THE DEFENDERS was always a bit of a weird series to me. On the outside, it looked like any other regular Marvel comic of the period. But crack the cover and get into the contents and the stories were almost all unrelentingly weird. This was definitely the case for the run of stories masterminded by … Continue reading BC: DEFENDERS #33
ACTION COMICS was pretty much the first title that I read with any regularity; it and THE FLASH. And that was due to the fact that, as opposed to SUPERMAN or JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA or most of the DC line, ACTION was published monthly. That meant that there were new issues arriving more regularly … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #499
UNCANNY X-MEN was on a roll at this point in time, and while this latest issue was something of a transition story, moving events in the direction of resolving some long-percolating plotlines, it was still ultra-enjoyable. These days, this whole era is considered a classic period, but at the time, we just looked at it … Continue reading BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #125
ELFQUEST was one of the seminal self-publisher titles in the very early Direct Sales market place of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a very personal fantasy series conceived and created by artist Wendy Pini with input from her husband Richard Pini, who also ran the business end of their operation, WaRP (Wendy … Continue reading FSC: ELFQUEST #1
What it's taking you all months to experience was merely a day or two to me. I had borrowed the compete run of SHAZAM from my grade school friend Donald Sims, who had gotten it handed down to him by some other older relative. and there was no way that an unread comic book in … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #27
I continued to pick up MARVEL TALES every month to help fill in the gaps in my knowledge of Spider-Man's history. By this point, the series was only reprinting issues that were a couple of years old--there were a bunch of issues from around this period that I'd already read, borrowed from like-minded comic book … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #107
I had written about this a little bit before, in the context of a broader review of this early issue of FANTASTIC FOUR: https://tombrevoort.com/2022/08/07/wc-fantastic-four-31/ But creator Larry Lieber had held onto a discarded page from this story for all these years. I'd seen a bad photocopy of the page at the time I wrote that … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: An Excised Page From FANTASTIC FOUR #31
The second release from Jim Shooter's new company DEFIANT was DARK DOMINION, which seemed like it might prove to be something interesting. The series was co-created by Shooter and legendary creator Steve Ditko, and it's clear that Jim was intending to build a title that would allow Ditko to flex the same kind of visual … Continue reading Brand Echh: DARK DOMINION #1
The appearance of this book constituted something of a surprise. I seem to recall that it showed up on the spinner rack of my local 7-11, which I still continued to frequent in addition to the new Stationery Store. INVADERS had been a title that i had followed regularly, but a number of months earlier, … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #41
In the early 1980s, Frank Miller had a transformative run on DAREDEVIL. Starting out as only the book's penciler, he began to shift it in tone, moving it away from the ersatz Spider-Man clone it had been towards something with a bit more of a noir sensibility to it. This process accelerated when he took … Continue reading FSC: DAREDEVIL #192
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