Here's another vintage newspaper article on the burgeoning comic book fandom of the 1960s, this one a profile on a young pre-Marvel Roy Thomas. As most know, Roy went on to become one of the most popular and influential writers and editors of the 1960s and beyond--but at the time this piece saw print in … Continue reading A Serious Student of the Comic Books
The Atom is one of those characters who hasn't quite stood the test of time as well as many of his contemporaries. While he's still around in one form or another, it seems like attempts to give him his own series are sporadic at best, and often not long-lasting. In part, that's because of the … Continue reading WC: THE ATOM #10
A post from my old Marvel blog where I discuss aspects of having first come into the business. My So-Called Career pt 2 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So, yesterday we began the saga of my career at Marvel with my coming aboard as an intern for the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – My So-Called Career in Comics, Part 2
This is another old cover that triggers no nostalgia for me, because I got my copy of CAPTAIN AMERICA #208 out of one of those plastic-wrapped packages of coverless comics sold by my local Drug Store. These were books where the covers had been stripped and returned to the publisher for credit, but the insides … Continue reading CAPTAIN AMERICA #208
Here's another look at some sales figures, these ones from the Direct Sales marketplace of comic book specialty shops in June of 1990--the month in which Todd McFarlane's SPIDER-MAN #1 launched. This document was compiled by Carol Kalish, then the head of Marvel's Sales Department and an important and largely-forgotten figure in comic book history. … Continue reading The Direct Market Sales Figures of Marvel’s Carol Kalish
As the potential audience for comic books opened up in the early 1980s with the rise and advent of the direct sales market, it wasn't just young new would-be publishers who noticed. Some of the most established firms were just as aware of this new venue, and they geared up to enter it. One of … Continue reading Brand Echh: The Fly #1
Another post from my Marvel blog of long ago in which I answered more questions from the readers. Been a while since we went to the mailbag (or the replies threads). So let's see what people are asking:>I get what you're saying, I just found that while buying all the Civil War tie ins the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Mailbag
The above Rich Buckler cover is something I didn't get to see back in the 1970s. That's because, like other books I've been covering here recently, I got BLACK LIGHTNING #1 in one of the bundles of coverless comics that my local Drug Store chain had begun to sell in lieu of their Big Bin … Continue reading BHOC: BLACK LIGHTNING #1
More vintage photographs of old comic books on sale at their time of release or being read and enjoyed by the consumers of long ago. A window into another time!
This was one of the more exciting acquisitions I made in my windfall acquisition of 1988--a super-early (single digits) issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN by the character's originators, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. And not to boast per se, but because it's the point of this whole series of pieces, remember that I got this book … Continue reading WC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7
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