I have to admit that, during the period when it was first being serialized in the pages of EPIC ILLUSTRATED magazine, I was really knocked out by Jim Starlin's running science fiction serial Metamorphosis Odyssey. No doubt in part due to the fact that I had yet to read a significant amount of science fiction … Continue reading FSC: MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #3
As I've mentioned before, I first really met my friend David Steckel when the both of us attended the once-a-week gifted student education program in our school district. It was designed to give the top students in the community more creative and hands-on learning opportunities, and was a terrific program that did a lot for … Continue reading BC: FANTASTIC FOUR #56
Only a block or two away from my home in Farmingville, a new strip mall was being constructed. A new road had been put in behind my house a year or so earlier, which turned into a major throughfare, so putting up a commerce area right where it crossed the main road through town up … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN #315
The second super hero title in Valiant's new line of books was SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM #1. Like MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER, the series was a revival of a property that had been published in the 1960s and 1970s by Gold Key: DOCTOR SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM. But unlike MAGNUS, SOLAR wasn't set up … Continue reading Brand Echh: SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM #1
SHOGUN WARRIORS is a good example of a kind of comic book that you simply don't see too often these days. It was based on a line of disparate toys imported from Japan under that umbrella marketing name and was used to give the localization of those different elements a cohesive backstory. In essence, it … Continue reading BHOC: SHOGUN WARRIORS #8
By the year 1982, there wasn't any writer's work that I was enjoying more consistently than that of Marv Wolfman. I'd liked him at Marvel, where he wrote FANTASTIC FOUR and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as well as an assortment of other things such as NOVA (though I didn't follow TOMB OF DRACULA, his most respected work … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS ANNUAL #1
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I didn't need to read issue #19, as I'd bought that one when it first came out--and went through it here: https://tombrevoort.com/2016/11/05/i-feel-like-this-issue-of-shazam-was-probably/ So it was on to issue #20 for … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #20
The well-remembered Project Pegasus Saga was continuing to run through the pages of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, breathing new life into a series that had been moribund for the better part of a year. Newly installed writers Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio were determined to do something worthwhile with the title and to make it better than … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #55
The VALIANT line of interconnected super hero titles were really the successors to Marvel's New Universe efforts. They evidenced a similarity of ethos, though they were both better conceived and better produced for the most part--and thus were a lot more successful. Whether this was due to Valiant EIC and lead writer Jim Shooter having … Continue reading Brand Echh: MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER #1
MARVEL SUPER-HEROES continued to feature reprints of Incredible Hulk stories from only a relatively few years earlier, but the character was popular enough that the title kept going even throughout this period when most of the other Marvel reprint series began to wind down. The weekly Incredible Hulk television show on CBS undoubtedly contributed to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #83
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