Much as with its sister title ACTION COMICS, ADVENTURE COMICS had adjusted to shrinking page counts by reducing the number of features that it ran from three to two. That second feature position eventually wound up handed over to the Legion of Super Heroes, who promptly took over the entire magazine. But before that, it … Continue reading WC: ADVENTURE COMICS #295
Another collection of questions and answers from the dim past thanks to my defunct Marvel blog of more than a decade ago. That Formspring account is also long gone. Reader Questions 4 March 8, 2010 | 6:28 PM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Back on the horse finally, with more answers to your questions. … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 4
It was on a shopping trip to the Smith Haven Mall that I came across this Pocket Books paperback reprint of early Spider-Man stories in one of the three bookstores that were located within that mall. Despite the fact that it was the second volume in the series and I didn't know whether I would … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS Volume 2
We covered one of the previous SHOWCASE issues featuring the Inferior Five not that long ago--and in fact, here's a link to that piece for anybody who missed it. https://tombrevoort.com/2022/10/15/the-first-hulk-parody/ But the gist is that the Inferior Five were the brainchild of writer E. Nelson Bridwell, originally conceived as a satire of the Fantastic Four … Continue reading The First X-Men Parody
Another post from my ancient Marvel blog in which I answered questions from the audience. This was a regular go-to move on my part to maintain interest in the blog and to encourage readership. Reader Questions 5 March 15, 2010 | 11:05 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General More answers to your questions: >Its … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 5
Another week back at the 7-11 brought another issue of NOVA, a title that I'd only just begun to follow, having enjoyed the pair of coverless issues I'd gotten sometime previously. NOVA was an attempt on the part of writer Marv Wolfman to create a new young Spider-Man-like super hero for the Marvel Universe. And … Continue reading BHOC: NOVA #21
Well, as with the rest of this particular administration's efforts, that was a bit of an overclocked mess. Albeit a largely fun mess if you could kind of check your brain at the door. It was nothing so much as a big going away party for the show, and a celebration of the original series … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
This issue of ACTION COMICS was another book that was part of my haul of around 150 Silver Age comic books that I bought from a guy that I met by coincidence at my local Post Office while mailing something out. The entire box cost me fifty bucks, so each individual issue amounted to an … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #304
Another classic post of readers' questions being answered by a much younger me back on my Marvel.com blog of time gone by. Reader Questions 6 March 16, 2010 | 5:21 PM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General We'll get to some more of your Reader Questions in a minute, but first this musical interlude from … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 6
As we spoke about yesterday, this was the second of two early issues of X-MEN that my father brought home for me one evening after I'd inveigled him into stopping off at the Heroes World store in the Levittown Mall on his way home from work for just this purpose. I don't know that I … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #18
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