Hi good folks. I hope everyone is doing well here in December! I’m back this week with another Fabulous Find. It’s another fanzine, as a matter of fact. From Paragon Publications comes Femzine # 1, dated 1981. Paragon Publications is a company owned by writer/artist Bill Black. Here’s the front cover by Willie Blyberg and…
Hey everyone, welcome to a new RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ve pulled out the cover dated, January 1987, issue of Superman # 1 from DC Comics. This is the, dare I say it, reboot, or renovation, of the Superman titles after sales had plunged and the Superman titles had languished for far to long. DC…
Hey there fans, friends and family, welcome back for a new RETRO REVIEW. This week it’s time to once again visit the Marvel Comics annex of the hidden underground comic book vault. And I have emerged with two (2) comics in hand; Avengers # 181 & 182. They are cover dated March 1978 and April…
Time for a new RETRO REVIEW, and this week I’ve gone to the Treasury sized comics section of the vault and pulled out DC Comics’ All New Collectors Edition, Volume 7, Number C-56, or as it’s better known as, Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali. This was published in 1978 and that’s when I bought my copy,…
It’s RETRO REVIEW week folks, and this week I’m looking at Avengers # 201 from Marvel Comics. It is cover dated November 1980, and features an unusual cover, pencilled by George Perez and inked by Terry Austin, featuring Jarvis, the Avengers’ butler. Take a gander: The comic actually has two separate stories within it’s covers.…
While searching for something else to feature in this Fabulous Find column, I came across a forgotten program from a local Detroit convention I attended back in 1972. It was called the Detroit Tri Con 1972 and it was a spin off from the Detroit Triple FanFare conventions held during the same period. It was…
Since this week is a Holiday week, I thought I’d make it easy on myself and present a Fabulous Find that didn’t require a lot of writing on my part and I stumbled upon the perfect find while filing away something else entirely. It’s the 1981 Pretty Girl Sketchbook published, as a one-shot, from Paisley…
Good day, mates. It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW, and this week I’m pulling a book out from the Marvel Comics Group from 1984. It’s cover dated; April 1984 and the comic is; The Marvel Fumetti Book # 1. Normally I’d be telling you who drew the cover to lead into things, but this cover…
Welcome back to part two, in my two part, Fabulous Find column on the Witzend fanzines from Wally Wood and company! Though with issue # 6, Wally Wood is now only listed as the “illustrious founder” and the fanzine/prozine is now published by Ed Glasser and edited by Bill Pearson! Witzend # 6 I’ve owned my…
Welcome back for another Retro Review! This week I’ve brought to light the first book, in the second series, of Marvel Comics’ comic book Marvel Feature # 1, cover dated November 1975. This issue presents the first color Red Sonja solo feature! Roy Thomas had first brought Marvel readers Red Sonja in the pages of Conan # 23 & 24, that…