EC CLASSIC REPRINT #3 1973 I read my first EC Comic in the late 70s, after hearing good things about the line in places like THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK. I ended up mail-ordering a set of 8 reprints from SUPERHERO MERCHANDISE–the outfit that would eventually become HEROES WORLD, and who sent me copies of their catalog … Continue reading BHOCOS: EC CLASSIC REPRINT #3
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1November, 1965 I first read about the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents in Maurice Horn’s WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMICS, and thought they sounded interesting. I was always on the look-out for new and esoteric comics in my childhood. So when I found this dilapidated copy of issue #1 at The Batcave on Long Island (which is … Continue reading BHOCOS: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS (Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman) We’re not talking about the second-rate latter-day attempts to bring Gatchaman to the States as either G-FORCE or EAGLE RIDERS here. Sure, BATTLE OF THE PLANETS was sloppily edited, with the background music skipping all over the place wherever something had been cut for standards. And sure, … Continue reading BHOCOS: BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
FANTASTIC FOUR #200November, 1978 One of the supreme frustrations of collecting comics back in the 70s was the fact that you could never be sure that you’d be able to get every successive issue of a given title. I was a major, major Fantastic Four fan by the time #200 was to be released, and … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #200
MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4 1977 On that same first comic shop trip to HEROES WORLD, I discovered and purchased the Fantastic Four volume of the George Olshevsky MARVEL COMICS INDEX. These handsome tomes reproduced the covers to every issue of a given series, and indexed their contents as well. I spend literally hours poring over … Continue reading BHOCOS: MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4
FANTASTIC FOUR #51 June, 1966 In 1978, I went to my first comic book shop–ironically, a recently-opened HEROES WORLD in Levittown. (Similarly ironic, my father ended up being transferred to the bank branch in the same mall, which made access to the store–which was 45 minutes away from our home by car–a regular possibility.) I … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #51
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS #2 February, 1978 I bought this Pocket Book collection of early Spider-Man stories from a mall bookstore, despite the fact that I couldn’t find the first edition, and so would be starting in the middle of the run. I remember thumbing through it as my family stopped off at a Jack-In-The-Box … Continue reading BHOCOS: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS #2
FANTASTIC FOUR POCKET BOOKS 1977 I was still looking for a copy of ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS when this little paperback came out from Pocket Books, part of a new line which would reprint the earliest stories of the various Marvel properties that were now on television. It collected the first 6 issues of FF, … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR POCKET BOOKS
THE SPIRIT #17 Winter, 1977 The first Spirit story I read was the one reprinted in THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES, and frankly, I didn’t see what all the fuss was about. But I’d heard more about the character and his mileau in THE COMIC- BOOK BOOK, and thought it sounded intriguing. So when the … Continue reading BHOCOS: THE SPIRIT #17
THOR #272 June, 1978 THOR looked like a barbarian comic book to my young eyes, and I had no interest in barbarian comic books, being purely a super hero man. So it took awhile before I tried an issue compared to the other Marvel titles of the day. This was a fine story by Roy … Continue reading BHOCOS: THOR #272
The Tom Brevoort Experience 