A couple of weeks ago, I noted that when I picked up Detective Comics #450 in the late spring of 1975, it had been well over a year since I'd bought an issue of that title. As it happens, I could have said the same thing about most of DC Comics' other Bat-books of the…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

21.06.2025

X-Men #94 (August, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

As you may recall from our post about Giant-Size X-Men #1 back in April, that landmark comic book concluded with one of the mutant superhero team's original members, the Angel, posing the query: "What are we going to do with thirteen X-Men?" That question was reflective of the fact that while Marvel Comics had just…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

28.06.2025

Eerie #67 (August, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

At the time I originally purchased the subject of today's blog post, way back in June, 1975, it had been over two years since I'd bought an issue of any of Warren Publishing's black-and-white comics magazines (with one exception, which I'll get to in a moment). Half a century later, I'm not entirely sure how…

Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

05.07.2025

Justice League of America #123 (October, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

1975's team-up between the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America was the thirteenth such event since the annual tradition had begun in 1963. Over the years, DC Comics fans had been privileged to vicariously visit such parallel worlds as Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-Three, Earth-X, and even the short-lived Earth-A. But there was…

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Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

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Batman Family #1 (Sep.-Oct., 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

X-Men #94 (August, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Eerie #67 (August, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

Justice League of America #123 (October, 1975) | Attack of the 50 Year Old Comic Books

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