Welcome to the Relic Keep comic book review page for my Minor Key Issue Reviews. Here you will find reviews for both vintage and new release comic books.
Doctor Solar: Man Of The Atom – Volume 01 Issue 05
1963Action & AdventureDoctor Solar: Man of the AtomFive Star ReviewsGold Key ComicsMinor Key IssueScience FictionSilver Age (1956–1970)
My Rating ★★★★★ “Keys Of Knowledge No.04 – Atomic Energy” Have you ever wondered how we get energy from the atom? Who was the first man to split the atom? …
Conan The Barbarian – Volume 01 Issue 03
1970Action & AdventureBronze Age (1970–1985)Conan The BarbarianFantasyMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueThree Star Reviews
My Rating ★★★ “The Twilight of the Grim Grey God!” Note: Adapted from Robert E Howard’s story “The Grey God Passes” Into the wind Conan fled. A mountainous figure stood …
Savage Sword Of Conan – Volume 01 Issue 01
1974Action & AdventureBantam BooksBronze Age (1970–1985)Curtis Magazines (Marvel)FantasyFive Star ReviewsGraphic NovelMagazine SizedMinor Key IssueSavage Sword Of Conan – Vol.01Science Fiction
My Rating ★★★★★ “Curse Of The Undead-Man” The cut-purse thugs had swarmed Conan in a darkened alleyway by chance, but what the Cimmerian had found on the cobblestone moments ago …
Fantastic Four – Volume 01 Issue 02
19612025Action & AdventureFantastic Four – Vol.01Four Star ReviewsMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueSilver Age (1956–1970)
My Rating ★★★★ “The Fantastic Four Meet The Skrulls From Outer Space!” It had been a great vacation so far as Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben made their way upstate …
Detective Comics – Volume 01 Issue 400
19702024Action & AdventureBronze Age (1970–1985)CrimeDC ComicsDetective ComicsFour Star ReviewsMinor Key Issue
My Rating ★★★★ “Challenge Of The Man-bat” Next week the Gotham Museum of Natural History will premiere a new exhibit on night-creatures, but Curator Wilkins is worried about the upcoming …
The Witching Hour – Volume 01 Issue 01
1969DC ComicsFour Star ReviewsHorrorMinor Key IssueScience FictionSilver Age (1956–1970)The Witching Hour
My Rating ★★★★ “Save The Last Dance” Thurgood Trapley, a millionaire philanthropist, and all around nasty old man, has just hit the jackpot. Or, shall we say, his money paid …
Fantastic Four – Volume 01 Issue 01
19612025Action & AdventureFantastic Four – Vol.01Four Star ReviewsMajor Key IssueMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueSilver Age (1956–1970)
My Rating ★★★★ “The Fantastic Four!” The Central City Police are on high alert as four mysterious people race through the city. Are they Martians? Maybe Monsters? One thing is …
Fantastic Four – Volume 01 Issue 348
1991Action & AdventureFantastic Four – Vol.01Five Star ReviewsMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueModern Age (1985–present)
My Rating ★★★★★ Where Monsters Dwell The Fantastic Four have been killed and “Susan Storm” wants revenge! Equipped with a Sub-Photonic Spectro-Analyzer, and riding Reed Richards’ experimental Gravity Wave Rider, …
Fantastic Four – Volume 01 Issue 347
1990Action & AdventureFantastic Four – Vol.01Four Star ReviewsMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueModern Age (1985–present)
My Rating ★★★★ Big Trouble On Little Earth! It’s December 1990 in New York City – Midtown, high above the foot traffic in Four Freedoms Plaza, Reed and Sue take …
Fantastic Four – Volume 01 Issue 33
1964Action & AdventureFantastic Four – Vol.01Four Star ReviewsMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueScience FictionSilver Age (1956–1970)
My Rating ★★★★ “Side-By-Side With The Sub-Mariner!” Civil War! A large army has just struck the underwater city nation of Atlantis. Its leader, the notorious Lemurian warlord Attuma, is more …
Hell-Rider – Volume 01 Issue 01
1971Action & AdventureBronze Age (1970–1985)Four Star ReviewsHell-RiderMagazine SizedMinor Key IssueSkywald Comics
My Rating ★★★★ “Introducing… The Hell Rider” Brick Reese was not your typical California rich kid waiting around to inherit his father’s fortune. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he …
Werewolf By Night – Volume 01 Issue 10
1973Action & AdventureBronze Age (1970–1985)Five Star ReviewsHorrorMarvel ComicsMinor Key IssueWerewolf By Night – Vol.01
My Rating ★★★★★ “The Sinister Secret Of Sarnak!” Trapped in the sewers underneath Century City, a mind-controlled werewolf waits for Sarnak to give him his next command. Standing over the …
