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It Came From the Back Room #29

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, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re nearing the end of the letter “G,” and that means one of Marvel’s weirder creations: Ghost Rider This was part of the early-’70s horror boom, which saw vampires, zombies, werewolves and other creatures of the night all suddenly popular, and all jostling for comics-rack space (not to mention magazine-rack exposure, as Marvel’s black-and-white horror … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News & Promos
Tagged Garth Ennis, Ghost Rider, Jim Starlin, John Byrne, Marvel Comics, Mike Ploog, Tony Isabella
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It Came From the Back Room #14

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 (even with school on holiday break right now), this amounts to a two-year project. This week, I’m on the letter “K,” and that means new old stuff from Marvel, DC and indy publishers out on the discount racks: Kull: This is the Marvel series from the ’70s, featuring Robert E. Howard’s other memorable barbarian character, and, like Conan, it benefited from memorable artists: on … Continue reading
Posted in Comics History, News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged Adam Kubert, Belasco, Brent Anderson, Bruce Jones, D&D, Don Heck, Jack Kirby, John Buscema, John Severin, Ka-Zar, Kamandi, Knights of the Dinner Table, Kull, Marie Severin, Mark Waid, Mike Ploog, Russ Heath, Savage Land, Shanna, Thanos, Zabu
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