A short-lived publication from the early 1980s, FantaCo's CHRONICLES series of fanzines devoted each issue to a specific Marvel title (until their final annual, in which every comic book series published up to that time was reviewed.) These fanzines were pretty great, chock full of interesting information and articles as well as checklists and indexes--and … Continue reading Brand Echh – Fantastic Four Chronicles #2
A post from my old Marvel blog written the day after the passing of artistic great Mike Wieringo. I don't have a scan of the What If page mentioned in the piece. Mike April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Unless you've been spending your time away from the Internet, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Mike
Following up from yesterday's entry, I moved into the second of the two issues of MARVEL TALES that I had purchased from my local drugstore's Big Bin of Should-Have-Been Pulped Comics. Like the previous issue, this one was produced by the team of Stan Lee, Gil Kane and John Romita--and it was reading reprints such … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #72
What goes around comes around, and when it comes to the often-fannishly-induced game of dropping in references benign or malicious to a competitor's characters, there isn't any company who is entirely blameless in this endeavor. Here then are five times Marvel referenced DC characters in interesting fashion. ADVENTURE INTO FEAR #17 - Steve Gerber was … Continue reading 5BC: Five Times Marvel Referenced DC Characters In Interesting Ways
A blog entry from my old Marvel blog in which I reproduce some story notes I sent about SECRET INVASION #1. Editor's Notes April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General People constantly ask what editors do (and the snarky ones talk trash about it whenever there's something they don't like … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Editor’s Notes
So the next time my family went to our local pharmacy, I chose to develop my burgeoning interest in Spider-Man by digging through their Big Big of Slightly Older Comics and walking away with two consecutive issues of MARVEL TALES, the reprint series that presented anew stories from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN that were a number of … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #71
It's well-known that Steve Ditko, the formative Marvel creator, left that company in 1966 after broken promises and worsening relationships with the people at the outfit, notably editor Stan Lee. It's also well-known that, for all that Ditko's most popular and lasting creation for Marvel is Spider-Man, his work on the mystic series Doctor Strange … Continue reading Brand Echh – The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves #12
A post from my long-gone Marvel blog about the position of Editor in Chief. To be, EIC April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General The Editor in Chief of Marvel is, by definition, the most hated man in comics. Doesn't matter who it is--you look back for the last three … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – To Be, EIC
I picked up this issue of GREEN LANTERN on one of my weekly comic book runs to the 7-11. It has to be said that, after issue #100, I really wasn't enjoying GREEN LANTERN all that much. I really liked the character, having first been exposed to him in his back-up series in the pages … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #104
S06Ep08 - "The Predators" This was the first episode of HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL that I ever watched, having become interested in the series based on what I'd been told by Marvel writer David Walker. This one was from the very last season of the show, and originally aired on November 3, 1962. And … Continue reading Have Gun – Will Travel – The Predators
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