Marvel Time Warp

CAPTAIN AMERICA — Issue no. 227, August 1978 / Sometimes the setup is better than the payoff. And that’s OK! The setup here, established in the previous issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA, is that the Red Skull (he’s a Nazi super-villain who has been hounding Captain America since the Second World War) has somehow turned all of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aboard a helicarrier into an army of Red Skulls (or at least stooges who look like the original Red Skull). That is admittedly a fun setup. Book: Captain America Issue No.: 227 Published: August 8, 1978 Title: “This Deadly Gauntlet!” Cover Price: 35¢ Format: Original paper copy Sometimes the setup is better than the payoff. And that’s OK! The setup here, established in the previous issue of Captain America , is that the Red Skull (he’s a Nazi super-villain who has been hounding Captain America since the Second World War) has somehow turned all of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aboard a helicarrier into an army of Red Skulls...

SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP — Issue no. 15, August 1978 / When I started MARVEL TIME WARP, my plan was to take advantage of Marvel’s vast digital archives and just read digital versions of the comic books that came out in the year I started reading comics, 1978. But I enjoyed the digital comics so much I started hitting comic shops and cons and picking up original paper copies of whatever cheap Marvel books from 1978 I could find. Since then, I’ve filled up almost three short boxes with comics from 1978. I have mostly stuck with my inital cheap-comics-only plan. Initially I had set a limit of five dollars per book, because I was just looking for reading copies, not expensive, high-grade collectible comics. But I have broken the five dollar rule on occasion. Mainly to get some of the harder-to-find issues... Book: Super-Villain Team-Up Issue No.: 15 Published: August 1, 1978 Title: “The Invaders!” (reprint of Astonishing Tales nos. 4 and 5) Cover Price: 35¢ For...