Here's another new book that I picked up during my first trip to the Batcave comic book shop in the South Shore Mall, and it represents, I believe, the first issue of INCREDIBLE HULK that I bought for myself. My brother Ken had been following the series prior to this, but was beginning to drift … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #224
Matt Howarth was and remains one of the most splendidly individualistic and iconoclastic creators of comic book stories in the field. While he has in recent years turned his efforts to the worlds of digital self-publishing, Howarth was a bit of a recurring force during the black and white boom years of the 1980s, pumping … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: PARTICLE DREAMS #6
Over the years, DC Comics (mostly while still operating under the name National) would occasionally buy out the rights to characters and titles from other publishers who had either gone out of business or were about to. This is how the original Captain Marvel and his family, Plastic Man, G.I. COMBAT, YOUNG ROMANCE, the Blackhawks … Continue reading 5BC: Five Characters Marvel “Adopted”
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the development of the storyline that introduced the Winter Soldier. Bucky's Long Road Home April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General We had a meeting last week, a get-together to discuss the direction of some stuff coming up with one of the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Bucky’s Long Road Home
Here's another new comic that I picked up during that first trip to The Batcave, the first true comic book specialty shop that I ever patronized. As I mentioned last week, while I was more interested and attracted by the enormous number of back issues, also of note was the fact that the Batcave had … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #172
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