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Two Transformers purchases in two days, and both G1! Wandering through Ollies today and found the Transformers the Movie deco Kickback for $10. That was a no brainer, and grabbed one of the two they had there. These were Wal-Mart exclusives at one point I think, but I never saw one in-store, not tha...

Nice to see Hal pull rank over Director Bones in GL #22. He starts to threaten Hal and Carol over breaking and entering into a government facility, but Hal basically reminds him that he's a member of the GL Corps, has a much wider sphere of authority, and can arrest him and lock him up on Oa if he d...

Picked up a 40th anniversary reissue of G1 Optimus Prime at my local comic shop today. I've been wanting a minty new Optimus for a long time, and finally pulled the trigger. I see differences between this and my original, which I still have. I may have to pull this one out of the box and compare. No...

It's an interesting time capsule from an early era in the character's history, and that's what I was hoping for. That stuff is always interesting to see. I agree, and given that they didn't record the Lone Ranger radio episodes until five years into the run of the series, there's no way to listen t...

We don't really have a book review thread, but since I mentioned in my last post getting a couple of the old Fran Striker Lone Ranger books, I thought I'd mention some interesting early oddities about the character that went away over time. - in the original book, published in 1936, which was only t...

Today's my birthday, and at my age I usually end up just buying my own presents. :lol: But my mom did send me some Toasted Marshmallow and some Cream Soda jelly bellies, my two favorite flavors of those jelly beans. I bought myself a Lone Ranger novel by Fran Striker, the primary creator of the char...

Batman #94 September 1955 The Sign of the Bat Script: ? Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff Inks: Charles Paris It shows us how far this character has come from his roots when the fact that Batman chose the bat as his theme in order to scare criminals is the explicit subject of a story rather than a constant ...

Almost done with my rewatch of Star Trek, and one thing that I had never paid attention to before as an indication of the reduced budget in season three is the lack of crew filling the corridors. The ship generally looked busy in seasons one and two, and there were always crew members walking the co...

I think they misjudged the tone the show needed as well. I'd like to have seen a grim, serious commanding officer, as Pike was written in The Cage. A cramped ship, space exploration that's dangerous and takes a toll on the crew, and bizarre aliens and other threats. And they had characters that we b...

Detective Comics #223 September 1955 The Batman Dime-Museum Script: ? Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff Inks: Stan Kaye A cover where Batman and Robin are giving a tour of the Batcave to a crowd of onlookers is a great hook for a story. What in the world is going on here? Of course the story quickly gives a...