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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 223 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 192 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 172 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jan 152 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 8, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 6, 20234 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 3, 20231 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Sep 4, 20231 min read
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)...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 28, 20231 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 25, 20231 min read
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...
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cyborgcaveman
Aug 23, 20231 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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!”...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 18, 20231 min read
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....
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 16, 20232 min read
Excalibur, Inferno, and the Goblin Princess
Excalibur #6 Today's comic was another dollar bin rescue from Retro Reboot in Waycross, GA! That means I got it for fifty cents cheaper...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 14, 20232 min read
John Byrne can't catch X-lightning in a bottle twice.
X-Men – The Hidden Years #20 “The Strangest Teens of All” reads the cover. Another blurb declares “Where Monsters Dwell!” John Byrne...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 11, 20232 min read
The Greatest Space-Fantasy Film of All!
Star Wars #2 This is artifact level stuff for me right here! Yes, it’s only a second printing, but the feeling of nostalgia that washed...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 9, 20232 min read
Kraven some Tigra?
Marvel Chillers #4 Tigra the Were-Woman (yes, fellow comic geeks, I know that "were-woman" actually means “man-woman”) battles with...
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