In 1981 when my family moved to Delaware, there wasn't any writer in comic books that I liked better than Marv Wolfman. I first became aware of Marv's work in the waning days of his time at Marvel, on such series as FANTASTIC FOUR, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and NOVA, all of which I liked. But it … Continue reading FSC: GREEN LANTERN #150
My days-long journey through the entire run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from my buddy Donald Sims continued with this next issue, a highly-prized 100-Page Super-Spectacular. I adored this format, each one a fat treasure trove of vintage comic book stories. Unfortunately, much of this particular issue was wasted on me. While this is … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #8
I really liked the SHOGUN WARRIOR Marvel comic when I was younger. But today, I find that I can recall little about it. I remember the broad strokes of the series, the premise, the individual characters. But the specifics of any given issue haven't stuck with me. In the case of this issue, i remembered … Continue reading BHOC: SHOGUN WARRIORS #7
In 1981, when I was fourteen years old, my family relocated from the Long Island New York home that I'd known for most of my life to Delaware, the first state, which was becoming a hub of corporate activity thanks to its law regarding taxes. My father had been sent there to help set up … Continue reading First State Comics: Introduction
The Heap was something of an accidental success story in the Golden Age of Comics, a character who wound up having a much greater lifespan than was ever initially intended, and in fact well outliving the series that first gave him life. The Heap was the first of the swampy muck-monsters in comic books, all … Continue reading The Last Heap Story
The Project: P.E.G.A.S.U.S. is rightly remembered as a high-water mark in the 100-issue run of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE. And yet, it wasn't a perfect story. There was a choice or two made that is perhaps a bit regrettable. And for one of those story decisions, this issue tells the tale. That said, it was still the … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #54
Another year has come and gone, so it's time to look back and see what posts and pieces have garnered the greatest readership among the audience. This year saw a great number of older pieces get a tremendous bump in readership thanks to an influx of new readers from China of all places. So welcome, … Continue reading End of the Year Stats – 2025
This issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN was another one that I read courtesy of my grade school friend Donald Sims, who lent me his copy for a day or two. Already by this time, the Green Goblin had become somewhat legendary as Spider-Man's greatest foe, his reputation somehow enhanced due to the fact that he wasn't … Continue reading BC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #136
We were in the twilight days of the Marvel reprint line, even though certain titles, mainly MARVEL TALES, would continue on indefinitely for another decade and a half. But the need to carve out rack space on mainstream Newsstands was diminishing as the number of mainstream outlets carrying comic books in 1979 continued to shrink, … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #82
The history of Marvel's export to the United Kingdom is a complex and somewhat haphazard thing. While occasional copies of Marvel's American comics might reach England shops carried as ballast, the earliest homegrown reprints of Marvel material were carried by a number of different publishers. One of these was Odhams Press, best remembered as the … Continue reading Brand Echh: SMASH! #38 and a seldom-seen Hulk adventure
The Tom Brevoort Experience 