Comic Book Marketplace is a "slick" magazine published by and for collectors and aficionados of comic books of all periods. Each issue contains articles about comic books, comic book companies, comic book characters, complete with many color illustrations. If you're a comic book fan, you will love Comic Book Marketplace!

Following is a list of issues available, all were edited by Russ Cochran and published by Gemstone Publishing.

All Comic Book Marketplace issues will be sold for $3.00

Adventures of Homer Ghost
As the Web Spins-Spider-Man Newspaper Strips
Gray Morrow, Man of Many Visions
John Romita Sr. Versatile Virtuoso
Neglected Ditko
Silver Age Brainiac: the Evolution of Evil
Spider-Man #1s
Funk in the Fifties
Four-Color Cornucopias
J.G. Jones
Personal History
Frank Frazetta, Public Citizen?
Introduction to Collectable Character Statues
Volatile Variants

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
inspiration Central
First Person
Frazetta-Phile
Statues
Naiman Report

 

 

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Comic Book Marketplace #84  

Ain't it a Wonder-Eisner's Wonderman #2
Denis Kitchen/Dale Crain Interviews
Frazetta Museum Grand Opening 2001
Jack Adler Collection
Solfing the Whitman Mystery Part I of II
Unknown Russ Manning
Unsung Robert Turner
Will Eisner Interview
Bud Fisher: Patron Saint of Cartoonist
Funny Animal Fun and Frolics! Dell Discoveries
Atlas Cover Aces
Marty Nodell
The Very Elusive Blue Circle #6
A Modest Proposal
San Diego Con

 

 

 

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Speak Out
Naiman Report

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Comic Book Marketplace #85    

A Plethora of Phony Firsts
Beginning of the Bronze Age
Birth of the Bronze Age
Frazetta's Little Jewels
George Perez Interview Part I of III
Interviews:...on George Perez
Solving the Whitman Mystery Part II of II
Tom Brevoort Interview
Bud Fisher: Patron Saint of Cartoonists
When Little Girls Were Big in Comics
A Tribute to Thrilling
Mike Mignola
First Person/Personal History
Pulps
Classic Comic Characters from Dark Horse
Look Before You Leap
Jack Cole and Plastic Man

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
First Person
Smith Report
Statues
Naiman Report
Book Review
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Comic Book Marketplace #86    

A Tribute to George Evans
Don McGregor of Detectives Inc
George Evans Interview 1992
George Evans Interview 1995
Jim Steranko Interview
Opinion on "Terrorist Comics"
Longest-Running Comics
Do They or Don't They-Exist
Horror Hosts
Tom DeFalco
An Introduction and the First Column
Busts
Missing in Overtreet

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
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Comic Book Marketplace #87  

Birth of Fun
Frazetta's Fine Lines
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Through Time and Space with Murphy Anderson
Another Parlor Game of Record Setting and Unsetting
Flash Facts and Fancy
Gargoyle Gallery
Frank Cho
Quick, Fanboy!The Flit!
Ray Harryhausen Meets Godzilla
The Assault on the Grading Standard

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
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Comic Book Marketplace #88    

Frank Cho, Liberty Meadows
Frazetta and Foster
George Perez Interview part II of III
Making of "Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators"
Fostering the Adventure Strip
Still Worthy-Appreciation Prince Valiant
Horror Hall of Fame-Beware! Terror!
Half Fruit, Half Man, All Special
From Cat Food to Caviar
Hal Foster, Prince of Illustrators-Father of the Adventure Strip

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Oddball Comics
Naiman report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #89    

Bob Lubbers Interview
Dark Horse's line of Syroco-esque figures
Deal of the Art-Jack Kirby
George Perez Interview Part III of III
Mystery of the Missing Super Teams
Quit Blaming Frank Miler! And, for What!?
Voices of Patriotism-Quick Survey
Adieu to Modesty
Fiction Hause's Four-Issue Wonders
Double Artists
Murphy Anderson part 1
Sparkling, Yet Sleazy
Green Lantern
Pedigrees, Variants, Dannis and Ugs

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
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Comic Book Marketplace #90 SOLD OUT SOLD OUT  

Harry "A" Chesler Jr
Johnny Craig, An EC Icon
Johnny Craig's Picto-Fiction
Please Call Me Johnny
Mystery Man Bill Watterson
Lost on the Newsstands (A Chesler Contrarian)
IN Praise of 1952
Murphy Anderson part 2
A Vivid Section
Diamond Select has a Tough Act to Follow
Strange But True

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #91    

Eddie Stanky, Baseball Hero
Our First Joe Kubert iNterview
Our Second Joe Kubert Interview
What's Apple Mary Worth
The Most Under-Ratet Kubert
Murphy Anderson part 3
Fantastic Surge
The Scales Fell From My Eyes
Auctions, etc.
Spider-Man
Great American Comic Books

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
Movies Review
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #92    

Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon
Art of Alex Raymond
Flash Gordon: 1935 to1936
From Fandom to the Front Lines
Raymond and the Right Stuff
A Flash of inspiration
Ron Frenz
The First Q&A
The Attack of the Mummy Insects
Does Whatever A Spider Can
Dreams & Plastic
AB. Krigstein Volume 1

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Ask CGC
Oddball comics
Statues
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #93    

ACTOR in the Spotlight
Avenger of Blood
Best of All Worlds
Dell Disney Zorro
Golden Age Now-Steven T. Seagle
Spectral Image
What Popped Up in The Saturday Evening post
The Golden Age Green Lantern
Hit Me- Alex Simmons
Dinosaur Days
DC Gets Their Props
A Walk Down the Aisle

Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
 
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SOLD OUT Comic Book Marketplace #94    

A Concise History of Disney Newspaper Strips
Facts in the Case of R L Haney
Miracleman Story
Literary Toad Warts and All
Accurate Comic History
Irwin Hasen
Multi-Oddballedness
The Fantastic Four
Movies, Variants, WonderCon & Restoration

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Statues
Naiman Report
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #95    

Man Who Invited the President to Lunch
Marc Hempel
Ringing Out the Old, Ringing in the New
Here There Be the Dragon Lady
The Prolific Pines Company
Andy Kubert
The Wacky Hall of Fame

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Naiman Report
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #96    

Curt Swan: A Life in Comics
Days of T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents' John Carbonaro
Setting the Fashio with the Patterson Girl
Time Line Fact You May Not Have Realized
A Double Dose of Christmas Cheer
Jim Shooter
Earth Needs Moore Women
Super, Boy!
Curt Swan: A Life in Comics

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Statues
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #97    

Cowhero Age of Comics
John Severin Heads 'em Off at the Pass
Revealed at Last...Dick Ayers
Smile When You Say That, "Ghastly"
Tomahawk: Company Man
Two-Gun Kid
Coboyin' in the Strips
DC's Western Became Anachronisms
White Indian/White Wolf
Frontier Frankenstein
A Visual Feast

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Frazetta-Phile
Oddball Comics
Naiman Report
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #98      

Hulk's Smashing Success-Bruce Jones
Man Behind the Iron Mask-Mike Grell
Man Behind the Machine-Simon Furman
Marvel Comics 1965
More Than Meets the Eye-Pat Lee
Mysterious Marvel Cover Variants
Exploring Space with Gil Kane
All Those Marvel-ous Girls
The Men in the Monsters
Mary Wolfman
Mighty Marvel Musingsl: The Characters and Their Universe

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Naiman Report
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #99      

A Trip to Snoopyland
Pulp Roots of Batman
Spicy Superman Artist - H J Ward
Slaphappy Heroicism, A Good Last Act
A Much Ignored Milestone, When 100 was Just Another Number
King of The Monsters
Don Rosa: Good Things
An anniversary Update
The Way We Were: CBM at 100

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Statues
Naiman Report
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #100      

Archie Does His Part
Archie on TV - Adaptations
Archie on TV - 1964
Butch Guice of Ruse
Comics in the Classroom Building Bridges
Everything Old is New Again - CrossGen Quad System
The Shadow - Archie Version
Economics of Comics
Collecting Thoughts: Why You Collect Anything
The First Worst Night of my Life
Bill Morrison: Still Crazy
Strange Stories from Another World
This Month It's 1948
Bagged Ducks, Astro Boy, WonderCon and More
The Official Overstreet Grading Guide

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Oddball Comics
Wonderful year
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #101    

Joe Simon and The Comic Book Makers
Lev Gleason and Co.
Malcolm Ater and the Commercial Comics Co.
Russ Heath Interview
Who the Heck was C.B.?
Mauldin's Yahtzee
DC's Delicate Delinquents
Uncle Charlie Biro
Green Arrow Artifacts
This Month it's 1952
The Harvey Boys--and Girls--and Ghosts
The Comic Book Masters

Funnies Farrago
Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Greatest Comic
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #102    

Disney Comics Back to Long Ago
Disney Comics' Don Rosa
Gemstone Disney Editor John Clark
Jack Bradbury, A Funny Animal Maestro
Michigan State University's Collection
Mickey Mouse Weekly
Walt Disney's Missouri's Dan Viets
DC's Last Golden Age hero
Michael Wieringo
This Month it's 1945
Disney 3D
The Petrified butter Collection

Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Wonderful Year
Statues
Naiman Report
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #103      

Batman Timeline
Loeb and Lee: Batman Forever?
Many Phases of Batman
Neal Adams Interview Part I of II
Professor William H. Foster III on Blacks in Comics
Rediscovered Schwartz
Ghost-Breaker, DC's Haunting Star
A Strip Man Makes His Pick
Frank Miller
This Month it's 1940
Shadow of the Bat
Data, Data, Data (It's Our Heritage)

Inspiration Central
Wonderful Year
Statues
Naiman Report
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #104      

Frank Brunner, Fantasy's Animated Creator
Incredible Bruce Jones
M.W. Kaluta, Master of Light and Shadows
Ninety Years of Liberty Gala: A Night in Pictures
Painting With Fire
Scott Hampton, a Great with Brushes
Secret Shadows
Verbal Sketch of the Artist Jeffrey Jones
Wrightson, Master of the Macabre
Casey, Crime Photographer
Lance Laspina director of Painting with Fire
This Month it's 1954
Upstairs, Downstairs; San Diego Style

Nolan's Notebook
Frazetta-File
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #105 SOLD OUT    

A History of Good Girl Art
John Celardo
Paper Tigress
Rima, The Jungle Girl
Some Very Pinned-up Paper Dolls
Early Archies Skimpy on Skin
Xela's Jungals
Amazing Spider-Man # 102
Mark Miller
This Month it's 1943
Potpourri, Another
Al Williamson Adventures

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Greatest comic
Inspiration Central
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #106      

Anti-Taft Comic book Scandal
Aquaman's Creator Paul Norris
Down of Superman
Weir, Wonder(ous) World of Victor Fox's Fantastic Mystery Men
A Not So Famous Fox First
Fox Triple Feature
Nick Fury, Agent of Shield #3
Murphy Anderson
The Horror, The Horror
This Month it's 1956
Bits and Pieces (I'm in pieces)
The Slings & Arrows comic Guide

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Statues
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #107      

B-Littled Golden Age Titles
Black Market Comic Books of the Golden Age
Carbon Dating the End of DC's Silver Age
Comic of the Absurd
How Did the Hulk Fit in my Back Pocket?
Joe Kubert on Sgt. Rock and "Yossel"
Poet Laureate of Old Pretzleburg
Krypto-Dog of Steel
In the Jingle Jangle Morning
Bunny #6
Mike Grell
Frazetta's Fairy Tale
DC Gets Animate
This Month it's 1958
Five-Grade Gurus
Classics Illustrate: A Cultural History

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Frazetta-Phile
Statues
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review

   
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Comic Book Marketplace #108      

Carmine Infantino-Colors of Evil Villains
Eminent Villains of the Golden Age
Kraven's Twisted Honor
Neal Adams Interview Part II of II
Strange Saga of The Skull
Fawcett's One-Shot Villains
Two Titanic Anti-Heroes
Challengers of the Unknown #48 and Doom Patrol #102
William Stout
Bring on the Bad Guys part 1
This Month it's 1941
Ten New Years
500 Great Comic Book Action Heroes

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Greatest Comic
Inspiration Central
Statues
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #109    

How Will Elder Became the Mad Playboy of Art
Jack Kirby: King of the Fantasy Painters?
Alex Ross: Comic Book Superstar
Norman Saunders: Under Covers of Darkness
John K Snyder III: Passion in Action
The Wild Wild West of Doug Wildey
Comic Cavalcade
Wally Wood's Galaxy
David Michael Beck
This Month it's 1949
Watch Them Jump
Julius Schwartz, 1915-2004

 

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
inspiration Central
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Death

 
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Comic Book Marketplace #110    

Doctor Victor von Doom
Jim Starlin: Changing of the Guard
In Praise of Great Men (Vanguard)
Paul Gulacy: Master Storyteller
Pulp Roots of the X-Men
Do They Exist?
DC's Deluge from Space
Paste-pot Villains
Dick Ayers
John Helt, Jr.: Cartoonist as God
Bring on the Bad Guys Part 2
This Month it's 1950
I Get Mail
Carl Barks Conversations

Weird Words
The Sidebar
Inspiration Central
Funnies Farrago
Statues
Wonderful Year
Naiman Report
Book Review
 
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Comic Book Marketplace #111    

Severed Heads: Mid-fifties Atlas mayhem
The Amazing Acorn of Atlas Horror: From Which Grew the Mighty Oak
Those "Brand X" Horror Covers ("EC" to ignore)
Weird Mystery Tales: DC's obscure Bronze Age Horror Gem
Alan Class Comics: British Marvel and More
Stanmor's Forgotten Fadeout
Mummy's the Word
Bruce Jones
Vault of Horror # 33
Expanding Graphic Novels
Weist's Hundred
Sampling Marketplace Indicator Sales
This Month it's 1955
Neal Adams Monsters

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Greatest Comic
More Weird Words
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #112      

eBay: The Collector's Alternative
The Milton Story Story: The ghost of Al Capp
George Pratt: Comics' man or many talents
Earth vs. Flying Saucers...In the Comics
The Pulp Connection: Thrilling Heroes: The Knights of Nedor
Creation of Re-Creations: A passion for cover paintings
Take Me to Your Reader: Cosmo, the Merry Martian
Attack of the UFCOs: Four-color saucers and more
Jim Starlin Interview
Atom # 12
Spider-Cents
Sampling Marketplace Indicator Sales
This Month it's 1959
Words of Wonder: The Life and TImes of Otto Binder

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Greatest Comic
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #113      

Frazetta's Magic Pencil: And a great mistake
Who is Pete Von Sholly? (Who better to ask?)
Handsome Frankenstein: Horror Roots of the Hulk
Deep focus: The Cinematic and Comic Book Visions of Rover Tinnell
The Long Dark 9Horse) Night of the Soul
The DC Horror Story: He was eight years old a scared silly
Leo Bachle, King of the Canadian Whites
The First Marvel Implosion
The Creepy Classics
J. Michael Straczynski
Ruse # 17 and # 18 cover art
This Month it's 1957
The Black Forest by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
The Holy Grail
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #114      

A CBM Conversation: Auteurs in the Comics
Carl barks: Tooth-chatteringly careful, and prolific
Don Rosa: The masterbuilder
Harvey Kurtzman: IN the post-MAD era
Will Eisner: Auteur Theory
There she goes-Miss America
Ty Templeton
John Stanley, his horrors and his Tubby little Spider
The genius of Schulz and Larson
San Diego-in the aisles
This Month it's 1939
Against the Grain: Mad Artist Wally Wood, edited by Bhob Stewart

Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Weird Words
Funnies Farrago
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #115      

How the Jews Greated the Comic book Industry Part 1: The Golden Age
"Hate!" A Shock SuspenStory, from Shock #5 by Feldstein and Wood
Robert Maxwell: He put Superman on radio and TV
Good, Clean Fun: Collectin New Fun memorabilia
The Recognition of Shock: EC Comics on the human condition
DC's "Girl of the Fu true", Astra
Ron Garney
Are comics Jewish?
Comic Book's Godfather
A Disney Medley
This Month it's 1961
Sampling Marketplace indicator sales
Maus, by Art Spiegeiman, and Yossel April 19, 1943, by Joe Kubert

Nolan's Notebook
Inspiration Central
Funnies Farrago
Weird Words
Naiman Report
Wonderful Year
Market Watch
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #116      

Forging the Metal Men: Robert Kanigher's robots
How the Jews Transformed the Comic book Industry: Part 2 Silver age
Steranko Arouses the Domino Lady
Golden Age Comics Exhibition: Bremen Jewish Heritage Museum
CBM Interview: Denny O'Neil
Dizzy Dames in comics
Inspiration Central: Howard Chaykin
Robots Fights hate
A Pressing Issue
Sampling Marketplace indicator sales
This Month it's 1953
Tales to Astonish by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #117      

Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson: A major disaster
How Jews Transformed the Comic Book Industry: Part 3 bronze Age
Thomas Yeates on Al Williamson: Hidden Lands
American Flagg! A bleeding heart patriot
Robot Dawn: The color of metal
Three summer discoveries
Groo fights hate
Thomas Yeates
Duck Dates
Sampling Marketplace indicator sales
This Month it's 1962
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book
Irwin Donenfeld and Bob Haney

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Inspiration Central
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
Obituaries

   
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Comic Book Marketplace #118      

Dick Tracy is On The Air: When radio was king
Mystery of the Green Harnet: "Name Hornet sound good"
Walter Gibson's Secret Comics Career
Tuning in...MAD's radio connection
A Review of ImageS
Chares Spain Verral: author of Bill Barnes Comics and More
The Dodo and the Frog
The radio connection
Michael Turner
Grand Feasts
Sampling Marketplace indicator sales
This Month it's 1947
Comics Creators on Spider-Man: by Tom DeFalco
Masked Marvels: Compiled by Anthony Tollin
Will Eisner and Kelly Freas

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
Baker, Bill
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
CD Review
Obituaries
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #119      

Mac Raboy's Magical Talent: It provided inspiration to a young boy
The Rise of Captain Marvel: Creators of the Worlds's Mightiest Mortal
Henry "Lynn" Perkins: The Stan Lee of 1943
CBM Interview: Jeff Smith
Then and "Now": by Now Media Group
CBM Interview: Tommy Lee Edwards
The mystery of Love Mystery
The waning of Whiz
Mike Oeming
Classics Illustrated 110
Meeska, Mooska, Mouseketeer!
Sampling Marketplace indicator sales
This Month it's 1951
Baby Boomer Comics by Craig "Mr. Silver Age" Shutt
Tales from the Crypt From Comic Books to Television! By Chip Selby

Nolan's Notebook
Weird Words
inspiration Central
Greatest Comic
Naiman Report
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Book Review
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #120      

Unmasked: "X" The Phantom Fed
Lee Falk
The Fall of Captain Marvel
CBM Interview: Paul Ryan
The Ghost Who Walks
The "Notebook" turns 100!
Rip Hunter Time Master #24
Paul Ryan
The Silver Phantom
Dr. Silver McAdam
This Month it's 1944
I Think I Can Manage

Nolan's Notebook
Greatest Comic
inspiration Central
Weird Words
Market Watch
Wonderful Year
Guest Editorial
   
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Comic Book Marketplace #121