Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond!

The water planet story arc ends here as Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droids help when a war breaks out between the inhabitants of the planet!

Taking a look at Machine Man #4 and Devil Dinosaur #4, both featuring invading aliens and big battles! Also, looking at the ads and editorial copy of Marvel's July 1978 cover dated books!

The walking dead are marching on Helium and the plot marches off the rails! Lots of cool stuff happens, strung together by a story that struggles to make sense of its plot. But is it still awesome?

It's a lost world, complete with dinosaurs and ancient civilizations and treasure! Mark Harris faces danger and discovery unlike anything he;s ever seen...because most of what he has seen was done on a TV budget.

What happened on the day Human Fly tried to jump twenty-six buses in 1977? What happened after he failed? Find out here, as the comic book and real life meet in tragedy...and triumph?

The Big-G vs. the Beta Beast, with two worlds hanging in the balance! With aliens, monsters, and kaiju battles, is this the most movie like of the Godzilla comics?

It's space opera fantasy adventure fun as the back story of the water world society is revealed and war is engaged! The old new adventures of the Star Wars universe continue!

Using Star Wars as a guideline,  we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. June 1978 brought aliens from the other side of the universe and a giant with a triceratops skull for a helmet — from the head and hand of Jack …

Marv Wolfman continues his fantastic run on the pulp-tastic sci-fantasy all new adventures of John Carter!

It's the comic book adaptation of Stephen Spielberg's sci-fi classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind! How does it hold up compared to other adaptations? How does it hold up compared to the movie? And what compliment does Ben pay to it? The answers to these questions and more will be revealed!

Part one of a three part story has a troubling female character and a final page that transcends the rest of the issue. Cliches abound, some of them bad, but not all of them!

Human Fly does a stunt! Human Fly helps some people! All in a day's work for Human Fly! But is it GOOD? Well, maybe...

It's Godzilla vs. Yetrigar vs. Red Ronin in a three-way Kaiju slugfest, with the lives of four random, thrill seeking white water rafters in the balance!

Luke was looking for a new rebel base, and now he's caught by pirates on a water world... ...while Han, Chewie, and Leia were looking for Luke, and now they're caught by pirates on a captured star destroyer, heading to that same water world! The new adventures continue!

It’s a new series! A new publisher! And a new canon! Ben explores the ongoing Star Wars series as it dives into new stories taking place directly after the first Star Wars movie!

Marvel has re-colored it’s classic adaptations of the Star Wars original trilogy. Does it work? Is it worth buying? Is it just a cash grab, or does it make sense for them to create these “special editions”? And what other extras did they dig up to include within these hardcovers? Ben …

We take a look inside the covers of the May 1978 books -- the ads, the copy-pages, a Twinkie ad -- and then open the pages of Jack Kirby's two 2001 successors: Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur!

In a Gothic, bio-horror tale, John Carter and Tars Tarkis enter a fortress made of bones and skulls and face evil warriors also made of bones and skulls! (Or, I guess you could call them skeletons...)

It's Mark Harris, the Man from Atlantis, vs. mind controlling spores from outer space!

"...And Daredevil Makes Three" is a GREAT example...of a terrible team up. Take three heroes who have nothing to do with each other and then don't let them interact and this is what you get.

Using Star Wars as a guideline,  we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. It’s Godzilla vs. Bigfoot! (A really, really BIG Bigfoot…but don’t let the name “Yetrigar” fool you…he’s Bigfoot!)

The continuing adventures, well, continue in "Star Search"! What is the fate of Luke from his ill-fated mission? What became of Princess Leia's rescue mission? And will Han Solo and Chewie join the gang soon?

Ben takes a look at three comics that were not licensed but that were related to their licensed books: a comic capitalizing on Star Wars' success; a continuation of 2001's Mr. Machine story; and a return to prehistory in the vein of Kirby's early 2001 stories.

Inventory issue time! We get the backstory of John and Dejah's romance! And Ben gives a "good, bad, and ugly" breakdown!

Godzilla goes to Vegas! And Ben finds himself reading a comic book Twilight Zone featuring giant "force of nature" dino-lizard-monsters!