80's
Check Out Those Ads! – Lobo #1
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 CONTINUE READING…
Comic Books
Check Out Those Ads!
Check Out Those Ads! – Halloween Edition
Normally Gary is the host of this recurring feature, but I asked if I could step in and take a crack at it for an all spooky edition. He kindly obliged, so I pulled a CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – Terror Inc. #2
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 CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – The Spectre #1
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 CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – Ghost Rider #15
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 CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – The Fury of Firestorm #22
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 CONTINUE READING…
Comic Books
Retro Pull List – August 2020
Welcome once again to a monthly look at the best new comics with echoes of the old. Comics took July to play catch up from the Coronavirus shut down. There are some comics in August CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – The Flash #256
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. CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – Alf #8
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 CONTINUE READING…
80's
Check Out Those Ads! – The Savage She-Hulk #9
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 CONTINUE READING…
