Year: 1968



Contents include brief articles on Creepy and Eerie, Marvel Comics, the Spectre, Superman, George Reeves, Dr. Doom, MAD Magazine, Supergirl, Green Arrow, Green Goblin and the 1968 S.C.A.R.P. comic con (Comic Art Convention). They also reprint (from the convention program?) the two-page "The Conventioneers" by Phil Seuling and Jim Steranko.
Characters in art include: Deadman, Uncle Creepy, Cousin Eerie, the Thing, Atom, Spider-Man, Nick Fury, Dick Tracy, Hawkman, Human Torch, Pogo, Popeye, Wonder Woman
Mimeo, saddle-stitched.

Editorial features include:
Cover by Wally Wood.
A newspaper article about lawsuits over the name “Captain Marvel.”
A newspaper article titled “High Prices Paid for Ancient Comic Books” by David Lewin.
A newspaper review of “The Great Radio Heroes by Jim Harmon.”
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with a letter from Gordon Flagg Jr.
Ads for:
ALTER EGO #5, 7, 8
BEYOND INFINITY #1
BLACK VELVET #1 and 2
BOMBSHELL #12-15
BOMBSHELL audio tape
CHAMPION #3
COMIC CRUSADER #1
COMIC NEWS
COMICOLOGY #1
COMICOLLIGIST #1 (published?)
CONCUSSION #5
CONTACT #1
DESTINY #1
FAN FOCUS #1
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM AGENT #1
FANTASY ILLUSTRATED #8
FANTASTIC FAN FICTION
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FARCE OF FANDOM
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
GALAXY COMICS #1
GREMLIN #2
GUTS #3
HEROES ILLUSTRATED #3
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
INTRIGUE #3
JOURNEY INTO COMICS #2
KINDA GOOD COMICS #1 (published?)
MARVEL MIRROR #3/4
MARVEL TRIBUNE #5
MASQUERADER #6
MOTLEY #6
MYTHOS #1
OMPHIBLEP
PRISM #1 (with Wrightson art; never published)
QUANTUM #3, 4
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #1 and 7
SPLASH PAGE #1
STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6
THE CARTOONISTS’ COMIC #1-4
THE COLLECTOR #8
THE EYE #1
THE PANELOLOGIST Vol. 1 (Jerry Bails)
YANCY STREET GAZETTE
and a small classified for COMIC FANDOM #6, COMIC FANDOM ANNUAL #1, CF XMAS ANNUAL, CF NEWSLETTER #1-5, CF REPRINT SPECIAL, and LIGHTNING #1 & 2.

Editorial features include:
Cover by John Fantucchio.
“Super-Heroes Are Big Business” by Howard P. Siegel.
A short article about Red Ryder comic strip by Ed Lahmann.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with letters from Dwight Decker and Gary Via.
Ads for:
ALTER EGO #4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
BEYOND INFINITY #1
COMIC CHAMBER #3
COMIC INFORMER #1
CONCUSSION #6
DESTINY #1
E PLURIBUS MARVEL #1/2/3 (Special Triple Issue)
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM CALLING
FANDOM’S AGENT
FANTASM #3
FANTASTIC FAN FICTION
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
GOLDEN AGE SUPER HERO INDEX (Mike Nolan)
GOSH WOW #2
GUTS #3 and 4
HEROES ILLUSTRATED #3
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
MARVEL-MANIA PLUS ONE CANADA
MARVEL TRIBUNE #6, 7
MASQUERADER #6
MOCK #1 and 2
NEW ERA #2
NEW WORLD OF COMICS
NIGHTMARE #1
OMPHIBLEP #5
OPINIONS & OPPOSITION #4-6
PANDORA #1
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #1 and 7
SENSE OF WONDER
SUPERZINE #5
THE CARTOONISTS’ COMIC Vol. 2, #1
THE COLLECTOR #9 and 10
THE COMIC FORUM #1
THE COMIC READER #66
THE EYE #1
VALIANT #1
WHATCHAMACALLIT #4
WITZEND #4 and 5
WONDERMENT #3

Editorial features include:
Cover by John Fantucchio.
“THE ODDITY PAGE” by Raymond Miller.
"Cartoons: 1883-1932" by Scott Denny.
“Good Does Triumph — In Marvel Comics” (newspaper article reprint).
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS.”
Ads for:
ALTER EGO #5, 7 and 8
CLOAK AND DAGGER
COMIC BOOK #3
COMIC CRUSADER #2
COMIC INFORMER
COMICOLOGY #2
ERBDOM
EC FAN-ADDICT #2
ETERNITY (published?)
EXCELSIOR #1
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM’S AGENT
FANTASTIC FAN FICTION
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
FRANK FRAZETTA ART FOLIO
GALACTIC ILLUSTRATIONS #1
GOLDEN AGE SUPER HERO INDEX (Mike Nolan)
GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE #9
HEROIC #1
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
JOURNEY INTO COMICS #3
MARVEL MIRROR #1-7
MASQUERADER #6
NEDOR COMIC INDEX (Mike Nolan)
NEW ERA #3
NEW WORLD OF COMICS
OMPHIBLEP #6
OPTIC (published?)
PANELOLOGIST’S DIGEST #1
PHANTASMA
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #1 and 7
SENSE OF WONDER #5
SENSE OF WONDER ANNUAL #1
SERIAL PICTORIAL #1
SPECTACULAR COMICS #1 (published?)
STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6
SUPER-HERO #7
TERROR TALES #1
THE CARTOONISTS’ COMIC Vol. 2, #1
THE COLLECTOR #11
THE COLLECTOR’S HANDOUT
THE COMIC NEWSLETTER
THE EYE #1
THE FANTASY COLLECTOR
THE STATUE COMIC COLLECTOR #2
TITAN COMICS
TRANSFORMATION #1

Editorial features include:
Cover by Joel Pollack.
A Southwesterncon 1968 report by GB Love.
Preview page for "This Savage Earth" by Don Newton.
An article by Howard P. Siegel titled “Will 1968 Be Comicdom’s ‘Year of Dispair’ (sic)?”
Ads for:
ALTER EGO #5, 7 and 8
BEYOND INFINITY #1
CANADA’S BEST #1
COMIC CRUSADER #3
COMIC FORUM #3
COMIC NEWS #5
COMIC SCOPE #1
COMIC VENDOR #6
COMIC ZINE
COMIX UNLIMITED #1
CONCUSSION #7
CONTRAST #1
DESTINY #1
DIFFERO #1
DIMENSION #1
DISNEYDOM #1
EFFECT #1
E PLURIBUS MARVEL
EMPERIAL COMICS #1-3
EXCELSIOR #1
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM SHOWCASE #1
FANDOM WEEKLY #1 (published?)
FANDOM’S AGENT
FAN FANTASY #1 (not published?)
FANTASTIC FAN FICTION
FANTASY CHRONICLES #4
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
GOLDEN AGE SUPER HERO INDEX (Mike Nolan)
GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE #9
HEROES UNLIMITED #5
HEROIC #2
HEROIC TALES #1
HI SPOT #1 (published?)
ILLUSIONS #1
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
JOURNEY INTO COMICS #3
LIBERTY #1
MAD SCIENTIST COMICS (published?) PG 63
MARVELITES FAN CLUB FAN-ZINE #1 (published?)
MASQUERADER #6
NEDOR COMIC INDEX (Mike Nolan)
O&O #5-7
ONE STEP BEYOND #1
QUANTUM #7
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #1 and 7
SATURDAY’S WORLD #3
SPA FON #4
SQUA TRONT #1, 2 & 3
STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6 and 13
SUPERZINE #3, 4, 5
SUPERZINE NEWSLETTER#1
THE CARTOONISTS’ COMIC #2
THE COLLECTOR #11 and 12
THE COMIC INFORMER #1 AND 2
THE COMIC REVIEW
THE EC FAN ADDICT #2
THE EYE #1
THE ILIAD (published?)
THE MEDALLION SPECIAL #1
THE MICHIGAN MESSENGER #1
THE ULTIMATE BRAIN #1
TITAN COMICS #2
TOP SPOT COMICS #1
TRUMPET #7
UNLIMITED #1

Editorial features include:
Cover by John Fantucchio.
Chapter 1 of “The Savage Earth” strip by Don Newton.
“FLASHBACKS & ODDITIES” by Raymond Miller.
A newspaper article titled “Leapin’ Lizards! Old Comic Books Sell 6 for $40.”
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with letters from Larry Bigman, Ray Polson, and Jerry Sinkovec.
Ads for:
A THOUSAND WORLDS #1
ALL STARS #2
ALTER EGO #5
AMATEUR KOMIX #1, 2, and 3
BOGEYMAN COMICS #1
CARD WORLD #2 (published?)
COMIC CANADA #2
COMIC CENTER #1
COMIC COMMENTS #2 (Charles Spanier)
COMICOLOGY #2
CONCUSSION
DESTINY #1
DIMENSION #2
DISNEYDOM
DOLFIN COMICS #1
ENTERPRISE #1, 2 and 3
EON #2
EXCELSIOR #1
FEARFUL FABLES #1 (published?)
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM SHOWCASE #2
FANTASTIC FAN FICTION
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
GOLDEN AGE #3
GOLDEN AGE SUPER HERO INDEX (Mike Nolan)
GRAPHIC STORY MAGAZINE #9
HECKZAPOPPIN’ #1
HEROIC #3
ILLUSIONS #1
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
LAWRENCE PRESENTS #1 (published?)
LE BOUQUINISTE (published?)
MARVEL HORIZON #1
MARVEL-MANIA PLUS ONE
MARVEL TRIBUNE #9
NEDOR COMIC INDEX (Mike Nolan)
NUFF SAID
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #7
SCARF #1
SENSE OF WONDER
STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6, 14
SUPERZINE #3-7
SUPREME PUBLICATIONS PRESENTS #1
TERROR TALES #1
THE CARTOONISTS’ COMIC #1, 2, 3
THE COMIC ARTIST #1
THE COLLECTOR #13
THE EC FAN ADDICT #2
THE EYE #1
THE ULTIMATE BRAIN #1
TRUMPET #8
WOTTA WORLD #1

Editorial features include
Cover by John Fantucchio.
Chapter 2 of “The Savage Earth” strip by Don Newton.
“RBCC INFORMATION CENTER” by Raymond Miller.
“RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A COMIC COLLECTOR” by Howard P. Siegel. “ODDITIES & FLASHBACKS” by Raymond Miller.
“Monster Remembered” by Jim Jones. A newspaper article about fanzine (Illusions) publisher Terry O’Brien titled “Youth Publish Own Comic Book.” “For Sunday Strip Collectors” by Rick Durell. A newspaper article titled “Leapin’ Lizards! A Serious Appraisal of Comic Strips.” "BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with letters from Mike Friedrich and Bob Cosgrove.
Ads for:
AMAZING ADVENTURES #1, 2 (PG 45)
CANADA’S BEST #1
CAPTAIN BILJO PRESENTS #1
CAPTAIN GEORGE’S COMIC WORLD
COMIC CRUSADER #4
COMICOLOGY #2
DIFFERO #1
DIMENSION #2
EXCELSIOR #1
FANDOM ANNUAL #1
FANDOM MART
FANDOM NEWSLETTER #1, 2
FANDOM’S SPECIAL #4
FANTASY SOUNDTRACK #1
FARCE OF FANDOM #2
FIGHTING HERO COMICS Special Edition #1
FOUNDATION (PG 37)
GOLDEN AGE #3
GOLEM #1
GOSH WOW #2
ILLUSIONS #1
ILLUSTRATED COMIC COLLECTORS HANDBOOK #3
INFO #1
JOURNEY INTO COMICS #4
LE BOUQUINISTE (published?)
MARVEL MAIN #3 and 4
MARVEL TRIBUNE #9
MOUNT TO THE STARS #1
ROCKET’S BLAST SPECIAL #1 and 7
STATUE COMIC COLLECTOR #2
STAR-STUDDED COMICS #6
SUPER ADVENTURES #8, 9
SUPER NOVA #1
THE COLLECTOR #13
THE COMIC REVIEW #1, 2, 3
THE EC FAN ADDICT #3
THE EYE #1
THE ILIAD (published?)
MARVEL TRIBUNE #9
THE NEW TRANSFORMATION #2
TIME PIECE (published?)
TITAN COMICS #2


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