Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Continuing essay to counter the constant erroneous corporate propaganda regarding the early days of Marvel Comics. Another thing that the Le...

  Presented as the alternative to decades of propaganda. As I predicted long ago, with the death of the corporate shill known as Stan Lee, t...

Ever since I was a child comic books have been a part of my life. Even during the periods when I wasn't so much as looking at a comic bo...

This week I read articles about plummeting sales at Marvel Comics Group (part of Disney). Some people (including some Marvel editors) were b...

All comic fans know that the Silver Age of comics began when DC made a concerted effort to revive the superhero genre by redesigning The Fla...

My latest pick up for my comic collection. This one's great for several reasons. It fills a gap in my run of Strange Tales, it's a J...

There is a kind of charm to the SPEEDBALL series. Ditko crammed quite a lot of story into what was then a small publishing package. The size...

Most of my collection of Steve Ditko comics are from 1968 and before. For a long time I didn't consider much of his later work for my co...

I bought a copy of FANTASTIC FOUR #18 for my collection. The list is getting narrower. I'm about to get into mega-expensive territory (u...

As it says in the author description, I'm a laborer. Specifically, I deliver mail for the United States Postal Service. It's a tough...

I just got this beauty in the mail. Gosh, I sure do like Ebay. I have not read this comic since I was about nine or ten years old. It has ...

As a kid, I loved superhero comics. As an adult...not so much. Except, of course, in the realm of nostalgia. I still adore those comic stori...

I haven't had much time to devote to my comic collecting hobby lately. In fact, I've had quite a dry period for that because of my w...