Showing posts with label 1992. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1992. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

ITEM # Ghost Rider – Captain America – Fear

Ghost Rider / Captain America: Fear
Ebenezer Laughton, known as the Scarecrow, undergoes an illegal operation where devices are implanted in his body to amplify his ability to instill fear. Awakening mid-procedure, he kills the surgeons and begins a murderous spree. Ghost Rider, in his Danny Ketch incarnation, stops a hostage situation but is mistaken for the villain by the police, leading to an innocent bystander’s death from fright. Troubled by his role as a source of terror, Danny is drawn into the hunt for Scarecrow, who kidnaps police officer Stacy Dolan, believing she is his mother. Captain America arrives and quickly understands the seriousness of the threat. The two heroes team up, combining Ghost Rider’s relentless fury with Cap’s disciplined tactics. They track Scarecrow to his childhood home, where they fight through his fear-inducing presence to rescue Stacy. She manages to shoot Scarecrow, who flees but ends up impaled on a fence. In the aftermath, Danny visits his sister’s grave, reflecting on his path, while Scarecrow is revealed to have survived and is retrieved by agents of a shadowy organization called the Firm, hinting at future danger. The comic blends horror elements with superhero action, giving more focus to Ghost Rider’s internal struggle while showing Captain America as a steadying, empathetic presence.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

ITEM # 0100A SIN CITY VOL. 1 - 7

Sin City

Sin City is a neo-noir comic book series created, written, and illustrated by Frank Miller, first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1991. Noted for its stark black-and-white artwork with selective splashes of color, the series unfolds in the morally decayed Basin City, where corruption, crime, and violence reign. Each storyline follows different characters—often antiheroes—whose paths intersect amid betrayal, brutality, and fleeting glimpses of redemption. Landmark arcs like The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, and The Big Fat Kill have become essential works in gritty graphic storytelling, praised for their cinematic composition and razor-sharp dialogue. Beyond cementing Miller’s reputation as a master of the noir aesthetic, Sin City shaped the visual language of modern crime comics and inspired successful film adaptations, securing its lasting influence in pop culture.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

ITEM # The Terminator – Hunters and Killers # 1 - 3

In the 21st Century, Skynet and its Terminators are on the brink of defeat at the hands of John Connor. Meanwhile, half a world away in the wreckage of the Soviet Union, a second sentient computer network carries out Skynet's deadly mission; when Skynet falls, its comrades will continue the systematic extermination of mankind. And a new breed of infiltration unit has been created to penetrate the Soviet resistance: Terminators copied from real people. They have the same faces, fingerprints, memories, and personalities of their human counterparts, plus "stealth" circuitry that makes them impossible to detect. They could be anywhere. They could be anyone. And no one will know... until it's too late!

ITEM # Robocop Versus The Terminator # 1 - 4

In the machine-dominated future of 2029, a human rebel gains access to the Skynet computer's Time Displacement Equipment and sends herself into the past on a desperate mission to kill officer Alex Murphy, a.k.a. RoboCop. But Skynet is onto her plan and dispatches a trio of Terminators to the past as well. The Terminators' mission: protect RoboCop at all costs. Just what the heck is going on here

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

THE FERRET

The Ferret comic cover

The Ferret is attacked by a gang of ninjas while he is in a Chinese restaurant in Washington, DC. One of the ninjas throws a bomb in the restaurant to take out the Ferret with no regard to his comrades. While the Ferret recovers from the concussive grenade blast, he thinks back at what brought him to that fight. His childhood friend and former bandmate works at the restaurant and tells the Ferret that a criminal gang called the Purple Dragons are demanding more money in a protection racket. Since his friend refused to pay, the gang has been giving him threatening phone calls. Ferret’s friend says he’ll handle it, though. When the Ferret leaves, he hears a van squeal in front of the restaurant and the Purple Dragons kill his friend.

The Ferret recovers from the grenade and rises to find the Iron Skull standing before him. They fight, with the Ferret realizing that the Iron Skull was once the hero of the same name and is now a cyborg.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

ITEM # The Outer Space Babes


 

ITEM # Flaxen

The true-life story of Playboy centerfold Suzie Owens serves as the source for the inspirational origin tale of Flaxen, America's newest super-glamour gal. From her "real" identity as a nurse lacking in looks and self-confidence through her transformation into the most powerful pinup in the nation, Flaxen is a woman of the nineties. Witness her incredible metamorphosis, not unlike the real-life tale of Suzie herself.

 

ITEM # They Called Him Evil



 

Friday, March 28, 2025

ITEM # HARBINGER VOL. 1 # 0 - 40


 

ITEM # X - 0 MANOWAR # 0 - 68


 

ITEM # Green Lantern – Mosaic #1 – 18 (1992-1993)

Title featuring John Stewart and the Mosaic world on Oa created by “the Old Timer,” a mad Guardian. Created by Gerard Jones and Cully Hamner. John Stewart comes to grips with his personal issues and ultimate destiny while dealing with the weird, chaotic world of Mosaic, a myriad of communities from various civilizations throughout the universe taken from their home worlds and integrated on Oa.

Monday, March 24, 2025

ITEM # Ramba #1 – 14 (1992-1994)


Ramba is an adventurer who has casual sex with many different partners as she rights wrongs and dispenses justice—often scantily clad and sometimes unclad. She has the sensibilities of Batman and the rapacious libido of…well…someone who has a remarkably rapacious libido. On the up-side, the artwork by Mauro Laurenti is gorgeous, reminiscent of such comics legends as Gray Morrow and Russ Heath.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

ITEM # Spider-Man 2099 Vol. 1 #1 – 46 (1992-1996)

A futuristic series starring Miguel O’Hara, a geneticist inspired by Spider-Man. In this future, Miguel was a scientist working for a company called Alchemax. In the future, the world is more or less run by corrupt corporations. Miguel developed a process to rewrite a human’s genetic code, but then attempted to quit Alchemax, since he was sick of it. The head of Alchemax, Tyler Stone, tricked Miguel into taking a drug called Rapture, which is highly addictive. Miguel knew that he couldn’t be a drug addict, so attempted to reset his genetic code so that he wasn’t addicted to Rapture. Unfortunately, a jealous colleague altered it so that Miguel had his genetic code reset to that of a spider. And so Spider-Man 2099 was born! The series lasted until issue 46, after which it (and many other 2099 titles) where put together in the “2099: World of Tomorrow” series.

ITEM # 2144 The Spectre Vol. 3 #0 – 62 (1992-1997)

A Zero Month crossover issue. Once upon a time, God, the One Above All, created aspects of itself to serve different functions. One of these, the aspect of wrath, became known as the Spectre. It was the Spectre that felled Egypt and laid Sodom and Gomorrah to waste. By God’s decree, Michael came to the Spectre, and forced him to bond to a human soul. In this early incarnation, the Spectre became known as Kali. He bonded with the man Caraka, and he took vengeance against Lady Beltane, a mystic who used the souls of those she murdered to power her spells. While Caraka/Spectre succeeded in avenging Caraka’s murder, the soul of Beltane eluded him. Over the ages, Beltane would be reborn, constantly fighting the Spectre.

Friday, March 21, 2025

ITEM # MARVEL 2099 COLLECTION


Marvel 2099 is a Marvel Comics imprint, started in 1992, that explores originally as one possible future of the Marvel Universe, but later revealed in a climax of Superior Spider-Man Goblin Nation arc and Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 #14 to be the same universe in distant future. It was originally announced by Stan Lee in his “Stan’s Soapbox” column as a single series entitled The Marvel World of Tomorrow, which was being developed by Lee and John Byrne. This later changed to a line of books under the banner Marvel 2093 (the date being one hundred years from the year in which the titles launched) before finally being published as Marvel 2099.