Happy STAR WARS day
I wanted to do a special post for STAR WARS DAY ( May the 4th be with you ! ) but since I still haven´t read the first STAR WARS : THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS omnibus which I bought right after finishing...
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Better late - A Happy Jon Bogdanove Day !
I know I´m practically coming in under the wire but I had another of those days when my health needs to catch up and I had to go through a lot of folders to find all the material for Jon Bogdanove´s...
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The Mark of Kaine : The Horror Alphabet
Today I wanted to take a different approach with the usual alternating Marvel post that comes after our Superman heavy last post as showing a different side to Marvel which includes super heroes but...
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How many comics did I get for 20 bucks ?
So, in my post on STAR WARS DAY which should have been about STAR WARS but turned out to be about anything BUT I mentioned that one of my latest order were 42 comics for 23 EUROS but if you don´t count...
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By George ! Logan´s Run 5 : End - Run !
I´m still completely exhausted from my forced marathon walks on Friday and Saturday but I wanted to start off the Whitsuntide ( really, Engländer, that´s the best word you can offer for Pfingsten ?...
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Gil Kane´s gorgeous Green Lantern covers
You might have noticed that so far there have been no GREEN LANTERN covers in my DC posts about Gil Kane although that´s one of the titles he´s most associated with thanks to his lengthy runs on the...
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Happy best bod in showbiz birthday Janet !
I was so preoccupied with other stuff that I totally forgot that my all time favorite sexbomb Janet " All Night Don´t Stop " Jackson has her 50th birthday Today. Since this hits me totally unprepared I...
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Today is Gardner Fox Day - all day, fella
Today I went through the birthday list BEFORE starting with the post to avoid any problems like in the past. And since Today is Gardner Fox´s birthday I wanted to do a tribute post to all the great...
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Of space mysteries and strange adventures
I don´t think I can do a third Gardner Fox post Today but I have to at least do one more about his great passion : science fiction. It is the reason why his most successful superhero titles have to do...
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Tim und Struppi Tag - it´s Hergé´s birthday
Since it´s Hergé´s day of birth I thought I would do a different post than usual and talk about franco belgian comics, in particular Tintin or how it is called in Germany Tim und Struppi ( the german...
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Happy Carmine Infantino Day to everyone !
Today is the birthday of the great Carmine Infantino and because I did not want to do another comic cover post I have decided to post some interior pages so you can appreciate his art. Remember his RED...
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Cult siren Sybil Danning - bullets and bikinis
Since I mentioned austrian cult siren Sybil Danning in the last few post and seeing that she´s having a comeback in recent years I thought I should use the opportunity of her 64th birthday - or maybe...
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So, another birthday : Barry Windsor Smith
Today we have two comic creators who celebrate their birthday but since I already did a post on Stan Sakai´s USAGI YOJIMBO and I don´t have any material on him let´s honor Barry Windsor - Smith´s 76th...
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Too many birthdays not enough Sal Velluto
There are just too many birthdays for me to keep up. Just Today we have Herb Trimpe ( I still couldn´t bring myself to do a post on him ), Peter Cushing and Pam Grier and I´d like to do posts on all of...
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Happy comic book birthday Harlan Ellison
Yes, after the big announcement Yesterday I thought it would be a while before I can post again but it seems my batteries recharged faster than I expected them to ( or I haven´t fully crashed and...
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By George ! Legion Of Three Worlds issue 5
The month is almost over so I want to post the final issue of the brilliant Final Crisis - Legion Of Three Worlds 5 issue mini series by Geoff Johns and George Perez. As I couldn´t find any original...
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Happy birthday cult siren Latoya Jackson
In honor of the forgotten Jackson sister´s 59th birthday I decided it is about time to bring the only post I ever wrote about her on the blog. Kids from Today´s generation might find it hard to believe...
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It´s that Janet Jackson feeling of Deja Vue
Since I mentioned the homage covers of Janet Jackson´s famous Rolling Stone cover in Yesterday´s birthday post for Latoya Jackson, and I am too tired to do a real post Today AND I really haven´t done a...
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Underground comix icon Gilbert Shelton
Today, on Gilbert Shelton´s 75th birthday I´m taking the opportunity to see whatIcan find in the underground comix folder I started all those months ago. The first comic I read of him was naturally in...
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Wild Wild West Wednesday with Gil Kane
It´s been a while since my last Gil Kane post and the stuff for other topics have just piled up on my laptop. But I have decided that before I continue with any of my other cover series like my Gardner...
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