Category: Back-Issue Gold

  • Today was a day unlike any other. For the last year or so, I have been determined to collect and read the entire West Coast Avengers run. Well, a stop at the Goodwill yielded about 30% of it. That’s right, I found issues #7-45 (save the issues that I already had, like John Byrne’s Vision…

  • So i would like to dedicate part of this blog to some of the worst, most god-awful, lamest, loser villains in comic book history! When you think Captain America you think of the Red Skull, Baron Zemo or maybe even Baron Blood right? WRONG. Enter “The Slug!”. This loser first appeared in Captain America #324…

  • I was just thinking about some of the greatest Wolverine stories of all time and this amazing X-Men issue was the first that came to mind. This one came out in 1986 and was a stand alone issue by Chris Claremont & Barry Windsor Smith.This is truely classic Wolverine at it’s best and this one…

  • Hello! And welcome to the first edition of UniversalDork’s Back-Issue Gold! Here we’ll be posting some of the most strange but fun 70’s, 80’s and 90’s single-issue-stories and arcs commonly found in your LCS’ discount boxes. Not only that, but we’re gonna give you plenty incentive to plunk down that $0.50 with detailed highlights of…