I probably shouldn't be buying these DC and Marvel grab bags at my LCS, but sometimes I can't help myself. Three bucks for five comics that are in meh condition or aren't really key issues? Yeah, you would too. So this George Perez cover on a pretty beat up copy of Justice League of America …
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Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares
The 1980s graphic novels from Marvel and DC have proven to be discount shelf catnip for me lately. That's probably because they've been popping up a lot at my LCS and at fairly reasonable prices. For years, the only ones I had were a couple of random DC ones as well as the "God Loves …
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Horror Anthologies for #HorrorComicsMonth
I don't know why I'm drawn to anthology comics, especially those with three or four stories in them. Maybe it's the fact that they, by and large, aren't published these days with any regularity beyond a few specials or tribute comics. So they have a certain old-school newsstand charm to them. I've got three that …
Vampirella FCBD 2022 Special
So this is my first Vampirella comic ever. I've been familiar with the character, of course, ever since she was being published by Harris Comics back in the 1990s and I would gawk over her rather skimpy outfit and provocative poses in the pages of Previews (and sometimes, I think, Wizard). But I never bought …
The Original Ghost Rider #7
What is it with late Bronze Age books and cults? I think I know the answer to that one, and it honestly shouldn't have been a surprise to see a Satanic cult in a Ghost Rider comic, but when I came across this story that details the origin of Witch Woman (I think that's what …
The Visitor (2020)
I kind of missed Valiant's revival at its height, which probably happened because it came about during a time when I was either completely out of comics or minimally involved. I ran across their booth at the Baltimore Comic-Con one year, though, and bought a couple of trades, and every once in a while, I …
Three Random Non-Fantasy Comics for September
While most of my comics this month were for #FantasyComicsMonth, I did have a few that I read that were of the "normal" type (read: superheroes), most of which came from DC or Marvel grab bags I picked up at my LCS because dammit if I can't resist the lure of a randomly selected bag …
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Sword of Sorcery #1
I'm going to close out my #FantasyComicsMonth comics with this one, a book that DC Comics published in 1973 and which bears one of the names of the genre. It's not an "origin of the genre" comic, especially because sword and sorcery books have been around for quite a long time, but I do think …
Marvel Preview #22
I'd say that if it's not the discount trades shelves that are the foul temptress of my LCS, it's the magazine longboxes. That's where I've been finding a lot of the old-school Marvel Graphic Novels as well as old 'Nam Magazine, and this particular book. Marvel Preview, to my knowledge, was a catch-all series that …
The Raven Banner: A Tale of Asgard (Marvel Graphic Novel #15)
With #FantasyComicsMonth being this month, I held on to a number of things, one of which was this graphic novel, which was written by Alan Zelenetz and illustrated by Charles Vess. Being "A Tale of Asgard," it is set in the world of the Thor comics but does not feature Thor; in fact, he has …
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The Uncollecting 