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Green Lantern/Green Arrow #84 June-July 1971 Peril in Plastic Script - Denny O'Neil Pencils - Neal Adams Inks - Bernie Wrightson This was the first issue of GL/GA I ever read, as far as I can remember. It opens the trade collection I bought way back in the day, back when trade paperbacks were not a...

Green Lantern/Green Arrow #83 April-May 1971 ...And a Child Shall Destroy Them! Script - Denny O'Neil Pencils - Neal Adams Inks - Dick Giordano Hal and Ollie fight Richard Nixon! Well, sort of, because apparently Sybil, the little girl with telekenetic powers, was modelled after Nixon's likeness. A...

Transformers/G.I. Joe #3 "Trial by Fire" John Ney Rieber, Jae Lee GI Joe Strike Team #2: Flint, Lady Jaye, Beach Head, Breaker, Grunt, Lifeline. They're passed by a squadron of seekers, apparently unseen as they shelter in some wreckage. Meanwhile Stalker, survivor of the first strike tea...

I hate to hear that about Side Burn. Been considering whether or not to pick one up. Might want to just skip it, judging by your review. Today's haul: Superman The Triangle Era Omnibus volume 1. I remember these books quite fondly, back in the late 80s/early 90s when the four different Superman book...

Today's comics: facsimile edition of Transformers #1 (Marvel), World's Finest #31, Zero Hour 30th anniversary special and Green Lantern #15. Looks like next month is going to start putting legacy numbering in small print beneath the current number. GL #16 is legacy #583.

Detective Comics #218 April 1955 Batman, Junior and Robin, Senior! Script: Bill Finger Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff Inks: Stan Kaye Be careful, Batman! Remember, no reckless kid stuff! "Scientific advancement coopted by criminals" is a common plotline, and in this story it leads to an interes...

Sounds like a classic case of the sequel being green-lit because the first installment was a success, but the sequel struggles to find a story and just can't live up to the original. Kind of like almost every sequel to Crisis that DC has attempted. Green Lantern/Green Arrow #82 February-March 1971 H...

The Adventures of Batboy! Script: Unknown Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff Inks: Stan Kaye I can't say that I had high hopes for this story. A guy in a baseball uniform with a cape and a trick baseball bat is not the most inspirational street-level superhero I've ever seen. But I can't judge a book by it's...

Transformers/G.I. Joe #1 "The Line" Writer John Ney Riber, Art Jae Lee, Colors June Chung I'm not a G.I. Joe fan, so I bought this Dreamwave mini and the other early one that came out around this time (by Devil's Due comics, maybe?) mainly for the Transformers. I did like the art quite a ...

City of Fantasy! Script: Bill Finger Artist: Dick Sprang In the lab of Dr. Frank Bolton, "famed physicist" Bolton discusses his invention, the "illus-o-ray". Supposedly a device to refract light, it has different effect that require prismatic goggles. But Bolton's assistant Park...