Docs Corner

 BATMAN/SUPERMAN WORLD’S FINEST ANNUAL #1 This is what the World’s Finest title was always meant to be since it’s inception as World’s Best Comics in 1942. Superman, Batman, and Robin as the lead feature with multiple stories added in. And who better to fill in for the Big 3, than Bat-Mite, Mr. Mxyzptlk, and the … Read more

 FLASH #123 FACSIMILE EDITION DC COMICS Shiny Cover, blank cover, regular cover. No one can dispute what writer Gardner Fox, Penciller Carmine Infinato, and inker Joe Giella created here. Only 19 issues into the new series, this creative team brought us the very first multidimensional crossover in comics. Accidentally vibrating at a different speed causing … Read more

 MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS #1 FACSIMILE  1984! The year George Orwell warned us about. And just before DC’s Crisis on Infinite Earths was about to go full blast after monthes of disappearing heroes and villians, the characters of the Marvel Universe were disappearing too. And the main story started here a short 40 years … Read more

 GIANT SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1     MARVEL COMICS This isn’t your father’s Giant-Size Spider-Man, if it was you’d be getting a deluxe version of a Marvel-Team Up comic for 50 cents. And this isn’t your older brother Giant-Size Spider-Man which would have been a one-shot with Spidey and Doc Ock for $4.99. What we have is … Read more

 BIRDS OF PREY #5     DC COMICS I wonder if DC Comics realizes what Kelly Thompson’s story has given them. While this is the classic story of parent saving child, if you remove the Birds of Prey from the action, you end up with a pretty intriguing Wonder Woman story. Certainly much more interesting than … Read more

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #8     DC COMICS Well we finally made it to issue #8. The Huntress is still annoying everyone with her ‘mission’ to rehabilitate super-villians and turn them into a future JSA. Alan Scott’s beard is still bothering me and is it just me or does he appear to be getting chunkier? … Read more

 JAY GARRICK: THE FLASH #3     DC COMICS Jeremy Adams continues to prove he can navigate the Golden Age as he gives us a taste of the JSA’s big 5 in a wonderful flashback intro. My only question is, I thought that due to the Spear of Destiny, the JSA were unable to enter Germany? … Read more

 GRIMM FAIRY TALES HOLIDAY PINUP SPECIAL 2023 Time for Zenescope to chose their best good girl artists and spread some cheer with some holiday themed pinups. Oh, and the short story too. A brief story of that holiday when Frau Perchta, the Belly Slitter was loose and Gretel had to do a team-up to take … Read more

 ADVENTURE COMICS #260 FACSIMILE EDITION I really wonder if people like Otto Binder, Lee Elias, and Ramona Fradon had any idea the full and rich history they were creating for DC Comics. Titles like Adventure spotlighted so many, but in early 1959 the title was highlighting Superboy, Green Arrow and Speedy, and Aquaman. And aside … Read more

 DOOM PATROL #99     DC COMICS While I want to complain about the fact that the Big Two keep reaching back into the past to keep releasing these facsimile editions because 80% of their new titles just cannot connect with a large audience, I keep my mouth shut because these old tales are entertaining as … Read more