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Halloween 2019 Post-A-Day 1 Horror-ible and Tie-ins Battlestar Galactica #10 Kicking Halloween off with a scary giant space testicle "This Planet Hungers” Writer – Tom DeFalco Pencils – Pat Broderick Inker – Barreto & Marcos Colorist – Ben Sean Letterer – John Costanza Editor – Allen Milgrom Editor-in-Chief – Jim Shooter December 1979 No, I haven’t died. I mean, I could easily see why you would think that. However, it isn’t remotely the case. I think. I think I’m still alive. Maybe someone should check on me just in case though? I might be mistaken. Not that it would matter in October because this month is Halloween post-a-day and even being dead won’t allow me to stop the post train from rolling down the tracks. “Whoo-whoo, mothertrucker!” Our first stop this pumpkin-spice season is the depths of outer space, as the Crapbox travels back to my yesteryear and a little-loved yet fondly remembered version of the show called Battlestar Galactica. The Crapbox may have visited this

It will take a long time for me to get used to speaking about Bill Schelly in the past tense. His passion for comics took him on a journey throughout his life, from teenage publisher to author of countless books, chronicling both his experiences and shining a light on many important - and some often neglected - creative juggernauts. And it all began when a wide-eyed eight year old began reading a Superman Annual.  When Schelly learned Richard Shields, a fellow classmate, also collected comics, a friendship began, which led to his discovery of fanzines, amateur publications that, for the price of a stamp and a few coins could be purchased through the mail. This opened a whole new world for him: as recounted in his book Sense of Wonder A Life in Comic Fandom (2001, revised in 2018). "What's This?" I asked Richard, pointing to the sheet with the Eye character. "Some kind of comic book?"  "Yeah."  "Where do you buy it? I've never seen this charac