This one gets a little complicated. In the 40′s, a company called Hillman Periodicals put out a comic called Air Fighters Comics, featuring their most popular character, Airboy, along with a host of back-up characters. …
Archive for ‘Out of the Vault’
Saturday, February 12th, 2011 Tags: comics Category: Out of the Vault No Comments 
Got a little tired of the Ultraverse after a month, so I’m going to move around a while. Raika was a ninja manga that published a 20 issue run in 1992. It was published by …
Saturday, February 5th, 2011 Tags: comics, Manga Category: Out of the Vault 1 Comment
Yeah, yeah, more Ultraverse. And I think this one might kill my enthusiasm for continuing the project for a while. The Solution by James Hudnall and the usual Ultraverse line-up of revolving artists was a …
Saturday, January 29th, 2011 Tags: comics, Solution, Ultraverse Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
Having so much fun going through old Ultraverse titles that I’m going to keep pushing the streak. I first heard of Gerard Jones, co-writer of Prime and writer of this week’s title, when he was …
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 Tags: comics, Solitaire, Ultraverse Category: Out of the Vault 2 Comments
After last week’s post, I went through and read the entire Prime series (through number 26, the last Malibu issue and the last issue I have). And I remembered the things that the Ultraverse didn’t …
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Tags: comics, Prime, Ultraverse Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
As mentioned in last week’s Vault, in 1993, Malibu Comics started an ambitious project: a new line of comics featuring a new universe of interrelated characters. Other companies were also doing the same thing at …
Saturday, January 8th, 2011 Tags: comics, Prime, Ultraverse Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
In 1993, Malibu Comics launched an ambitious new project called the Ultraverse. This was basically an attempt to hit the ground running with the type of dense, detailed interwoven world that had taken years to …
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 Tags: comics, Ultraverse Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
Yes, I know, it’s late in the day to finally be posting this, but I had to dig through a lot of comics before finally finding a Christmas-themed story worth posting (I have some better …
Saturday, December 25th, 2010 Tags: comics Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
In honor of the climax of Superman: The Movie, here’s an issue of Action Comics just one year before the movie opened. The issue is Action Comics #472, June 1977. If you notice, the cover …
Saturday, December 18th, 2010 Tags: comics, Superman Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
So last week, when I was discussing Action Comics #402, I was gloating about having had to pay only 15 cents for it. Little did I know that within two short months, my comics would …
Saturday, December 11th, 2010 Tags: comics, Superman Category: Out of the Vault No Comments