Wednesday, October 15, 2025

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov 1965

My grandfather gave me a quarter at the drugstore. Guess what I purchased off the spinner rack?

This?
 
or this?

Instead I bought these.
   


It would be a couple more years before I would outgrow Curt Swan. I would not mature sufficiently to make me appreciate a Kirby THOR cover enough to buy an issue for another 20 months.

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 5 YEARS AGO TODAY

AVENGERS #37 $3.99
(W) Jason Aaron (A) Javi Garron (CA) Matteo Scalera
       THE AGE OF KHONSHU COMES TO ITS THUNDEROUS CONCLUSION! The ragtag Avengers take the fight to the power mad Khonshu, deep in the heart of New Thebes City. But which side will Moon Knight choose? And is Earth doomed either way?
BROOKS FORTNITE WRAPAROUND VARIANT 


THOR #1 4TH PTG VARIANT


THOR #3 5TH PTG VARIANT


THOR #4 4TH PTG VARIANT

Monday, October 13, 2025

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov 1970

Thor's 16th appearance of the year.

    This comic delivers what the cover promises. 19 pages of John Buscema definitively depicting Doom battling Thor for 14 of the 19 pages. 
    The conclusion of a two part story.
    No new characters are introduced.
    

Sunday, October 12, 2025

ON THE SPINNER RACKS Oct/Nov 1969

What the cover promises 13 of the 20 pages inside delivers. Thor battling the Wrecker, drawn dynamically by Jack Kirby and Bill Everett.  The other 7 pages depict Dr. Blake's contributions to the Civil Rights cause.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

IN YOUR LCS 8 YEARS AGO TODAY

ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE 2 #3 $4.99
(W) Yusaku Komiyama, Jim Zub (A) Yusaku Komiyama (CA) Kiichi Mizushima
    The zombie plague rages on! More and more of New York City's population is being infected - without a cure in sight. And there's something not quite right about Jasper Scott. What is he's hiding? What role did he have in spreading the virus? And what does he want with Tony Stark? Printed in black and white in the original right-to-left

Buffagni Variant Cover

UNCANNY AVENGERS #28 $3.99 
(W) Jim Zub (A) Sean Izaakse (CA) R. B. Silva
    Two of Earth's mightiest friends, Wonder Man and the Beast. When the world throws you cosmic conflict, global calamity, death, rebirth and heartache aplenty, it's important to remember where your friends are. No Thor in the main story.
PLUS: Includes the same 3 bonus MARVEL PRIMER PAGES that appeared in AVENGERS #672 last week. Story by Robbie Thompson and art by Daniel Acuna with The Real Deal Thor back in the day with the Avengers!!!