I know that Thor is a superhero, but I think there's enough crossover between Asgard and the Avengers for a #FantasyComicsMonth tag. So after getting this issue in a Marvel Comics Grab Bag at my LCS, I decided to save it for September. "As Lives A Memory …" is part of a Marvel gimmick month …
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Red Sonja FCBD 2022 Special
I did the one Conan the Barbarian comic I own, so why not do Red Sonja? Like a lot of you, I love Free Comic Book Day. Because it's free comics. That's pretty much it. Okay, I also love the sales that my LCS puts on around FCBD, which in the past netted me some …
Conan the Barbarian #221
It's #FantasyComicsMonth courtesy of Professor Alan, who sent me this via the #ComicBookCircleofLife. Can I use more hashtags. I need to do a longer blog post or perhaps even a podcast episode about my history with Conan. As it is with many in my generation, it starts with the Arnold Schwarzenegger films, of which Conan …
Classics Illustrated #108: The Knights of the Round Table
I have this unwritten rule with Classics Illustrated issues: if I see a book that looks interesting and it's under $2.00, I will probably grab it. That's important because sometimes those books go for upwards of $5, especially if they're in good condition and I honestly am not here to collect CGC-quality copies. In fact, …
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Sgt. Preston of the Yukon
I have no explanation as to why I own this comic except to say that I Found it in a quarter bin on Free Comic Book Day and thought it was so random that I had to grab it. So yeah, pretty much that. This is a Dell publication that came out in 1953 and …
Conqueror of the Barren Earth
So I am a mark for 1980s DC science fiction books, especially since they tend to be the oddballs in the company's collection (alongside the licensed property books that aren't Star Trek). I've grabbed a couple here and there, most notably an issue or two of Hex, Atari Force, and the Atari Force-related graphic novel …
Siegel and Shuster: Dateline 1930s
Billed as "Previously Unpublished Works from the Creators of Superman", this is a comic book that was published by Eclipse comics in 1984 that I'd never heard of until I saw it for pretty cheap (definitely less than a new comic) in my LCS' back issue bins. I've never been the hugest aficionado of Golden …
Shoot to Kill
One of the advantages of the Netflix DVD queue was that I didn't have to hunt high and low for a number of movies that are getting increasingly hard to find on streaming platforms. One such movie is 1988's Shoot to Kill, a movie I saw around the time I came out (I want to …
Manhunter
There exists a Michael Mann film that clocks in under two hours. I am sure there are others, but I had been putting off watching 1986's Manhunter because I didn't know if I wanted to make the commitment to a Michael Mann film. I'd also seen it before, having watched it back in high school, …
Superman in the Seventies
My history with pre-Crisis Superman stories is spotty, to say the least. While I owned a few individual comics in the 1980s and count Superman: The Secret Years as the official "start" of my comics collection, I haven't owned or read a heck of a lot. In recent years, I've picked up some individual issues …
The Uncollecting 