A post from my decade-old Marvel blog in which I inaugurate the first and only year of the Golden Loeb Awards. Sadly, I no longer have the image of the trophy. The People's Award April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Back in the office for a brief moment after … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The People’s Award
I picked up this issue of MARVEL TALES on my regular weekly run to the 7-11 on Thursday, the day when new comic books would be released, as I'd worked out earlier in my travels. These runs were a regular ritual by this point, something that it took extraordinary circumstances to prevent me from doing. … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #92
Given all of the recent chatter concerning Abraham Riesman's recent biography of Stan Lee entitled TRUE BELIEVER, I thought it might be of interest to post a few of the Marvel-related articles that he references in his text. And so here is this piece from the April 1, 1965 issue of the Village Voice, one … Continue reading Super Anti-Hero in Forest Hills
Continuing on in our compare-and-contrast between a story originally produced by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for the inaugural issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA COMICS, cover-dated March 1941, and it's Marvel Age remake, this one in the pages of TALES OF SUSPENSE #64. The prior issue had featured Cap's origin, and so as to cut down … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Simon: Captain America Before and After 2
Another post from my long-ago Marvel blog, this one concerning more of the planning for the CIVIL WAR Event series. Civil War Battle Strategy April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing our trek through the formative stages of the CIVIL WAR crossover.At this point, with the first issue more-or-less … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Civil War Battle Strategy
Her is another book that I got from my childhood friend Donald Sims during one of our frequent comic book swaps. As soon as I laid eyes on it, I wanted it. The cover knocked me for a loop. I had seen the cover to X-MEN #1 in SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS as … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #104
I ran across this Swedish printing of FANTASTIC FOUR #76 in my travels, and thought I'd share it. As happened on a not-infrequent basis, the local publisher, either by accident or because they were unfamiliar with what the colors of the characters were supposed to be, inadvertently switched the film for the yellow and cyan … Continue reading Even More on Color Separations
In the early 1940s, as a myriad of would-be publishers heard about the overwhelming success of Superman nd rushed into the marketplace offering their own get-rich-quick versions of a comic book super hero, the reality is that nobody quite understood just what factors made Superman work. And so, everything was tried, and creativity--both good and … Continue reading 5BC: The Five Most Unique Super Heroes of the Silver Age
A post from my mid-2000s Marvel blog concerning dealing with comments made by people on teh internet. Ego April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General It's amazing how fragile all of us are. It takes so little to irritate or depress us. I just came back from Wizard World Philadelphia, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Ego
This was another comic book that I came into possession of through swapping with my buddy Donald Sims, and it was an acquisition of some great interest. In general, for me during this period, any comic book with a 20 cent price tag seemed old somehow, vintage--even though I had started reading during the last … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #87
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