In my FCBD quarter-bin grabs, I found a lot of Superman books. Most of them were from the triangle era and were books that I owned in trade or could easily read on DC Infinite, but here and there I came across a few that were old enough to pique my curiosity or were "deluxe" …
Month: May 2023
Wonder Woman (vol 1) #298
If there's any book from the DC's Bronze Age that could be called "underrated" at times, it has to be Wonder Woman. Yes, there's certainly some goofiness in the title, but there is a stretch where the book is pretty solid, especially with Gene Colan and Frank McLaughlin on art. This issue, titled "Catacombs", is …
DC Sampler #3
DC's efforts to do something a la Marvel Age have been varied over the years. I'd say that the most successful--and best--was their 1990s version of Direct Currents, which was a pamphlet-sized monthly publication that had features on each of the "big" books out every month along with listings of each book that was coming …
Blackhawk (1988) #1-3
I probably should have saved this one for #warcomicsmonth, but I found all three issues in a quarter bin on FCBD and couldn't wait to read it. I don't have much experience with Blackhawk as a comic book beyond their appearances in other books and crossovers as well as some of their animated appearances, but …
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
A few days ago, I wrote a review of a 2008 issue of The Amazing Spider-Man that was really critical of the violence of that era as well as the art and storytelling. At one point in the review, I noted that a story like that could have been done in the 1980s without as …
Continue reading Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #85, 86; Web of Spider-Man #20
Omega The Unknown
One of the great things about those giant quarter bin sales that my LCS has a couple of times every year is that I can grab random, beat-up copies of obscure superhero books and not worry about whether or not they have to occupy shortbox space if I don't feel like keeping them. Plus, if …
Captain Canuck (2015) #1-3, FCBD 2019 Special
This one's about two months too late because I'd honestly meant to read these books during March, which is #InternationalComicsMonth on the 'ol hasthtag list. But for some reason, I just got caught up with other things and decided to skip it and come back to it at some point. They were books that I …
Continue reading Captain Canuck (2015) #1-3, FCBD 2019 Special
He Walked By Night
THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It is known to the Police Department of one of our largest cities as the most difficult homicide case in its experience, principally because of the diabolical cleverness, intelligence and cunning of a completely unknown killer....The record is set down here factually---as it happened. Only the names have been changed---to …
The Amazing Spider-Man #576
Coming once again from a Marvel grab bag, this is another adventure from another hero whose adventures I'd checked out of a few years before this issue was published. I'd bought the occasional Spider-Man book as a kid and loosely followed the titles in the early 1990s, dipping in and out but never amassing anything …
Colossus #1, Astonishing X-Men #14, 22
When it comes to the X-Men, I really don't know anything that's happened since 1993. Okay, I know about Onslaught and have gleaned a few things from reading Previews and "best of" lists over on CBR, but for the most part once I left the X-books after "Fatal Attractions" and "Blood Ties", I didn't really …
The Uncollecting 