When we last left the JLD, Zatanna and Timothy Hunter had just disappeared through a dimensional portal, to places unknown. In the first issue here ("Enter the House of Mystery") the group discovers that the so-called Books of Magic that triggered
Read more…Amazing Spider-Man #235
December 1982
Cover art by: John Romita, Jr. & Al Milgrom
Story: Look Out There's A Monster Coming!
Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: John Romita Jr.
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Spider-man is in a lab run by the Brand Corporation in whi
Read more…The first issue reintroducing John Constantine into the DC Universe in his own series opens with him leaving a bar, musing about the meaning of magic. A page later he's lighting up a cigarette, so it really feels like the Constantine we know and lo
Read more…Action Comics #546
August 1983
Cover art by: Gil Kane
Story: Showdown!
Writer: Marv Wolfman
Art: Gil Kane
Superman is trying to figure out just what is going on with this new version of Brainiac. His supercomputer isn't any help at all, so he leav
Read more…Adventures of Superman #516
September 1994
Cover art by: Barry Kitson, & Ray McCarthy
Story: The Hero of Metropolis
Writer: Karl Kesel
Pencils: Peter Krause
Inks: Jackson Guice
This is the Adventures of Superman series' Zero Hour crossover. It has
Read more…World's Finest #177
August 1968
Cover art: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito
Story: Duel of the Crime Kings!
Writer: Jim Shooter
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Mike Esposito
Lex Luthor is stuck in Gotham Jail (I wonder why he is in that jail?), and fashions a
Read more…Matt Kindt continues his fascination with classic detective fiction in this original graphic novel for First Second. Detective Gould has never met a crime he couldn't solve. But he is confronted with a series of crimes that seem both eccentric and
Read more…All-Star Comics #63
Nov.-Dec. 1976
Cover art by: Rich Buckler & Wally Wood
Story: The Death of Dr. Fate
Writer: Paul Levitz
Pencils: Keith Giffen
Inks: Wally Wood
This is pretty much the definition of an average comic book. From the story to the a
Read more…Adventure Comics #438
April 1975
Cover art by: Jim Aparo
Story: The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear
Writer: Michael Fleischer
Pencils: Ernie Chan
Inks: Jim Aparo
Kind of weird to me to see Jim Aparo inking someone else's work. Still it looks gr
Read more…Paul Pope fans have waited a long time for this book: it was first announced in 2006. Pope's unique artistic style is an amalgam of many influences, including manga and European comics. He says of the book "as for comics inspirations...it's all ab
Read more…This Vertigo miniseries starts from an unlikely premise: it is set in a post-Victorian England where the upper classes have voluntarily taken the Cure and become vampires ("the Young") to escape the lower classes, many of whom have been turned int
Read more…War of Kings #1-6
May-October 2009
Cover art by: Ron Lim, Sandu Florea, & Chris Sototmayer
Writer: Andy Lanning & Dan Abnett
Pencils: Paul Pelletier
Inks: Rick Magyar
Let me say up front, that I enjoyed this series. I do have one major problem wi
Read more…This collection picks up with the group still in Australia, in the middle of a fight with a bunch of monsters. Detective Didge touches a magical object and gets thrown into Hades (the version from stories, not the actual kingdom of the dead). Before
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Read more…Adventure Comics #363
December 1967
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: Black Day for the Legion!
Writer: Jim Shooter
Pencils: Jim Shooter (Layouts) & Pete Costanza
Inks: Pete Costanza
The Legion are on Earth and they confront Dr. Mantis
Read more…Adventure Comics #351
June 1966
Cover art by: Curt Swan & George Klein
Story: The Forgotten Legion!
Writer: E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
I never realized so many anecdotes I had heard about the Legion over the years to
Read more…Adventure Comics #420
June 1972
Cover art by: Bob Oksner
Story: And Death Will Have No Dominion
Writer: Raymond Marais & Gerry Conway
Pencils: Tony DeZuniga
Inks: Bob Oksner
Um, that is a very phallic weapon Supergirl is throwing in that cover.
Read more…The New 52 Swamp Thing saga continues. The first part of the collection takes the regular series from Issues #8 - 11, where the main focus is Swamp Thing's battle with the forces of the Rot under Sethe's command. Swampy arrives girded for battle, com
Feldstein: The MAD Life and Fantastic Art of Al Feldstein!
Grant Geissman
IDW (2013) $49.99
The history of E.C. Comics is inextricably bound to Al Feldstein’s career: first as artist, then writer, and finally as longtime editor of MAD magazine. T
Read more…Five Ghosts Volume One: The Haunting of Fabian Gray
Collecting Five Ghosts #1-5
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Artist: Chris Mooneyham
Image, color, $9.99
I wanted to like Five Ghosts, but I'm not sure I did.
The premise is a soldier-of-fortune character
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