Fabulous Find: Star*Reach # 1

This week for my Fabulous Find, I’m shining the light on Star*Reach # 1.  It’s from Star*Reach Productions and it’s dated April 1974.  As far as I know, Star*Reach Productions was Mike Friedrich, and Mike Friedrich was Star*Reach Productions.  But please correct me if I’m wrong.  So what is Star*Reach?  A regular comic?  An underground comic?…

Witzend Fanzines # 6 – 12

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…

Early Comic Reader Fanzines

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…

RETRO REVIEW: Thor # 337

As part of Avengers month (plus), leading up to the opening of the movie; The Avengers, this week I am looking at Thor # 377, from Marvel Comics.  It is cover dated November 1983 and features a really strange looking image of the title character, Thor!  Or does it?  Who is this strange looking creature wearing…

Great Thor Stories!

Jim Johnson recounts some of the best Thor stories, since the character’s arrival in the Marvel Universe fifty years ago! From Jack Kirby and Stan Lee to Walt Simonson, you can’t go wrong with these classic tales. Full text: JJ here, Back to the Past Pop Culture TV, and this week I’m talking about the…