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‘Elric: Bane Of The Black Sword’ is a graphic novel adaptation of an original book by Michael Moorcock. Like many of Moorcock’s ‘novels’,…
As Kurt Mitchell points out in the introduction to ‘American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1940s: 1940-1944’, there are very few people alive who…
As with ‘The Little Book Of The Avengers’, ‘The Little Book Of The Amazing Spider-Man’ follows a similar pattern of showing a lot…
The worse thing when opening this book is realising that in the nature of its small size that it won’t open fully without…
I know Taschen has a reputation for doing some odd-shaped books but this one is off the scale. It is both massive…
‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ being the big movie of the moment. I thought I would dive into my extensive ‘Essential’ archives and dig…
This compact volume, ‘The Michael Moorcock Library Vol. 1 – Elric Of Melnibone’, reprints the version of ‘Elric Of Melniboné’ that first saw…
Comicbook artist John Romita always defines himself as second tier at Marvel, despite working nearly forty years exclusively there and whose previous work…
‘Essential Iron Man Volume # 4’ presents us with Iron Man # 39-61, featuring the golden avenger and a lot of villains, including…
Adam Warlock is one of those secondary Marvel characters that talented people sometimes get a chance to play with, often with great results.…
Roy Thomas is great. He slid into Marvel Comics in the mid-sixties and after an interesting stint on ‘The Uncanny X-Men’ brought new…
‘Essential Fantastic Four Volume 7’ features stories from Fantastic Four # 138 through to Fantastic Four # 159 with a couple of ‘Giant-Size’…
