And here's some more of CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, the hand-produced compilation of a bunch of material that was spiked due to the DC Implosion of 1978 and which was created to insure that DC kept the copyrights to the work. 35 copes were made, with most going to contributors and a pair being sent … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #17
After surviving years when it was at best a second-tier title and at worst an afterthought, things were beginning to look up for IRON MAN. The current creative team of writer David Michelinie, penciler John Romita Jr. and inker and co-plotter Bob Layton built upon what their predecessor Bill Mantlo had done with the strip … Continue reading BHOC: IRON MAN #123
The Spirit Section was a stand-along comic book circular that was syndicated to newspapers all across the country that could be included with the rest of their Sunday editions. It was designed to be a pushback against the rising popularity of comic books--comics, "funny pages", had long been a sales driver for newspapers. So the … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: The Spirit Section, December 28, 1941
My year of frustration continued with FANTASTIC FOUR #207, another issue of my favorite title that I first saw out in the world in spinner racks the week that it came out. But having won a free subscription to the series, I had to wait until my copy finally made its way to me through … Continue reading BHOC: FANTASTIC FOUR #207
Another entry in our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, the assemblage of material that was left without a publication home in the wake of the DC Implosion that eliminated 40% of the company's publishing output and saw a number of staff members let go. SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS was something of an oddball title, … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #16
This is going to become a common refrain as we move through the next couple of years or so: another blah issue of DEFENDERS came out and was bought by me. It truly is a testament to just how well the mythology that all of the books that were a part of the Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #72
By 1936, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster had begun to contribute stories and features to the small line of comic books published by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a firm that eventually would grow into becoming DC Comics. While they'd had no success in getting anybody to bite on their sensational brainchild Superman, the pair paid the … Continue reading The Predecessors of Superman: Federal Men
This was another of the assorted comic books that my household ended up with two copies of. Not only did I pick the issue up the week it came out during my regular visit to the local 7-11, but my younger brother Ken also bought his own copy at some later point. I never entirely … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #336
We're continuing our trek through the pages of CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, a collection of material intended to be published by DC in the late 1970s but which got spiked from publication due to the DC Implosion that saw 40% of teh line cancelled. The two issues of this series were hand-copied and distributed to … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: SHOWCASE #106
We talked about this last time, I believe, but GREEN LANTERN (co-staring GREEN ARROW) was in something of a malaise at this time. It was still a book I bought faithfully, but I was finding myself less and less enamored of its content. Quite often, it felt like the logo was backwards, and that it … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #117
The Tom Brevoort Experience 