It's always something of an event around these parts when a new SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO project drops. And so the past decade or so has been bountiful, after a long span of drought. All of which is to say that I finally got to watch the first of the two SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO 2205 films--the … Continue reading STAR BLAZERS: Space Battleship Yamato 2205: A New Voyage
This is another of those overseas publications where, thanks to both the scarcity of information and the language barrier, I'm only going to be able to tell you so much. But it's an interesting and forgotten bit of DC history, and worth shedding a bit more light on. In 1959, thanks to the ADVENTURES OF … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: The Superman Manga of Tatsuo Yoshida
An entry from my old Marvel blog, interrupting questions about the then thrice-monthly AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to talk about a current issue. Not the Spidey Post You Were Expecting October 23, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Became swamped with stuff this week, so I haven’t had a chance to compose the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Not The Spidey Post You Were Expecting
This is another unfamiliar cover for me. Unfamiliar because the copy of this book that I got had been stripped of its cover, which was sent back to the distributor for credit. However, rather than destroying the remainder of the book as he was required to do, the wholesaler instead sold it and a mountain … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #144
It's more of the same, additional vintage photographs of the people who worked on the comic books of yesteryear during those earlier halcyon days! As usual, there's an awful lot of Stan Lee. Stan Lee promotional photo, circa 1980 Assorted Marvel and DC creators, including Joe Orlando, Paul Levitz, Don McGregor, , Jenette Kahn, Stan … Continue reading Comics Creators in the Wild 10
Here was another issue of BATMAN that I got in my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988. While it's a 12 cent issue, it was still published during the editorial reign of Jack Schiff. And as such, it was a bit noteworthy, as by this time schiff and his creative teams had largely pivoted the Caped … Continue reading WC: BATMAN #148
Another posting from my Marvel blog of long ago, this one continuing to answer questions put forward by the readership about the post-One More Day set-up for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. What Would You Do..With One More Set of Spidey Answers? October 24, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General All right, I didn’t … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – What Would You Do…With One More Set of Spidey Answers?
The bundles of coverless comic books that had been stripped and were meant to have been pulped but instead were sold at a cut rate at my local drug store we're virtually all Marvel titles. At that time, Marvel and DC were being handled by different distributors, albeit going through the same wholesalers ultimately. So … Continue reading BHOC: BLACK LIGHTNING #2
The original artwork for classic stories is always of interest to me. There's a bunch of information that we can discover from it. And even apart from that, it's often fun just to see how these stories were originally drawn, without the added intermediary step of them having to be reproduced and printed in a … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: The First New Captain America Story – From The Original Art
Here's another interesting find that I came across and for which I've been able to locate very little reliable information. As with the issues of EL SORPRENDENTE HOMBRE ARANA that we've been looking at from time to time, this issue of LOS 4 FANTASTICOS contains an original never-printed-in-the-United-States story featuring the Fantastic Four created by … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: LOS 4 FANTASTICOS #11
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