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Out of the Vault – Border Worlds
Last week, I discussed Don Simpson’s superhero parody, Megaton Man, which initially ran for 10 issues in the mid-80’s from Kitchen Sink. Starting with issue #6, Â Simpson introduced a back-up feature to Megaton Man, a straight science-fiction adventure titled Border … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Megaton Man
One of the reasons I write about 80’s comics so much is that it was a time of fundamental change in the comics industry, changing the way they were produced, printed, marketed and distributed. In the late 70’s, people had … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – The Mighty Mites #1
And we’re back to my favorite year in comics, 1986, the year of Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight. In the aftermath of the amazingly successful debut two years previously of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles–an independent black-and-white parody … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Shatter
Apple’s Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, was a fascinating machine. Underpowered, but easy to learn and use, it only lacked one thing to enable it to take off: some practical use. That came the next year, when Apple introduced the … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Hero Sandwich
The mid- to late-1980’s saw a huge boom in independent comics, most of which fell into two camps: stuff that wasn’t very good (if at all) and stuff that was rough, but showed promise. Even the best or most successful … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Gamera, Guardian of the Universe
While the mighty Godzilla pretty much made Toho the number one name in Japanese monsters, they did have competition, mainly from a scrappy little studio named Daiei. Daiei’s main monster was Gamera, a flying atomic turtle with gigantic tusks. Yeah, … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Horobi
Continuing our Halloween celebration of daikaiju in the comics, we have an attempt at a serious horror comic featuring giant monsters. Yoshihisa Tagami’s Horobi, first serialized in Japan in Shonen Captain magazine, then released to the U.S. by Viz Premiere … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Marvel’s Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Continuing our Halloween coverage of daikaiju in the comics, we come to the grandaddy of them all, Godzilla. But this is a very American Godzilla (though not the Godzilla of the high-profile 1998 American reimagining). In 1977, Marvel Comics released … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – Astonishing Tales #24: It! The Living Colossus
Yes, that’s right! Out of the Vault is back for Halloween! For the month of October, we will be featuring daikaiju (Giant Monsters)! But here’s the thing: comic books are very rarely scary, and comic books featuring giant monsters even … Continue reading
Out of the Vault – JLA/Avengers
So a few weeks ago, we looked at Defenders #62-63, in which a large number of heroes came together almost at random to try out for the Defenders in a huge mega-crossover. Next we looked at Marvel Super Hero Contest … Continue reading
