by | Aug 25, 2021 | Articles
My sister and I found our first comic on a bus, and we were off and running. We did get some new comics, but often raided the corner stores that had comics for a nickel. I got Flash #11 and #112 there, as well as Strange Tales with Fin Fan Foom and Amazing Adventures...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 25, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
ROBOTIC STOOGES #2 AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY Who would have through that a cute little bit of cartoon nostalgia from 1978 would still be making us laugh today. Predating Inspector Gadget, these 3 lovable knuckleheads have been knocking each other senseless with their...
by | Aug 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Heroes Wear Masks, Again, or ‘How I Learned To Love At Least Not Making Things Worse’ As told to Kevin Healy by Beauregard J. Sanderson III on this day the fifth of August, 2021. He was old. Too old. He looked like a wrinkled peach, left in a dehydrator two weeks too...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 18, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
KANG THE CONQUEROR #1 MARVEL COMICS Take your pick but ever since his first appearance (Fantastic Four #19 in October of 1963 or Avengers #8 in September of 1964) this master manipulator of all things time has proven time and time again (bet on a lot of time puns...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 11, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
Like Schoolhouse Rock taught us all those years ago, 3 is a magic number! And is really is, you see three monthes ago we would have been celebrating Free Comic Book Day in May. And although Covid didn’t allow that to happen, 3 monthes later here we are getting...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 11, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
THE DEFENDERS #1 MARVEL COMICS Al Ewing and Javier Rodriguez take their turn at the eternal anti-group, the Defenders. There is very little that is new here. A new threat brought to light by a surprize visitor to the home of Doctor Strange. The Tarot of the Secret...
by | Aug 4, 2021 | Articles, Events, Managers
Enter the House of Slaughter: I would expect this to easily be everyone’s top pick come FCBD. Following up their monster hit Something is Killing the Children, James Tynion IV and Werther Dell-Edera venture further into the history of Erica Slaughter, the...
by Doc Schaefer | Aug 4, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
ELVIRA MEETS VINCENT PRICE #1 DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT Bounced from one publisher to the next, Horror Hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark returns to the pages of Dynamite Entertainment. And as always, her tight black dress and snippy wit hits a home run! But this...
by | Jul 28, 2021 | Articles, Back Issue to the Future, Managers
Commentary by Dan W. When did The Joker become a ruthless, humorless psychopath? Not to say he wasn’t always a murderous clown, but rather that there may have been some winking charm in past eras of giant typewriters and poison fish. Was it The Killing Joke, is this...
by Doc Schaefer | Jul 28, 2021 | Docs Corner, Reviews
EXCITING COMICS #12 ANTARCTIC PRESS In March of 1956, Charlton Comics was throwing ever concept they could come up with at the wall to see what stuck. Nature Boy’s stint at Charlton consisted of Issues #3-5 of his own series (and before someone says I...
