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Out of the Vault – Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars
So we continue to work our way backwards from Spider-Man beating up Firelord, former herald of Galactus, to Spider-Man teaching the cosmic, godlike Beyonder how to go poop, to the miniseries which started this whole chain of events, the year-long … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Secret Wars II
Through the 70’s and into the 80’s, I was a Marvel fan. I came to Marvel late in my childhood, having been more a DC kid when I was younger. Maybe that explains why I ended up abandoning Marvel long … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Power Creep Callback
So over the past couple of weeks, I’ve discussed how Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was partly just an extended series of callbacks to better movies in the series. This is one of the inherent dangers of sequels, and … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Scout
So last week, I talked about Airboy, the 80’s revival, published by Eclipse, of the 40’s Hillman character. Two things about Airboy that bear repeating in reference to this week’s title. Number one, as mentioned last week, Airboy was an … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Airboy
This one gets a little complicated. In the 40’s, a company called Hillman Periodicals put out a comic called Air Fighters Comics, featuring their most popular character, Airboy, along with a host of back-up characters. And then in 1986, Eclipse … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Raika
Got a little tired of the Ultraverse after a month, so I’m going to move around a while. Raika was a ninja manga that published a 20 issue run in 1992. It was published by Sun Comics, and and was … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – The Solution
Yeah, yeah, more Ultraverse. And I think this one might kill my enthusiasm for continuing the project for a while. The Solution by James Hudnall and the usual Ultraverse line-up of revolving artists was a book that just never seemed … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Solitaire
Having so much fun going through old Ultraverse titles that I’m going to keep pushing the streak. I first heard of Gerard Jones, co-writer of Prime and writer of this week’s title, when he was doing a series of very … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Prime, Part 2
After last week’s post, I went through and read the entire Prime series (through number 26, the last Malibu issue and the last issue I have). And I remembered the things that the Ultraverse didn’t do so well. The first … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Prime
As mentioned in last week’s Vault, in 1993, Malibu Comics started an ambitious project: a new line of comics featuring a new universe of interrelated characters. Other companies were also doing the same thing at around the same time, like … Continue reading
