UPDATED: 7/30/24 with Fantastic Four fan giveaway added (scroll down). I had a great time at Comic-Con 2024. The end. Well, yeah … it’s never that simple, now is it? Comic-Con 2024 was complicated, due to the very fact that it was the first event in five years that felt like it did pre-pandemic. And... Continue Reading →
COUNTDOWN TO COMIC-CON! We are just ONE week away from Comic-Con 2024, July 25-28 (with Preview Night July 24) at the San Diego Convention Center. My Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! presentation will take place at the event on Thursday, July 25th at 12:00 PM (Noon!) in Room 9! It's called "DC Comics in... Continue Reading →
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 10 is now available for your viewing pleasure! This all-new video concludes our two-part series devoted to the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s, covering 1966 through 1968, plus a couple of 1969 annuals that contain new special features. The Marvel Annuals continued throughout the rest of the 1960s, shrinking... Continue Reading →
COUNTDOWN TO COMIC-CON! We are THREE weeks (Happy 4th of July!) away from Comic-Con 2024, July 25-28 (with Preview Night July 24) at the San Diego Convention Center, and—as I mentioned last week—a Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! presentation will take place at the event on Thursday, July 25th (time and room number TBA).... Continue Reading →
COUNTDOWN TO COMIC-CON! We are FOUR weeks (ONE MONTH!) away from Comic-Con 2024, July 25-28 (with Preview Night July 24) at the San Diego Convention Center, and I'm pleased to announce that once again, Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! will be making an appearance at the event! This year's topic will be "DC Comics... Continue Reading →
NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO! I just posted another new teaser for part 02 of my first two-part series, focusing on the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s on the official Tales From My Spinner Rack! YouTube Channel! Summer was a special time to be a comic book reader, as both Marvel and DC published larger, square-bound issues... Continue Reading →
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 09 is now available for your viewing pleasure! This all-new video is the first of a two-part series devoted to the Marvel Annuals of the 1960s! After the premiere of Giant Superman Annual #1 in 1960, annuals thrived from both DC and Marvel for the rest of the decade.... Continue Reading →
I had a great time on Tuesday night at my third annual appearance (it shall soon be declared an official holiday) with the fine folk at the SDCC Unofficial Blog. Special thanks to Kerry, James, and Erin for their insightful questions and nodding sagely as I went off on tangent after tangent, largely ignoring said... Continue Reading →
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 08, titled "Just Imagine! DC Comics House Ads," is now available for your viewing pleasure! This all new video explores the wonderful world of DC Comics House Ads from the Silver Age of Comics, roughly the 12-cent era from 1962 to 1969, which includes ads scanned from the comics... Continue Reading →
Hey, what are you doing next Tuesday night? Want to join me on YouTube? I’ll be the SDConCast Special Guest at 6:30 PM on May 14th. This is my third annual appearance on their show, hosted by the fine folks at the SDCC Unofficial Blog. We’ll be discussing what I’ve been up to (HINT: Tales... Continue Reading →
When I was buying comic books as a kid way back when, we didn’t have no fancy internet or apps to help us keep track of what was coming out each week. Oh, sure there were fanzines, but they were few and far between, and by the time they got to us through the US... Continue Reading →
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 07, titled "Marvel Monster Madness!," is now available for your viewing pleasure! Making its World Premiere at WonderCon 2024 on March 30th, this edited (and enhanced) video version features my nostalgic look back at that limbo-like period of time between Atlas Comics and Marvel Comics, when Martin Goodman and... Continue Reading →
Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! returns to WonderCon with the world premiere of Episode 7: MARVEL MONSTER MADNESS! This brand new episode travels back to the late 1950s to explore the giant monster characters created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (with help from Larry Lieber, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, and Don Heck), in... Continue Reading →
DRAGOOM! THE BLIP! GOOM! LO-KARR! MONSTRO! GOOGAM! ORRGO! ROMMBU! TIM B00 BA! ZZUTAK! And the immortal FIN FANG FOOM! These are names that strike fear deep in the heart of us mere mortals! Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! returns to WonderCon in just a few short weeks with the world premiere of Episode 7:... Continue Reading →
DRAGOOM! THE BLIP! GOOM! LO-KARR! MONSTRO! GOOGAM! ORRGO! ROMMBU! TIM B00 BA! ZZUTAK! And the immortal FIN FANG FOOM — "The Most Fearful Menace of Them All!" These are names that strike fear deep into the heart of us mere mortals! Tales From My Spinner Rack LIVE! returns to WonderCon in just a few short... Continue Reading →
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