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Fresh Eyes On Old Books #11 by Dan!
It’s a Sunday afternoon, so we all know what that means! Old-timey comics! Conan The Barbarian #8 from 1971 Oh the Bronze Age… A little less lighthearted than the Silver Age, and nowhere near as gritty as the present. So we get titles like Conan. You might remember the Schwarzenneger movie of the same name, but surprise(!)… there was a comic first. This issue of Conan is exactly what you’d expect it to be, a quest for treasure, an enemy that becomes a friend, and Conan having to run away from someone trying to capture him. Once you add in … Continue reading
Posted in DC, Marvel, Reviews, Silver Age
Tagged Bronze Age, Conan, Enemy Ace, Hero for Hire, Joe Kubert, Luke Cage, Powerman, Silver Age, WWII
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It Came From the Back Room #10
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school year now in full gear), this amounts to a two-year project. I’m currently on the Marvel “M” stuff, and here are some of the titles I’ve been encountering: Marvel Premiere: This is one of those institutions peculiar to comics: the try-out book, which a company uses to publish a couple of issues of a new series, and, if sales … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel, Reviews
Tagged Al Milgrom, Alice Cooper, Barry Smith, Black Panther, Black Widow, Captain America, Chris Claremont, Dr. Strange, Dr. Who, Frank Brunner, Frank Miller, George Perez, Howard Chaykin, Hulk, Iron Fist, Jim Starlin, John Buscema, John Byrne, Marvel Fanfare, Marvel Premiere, Michael Golden, Mike Mignola, Mike Ploog, Overstreet, Paul Smith, Silver Surfer, Simonson, Spider-man, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber, Thing, Thor, Warlock, Wizard, X-men
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It Came From the Back Room #9
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school year now in full gear), this amounts to a two-year project. I’m currently on the Marvel “M” stuff, and here are some of the titles I’ve been encountering: Marvel Tales: This, of course, is the Spider-Man reprint book, and as such offers a cheap alternative to otherwise-expensive back issues. That sales point is less critical today (in our brave … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel, Reviews
Tagged Avengers, Captain America, Daredevil, Ditko, Don Heck, Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four, Hulk, John Buscema, Kirby, Lee, Marvel Super-Heroes, Marvel Tales, Marvel Triple Action, Punisher, Red Skull, Romita, Spider-man, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, Thor
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It Came From the Back Room #8
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed (especially with the school year now in full gear), this amounts to a two-year project. I’m currently on the Marvel “M” stuff, and here are some of the titles I’ve been encountering: Marvel Two-In-One This is Marvel’s ’70s/’80s Thing team-up book, which lasted exactly 100 issues. Like all such books , it’s mostly done-in-one stories, and the pattern (Thing and guest-star meet, socialize … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Bill Mantlo, Black Panther, Black Widow, Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, George Perez, Gerry Conway, Gil Kane, John Byrne, Karma, Len Wein, Marvel Team-UP, Marvel Two-In-One, Ross Andru, Sal Buscema, Sandman, Saturday Night Live, Spider-Woman, Steve Gerber, Storm, Thing, X-men
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The Latest and (Mostly) Greatest #8 by Dan!
Interesting week here kids, let’s do this! My Top Five (The Five Best Comics of the Week): Punisher Max: Tiny Ugly World Writer: David Lapham Artist: Dalibor Talajic This book makes it to the top five based on how many times I went “oh holy S#!*” while I was reading it. Lapham? Still crazy. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Much like Garth Ennis, Lapham often tries to gross out with the extreme, and he succeeds so much. I found myself unable to stop reading this book no matter how bad I might have wanted to. The reason this … Continue reading
Posted in DC, Marvel, Reviews
Tagged Batman, Batman and Robin, Carnage, DC, DC Universe Legacies, Frank Cho, Hellblazer, James Robinson, Kick Ass, Kurt Busieck, Len Wein, Mark Bagley, Marvel, Muppet Show, New Ultimates, Punisher Max, Soldier Zero, Tiny Titans
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