I just bought the first Dark Horse omnibus -- the somewhat larger, 700-page reprintings of the earlier digest-size Dark Horse printings of the book. I think they'll be issuing these bi-monthly; the second volume is already out, and the third one is d
Read more…I am in the middle of a heated argument about when and where the shows aired. So, I KNOW this was an early 60's cartoon by the Trans-Lux, "Speed Racer" folks, but I was not around to see the original airing of this show. HOWEVER, I believe I saw this
Read more…I was a bit leery of talking about the Man of Steel because so much has been written about Kal-El and there are so many experts on him here. But SUPERBOY? Except for his Legion appearances, very little of the Boy of Steel has been reprinted in the la
Read more…I collected (and read!) all the Kitchen Sink L'il Abner books starting in the 80s. Sadly, they didn't sell well enough to continue. Meanwhile, post-Snoopy v. Red Baron keeps churning out the junk that Schulz sold his soul to Met Life to produce...but
Read more…Watching a recent episode of Avengers Assemble it features the Destroyer in the hands of Doom, and of course the Hulk goes up against him--and gets his tuchus kicked.
However, in the comics, I think this would be a much more fair fight. The Destroyer
Read more…"Scream of the Shalka" is an animated Doctor Who story that was broadcast on-line in 2003 as a celebration of the program's 40th anniversary, with the hopes that a series of such stories might conceivably result. However, even as they were recording
Read more…...to-day - and comic books ~ A considerable amount , in fact presumably all one collection , were in stock ~ Bagged and boarded and apparently univesally $2.99...Stnadard 90s mainstream , Spidey and Superman and actually a number of Harris Vampirell
Read more…This one features great art by legendary Gene Colan on almost all covers. Amy Ames, columnist, ran in Secret Hearts from #96, June 1964, through 109, January 1966 (with #108 not carrying her). WARNING: some of the interior pages are pretty hot. :
Read more…I spotted this while looking for something else. Anyone ever seen it? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044427/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 1952 was close to the end of the serials era wasn't it?
Read more…This is the penultimate post in a series examining Grant Morrison’s "DC One Million" crossover of 1998. Somewhat puzzlingly, its rich crop of new characters and concepts were infrequently used between their appearance in September 1998, and the infam
Read more…Mary Robin, R.N., started and ended at the same time as Bonnie Taylor, the stewardess who suffered a heartbreak at the end of almost every issue of Young Romance. Mary checked in at County General Hospital in September/October 1963 with Young Love 3
Read more…Mod Squad #1
December 1968
Cover art by: Unknown
Story: The Deadly Skies
and Nobody's Angels
Writer: Unknown
Art: Jose Delbo
Many kudos to the GCD for providing the art credit on this comic. Honestly, I am not even a Mod Squad fan. I was just so h
Read more…Comic books covers are meant to attract a buyer's attention. And sometimes publishers will go to extreme lengths to get you interested. BUT...
...there are times when you see a comic cover and you go, "OH, COME ON!!!"
Bat-baby!!! (And it's "The
Read more…Thurs. nite I saw a film at the Martin Luther King Library in San Jose that was actually one episode of a nine years old old history of the" Broadway Musical " narrated by Julie Andrews .
BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL , to be precise .
This instal
Read more…I haven't read a whole lot of the Villains Month titles, but I was wondering which ones people would recommend? Which ones disappointed you?
For me, my favorite so far was probably The Riddler. The Reverse Flash one was also pretty good, and essentia
Read more…No longer will I have to comb through eBay and Amazon for those out of print individual volumes and mini-box sets commanding several hundred dollars each!
For those of you going "huh?", Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is probably better known in North
Read more…100 BULLETS: BROTHER LONO #4
Written by BRIAN AZZARELLO
Art by EDUARDO RISSO
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
On sale SEPTEMBER 18 • 32 pg, 4 of 8, FC, $2.99 US • MATURE READERS
Brother Lono needs to get medieval on some people when dueling drug lords bring th
Read more…A fairly lengthy, interesting article on the movie "Time Bandits"
I thought it was a really good read.
Read more…Space: 1999: Aftershock and Awe
Writer: Andrew E.C. Gaska
Artists: Gray Morrow, David Hueso, Miki
Archaia, $24.95, color, 160 pages
The press release with this GN describes Space: 1999 as "a classic series!" The introduction by John Kenneth Muir des
Read more…I saw a couple of posts on Facebook this week as various comic book friends alerted the world that Astro City ½ was now available electronically. Every single friend mentioned the same thing- “this is the comic book that made me cry.”
Well, Kurt
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