I Will Tell You #93: Top 5 Luckiest Comic Book Characters As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, everyone talks about the luck of the Irish, and keep on hoping that a little of that luck will help them find that pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow. It’s a time of year where…
Fabulous Find It’s time for another Fabulous Find, and this week I bring you something that even I don’t have in my own personal collection! And what is this collectable, you ask? It’s the 1963 Ben Cooper Spider-Man Costume! 1963: Marvelmania (Well Not Quite) Well, back in the Fall of 1963, things at Marvel Comics were still…
Okay, I decided to be nice and not make everyone wait for two weeks, for the second half, of this continued RETRO REVIEW. For those looking for my regularly scheduled Fabulous Find column, well, check back next week, as I’ve pushed it back so that I can offer up this column instead. So without further…
Hey kids, it’s another Fabulous Find! It’s been a while, so I thought I better pull out something cool this week. So I’m featuring the 1978 Captain America hand puppet from Imperial Toy Corporation! Here’s mine, still sealed in it’s plastic with an unpunched header card! I think he’s pretty cool and as Captain America…
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…
I Will Tell You #74: Top 5 Forgotten Spider-Man Stories A few weeks ago, you might recall that I recounted the five biggest missteps in the history of Spider-Man, timed to coincide with the release of Superior Spider-Man #1, the start of a controversial arc that many feel just might be the biggest misstep of…
Welcome back to another Fabulous Find. This week I’ve brought out a slightly weird item from my collection. A Marvel Comics finger puppet! I only own the Thor finger puppet, but I’ve got my eye out for the other three in the set. I don’t remember exactly when I bought my Thor, but it was…
Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #698-Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Superior Spider-Man #1. So this is the grand finale, the crescendo of demise. This is the happy ending where the bad guy goes down and dies. – James Allen (Glasvegas) The first question out of a person’s mouth when they find out that I enjoy/collect comic…
We’re giddy like a schoolgirl here at Back to the Past, because artist Ryan Stegman will be here to sign copies of the hotly debated Superior Spider-Man on the release date for the second issue, Wednesday January 30th. Stegman will be appearing from 3PM to 7PM, during which time any purchase of a Superior Spider-Man…