Category Archives: What I Miss About Comics

Barbershop Comics

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Joe

Some deep cleaning in work turned up a wonderful stack of old comics. I’m not sure who the comics belonged to and nobody currently working there has laid any claim to them. I refer to this odd stack of funny … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1975, Barbershop comics, Cartoon, comic book, The Flintstones, The Great Gazoo | Leave a comment

AAAAAY! Wear the Fonz!

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Joe

This Fonz T Shirt ad appeared in Justice League of America No. 138 published by DC comics in 1977.

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1977, ad, Batman, comic, comic book, comics, DC, Fonzie, Happy Days, JLA, USA | Leave a comment

Marvel Treasury Editions

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Joe

80 glorious over-sized pages of Hulk stories by some of the greatest members of Marvel Comics’ legendary bullpen of writers and illustrators. The treasury editions were printed on newsprint like the regular comic books, and they were usually sold at … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1978, Hulk, Marvel, Treasury Edition | 2 Comments

What I Miss About Comics – Perfectly Legitimate Ads

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Joe

This along with a number of other classified style advertisements for perfectly legitimate products and services appeared in Marvel Spotlight No. 25 published by Marvel Comics in 1975. It was a comic adaptation of Ray Harryhausen’s 1958 fantasy epic The … Continue reading →

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1975, comics, Marvel, movie adaptation, Ray Harryhausen, Sinbad | 2 Comments

What I Miss About Comics – Wally Wood

Posted on June 9, 2022 by Joe

This is an independently published comic by master illustrator Wally Wood. It also features work by Spider-Man and Doctor Strange co-creator Steve Ditko! Marie Severin who is one of my all time favorites provides colors. This issue is really the … Continue reading →

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Hypnotize!

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Joe

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1974, comics, hypnotism, Sinbad | 2 Comments

Confronting Destiny

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Joe

It’s not necessarily a ringing endorsement of the product that Chipper is selling, but it seems he has come to a greater understanding of human nature and of himself. I wonder what else he tried to peddle.

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1974, comic, comic book, Marvel, Sinbad, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Leave a comment

Out of Context Comics

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Joe

A panel from The Phantom from March 22, 1980. I’m not sure what’s going on here. I never really got into daily newspaper comic strips preferring comic books instead. I would get a chuckle from the humor strips, but wasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious Clutter, What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1980, comic strip, March 22 1980, The Phantom | 2 Comments

A Hundred Horrific Pages for Half a Buck!

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Joe

A buddy of mine chased down a well-worn and well loved comic that he had once owned and lost to the vagaries of time and fortune. It’s DC Super Spectacular No. 4 and was published by DC Comics in 1971. … Continue reading →

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Mail Order Muscles

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Joe

Charles Atlas is the body builder that everybody knows from comic book advertisements, but if you actually bought and read comic books regularly any time between the 1950s through the 1970s, you would be just as familiar with the name … Continue reading →

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1973, comics, Joe Kubert, Joe Weider, muscles, Tarzan | 2 Comments

Go-Kart or Speed-Bike?

Posted on November 16, 2021 by Joe

So you scraped together the two bucks and waited patiently for the instructions to arrive in the mail while you pictured yourself buzzing the town on your boss GO-KART or sweet SPEED-BIKE! Wouldn’t it be great?! Imagine all of the … Continue reading →

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1973, comics, Fantastic Four, go-kart, Jack Kirby, reprint, speed-bike | 2 Comments

A Familiar Face

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Joe

As is usually the case, I was looking for something else when I came across an old stash of comics books. I immediately forgot about whatever I was originally looking for as I gleefully thumbed through my four-colored, battered beauties. … Continue reading →

Posted in What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1971, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bracelet, comic, comic book, Conan, Conan the Barbarian, Marvel, muscles, strength | Leave a comment

Fandom Before the Internet

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Joe

This is what Red Sonja looked like back before the internet when comics were sold at newsstands and convenience stores, and the only way to see how comics were made was through obscure, mail-order magazines.