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Check Out Those Ads! – Forgotten Realms #17

We are embarking on a new year and a new installment of Check Out Those Ads! This year will be a running theme of comics celebrating their 30th Anniversary, comics published in 1991. Seems like

Check Out Those Ads! – Spider-Man #4

Pitfall Gary

Spider-Man was never my favorite superhero. The idea of a teenage superhero dealing with teenage issues didn’t appeal to me. I had my own teenage issues to deal with, I didn’t need to read about

Check Out Those Ads! – Lobo #1

Pitfall Gary

Lobo hit the scene in 1990 with a bang! He is a brash talkin’ foul mouthed killing machine! To be fair, Lobo made his first appearance in 1983 in the Omega Man comic. Lobo started

Check Out Those Ads! – Terror Inc. #2

Pitfall Gary

There are all sorts of Halloween treats popping up on the The Retro Network. Keeping with the Halloween season the comic ads we’ll be looking at come from a horror comic book. Unfortunately the ads

Check Out Those Ads! – The Spectre #1

Pitfall Gary

I originally planned to showcase ads from the Shadow of the Bat issue #1 for this installment, but when I looked through the comic the ads were less than memorable. I guess a good story

Check Out Those Ads! – Ghost Rider #15

Pitfall Gary

Over on the Wizards Podcast, Adam and Michael will occasionally extoll the virtues of comics with gimmick covers from the 90’s. I thought I’d dig out one such comic and see what the ads looked

Check Out Those Ads! – The Fury of Firestorm #22

Pitfall Gary

In the last article we looked at ads from an issue of The Flash published in 1977. For today’s article we’re jumping ahead a few years to 1984, looking at another DC title, The Fury

Check Out Those Ads! – The Flash #256

Pitfall Gary

For today’s comic book ad we are jumping back to one of the infamous dirty dozen comics I received from a friend of my dad. This week we’ll look at The Flash #256 from 1977.

Check Out Those Ads! – Alf #8

Pitfall Gary

There’s been a lot of Alf material on The Retro Network lately. On a recent episode of Wax Pack Flashback Jason opened a set of Alf trading cards and over on RD’s Retro Detention Alf

Check Out Those Ads! – The Savage She-Hulk #9

Pitfall Gary

Comics have been a part of my life since early childhood, 5-6 years old. I started out with Bugs Bunny comic books and other ‘kid’ friendly titles. It was a few years later when I

That Time When The Real Ghostbusters Fought Vigo The Carpathian

Jason Gross

Ghostbusters II was one of the movies that made the summer of 1989 a great time to be a teenager. And while I enjoyed seeing it in the theater, the return of the slime guys