Category Archives: What I Miss About Comics

Flying a Kite at Night?

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Joe

I was flipping through an old comic when I came across this advertisement which made me think of the truly terrible 1979 version of Dracula starring Frank Langella as the count and Laurence Olivier recycling his awful accent from A … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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.

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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 →

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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 →

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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
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