This issue of MARVEL TALES was another book that I got out of a 3-Bag from a department store or toy store. It reprinted AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #99, a story that I've seen an argument for being the Silver Age end of the story begun in AMAZING FANTASY #15. Scripter Stan Lee would write one more … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #80
I may be in the minority here, but I am not a huge fan of the Weeping Angels. I agree that they were the centerpoint of one of the best single episodes of the new series, "Blink", which was genuinely scary and well put together. The problem is that the attributes of the Angels as … Continue reading Doctor Who: Village of the Angels
SHOWCASE was a bit of an institution in the latter half of the 1950s and the 1960s. It was a series that birthed a great number of characters and series that would go on to star in their own titles. It was the experimental laboratory in which DC tested out new ideas for comic books, … Continue reading WC: SHOWCASE #39
A blog post from long ago courtesy of my defunct Marvel blog, this one about the late Flo Steinberg Flo July 7, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Flo Steinberg gave me her Stan Lee Slurpee cup.Flo’s cleaning out her apartment, so she’s trying to hand off as much stuff to … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Flo
At this point, there'd been another cycling of the 3-Bags of comics available at department and toy stores, and so I wound up over the course of several weeks picking up a number of recent books that I had earlier missed; in most cases because I hadn't been reading Marvel titles yet. The window on … Continue reading BHOC: IRON MAN #99
As we've covered in a number of different earlier posts, the chain of causality which led to the creation of the Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Comics' signature creation, is long and tangled. Every once in a while I see people make reference to this story in relation to it. And in fact, there isn't any direct … Continue reading The First Spider Man Story
As super heroes began to take hold of the comic book marketplace at the beginning of the 1960s, all sorts of different publishers stepped up to provide their own take on series featuring costumed do-gooders. One of the best-remembered was MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER (though today most readers may be more familiar with the character in … Continue reading Brand Echh: Magnus, Robot Fighter #1
A post from my Marvel blog of long ago in which I lay out some of the timeline of events revealed in SECRET INVASION. Timeline July 18, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General No matter how long I’ve been doing this job, I still can’t seem to predict what things are … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Timeline
While suprise reprints were something of a scourge over at Marvel Comics during the in 1970s, they were an almost unheard of occurence in rival DC's titles. Which is what makes this issue of ACTION COMICS such a surprise. Behind a dynamic new cover by Neal Adams (a different version of the image that he … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #485
Well, now we know what happens when Chris Chibnall attempts to write a Steven Moffat-style puzzle box episode. it's all sizzle and very little steak, but the sizzle is at least largely entertaining. It's a shame that they forgot to put a story in this episode, so focused was the production team on delivering backstory. … Continue reading Doctor Who: Once, Upon Time
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