The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

I have had no time due to work and children to begin any articles yet, but I don't want to go too long without entries so..the good , the bad and the ugly of comics right now. (I can tell by the reaction on Boris' face, he's excited.) The last month and a half (from late April to about mid-June) has too many blockbuster movies for most geek budgets...I mean Avengers, Deadpool 2, Solo and another Jurassic Park movie all so close together? Come on, how much money do these people think we have? (Although, even in a role where she keeps her clothes on all the time, still awesome to see Emilia Clarke.) Judging by how under-expectations the box office take for Solo was, can we expect that movies may actually start going down in box office take? Speaking about money, after Amazing Spider-Man 800 and it's 57 cover variants, we are going to get yet another Amazing Spider-Man #1. And of course, after Action 1000, and a new Man of Steel , we are going to get yet anothe...

I (jokingly) say that today should be "Random Books My Daughter Picks..." as she technically was the one to pick todday's book (by going, "Hey look at that one!" and my son following with "Yes, that one." They picked on the few Gold Key books I own, the June 1972 issue of Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery  #41. Like most anthology books back then, this book has several stories in it (There are four.) Also, as was the style at th time, the stories are uncredited. (I have done my best here to try and give credit where credit is due.) Story 1 - (most sources credit only Hy Elsman as artist and only with a question mark) called A Study in Terror:  Author Ron Ramon has invited some guests to stay in his secluded home, on an island in the middle of the lake. After a storm whips up keeping his guests from returning to the mainland, the group spots a strange beast staring at them. At the house, Ron's wife Ilda goes to fetch him, and while she's g...