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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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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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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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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...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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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...
Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 14, 20232 min read
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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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