May 24, 2013

Bonjour, mes amies!  or in good ol’ English, Hello, my friends!  Why the French greeting, you ask?  Well, why not, I answer!  This week I’ve ventured into the D C Comics section of my huge back issue collection and uncovered The Brave and the Bold # 93, cover dated January 1971. The book features an interesting team-up, if there ever was one,...

May 17, 2013

Howdy folks!  And welcome to another Fabulous Find!  This week I’m going back into my 1960′s Marvel stuff and pulled out a couple of Marvel mini books from 1966.  There were six books in the series, based on their Marvel Comic counterparts, but I’ve only managed to secure two of the six mini books for my collection.  Take a...

May 10, 2013

Face Front Fans!  It’s time for another RETRO REVIEW.  And this week I’m looking at the Fantastic Four Special King Size Annual # 3, from the summer of 1965!  And yes, it really says that on the cover, see for yourself: It also boldly proclaimed that it contained “72 Big Pages”, but only 23 of them were new material.  But as one of...

May 3, 2013

Welcome back to another Fabulous Find!  This week I’ve pulled out my copy of the 1965 flexible record entitled; “The Voices Of Marvel”.  This was part of the 1965/1966 official Merry Marvel Marching Society membership kit.  Unfortunately, I did not join up back then, and therefore I do not have the rest of the kit, but I did purchase this...

Apr 26, 2013

Greetings and salutations all, and welcome back to another edition of my RETRO REVIEW column!  This week I’ve pulled out a little known comic from Charlton Comics.  It’s Space: 1999 # 1, cover dated November 1975.  It features a pretty nice painted cover by artist, Joe Staton.  Take a look: The comic itself is based on the British television...