Tremble, Mortals!

Thanks to our friends at www.thecomicbookshop.com, and the sale bins at their bi-annual sale this weekend, we are ready for another exciting edition of

June, 1973

August, 1971

(Click on images to see 'em actual size or so). One of the cool things that Marvel used to do back in the early '70's was reprint old monster comics (and westerns and superhero and sci-fi) up the gazoo. 'Course, back then they were twenty cents and you could buy ten titles for what it now costs to buy one. A lot of these reprint books, like Monsters on the Prowl, made it possible for comics lovers to get ahold of classic stories that, in the original form, might cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Nobody and I mean nobody does Monsters or Aliens or Machinery (or, heck, anything) like ol'King Kirby. This went all the way up to his last work for Marvel, when he did the absolutely stunning Devil Dinosaur, recently revived in an excellent one-shot from Marvel. The nice thing is, Marvel's getting back in the business of doing reprint books, especially when they tie in with something new coming up, and though you may have to pay more they put 'em on glossy paper and let you see them probably better than you would in the original newsprint editions.

I'm hoping those special edition monster books and the new Nick Fury's Howling Commandos (new artist pleeeez) will rekindle interest in these books and let a new generation of writers and artists tell the stories.

Keep 'em flying. Peace.