Monday, April 6, 2026

Windy City Pulp and Paper Con 2026 report

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  Another year has passed (why are they passing so quickly?) and it’s time again for a report on this year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Conve...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

Currently Reading - "A Haunt of Fears"

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Have recently been reading a book called A Haunt of Fears by Martin Barker , published in 1984, which documents the role of a small number o...
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Monday, November 3, 2025

Comics I missed - The Human Fly (1977-1979)

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© Marvel.   Back in the period 1977-1979 my interest in American comic collecting was waning, being replaced by enthusiasm for collecting pa...
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Mail-Order Mysteries

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  Back in 2011, when this blog was a mere whippersnapper, fellow SuperStuff co-scrivener and lifetime chum Nigel Brown did a deep dive on ho...
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Monday, September 8, 2025

Missed first time around - DC Masterworks Series

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Recently I’ve taken to trawling through the back-issue boxes at my local comic shop, or at some of the smaller marts held around Illinois, t...
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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Batman in 'A Dandy in Aspic'

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© Columbia / Sony pictures. Lionel Stander reads Batman #189 © DC Comics. Batman #189, cd Feb 1967   Returning to the topic of how long it t...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Neal Adams - Western covers

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  © DC comics. This past Sunday I decided to stop by the Chicago Toy Show, which runs every 4 months at the Kane County Fairgrounds. I’d nev...
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