Bronze Age (1970-1985)

Marvel Comics, Marvel Spotlight

Marvel Spotlight – Volume 01 Issue 04

My Rating “Island Of The Damn!” Ship Ahoy! Jack Russell has teamed up with a investigative journalist, Buck Cowan, who is currently investigating occult operations in the southern California area. Buck has discovered documents and a map linking the sale of Jack’s inheritance, i.e. the Russoff Family Castle, to a business entity located off the

Marvel Comics, Marvel Spotlight

Marvel Spotlight – Volume 01 Issue 03

My Rating “The Thing In The Cellar!” The first night, Malibu California, the full moon peeks over the Russell family beach house. Inside the bungalow, the searing pain of Jack’s transformation has pushed his humanity into the subconscious mind, leaving only the beast. Outside a vintage roadster races up the driveway and skids to a

Marvel Comics, Marvel Spotlight

Marvel Spotlight – Volume 01 Issue 02

My Rating “Werewolf By Night” In the warehouse, from a dark corner lunged the beast. The murderer was not the wolf but a contract killer waiting for his payment. The woman was Jack Russell’s mother, her death came at the hand of Max Grant, the family chauffeur and psychopath. It was Phillip Russell who placed

Skywald Comics, The Heap

The Heap – Volume 01 Issue 01

My Rating “Shadows Of Satan” An escaped circus lion lies dead in a field covered with daisies. The animal’s only crime was following its natural instincts and trying to feast upon the soft flesh of a young blind woman named Sybl. Isn’t that simply the nature of the beast? As the big cat leaped forward

DC Comics, Detective Comics

Detective Comics – Volume 01 Issue 518

My Rating “The Millionaire Contract” As Batman lays in recovery from a blood transfusion and Father Green’s vampire serum, the Boy Wonder helps load the bodies of Dala Vadim and the Monk into the back of a hearse. Their next destination is the holding cells underneath St. Jude’s Hospital. Robin and Alfred bid Father Green

Batman, DC Comics

Batman – Volume 01 Issue 351

My Rating “What Stalks The Gotham Night?” High above the street level a feral set of eyes watches the front entrance to Vicki Vale’s apartment building. This area of Gotham is considered plush by some, but at night the architecture casts shadows giving the buildings a sinister vibe. A familiar Rolls-Royce pulls up to the

DC Comics, Detective Comics

Detective Comics – Volume 01 Issue 517

My Rating “The Monster In The Mirror” Twenty minutes to ten, the rose gardens – Wayne Manor, Batman stumbles through the greenery which he holds so special, the visions of earlier events pass through his head. It can’t be true! Vampires are nothing but a fairytale, but the hunger has overtaken his mind. Blood! Batman

Batman, DC Comics

Batman – Volume 43 Issue 350

My Rating “Nightmare In Crimson” Dick Grayson awakes from a nightmare and finds himself in a strange bedroom. The visions of Dala attacking him are still fresh in his mind. The fangs, the blood. Was it really her? Before Dick can delve deeper into his memories, the voice of an elderly priest brings him back

Batman, DC Comics

Batman – Volume 01 Issue 349

My Rating “Blood Sport” Batman enters a seedy hotel room located at the corner of Sunset and Vine, Hollywood –  California. The window was conveniently left open, not by a criminal, but the caped crusader himself. This is the temporary lodgings of Bruce Wayne the jet set traveler. Three weeks prior Batman received a tip

Batman, DC Comics

Batman – Volume 01 Issue 348

My Rating “Shadow Play” Deep below Wayne Manor two familiar faces are busy moving gear and equipment back into the Batcave. It’s been too long since Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson occupied this space. As the dynamic-duo begin to roll out a giant sized Lincoln’s head penny, a familiar face makes his way out  of

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