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Book Review: The Broken Worlds
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Heavy Metal April 1984
'Heavy Metal' magazine April 1984April, 1984, and in rotation on MTV is 'Adult Education' by Hall and Oates. This song apparently is jumping back into the public eye due to its being included in the...
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Book Review: The Vang: The Battlemaster
Book Review: 'The Vang: The Battlemaster' by Christopher Rowley5 / 5 Stars‘The Vang: The Battlemaster’ (313 pp) was published by Del Rey in October, 1990, with cover artwork by Steve Hickman. This is...
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New York: Year Zero issue 1
New York: Year Zeroby Ricardo Barreiro (script) and Juan Zanotto (art)Eclipse ComicsIssue 1, August 1988New York: Year Zero was originally published in 1984 as Nueva York: Año Cero by the Argentinian...
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Dreadstar: The Beginning
Dreadstar: The Beginning by Jim Starlin Jim Starlin’s ‘Dreadstar’ comic books and graphic novels appeared on a regular basis throughout the 1980s, and since that time, have been reprinted in a...
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Book Review: Earth Magic
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May is Ghetto Action Month !
May is Ghetto Action Month !That's right, folks !I've become quite jaded from reading so many sf novels and short story collections - particularly when so many of them are awful - that it's time for a...
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Book Review: The Cool World
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Sex in the Comics
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Heavy Metal May 1984
'Heavy Metal' magazine May 1984 May, 1984, and in heavy rotation on MTV is 'Ever Changing Moods' by the Style Council, the band formed by former Jam member Paul Weller. The latest issue of Heavy Metal...
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Book Review: Go Down Dead
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New York: Year Zero issue 2
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Book Review: To Reach A Dream
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Marada the She Wolf by John Bolton
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Classic Space: 1999: To Everything That Was
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Book Review: Steel Shivs
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Oscar Dystel, Bantam Books president
Oscar Dystel, Bantam Books president, dies at age 101Oscar Dystel died May 28, at age 101. In 1954 he was hired as the president of Bantam Books, at that time a failing enterprise. A year later the...
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Hip Hop Family Tree No. 1 : 1975 - 1981
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