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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...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 11, 20232 min read
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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...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 9, 20232 min read
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What if Tarzan was born in Alaska?
ONE AGAINST A WILDERNESS by William L. Chester What a great little book! One of several DAW paperbacks I found at a used book store in...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 7, 20232 min read
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Marvel's Rom defeated a villain named after a Golden Age hero!
Rom the Spaceknight – King-Sized Annual #1 “I’ve stripped you of your armor, spaceknight… now I’ll take your life!” thus sayeth the...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 4, 20232 min read
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Marvel's heroic Sandman started off very lame.
Marvel Team Up #138 Spider-Man and Sandman star in Spidey's monthly team-up title, which was pretty unusual back then. Spider-Man...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 2, 20232 min read
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"They call me Blade-- Dick Blade."
THE MOUNTAINS OF BREGA WIZARD OF RENTORO WARRIORS OF LATAN by Jeffrey Lord At first glance, these titles scream fantasy series....
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 31, 20234 min read
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Steve Ditko nearly derails the final years of Rom the Spaceknight
ROM #62 By this time the ROM series is drawing to a close but remains very strong story-wise. Writer Bill Mantlo never took his foot off...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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Who remembers Ron Lim's Ex-Mutants?
Ex-Mutants Microseries – Erin #1 Printed by Pied Piper Comics circa 1987, this sold for $1.95 in the States, which was a modest chunk of...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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The Dawning put me to sleep.
THE DAWNING by Hugh B. Cave To judge by the author's bio in the back of the book, Mr. Cave is a man of impressive accomplishments (over...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 26, 20232 min read
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If you can't say anything nice-- don't review Liefeld's Supreme
Supreme #28 I won this comic in 2019. It was a door prize on Free Comic Book Day at Okecon, a small con put on by the amazing Ware County...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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Quicksilver: "Oh, uh, I was mind-controlled-- again!"
X-Factor Giant-Sized Annual #2 The sole cover blurb reads “Guest Starring: the Inhumans!” This is usually a selling point for me. I like...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 21, 20232 min read
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Two of Capt. America's Kooky Quartet Return
Marvel Super Action #36 “How do you catch the world’s fastest man?” the cover asks the reader. This is a great question, especially when...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 19, 20232 min read
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Savage is more marketable than Lover
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE by Edgar Rice Burroughs An interesting, but short novel even by Burroughs' standards. The Eternal Lover chronicles the...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 17, 20232 min read
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Who can say no to (Marvel) Triple Action?
Marvel Triple Action #32 The cover dress prominently features “starring Capt. America, Hawkeye, Goliath, and the Wasp”, which is a weird...
cyborgcaveman
Jul 14, 20232 min read
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It's the 1990s, do you know where your Antiheroes are?
Deathstroke the Terminator #1 Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Steve Erwin, the cover blurb declares this the “1st Take No Prisoners...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 12, 20232 min read
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Lions and Tigers and Bears (Kalidahs combine two of the three)! Oh my!
THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum I haven't read this one since I was a kid. Happily, years later, I still find it very enjoyable. All...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 10, 20231 min read
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Can Superman Hit a Woman?
Action Comics #472 “Face it, Superman! I’m as powerful as you—and a much better fighter!” Ah, the 70s! Lots of things were changing at...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 7, 20231 min read
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Before it was all red and blue lasers, G.I. Joe was awesome!
G.I. Joe #13 An awesome cover sets the tone for one of my favorite issues of my favorite G.I. Joe story arc of all time. Surpassed only...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 5, 20232 min read
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Gimme five! Death Draws Five!
Death Draws Five (aka Wild Cards XVII) by John J. Miller I remember that when I had finished reading this book, which was the then-latest...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 3, 20233 min read
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Space Pirates Bill Mantlo Style!
Swords of the Swashbucklers #1 God, I miss Bill Mantlo! Really, I should say I miss Bill Mantlo’s writing. He is still alive, but after...
Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 1, 20232 min read
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