This was another comic that I got from my school friend Donald Sims, set smack-dab in the midst of Jack Kirby's return to Marvel after a number of years away at DC where he innovated his Fourth World Saga, among other things. Kirby's comeback was well touted by Marvel, but his approach--an approach which had … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #204
One of the things I've been doing every evening during my current vacation break is revisiting older episodes of DOCTOR WHO. The entirety of the revived 2005 series is available on HBO MAX, which makes it entirely too easy to pull up an episode and sit through it again. I've mainly been confining my viewing … Continue reading Doctor Who: World Enough And Time
As the back issue marketplace for certain key old comic books began to truly heat up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and sums undreamed of were beginning to be demanded for and gotten for comics of a relatively recent vintage (comics that are in much greater supply than the Golden Age books that … Continue reading Lee & Ditko: The Non-Prototype of Uncle Ben and Aunt May
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the rediscovery of the opening credits to the 1966 MARVEL SUPER HEROES cartoon series. Since I wrote this, the English version of the opening has resurfaced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3g0tzgIezY The Marvel Super-Heroes Have Arrived! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Got an interesting … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Marvel Super Heroes Have Arrived!
This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was another comic that I wound up with in trade with my classroom buddy, Donald Sims. Even by 1978, those first ten issues of SWAMP THING had gained a bit of a mythical stature among those in the know, so the character still had a bit of an … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #122
We've now arrived at the end of our second year of operation on this page, and so as I did last year, I want to get a handle on just what the most popular posts and features have been around these parts, so that they can influence future decision-making concerning what to write about. Also, … Continue reading End of the Year Stats – 2020
S06Ep15 - "Be Not Forgetful Of Strangers" Over the course of its 225 episode run, HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL produced two Christmas-themed episodes. The first was done right at the start, during the first season, whereas the second one came right at the end, in the final sixth year. It aired on December 22, … Continue reading Have Gun – Will Travel – Be Not Forgetful Of Strangers
A post from my long-ago Marvel blog, the start of a series on bad comic book stories I had written. Bad Comics I Wrote: Avengers #383 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Appearing for this week only, it's time to delve into the musty past for more stories of … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Bad Comics I Wrote: AVENGERS #383
I got this issue of AVENGERS from my comic book reading pal Donald Sims, the first person I knew besides myself who really cared about comic books (and who made his own, just as I did.) He'd gotten a stack of cast-off comics from some relative who had outgrown them, so he had all sorts … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #126
Here's another forgotten, fannish collection, a story that was serialized across three issues of the long-running fanzine The ROCKET'S BLAST COMICOLLECTOR. It was produced by artist Brad Caslor, who would eventually go into animation as a storyboard artist and director. But here, he channels the individual styles of close to a dozen other creators to … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: The Massacre of the Innocents
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