Welcome to our Post Mortem conversation about Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. Thank you to everyone who has followed along and participated in the discussion during these past 5 weeks. Before we vote on our next Comic Book … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Post Mortem)
Welcome to Marvel Librarian, the new feature covering historic Marvel comics from the point of view of someone experiencing them for the first time. When you think of the Incredible Hulk, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably … Continue reading Marvel Librarian vs. the Strangest Man of All Time
Welcome to week five of Comic Book Club! Each week, we will be covering a section of Sean Howe’s novel Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. This week, we are discussing Part V: A New Marvel (p. 377-434). Highlights from this section include: … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Part 5)
Welcome to week four of Comic Book Club! Each week, we will be covering a section of Sean Howe’s novel Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. This week, we are discussing Part IV: Boom and Bust (p. 301-376). Highlights from this section include: … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Part 4)
Marvel Takeover month is drawing to an end…for now. I decided to end January with two of the hottest characters of the mid-80s, Cloak and Dagger. The cover of this issue drew my attention while dollar bin diving and it’s … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Cloak and Dagger #4 (January 1986)
Good morning and welcome to Comic Book Chat Today’s Discussion – Heroes Reborn The Heroes Reborn miniseries event is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. I was in high school when the new iterations of Captain America, Iron Man, Fantastic … Continue reading Comic Book Chat – Heroes Reborn
Writer- J.M. DeMatteis Artist – Sal Buscema “Letting Go” They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. As I was going through the Bronze Age bin at Phantom of the Attic last Friday, I came upon this issue … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Captain America #285 (September 1983)
Fantastic Four: Skrulls from Outer Space & Miracle Man | Strange Tales: When a Planet Dies Continue reading Marvel Librarian vs. the Skrulls from Outer Space
Welcome to week two of Comic Book Club! Each week, we will be covering a section of Sean Howe’s novel Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. Now of course, this is not just any ordinary week. This is the moment many of … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Part 3)
Writer – Roger Stern Artist – Allen Milgrom “Chain of Command” If you haven’t figured it out already, Marvel Comics has been the spotlight of my comic book reviews this month, thanks to the inaugural Comic Book Club’s reading of … Continue reading Comic Book Review – The Mighty Avengers #243 (May 1984)
Writer – Kurt Busiek Artist – Pat Olliffe “Shock Follows Shock!” Digging through the dollar bin last Thursday at Eide’s, I found a few more Marvel books to review and one of them was Untold Tales of Spiderman #11. I … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Untold Tales of Spider-Man # 11 (July 1996)
Amazing Adult Fantasy 7 – 11 Continue reading Marvel Librarian vs. The Magazine that Respects Your Intelligence
Welcome to week two of Comic Book Club! Each week, we will be covering a section of Sean Howe’s novel Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. This week, we are discussing Part II: The Next Generation (p. 109-202). Highlights from this section include: … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Part 2)
Writer – Jason Aaron Artist – Javi Garrón I have been dipping in and out of Jason Aaron’s Avengers run and I decided to pick up the first part of “Enter the Phoenix” after Lenil Yu’s cover caught my eye … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Avengers #40
Writer – Tony Bedard Artist – Paul Pelletier “Superguardians Part One” My first trip to Eide’s Entertainment in 2021 was on Friday to pick up some comics I missed over Christmas break. I decided to dig through the dollar bins … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Exiles #87 (Dec 2006)
Fantastic Four #1 with bonus Rawhide Kid #26 Continue reading Marvel Librarian vs. the Fantastic Four
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Comic Book Club! For the next weeks, we will be covering Sean Howe’s novel Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. This week, we are discussing Part 1: Creations & Myths (p. 1-108). Highlights from this … Continue reading Comic Book Club: Marvel Comics – The Untold Story (Part 1)
Hey all! For those of you interested, we are introducing a new weekly feature that will run on Fridays. Comic Book Club is going to cover Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, the definitive text around the history of … Continue reading Announcing Comic Book Club – Starts Friday 1/8
Writers – David Michelinie and Bob Layton Artist – Ron Lim In May 2008, Marvel Studios released Iron Man featuring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Summer belonged to Tony Stark with the release of … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Iron Man – Legacy of Doom #1 (of 4) April 2008
Writer – Kelly Thompson Artist – Elena Casagrande I traveled to Phantom of the Attic on Friday, December 11th to pick up a months’ worth of pull list comics. I always take a walk down the comic racks to see … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Black Widow #1
Writer – Donny Cates Artist – Iban Coello King in Black #1 ended with Knull tearing the symbiote Venom from Eddie Brock and dropping the lethal protector from the top of a high-rise building. Venom #31 picks up immediately after … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Venom #31
