Thor: Love and Thunder has been blowing up at the box office! If you’ve seen it, you know that it ended with a major shift in the status quo for Thor. That’s the least spoilery way we can put it, and consider this your last warning to stop reading NOW unless you’ve either seen the…
Thor: Love and Thunder is now in theaters! That means the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally adapted the Marvel Comics tradition of mortals wielding Thor’s Hammer. Sure, Captain America picked up the hammer in Avengers: Endgame, but he wasn’t throwing around lightning and thunder. No spoilers will be found here, but after four blockbuster movies…
Welcome back to Hammer Drops! This week’s topic is comic book movies, how they’re adapting much more recent material, and how that changes key issues. The upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, set to feature Jane Foster as Thor in live action, will be our focus. Speaking of which, have you bought your tickets yet? They…
Welcome back to Strange Times & Places, where we’re jumping into the modern age of Amalgams by looking at one of Marvel’s Infinity Warps, Iron Hammer! How’s It Different? Gosh….For Want of a Royale With Cheese? It’s an alternate present created by the merging of various Marvel characters, with the (appropriately) two issue mini-series filling…
Hi gang! This week is going to have to be a new/old RETRO REVIEW, so I present The Silver Surfer # 4, from Marvel Comics, cover dated February 1969. First you are hit by the great John Buscema cover, featuring the Silver Surfer streaking at the Mighty Thor, who is poised to slam the Surfer with his…
It looks like spring/summer has finally arrived here in Michigan! And to celebrate here is a new Fabulous Find for you. This week I’ve got another pretty rare find, it’s the Marvel Comics Super 8 films from Ken Films. I only own two of the Marvel ones, but doing my due diligence online, I’ve identified…
Welcome back true believers. This week it’s time for a new Fabulous Find. And since I’ve just recently completed my set of the 1966 Marvel Donruss Super Heroes card set, I thought that this would be the perfect time to shine the spotlight on them. This set of cards is the very first set of…
Hey, Hey, Hey, it’s another Fabulous Find! This week I bring to your attention the 1968 inflatable Marvel plastic pillows from Marvel Comics and Massachusetts Art Pillows. Maybe you remember seeing them advertised in your Silver Age Marvel Comic books, I sure do. Though I have never had the pleasure of owning one, I did…
Howdy partners! And welcome back for another Retro Review! This week in honor of the new Thor movie, I thought I’d pull out a Thor issue, which actually turned into three issues! So heads up, I’ll try to make it quick … I’m looking at Marvel Comics’ Thor # 167 through # 169, cover dated,…
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…