ACTION COMICS continued on in the manner that it had been progressing, seldom my favorite comic that I bought in a given week but always reliable for some basic round-the-bases entertainment. But the fact that editor Julie Schwartz was continuing to target his stories at the same audience that he'd courted since he took over … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #498
The New Universe was a bit of a confounding launch in that it is clear that all of the titles that were a part of it were terribly rushed and under the gun, to the point where none of them were bale to keep a steady creative team for more than a couple of issues. … Continue reading Brand Echh: NIGHTMASK #1
The last of the four Tempo DC paperbacks that I wound up buying was this one dedicated to WORLD'S FINEST and the team-ups between Superman and Batman. Again here, I can't quite explain this purchase apart from it probably being an acquisition of opportunity: some point at which the number of available options was limited … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD’S FINEST Tempo Paperback
This was the third issue of the British weekly 2000 AD that I picked up on my very first visit to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington after my family had relocated to Delaware. This cover image is interesting, in that it doesn't represent any of the material that's actually in the issue. It appears to have … Continue reading FSC: 2000 AD #124
DC was facing the steadily-worsening decay of their circulation in the early 1970s, and one of the ways in which they attempted to combat this was in innovating alternate formats for comic books that would carry a higher cover price and therefore be more attractive to outlets to carry. It was these efforts that led … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #13
The third Tempo paperback that I wound up buying was dedicated to the adventures of Superboy and the futuristic Legion of Super-Heroes. I seem to think that I got this book at a short-lived convenience store that operated in the local supermarket mall for a short time called Shanes. I had never entirely clicked to … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Tempo Paperback
Among the assorted titles launched as a part of the New Universe in 1986, PSI-FORCE was one of the more consistent and popular, though as with the other series in the group, it went through a bit of a creative shakeup due to having been started so far under the gun. It also suffered from … Continue reading Brand Echh: PSI-FORCE #1
All in all, I wound up buying four of the six paperback editions that Tempo Books put out featuring the DC super heroes--though I didn't purchase them all at once. Rather, I wound up picking them up at odd times and in odd places. Because they were paperbacks, they wound up being available in a … Continue reading BHOC: WONDER WOMAN Tempo Paperback
As I mentioned last week, it was on my first trip to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware that I wound up picking up a small selection of copies of the UK weekly 2000 AD. I had a read a little bit about Judge Dredd and the weekly comic book paper that was the backbone of … Continue reading FSC: 2000 AD #123
Especially in the first half of the 1970s in which I grew up, comic books were a ubiquitous item. Almost every kid read them, at least a little bit, and they were on sale in every candy store and convenience store you were likely to encounter. This changed as the decade went on and those … Continue reading BC: BATMAN #263
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