An entry from my old Marvel blog, this one reprinting a letter from a Spider-Man fan. Letter of the Week June 24, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General A little bit of a rough one this time:Spider-Men,You guys have no idea what you've put me through the last three weeks. I … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Letter of the Week
As i related yesterday, this was one of two consecutive issues of MARVEL PRESENTS that I got copies of, coverless, in those bundles of stripped comics being sold by my local drug store outlet. I seem to think that I got them both at the same time, which means that either the both of them … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL PRESENTS #10
Here are a pair of additional vintage interviews, one from Stan Lee and one from Roy Thomas, which first saw print in the long running magazine CARTOONIST PROFILES in its November 1969 issue. This is right at the end point of the Silver Age, at a time when Jack Kirby had relocated his family to … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: CARTOONIST PROFILES #4
This was perhaps the first truly excellent comic book that I put out, a single issue that accomplished its mandate exceptionally well and delivered on teh promise-of-the-premise in fine fashion. It's always going to be a little bit awkward talking about books I worked on in such glowing terms, so please understand that when I … Continue reading Personal Best: SPIDER-BOY #1
An entry from my Marvel blog of long ago, this one talking about the sincerity of the editorial voice. Also, it contains a reminder that the Blog was at one point up for a Harvey Award (although it didn't win its category.) Genuine June 26, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Genuine
I've spoken before about my snobbishness when it came to comic books that didn't feature super heroes. As a young reader, my tastes were extremely narrow. I was in the game for super hero stories--not for westerns, or war stories, or suspense tales, or science fiction, or barbarian adventures or romance comics or monsters of … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL PRESENTS #9
This is another long-lost interview from the past, from the Spider-Man-themed fanzine THE WEB-SPINNER produced by Mike Appel. It was conducted in 1966, the year that its subject, John Romita, took over the artistic reins of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, replacing teh feature's departing co-creator, Steve Ditko. Once again, it's an interesting insight into just what the … Continue reading Rambling with Romita
This issue of SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN was I believe the oldest book that I got in my Windfall Comics purchase of about 150 prime Silver Age comic books for $50.00 in 1988. It's really a pre-Silver Age 1950s issue in tone and spirit, and a good example of the kinds of stories the Superman … Continue reading WC: SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #23
An entry from my Marvel.com blog of many years ago, this one giving a debrief of what went on at a then-recent Wizard World Chicago convention. Return from Chicago July 1, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Back from Wizard World Chicago, and despite the fact that reading somebody else’s convention … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Return from Chicago
Despite having bought this comic book back in the day, this is another cover that is unfamiliar to me. And that's because this was another of the myriad of books I got in plastic wrapped bundles of five coverless comics being sold for a bargain price at my local drug store outlet. The double-edged sword … Continue reading BHOC: LOGAN’S RUN #5
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