*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: From Skywald, the cheerfully opportunist black & white mag publishers of the early 1970’s, a selection of their exploitative titles; an attempt to revive the crime genre with Crime Machine #1, loaded with pre-code reprints (including some Kubert) behind a misleading new cover; new copies in of their main horror titles, Nightmare (#7 VF) and Psycho (#3 FN), featuring a bizarre but fascinating selection of artists and writers who – being either at the beginning or end of their careers – were willing to work for cheap; and a personal favourite here at 30th Century, Hell-Rider, a cycling super-hero with peripatetic super-strength who travelled across the USA trying to find himself – but instead finding drug-smuggling ganglords and libidinous werewolves. As you do. Co-featured in Hell-Rider were his chums the Wild Bunch (a do-gooder motorcycle gang) and the Butterfly, a super-heroic soul sister in a costume that, in 1971, was shockingly skimpy. Hell-Rider didn’t last beyond the second issue, but scripter ‘Groovy’ Gary Friedrich made good use of the experience on Marvel’s suspiciously-similar Ghost Rider, less than a year later. Coincidence? Hmmm… Both issues of Hell-Rider new in, in affordable mid-grades – buy them and see Rich Buckler’s art back when he was making an effort! (No, seriously: it’s really rather nice…)