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Deck Log Entry # 262 Sgt. Fury # 6: the Battlefield of Hate
I’ve pointed this out before so I won’t belabour it, but the death of Private Junior Juniper, in Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos # 4 (Nov., 1963), marked the first step in shifting the series away from its attitude of supermen in khaki romping…
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A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
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DC Finest line
A while back, DC announced a new line of reprints, called DC Finest, that packages about 500 pages of comics from various eras into a $40 softcover. From all appearances, it looks to be an attempt to mimic Marvel's successful Epic Collections line,…
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The Massive, Extravagant, Over-the-top Golden Age JSA Re-read
Welcome to our re-read of the first and greatest superhero team in comics ... and quite a bit more! My plan is to re-read and discuss the Golden Age Justice Society of America, which ran from All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940) to All-Star Comics #57…
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Dark Shadows (comics)
Dynamite's Dark Shadows: Year One condenses the 19-week television storyline into six issues and, I must admit, does a pretty good job of it, eliminating most of the meandering soap opera storytelling. It is not, however, canon. What writer Marc…
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RiffTrax Team to Make New MST3K Episodes
Story The RiffTrax team of Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy, along with Mary Jo Pehl, will be making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, reprising their roles from the show's Sci-Fi Channel era. Apparently, their…
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The New Hobgoblin Mini-Series
I am enjoying this mini-series more than I probably should. I liked Stern/Romita Spider-Man in the ‘80s and was interested in the mystery surrounding the Hobgoblin’s identity. As soon as Tom DeFalco took over the writing from Roger Stern, though, he…
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I was a big fan of Ultraman when I was a kid. In the early ‘90s I discovered there was a new “Ultraman” show, but unfortunately I was more interested in acquiring episodes of the old show on VHS than I was episodes of the new one. Somewhat later I…
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Three of a Kind
I was looking through some old comics when I thought of a new game. I call it Three of a Kind. Here's my first entry. Hoy
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