This was another book that I wouldn't have bought if left to my own devices, but which I got a copy of in one of those plastic-wrapped bundles of 5 or 10 comics sold by my local drug store. This would have been my fist exposure to Deathlok, I believe--a character that I wound up … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #33
This post is going to wind up being virtually identical to the one I did a few years back on the 3M to the cover of FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #5, but as I came across a similar 3M for FANTASTIC FOUR #63 in the wild, I thought it was still worth sharing with everybody here. … Continue reading 3M Cover Proof – FANTASTIC FOUR #63
We've gone over the history a couple of times in teh past, and yet I feel a need to recap it again here for any newcomers to this page who haven't yet read about THE DESTRUCTOR or DEMON HUNTER or THE SCORPION. Atlas Comics (also known as Seaboard) was a short-lived company set up by … Continue reading Brand Echh: Phoenix #3
A post from my Marvel blog of years gone by, this one re-presenting a classic story from 1953. As I've already done an entire separate write-up on this story elsewhere on this page, I'll simply direct you to https://tombrevoort.com/2021/01/30/forgotten-classic-menace-7/ rather that reposting the pages yet again here. Your Name is Frankenstein June 23, 2008 | … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Your Name is Frankenstein
Here's another book with an unfamiliar cover, and one about which I remember very little. It was another issue that I got in one of those plastic-wrapped bundles of older coverless comic books being sold by my local drug store. And it was certainly not why I picked up the bundle in question, but rather … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #24
It's somewhat difficult to believe today, but comedian and movie star Jerry Lewis headlined his own DC comic book for about twenty years, the first half-dozen in conjunction with his then-partner, Dean Martin. Amazingly, more copies of Jerry Lewis were being sold and consumed than of the Atom or Hawkman or the Doom Patrol, all … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: Jerry Lewis Meets Batman and Robin
Here's another book that I took ownership of as a part of my Windfall Comics purchase in 1988. I had seen the cover to this issue of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY before in the pages of George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Indexes, but I hadn't had the opportunity to read the story before this point. It's an … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #85
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
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