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Out of the Vault – Star Brand

In 1985, DC Comics, worried that new fans were being put off by the convoluted continuity of the company’s universe, decided to hold a company-wide event, the Crisis on Infinite Earths, as a …

Out of the Vault – Marvel Premiere #50: Alice Cooper

One thing Marvel did in the 70′s to fight falling market share and become more relevant in the mainstream culture was to chase trends. When UFO’s were hot, they did alien books. When Satanism and demon possession grabbed the spotlight in the wake of The …
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012 Tags: comics, Real People Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – Captain Marvel #3

I dumped on Vince Colletta’s inking last week, so I guess it’s only fair that I post one of the stories where I think his inking really works well. Captain Marvel #3, cover-dated July …
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012 Tags: Captain Marvel, comics, superhero Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – Fantastic Four #55

Since we’ll be wrapping up Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer tomorrow, I figured I would pull out this classic issue to revisit today: Fantastic Four #55, cover dated October, 1966. I did …
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012 Tags: comics, Fantastic Four, superhero Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – Cybersuit Arkadyne

I love anime and manga, and for a long time, I was also a big cyberpunk fan. So it should come as no surprise that when I saw a manga-style comic called Cybersuit Arkadyne, I snapped …
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012 Tags: comics, Independent, science fiction Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – John Byrne’s Next Men

Hard as it may seem to believe now, the X-Men weren’t always the gargantuan fan favorites they are now. They hung around on the fringes of the Marvel universe for years until Chris Claremont …
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012 Tags: comics, superhero Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – 1963

I’ve been looking back over Steve Bissette’s blog (due to his linking to my old Vault article about D’arc Tangent a couple of times). His lament that 1963 will now definitely never be reprinted …
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012 Tags: Alan Moore, comics Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – Amazing Spider-Man #165 and 166

Okay, so last year at this time, I covered a Flash story from the 90′s that pretty much hit all the standard Christmas story marks. It had your bad guys ruining the season, a kid …
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011 Tags: Christmas, comics, Spider-Man, superhero Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – The Crypt

One feature you often see on submission guidelines for sites seeking content is the things they don’t want to see, often because they see the same things so often that they’re bored sick of them. One …
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011 Tags: comics, Independent Category: Out of the Vault No Comments

Out of the Vault – Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #181

Since we’ll be presenting the conclusion to the recap of the 2003 Daredevil movie tomorrow, I thought I’d revisit one of the main issues of the comic that inspired the film, Frank Miller’s classic issue …
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Saturday, December 10th, 2011 Tags: comics, Daredevil, Frank Miller, superhero Category: Out of the Vault No Comments