Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: A Guest Post on DAREDEVIL #1 and Related Matters

In response to yesterday's post concerning DAREDEVIL #1, I received an e-mail from my friend Mark Evanier. Mark is one of the most knowledgeable people I know about classic comics and in particular the people who worked on them. He had a number of insights that he wanted to bring up, not just about yesterday's … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: A Guest Post on DAREDEVIL #1 and Related Matters →

Blah Blah Blog – X-Men! This Is Their Day!

A post from my old time Marvel blog concerning the Japanese opening title sequences to the 1992 X-MEn cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzkxNbb_tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HkDMht3d4 X-Men! This Is Their Day! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Spent a good part of last night reliving elements of my sordid past in the form of … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – X-Men! This Is Their Day! →

BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #19

This was the second of the two issues of MARVEL SPECTACULAR I picked up from my drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics when I went looking for more Thor adventures, and it was the Thor story that I enjoyed the most up to this point--largely, I expect, because the antagonist wasn't some Asgardian god … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #19 →

Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: The Long Road to DAREDEVIL #1

Some recent comments by reader and historian Ferran Delgado prompted me to go back and to take a closer look at DAREDEVIL #1, the last of what we would consider the formative Marvel titles to be launched and one that was plagued in its delivery by a variety of delays. I've written about those delays … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: The Long Road to DAREDEVIL #1 →

Blah Blah Blog -Cooperation

A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the nature of how a shared universe such as Marvel's operates on a practical level. Cooperation April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Getting back to some of the issues we were dancing around a few days ago, and some of the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog -Cooperation →

BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #18

Now that I had begun to buy THOR regularly, the next time I was in our local drugstore I took the opportunity to go digging around in their Big Bin of Slightly-Older Comics for any THOR releases. I didn't come up with any issues of the eponymous title, but I did find what turned out … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #18 →