Retro Review: All-American Comics #80

A few years ago I was lucky enough to guest on popular comics show Midnight the Podcasting Hour, to talk Unexpected #202, which featured what has to be one of the most disturbing tales ever published in DC’s supposedly kid-friendly mystery mags – find out more here. All-American Comics #80, while not featuring children dipped […]

Retro Review: Wonder Woman #230

It’s time for another retro review and, fancying a spot of pre-Crisis Wonder Woman, this cover popped straight into my head. It’s a typically wonderful effort by José Luis García-López, inked by Vince Colletta, featuring probably Diana’s most famous villain. This issue appeared during the Seventies run of the TV show, specifically the first season, […]

Retro review: Doorway to Nightmare #5

In the mid-Seventies a new book joined DC’s mystery line. Unlike time and space-spanning anthologies such as House of Secrets, Unexpected and Ghosts, Doorway to Nightmare featured full-length tales set in modern-day New York. Typically, someone with a mystically linked problem would call on Greenwich Village ‘spiritual advisor’ Madame Xanadu for advice and she would […]

Retro review: Superman #316

In the absence of new comics starring the Man of Steel, it’s back to the Bronze Age for a battle with the Man with the Kryptonite Heart. And I have to say, re-reading this issue, at the suggestion of Anj of Supergirl Comic Box Commentary, was a massive pleasure. Metallo had been around since the […]

Retro review: DC Super-Stars #18

It’s Hallowe’en in Rutland, Vermont, and if you’re a comics reader in the Seventies that could mean only one thing… real-life parade organiser Tom Fagan and cameoing comic creators. This time it’s, well, take a look… All bar Carla Conway are listed as involved in this issue and all are in and out before you […]

DC’s Wanted: The World’s Most Dangerous Super-Villains review

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a collection of a reprint title. But here’s DC’s tribute to a shortlived series of the early Seventies, and I could not resist. Well, I used to grab the slightly differently titled Wanted: The World’s Most Dangerous Villains whenever it made its way into the local newsagents here in […]

Justice League Dark #21 review

The Parliaments of Life are at war with one another. The Red, the Green, the Grey, the Divided and the Rot are vying to rule Earth. The Green is manifesting flowers in corpses but it’s the Rot which is announcing itself with the most sickening style, taking over hordes of humans in Los Angeles. Detective […]

Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 review

Batman’s looking particularly animated as he faces Bane for the umpteenth time. The bulky bad guy, as ever, wants to break the Caped Crusader’s back but Batman beats him without too many problems. Soon, though, he has a bigger headache. The robot rampages to the Wayne Tech building, where it grabs a vault, as Batman’s […]