this larger…
This week I present DC Comics’ Metal Men # 36, cover dated March 1969. It’s got a terrific Mike Sekowsky/Dick Giordano cover featuring small-sized Metal Men pulling a small cart being driven by a giant Clown! Yes you heard me right, I said a Giant Clown! Enough to cause nightmares to those that find clowns just a little bit…
For this week’s Retro Review, let’s take a look at Marvel Comics Group’s The Avengers # 57. This is the comic that introduced the Vision to the Marvel mythos! It’s got a wonderful symbolic cover of the Vision towering over the Avengers, done in a completely red hue, by the great John Buscema! The story is…
This week I would like to offer DC Comics’s All-Star Comics #s 64 and 65, cover dated February and April 1977, for my retro review(s). Issue # 64 features a beautiful Wally Wood cover featuring three members of the legendary Justice Society of America, Superman, the Flash and Hawkman, along with two members of the Super Squad,…
Welcome back! This week it’s time to delve into the independent boxes again and see what we can pull out. From Eclipse Comics, it’s Aztec Ace # 7, cover dated October 1984. It features a beautiful cover by Dan Day and Tom Yeates. The story is entitled: “Murdicide” and it was written by Doug Moench, with…
I’m going to go back a little farther into my collection for this retro review. Way back to Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four # 16, cover dated July 1963. This issue is entitled “The Micro-World Of Doctor Doom!” and features a special guest star; the amazing Ant-Man! It’s written by Stan “the Man” Lee and penciled by Jack…
I’m back, after a week off, to attend a family funeral out of state in Kentucky. I hope you didn’t miss me too much! This week I’m writing about a more obscure offering, Caliber Comics’s Baker Street # 1, from March 1989. Caliber Comics was formed by Michigan book store owner, Gary Reed, during the late…
This week, we’re looking at DC Comics’ Doom Patrol # 121, cover dated October 1968. It features a nice graveyard scene cover by Joe Orlando, showing tombstones of Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and Robotman. It also asks the question; Is this the beginning of the end of the Doom Patrol? You Decide! That just reaches out and grabs you, doesn’t…
Hope you don’t mind me stealing your tagline, Greg, but here is my old review of the second Scott Pilgrim graphic novel from about five years ago. This review originally appeared in Comics Buyer’s Guide sometime in late ’05 or early ’06. I gave this 3 stars out of 4, per CBG’s grading system. Scott Pilgrim…
Cover dated August 1974, Marvel comics published: Giant-Size Man-Thing # 1. How did they ever get that title by the Comics Code? Marvel had been publishing the Man-Thing in Adventure Into Fear beginiing in 1972 and he had grduated to his own title in 1974. Then in 1974 and 1975 Marvel Comics published a large number…