It's been a while since we looked at some international covers for assorted Marvel masterworks of the past. So here are a bunch more--interesting in how the material was localized. One of the first places that Marvel material appeared in the United Kingdom during the 1960s was in the pages of the weekly comic book … Continue reading Great Covers: Marvel Around The World 5
Another post from my old Marvel blog in which I answer some more questions from the readership. Viewer Mail April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Another week begins, and I'm fresh out of ideas for topics. So let's go to the mailbags and see if we can't make do … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Viewer Mail
This was another issue that I pulled out of my drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics, which was filled with books that had been reported destroyed to the distributor but had instead been sold off to the drugstore chain at a cut-rate price. This manner of double-dipping, the "affidavit returns" system, is one of … Continue reading BHOC: SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #3
https://youtu.be/ep24HnqQKus Here's the first video of all-new content that isn't based on a piece that previously ran on this site (though it could have.)
https://youtu.be/fsfBtoEgAOY Hey there! It's another bit of new video content, in this instance a survey of my selections for the five best single issue comic books released in 1973, the year when I first began reading comics. Check it out.
As many know, and as we've talked about here in the past, the Marvel characters first came to television in 1966, in the form of a syndicated animated series produced by Grantray-Lawrence. The series ran five days a week and featured five Marvel characters: Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and the Sub-Mariner. But … Continue reading The Imaginary Spider-Man Episodes of the Grantray-Lawrence Marvel Super Heroes 1966 Cartoon
For most of the Golden Age of Comics, the partnership of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby had been a sales juggernaut. While they had their occasional flops, more often than not the combo was responsible for hit after hit--enough so that their names would sometimes be called on in the advertising, something that typically was … Continue reading Brand Echh: The Double Life of Private Strong #1
Another post from my 2007-2010 Marvel blog, this one answering questions posed by the readership. Reader Mail April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So I figured, given the response of the last few days, it was time to either do some more reader mail segments, or to finally write … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Mail
As tended to be my custom, as soon as I started buying a new Marvel series I'd be driven to dig around in my local drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics to see if any earlier issues could be found and purchased, five for a dollar. And so it was that I came into … Continue reading BHOC: IRON MAN #92
https://youtu.be/2xIZWN3Kpak The fifth part of my ongoing series on the science and alchemy of editing mainstream comic books.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 