As before, here's another chunk of CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, the home-printed collection of material intended for print but spiked by the DC Implosion, created to secure copyright and trademark on the material. This time out, we're looking at material intended to comprise STEEL: THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN #6, written and created by Gerry Conway and … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: STEEL #6
This is something of an underwhelming cover for the conclusion to a long-running story. But I was there for it either way. This extended Carrion sequence in PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN was, I believe, my first experience with a long-running mystery figure plot, and so even though the end result was a just a … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #31
Johnny Quick was one of the perennial second banana super heroes of the Golden Age of Comics. He was created by newly-hired DC editor Mort Weisinger and debuted in the pages of MORE FUN COMICS #71 in 1941. At the time, what we think of today as DC Comics was actually two separate organizations with … Continue reading The Second Johnny Quick Story
I don't remember where I picked up this issue of MARVEL PREMIERE featuring the second half of the two-part debut of the new Ant-Man, Scott Lang. But it wasn't at my regular 7-11 haunt; they weren't carrying MARVEL PREMIERE, and their selection in general had been pulled back to tried-and-true sellers. So I must have … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL PREMIERE #48
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
The Tom Brevoort Experience 