One of the areas in which the nascent Pacific Comics publishing firm made some unexpected inroads was with a series of comics devoted primarily to horror and science fiction themes--titles in keeping with the well-regarded EC books of the past. Nobody else was quite doing this material in this fashion, and certainly nobody else was … Continue reading Brand Echh: Vanguard Illustrated #7
Another post from my long-gone Marvel blog, part of a sequence detailing comics I worked on that I liked but which flew under the radar a bit. My Unknown Greats pt. 2 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General For some strange reason, the system ate the last paragraph or … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – My Unknown Greats, Part 2
This was another book that I bought out of my drugstore's Big Bin of Somewhat Older Comic Books, all issues that had been reported as destroyed but instead which had been sold on the secondary market for a cut-rate price. This was one of a pair of DOCTOR STRANGE issues that I picked up at … Continue reading BHOC: DOCTOR STRANGE #21
As the 1960s wound down, the super hero fad that had driven much of the decade was beginning to cool. It's maybe hard to realize today, when many of these characters have been in continuous publication for 60-80 years, but at the time, super heroes were seen as just another cyclical fad. And now that … Continue reading MY LOVE #3 and the Penciling of John Buscema
Superman has been with us for more that 80 years at this point. He's become an icon, he was the flash-point for the success of an entire industry and he set the standard and the style for the myriad of costumed super heroes who would come after him. He's been the subject of a myriad … Continue reading The Greatest Superman Story Ever Told
A post from my Marvel blog of long ago, this one reprinting a letter we'd received from a reader. Simen Abid April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Every once in a while, you get a letter like this that puts all of the crazy in perspective:Dear People of Marvel,My … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Simen Abed
This was another comic book that I purchased out of the drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics, books that had been reported destroyed but which had actually been sold "off the back of the truck" to my drugstore at a cut-rate price. I almost certainly picked up this issue to fill out a grouping … Continue reading BHOC: SON OF SATAN #8
You know the drill by this point, right? It's old pictures of comic book creators from back in the day! Bob Layton at a convention, 1980s. Me, Tom Brevoort, and Jack Kirby at a New York convention, 1990. I had only been at Marvel for six months. A trio of photos of Joe Sinnott from … Continue reading Comics Creators in the Wild 6
At the start of the 1980s, Pacific Comics was one of the first of the new breed of comic book publishers. They had started out as one of the many distributors into what is now called the Direct Market chain of comic book specialty shops that had been popping up nationwide. Eventually, there was a … Continue reading Brand Echh: Starslayer #2
A post from my ancient Marvel blog, part of a sequence on the history of approaches to covers. Covers pt 2 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing our series on the history of covers and cover theory.By the late 1940s, after the second World War had ended, sales … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Covers, Part 2
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