Attempts to tap into the Marvel style weren't limited to only the 1960s. One of the most blatant attempts happened in the 1970s, and represented a tragedy of unfulfilled potential. In 1974, after he had sold Marvel and thereafter his son Chip had been pushed out of the company in favor of Stan Lee, Marvel … Continue reading Brand Echh – The Destructor #1
A post from my old, now-defunct Marvel blog concerning my 20th year on staff as an editor at Marvel. My 30th anniversary with Marvel is less than a week away now. Twenty Redux December 14, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General It turns out that I'm going to miss the twentieth … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Twenty Redux
I had fallen into becoming a regular reader of DAREDEVIL based on the two previous issues of the title and the stories reprinted in SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS, so when this new issue arrived at my local 7-11, I snatched it up unhesitatingly. At the time, DAREDEVIL was a title in transition, though … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #151
Saw this one over at the very fine blog http://marvelsilverage.blogspot.com/ and I thought it was worth showing to a wider audience. On the right is the cover to ASTONISHING #50, published by Timely/Atlas/Marvel in 1956. And on the left is its UK reprinting in Alan Class's CREEPY WORLDS--except there, they shot from the uncorrected original … Continue reading Your Comics Code at Work: ASTONISHING #50
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning why CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN expanded from 5 to 6 issues and why consequently other stories that took place after its conclusion were going to be coming out first. REBORN Skinny January 5, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General There still seems to be … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – REBORN Skinny
Finally, we come to the last comic that I bought on that fateful first trip to a comic book store--the Heroes World in Levittown. I had only just begun reading X-MEN, but this was both an issue #100 (which I already understood to be a milestone issue regardless of the title) and also had the … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #100
The fifth issue of Steven Grant, Steve Gerber and Frank Miller's freelancer newsletter from 1988
Hey, it's been a while since we last dropped in on my favorite of the Archie/Mighty Comics heroes, the hen-pecked Web. So let's see what he's been up to. As with the previous installments--and, really, all of the various Mighty Comics releases--the story is a painful rip-off attempting to channel the Marvel style of the … Continue reading Brand Echh – Fly Man #38
A post from my now-defunct Marvel blog concerning what we should be striving for in telling stories. Emotional Truth January 26, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I read a scene the other day in a script that had come in that really made an impact on me. It was just … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Emotional Truth
Continuing to go through the comics I bought during my first trip to my very first comic book store, the Heroes World outlet in Levittown, I also grabbed up these three consecutive issues of MARVEL'S GREATEST COMICS. These were the rest of the story begin in issue #66, which I'd previously bought and represented good … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #67, 68 & 69
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