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 22, 2013

Remembering those who gave their lives for our country during wartime with a little of artist Joe Kubert’s Our Army At War cover artwork (who passed recently), featuring Sgt. Rock and the soldiers of Easy Company, like Bulldozer, Wildman, Little Sure Shot, Jackie Johnson and Ice Cream Soldier.   Sgt. Rock started in Our Army At War #81, and continued...

May 19, 2013

I Will Tell You #86: Motor City Comic Con 2013 The 24th springtime Motor City Comic Con is currently taking place at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI this weekend, May 17-19. This year’s show saw the usual mix of media celebrities including familiar names such as The Incredible Hulk’s Lou Ferrigno and Star Trek’s Walter Koenig, but also newer...

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 15, 2013

Space…the final frontier.  Star Trek boldly went in the 1960s, but…how to take that experience home with you in the days before VOD, DVR, DVD or even VCR? Well, it was the comics!  For 61 issues from cover dates July, 1967 to March, 1979, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, Rand and Chapel were there in the funny pages for you to read,...

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...