Another post from my old Marvel blog about the making of Civil War. Civil War Mobilization April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing our look back at the making of CIVIL WAR.A couple of weeks and a few drafts of issue #1 later, as well as revisions to the overview, and we … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Civil War Mobilization
This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was the first released under the auspices of the DC Explosion, which saw the line increating its cover price to 50 cents a copy from 35 while adding additional pages of material. Here, the Human Target, a feature that briefly ran in the back pages of ACTION COMICS … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #143
When we talk about the forces that came into play in the creation of the original Marvel super heroes, in particular the Fantastic Four and attempt to apportion credit (or blame) between the two men who worked on those early strips, one earlier feature that is inevitably invoked is Jack Kirby's series for DC, CHALLENGERS … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: When Challengers of the Unknown Presaged Fantastic Four
A post from my old Marvel blog in which I touch on a variety of then-current issues as the week comes to an end. Friday mop-up April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I didn't get to cover as many blog topics this week as I had planned on--largely because of yesterday's unexpected … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Friday mop-up
Now this was a good issue all around, one that catapulted the new X-MEN into the upper tiers of my favorite comics of the era. I'd been growing more enchanted by this strange new team for a couple of issues now, having had to work out who everybody was on the fly a little bit … Continue reading BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #113
It's maybe hard to believe when viewed from the vantage point of 60 years of additional history, but heading into the Silver Age of Comics, the Atom was at one point a successful and viable character--more viable than, say, Hawkman, whom he beat to having a series to call his own and in gaining membership … Continue reading WC: THE ATOM #16
Here's another post with me answering questions from the readership from my Marvel blog of long ago. Reader Questions 2 February 18, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General More questions from you: >Aside from the digital elephant in the room and the obvious "just tell good stories and they will come", … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 2
This week brought out another issue of THOR, a title that I had only recently begun to get into and enjoy. New writer Roy Thomas had decided to lean into the genuine Norse legends for his first big epic, which saw the Gods of Ragnarok once again facing the approaching threat of Ragnarok, the end-of-the-world … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #275
When the strip was first introduced (in the pages of DETECTIVE COMICS of all places), Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Boy Commandos was an immediate sensation. Graduating into its own title several months later, the earliest issues of the series were among the best-selling that DC put out during that period--on a par with SUPERMAN … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: When Brooklyn Was Superman
Another post from my old Marvel blog in which I answer questions posed by the readers of the time. Reader Questions 3 February 25, 2010 | 5:22 PM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Sorry for the delay of game on this, folks--we had some technical issues that stymied us. But hopefully, we're back on … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 3
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