Here's my 2024 card. I'm afraid the days of printed cards are over for me, so please enjoy this electronic/internet/online/social media edition. Instagram: @gg92118 • @TalesFromMySpinnerRack YouTube@TalesFromMySpinnerRack
Merry Christmas, Everyone …
Snapshot 013: So This (Was) Christmas …
Snapshot is an irregularly-scheduled series featuring reminiscences of places and experiences in my life. To read all my Snapshot posts, please click here. This is actually a slight reworking (with some added images) of Snapshot 06, originally called “All About the Toys.” I wanted to do a Christmas post, but I think this one sums... Continue Reading →
1,000+ Subscribers on YouTube! …
Friends, we have reached the promised land. With my latest Tales From My Spinner Rack! video on YouTube (click here to view it), we've reached over 1,000 subscribers . Thanks to everyone who helped me get to this (admittedly minor) milestone, but it was something I never even considered when I started my channel a... Continue Reading →
November 2024 Books …
OOPS! I realized in posting my October books, which featured Atlas Comics Library No. 3, I had never written a review for Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus, which I read months ago. Can you ever forgive me? Here is the review for that missing book! Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2 by... Continue Reading →
DC Finest 01: Superman The First Superhero …
You can go All In, you can even go Absolute, but the one thing from DC Comics that excites me most these days is their new line of DC Finest trade paperbacks. I have in my hot little hands the very first volume, appropriately devoted to Superman, and aptly subtitled “The First Superhero.” I’m thrilled... Continue Reading →
October 2024 Books …
Fall is here, but I’m still sitting out on my balcony in sunny San Diego reading books. Lots of graphic novels and collections this month, including an admission that I’m kinda “Thor” from reading so many Thor collections, but, oh that Jack Kirby art … not even Vince Colletta can ruin it, although he tries... Continue Reading →
TFMSR #048: Episode 14—WAH-HOO! It’s Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos! …
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 14 is now available for your viewing pleasure! This all-new video takes us back 61 years to 1963 and Marvel’s very first war comic: Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created Fury and his team in the second year of the “Marvel Age of... Continue Reading →
I NEED YOUR HELP! …
Apologies for the clickbait headline … it’s nothing life-threatening or urgent. Just a personal favor, please. For the past year, I’ve been creating videos on my YouTube channel @ TalesFromMySpinnerRack. They’re based on my nostalgia for the old comic books I grew up loving in the 1960s and ‘70s. To-date, I’ve done 13 videos (#14... Continue Reading →
TFMSR #047: Episode 13—3 of a Kind: THUNDER Agents, Flash Gordon, and The Spirit #1s …
Tales From My Spinner Rack! Episode 13 is now available for your viewing pleasure! This all-new video takes us back almost 60 years to three brand new #1 comic books that appeared on my small town newsstand in the summers of 1965 and 1966. In 1965, THUNDER Agents #1 blew me away with its stellar... Continue Reading →
September 2023 Books …
Fall is always new book season for me. I’m looking forward to the new Michael Connelly Ballard & Bosch novel, The Waiting (due October 15th), among others, and numerous graphic novels and collections, including the launch of DC’s new line of reprints, DC Finest. While I’m a bit sad I’m not taking a longer book-hunting... Continue Reading →
My YouTube Live Stream from 9/22/24 is Now Available! …
My Sunday, 9/22/24 live stream with David Powell of @StillOnly35c is now recorded for posterity—and eternity—on YouTube. You can watch it here. David and I have similar YouTube experiences—we both started our channels about a year ago—and comic book collecting passions, like British Marvel Comics reprints (Fantastic, POW!), which we discuss in the chat. It... Continue Reading →
LIVE YouTube Chat This Sunday! …
Join me LIVE on YouTube this Sunday at 2:30 PM (PT, 5:30PM ET) as I team up with David from Still Only 35 Cents (@StillOnly35c) to talk all things comics! I’ve been following David and his channel for a while now and really enjoy his content. We were able to meet in person at this... Continue Reading →
TFMSR #046: Episode 12 Is Now Available … Jim Lee’s Comic-Con 2019 Souvenir Book Cover!
For 14 straight years, I edited and designed San Diego Comic-Con’s Souvenir Book, the full-color trade paperback given out to all attendees. In 2019, the book celebrated the event’s 50th anniversary with a once-in-a-lifetime wraparound cover pencilled by superstar artist Jim Lee (with inks by Scott Williams, and colors by Alex Sinclair). Join me as... Continue Reading →
August 2024 Books …
Back to “normal” this month, after the very welcome—and hectic—distraction of Comic-Con 2024 in July. Here are the books I read in August, many on my very lovely balcony, even though they tore down all four of the huge pine trees in my courtyard (thankfully they kept the palm trees), I'm so glad I bought... Continue Reading →
Watchlist 02: Bosch, Presumed Innocent, A Man in Full, BritBox, and More! …
Watchlist is an irregularly scheduled series of posts featuring reviews and observations on streaming TV series I’m watching. Yikes … I started this new category almost a year ago about the return of one of my favorite all-time TV shows—Justified—and then never wrote another post. I even designed my own, spiffy, little logo! So here... Continue Reading →