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Riddles by Jesus Gracia Sanchez
Riddlesby Jesus Graciafrom Zona 84 No. 39, 1987Jesus Gracia Sanchez was a Spanish artist who contributed a number of short comics to the Spanish magazine Zona 84 during the mid-80s under the pseudonym...
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Book Review: Bloodthirst
Book Review: 'Bloodthirst' by Mark Ronson2 / 5 Stars'Bloodthirst' (210 pp) was published by Hamlyn (UK) in September, 1979. 'Mark Ronson' was the pseudonym of New Zealand author Marc Elward Alexander...
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Antiques Store Finds
Antiques Store FindsIn upstate New York, there is an antiques store I visit every year or so. Sometimes, if my timing is right, I find that they have replenished their selection of vintage...
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Tharg's Future Shocks issue 609
Tharg's Future Shocksby Jose Ortizfrom 2000 AD issue 609January, 1989'Tharg's Future Shocks' were brief, one- to three- page stories that regularly ran in 2000 AD. In this entry from a 1989 issue of...
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Book Review: The Haven
Book Review: 'The Haven' by Graham Diamond4 / 5 Stars'The Haven' (347 pp) was published by Playboy Press in 1977; artist Wayne McLoughlin provided the striking cover illustration.UK author Diamond...
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Conan Vs the vampires
Conan Vs the vampiresby Dorian VallejoSavage Sword of Conan, issue 155, January 1989Dorian Vallejo (b. 1968), the son of noted illustrator Boris Vallejo, only was in his early twenties when he began to...
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Drifting, Falling by The Ocean Blue
Drifting, Fallingby The Ocean Blue1989The story goes that when The Ocean Blue released their first album (titled simply The Ocean Blue) for Sire Records in 1989, many listeners thought the band was...
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Book Review: Welsh Tales of Terror
Book Review: 'Welsh Tales of Terror' edited by R. Chetwynd-Hayes3 / 5 Stars'Welsh Tales of Terror' (188 pp) was published by Fontana Books (U.K.) in 1975. The artist who provided the striking cover...
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House of Monsters from Horror Tales
House of Monstersfrom Horror Tales (Eerie Publications)Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1970As Halloween 2018 draws near, it's time to up the horror quotient here at the PorPor Books Blog.Dick Ayers went all-out...
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The Raven Banner: A Tale of Asgard
The Raven BannerA Tale of Asgardby Alan Zelenetz (story) and Charles Vess (art)Marvel Graphic Novel No. 15 (1985)In theory, this Marvel Graphic novel was precisely what the series was designed for:...
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Book Review: New Blood
Book Review: 'New Blood' by Richard Salem2 / 5 Stars'New Blood' (187 pp) was published in the UK by Futura paperbacks in 1981; this US version was published by Signet in July, 1982. The artist who...
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Road in Autumn by Santiago Rusinol
Road in Autumnby Santiago Rusinol1888from the Art Contrarian blog
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Burton and Cyb: In Search of the Lost Daughter
Burton and Cyb'In Search of the Lost Daughter'(En busca de la hija perdida)by Jose Ortiz (art) and Antonio Segura (story)from Heavy Metal magazine, May 1990Dracula.........the 'mecca for...
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Book Review: The Skin Trade
Book Review: 'The Skin Trade', edited by Douglas E. Winter4 / 5 Stars‘The Skin Trade’ first was published in hardcover in 1988 as Night Visions 5; this Berkley Books paperback (330 pp) was published in...
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Mel Ramos RIP
Mel Ramos RIPJuly 24, 1935 - October 14, 2018Mel Ramos died at age 83 on October 14.If you grew up during the 60s and 70s Ramos was a mainstay of pop culture, with his pinups appearing in magazines...
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At the library sale
At the Library SaleThe other evening I went to the used book sale held at the local library. I usually expect to pick up three or four worthy titles, but this time I was pleasantly surprised to see...
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Book Review: Quartermass
Book Review: 'Quartermass' by Nigel Kneale2 / 5 StarsIn October and November of 1979 the UK channel ITV ran the fourth, and final, installment of the long-running British sci-fi series featuring the...
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The Power of Gold
The Power of Goldby Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisbergfrom the album Twin Sons of Different Mothers1978Fall, 1978, and on the Album Oriented Rock station in my hometown, 'The Power of Gold' by Dan...
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The Last Starfighter Part One
The Last StarfighterPart OneMarvel Super Special No. 31, 1984What with all the renewed interest in 80s pop culture, as exemplified by the Netflix series Stranger Things, I thought I'd post the Marvel...
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The Last Starfighter part Two
The Last StarfighterPart TwoMarvel Super Special No. 31, 1984
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