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Fabulous Find: E Pluribus Marvel # 5

Greg Turner — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:00:27 +0000

Welcome back to another Fabulous Find! I guess I’m just in a fabulous fanzine state of mind, so this week I’ve brought an “oldie, but goody” to light. Behold; E Pluribus Marvel # 5, published back in 1968, by editor Jay Zaremba. This fanzine is now fifty (50) years old, as a matter of fact…

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Fabulous Find: Pittsburgh Fan Forum # 9

Greg Turner — Fri, 06 May 2016 11:00:24 +0000

Almost fifty years ago a group of dedicated comic book fans came together in the city of Pittsburg, PA and formed the Pittsburgh Comix Club. Their love of comics became almost legendary, as their group got together and dressed as comic book characters and attended local comic book conventions, almost before “cosplay” was even invented.…

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Fabulous Find: 1972 Detroit Tri Con Program

Greg Turner — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:30:13 +0000

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…

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Fabulous Find: Fantastic Fanzine # 10

Greg Turner — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:30:56 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! It’s time once again for another Fabulous Find! And this week I’ve unearthed another great old fanzine. It seems I get the most feedback when I pull one of these babies out of my collection to share with you all, so I think you must like and appreciate my posts when I’m…

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Early Comic Reader Fanzines

Greg Turner — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:30:58 +0000

Happy Friday everyone! And to start off the weekend, I bring you a new Fabulous Find! Number twenty-six if you’re counting. This week I’ve dug out some early Comic Reader fanzines from my collection. I don’t have a complete run but I do own each issue from number ninety (90) to the end of it’s run with issue…

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Marvelmania Magazine # 1

Greg Turner — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:00:30 +0000

Hello again! It’s time for another edition of Fabulous Finds! Number eighteen (18) to be exact, and this week I’ll be writing about the Marvelmania club magazine entitled, oddly enough, Marvelmania Magazine! But the interesting story is that there were actually two separate number one issues! Say what? Yep, there was a sixteen page trial run…

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