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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 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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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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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 7, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 4, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 2, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 31, 20234 min read
"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....
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 28, 20231 min read
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...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 26, 20232 min read
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...
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