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Conan is no Marcher of Valhalla
"The City in the Storm" was written by Roy Thomas, drawn by John Buscema, and inked by Ernie Chan (formerly Chua, see the letters page...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 31, 20244 min read
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Conan heads to Faring Town
The Demon of the Deep is once again a comic freely adapted from a REH original by Roy Thomas. This time is is Out of the Deep. The art is...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 30, 20242 min read
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This "Tribe" appears in a Conan crossover
CTB #67 Cool cover on this one. Has to be Kane pencils again. Interior art is by John Buscema with inks by "The Tribe". The Tribe was a...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 29, 20241 min read
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The World's Most Savage Hero!
CTB #57 Here we have a great Gil Kane cover with his classic signature elements, especially the floating heads in the background blocked...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 26, 20242 min read
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When Conan was also Kothar
CTB #48 Looks like another Kane cover, layout/pencils at least. A blurb notifies us of "the return of Red Sonja" and another announces...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 24, 20242 min read
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The House of Ara-Buscema
CTB #38 Who did the cover on this? It definitely looks like a mixture of styles. The composition is very Gil Kane, but the inking isn't...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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If his bones are gold, you steal his skeleton!
CTB #37 Story by Roy Thomas and art by Neal Adams, based upon an idea by REH, this tale guest-stars Juma the Black. Not the most...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 19, 20242 min read
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The Adaptation of Asshurbanipal
CTB #35 The familiar team of Thomas, Buscema, and Chan give us The Hell-Spawn of Kara-Shehr. Freely adapted from "The Fire of...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 17, 20242 min read
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If he isn't Conan then he oughtta be!
CTC #17 - cover blurb The Devil-God of Bal-Sagoth! Great cover by Gil Kane and Frank Brunner. The opening splash page by Kane and inked...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 15, 20242 min read
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These are not the Morlocks you're looking for.
Marvel Team Up #135 Spider-Man and Kitty Pryde headline “In the Lair of the Morlocks”, written by Bill Mantlo with art by Ron Frenz and...
Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 8, 20232 min read
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Time and distance make a seminal sci-fi novel hokey.
THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES by Michael Moorcock Four complete novels in one volume: The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English...
Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 6, 20234 min read
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The Boston Tea Party-- in the Everglades.
Adventure into FEAR with the Man-Thing #16 No cover blurb is needed on this twenty cent Bronze Age beauty! The issue title is “Cry of the...
Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 3, 20231 min read
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Goodwin Does the New Universe Justice
Justice #1 Justice was one of a raft of new titles created for Marvel's New Universe. Back in the 80s, Jim Shooter wanted to create a...
Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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The Barbarian of Oz
BARBARIAN OF WORLD'S END by Lin Carter Yet another adventure novel by science-fantasy's most (or least, depending on how you look at it)...
Greg O'Driscoll
Sep 4, 20231 min read
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The weird combo of football and comic books.
Kickers Inc. #1 I gave this one a clean miss back in the day. Sports, sports comics, and generally anything sports-related was not my...
Greg O'Driscoll
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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DC Comics did a lot of this sort of thing, didn't they?
My Greatest Adventure #47 “I was king of the sea beasts!” The comic has three stories of which the cover feature is the last. Nothing...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 28, 20231 min read
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Bentley Little's Last Resort
THE RESORT by Bentley Little This was the fourth or fifth book I read by Bentley Little, a man once hailed as the new master of horror...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 25, 20231 min read
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The award for most forgettable villain goes to... Incandescent Man!
Marvel Team Up #149 Spider-Man and Cannonball star in the next to last issue of Marvel Team-Up! Based on the cover art you might think...
cyborgcaveman
Aug 23, 20231 min read
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Arch-villain Maelstrom's 1st Appearance was in a forgettable team-up comic.
Marvel Two-in-One #71 This go around Thing partners up with his longtime teammate Mr. Fantastic to avert the “Holocaust on Hydro-Base!”...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Another excuse to post Alan Davis's Goblin Princess!
Excalibur #7 Second of the two Inferno tie-in issues, which mean more of the same demons-attacking-New York antics from Excalibur #6....
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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