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The Gamut of Comic Creators at Sheridan College in the 1970s

As a child growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I was innocently unaware of the fact that many of the cartoons that I watched were produced in Canada. Companies like Nelvana, Atkinson Film-Arts, Cinar and later Mainframe Entertainment and…

Thicker Than Blood: Collected Artwork Edition

Scott VanderPloeg
December 13, 2018

The Thicker Than Blood Collected Artwork Edition is an oversized 12″ x 17″ hardcover art book that collects and reproduces all of the original artwork that was produced for the three-issue comic series. In this book, for the first time, each stunning…

#33 | Marvel Premiere 1-61

Mike Huddleston
March 24, 2016

In the early seventies, Marvel comics created a group of try out titles that featured new and sometimes old characters they wanted to showcase (great name for a try out book) to see if there was sufficient interest in the…

Full Moon Terror! Marvel Spotlight & Werewolf by Night

Mike Huddleston
October 31, 2014
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October wouldn't be complete if we didn't feature a scary Marvel super-hero in Arcs and Runs! Well yes it would, but it is Halloween and I just can't resist taking a peak at the horror genre in Marvel comics this month. The early seventies was the heyday for this genre with books like Tomb of Dracula, The Monster of Frankenstein, Man Thing, Ghost Rider, Son of Satan, and our featured character Werewolf by Night all getting a chance at their own comic series.

Epic Illustrated

Last week I came across an almost complete run of the 1980's Marvel Magazine Epic Illustrated in ultra- high grade raw shape. So I bought them all! Now Epic Illustrated has been on the radar ever since it was announced that Marvel was doing a movie version of Jim Starlin's Vanth Dreadstar character from Metamorphosis Odyssey.