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Lone Sloane: Delirius
Lone Sloane: Delirius episode 1This 1973 graphic novel compiles, in English, Druillet's Lone Sloane: Delirius comic, which first appeared in serial form in the French magazine Pilote from 1970 - 1971....
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Book Review: The Karma Corps
Book Review: 'The Karma Corps' by Neil Barrett, Jr.2 / 5 Stars‘The Karma Corps’ (239 pp) is DAW Book No. 604, and was published in November, 1984. The striking cover illustration was done by Les...
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Cody Starbuck 1974
Cody Starbuckby Howard ChaykinStar*Reach Comics, Issue No. 1,1974April, 1974. If your car radio, or your portable radio, or your clock radio, or the radio in your stereo was on, or if you were watching...
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Crisalida
Crisalidaby Marotofrom the April, 1983 issue of Heavy Metal magazineThe cheesecake element obviously rules here, but still, an entertaining little strip for all that........
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May is British hooligans month
That's right ! For May, the PorPor Books Blog will be taking a brief vacation from covering the sf and fantasy genres. Instead, we'll be focusing on books - fiction and nonfiction- and comics devoted...
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Book Review: Rule of Night
Book Review: 'Rule of Night' by Trevor Hoyle5 / 5 Stars‘Rule of Night’ first was published in paperback in the UK in 1975. This Pomona Books reissue (220 pp) was published in 2003, and features an...
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Star Slammers
Star Slammersby Walter SimonsonMarvel graphic Novel No. 6, 1983Walter Simonson began working on his own sci-fi comic as a college student in the early 70s, producing a self-assembled, black-and-white...
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The Hacker Files issue 4
The Hacker Filesby Lewis Shiner (story) and Tom Sutton (art)issue 4DC Comics, November 1992In this, the fourth and concluding installment of the 'Soft War' four-issue arc, Jack Marshall investigates...
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Heavy Metal magazine May 1985
'Heavy Metal' magazine May 1985May, 1985. In heavy rotation on FM radio, and on MTV, is 'Don't You (Forget About Me)' by Simple Minds.The latest issue of Heavy Metal magazine features a front cover by...
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Book Review: Hoolies
Book Review: 'Hoolies' by Gary Bushell4 / 5 Stars‘Hoolies’ (289 pp) was published in 2010 by John Blake Publishing Ltd (UK). Bushell (b. 1955) first began writing in the 1970s, for the ‘Socialist...
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The Fix by Pepe Moreno
'The Fix' by Pepe MorenoEpic Illustrated No. 30, June 1985Another offbeat tale from Pepe Moreno...this one features some black humor regarding the 'fix'.........
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Roy of the Rovers: The 1970s
Roy of the Rovers: The 1970sTitan Books (UK) June 2009Leave it to the Brits to producea comic book about....soccer ?!But a comic about soccer it was.....Roy of the Rovers began print in 1954 as a...
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Book Review: Albion ! Albion !
Book Review: 'Albion ! Albion !' by Dick Morland3 / 5 Stars'Dick Morland' was one of several pseudonyms used by the British author Reginald Hill (1936 – 2012). Hill was a prolific author of crime...
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The Birth of Death by Jim Starlin
The Birth of Deathby Jim Starlinfrom Star*Reach No. 1, April 1974Although by 1974 he was regularly working for Marvel Comics, Jim Starlin nonetheless found time ro contribute a number of memorable...
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Book Review: Bovver
Book Review: 'Bovver' by Chris Brown5 / 5 StarsBefore I had a chance to weigh up the options he launched at me, charging down the terrace. I managed to land a punch before he could, straight in his...
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Book Review: Who Wants It ?
Book Review: 'Who Wants It ? by Chris Henderson3 / 5 StarsChris ‘Chubby’ Henderson (b. 1959) died in the Fall of 2013. He had been in ill health, and in dire financial straits, for some time, and...
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Blood and Iron by Les Edwards
Blood and Ironby Les EdwardsGW Books (UK) 1989Les Edwards (b. 1949) is a UK illustrator and artist. He regularly produced artwork for the Games Workshop, including artwork for rule books and the...
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Life and Death of a Robot
Life and Death of a Robotby Dumasfrom Heavy Metal magazine, May 1984
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Ranxerox meets the Leathermen
Ranxerox meets the Leathermenexcerpted from Heavy Metal magazine, February and March 1984celebrating Pride Month 2015In this excerpt from 'Ranxerox in New York', serialized in Heavy Metal in 1983 -...
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Book Review: The Religion
Book Review: 'The Religion' by Nicholas Conde3 / 5 Stars‘The Religion’ was published in hardcover in 1982; this Signet paperback version (377 pp) was issued in March, 1983.‘The Religion’ was made into...
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