This issue of MARVEL TALES was yet another book that came to me in a 3-Bag bought at either a Toy Store or a Department Store, and like the other books I've covered, it would have been about nine months old when I purchased it. It contained a reprint of an issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #84
This is a very simple cover by Russ Heath, but very effective. The duochrome approach of limiting all colors to just red and yellow is arresting to teh eye--that red background is a like a stop sign when placed on a magazine rack among other publications. And the use of stats to have Harry's figure … Continue reading Great Covers: UNCANNY TALES #48
We've gone over the history of CHARLTON BULLSEYE in prior installments of this feature, but just to quickly summarize once again for newcomers: at the very start of the 1980s, longtime publisher Charlton was nearing the end of its time producing new material for comic books. One of the final things they attempted was a … Continue reading Brand Echh: Americomics #3
A post from my old Marvel blog updating the efforts to get the audience to determine the worst single Marvel comic book ever published. I reprinted the results last week, so I'm getting to these posts in reverse order. Worst of the Worst August 28, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Worst of the Worst
This issue of IRON MAN was another book that I got out of a plastic 3-Bag being sold either in a department store or a toy store. Like the other recent books I picked up under similar circumstances, this issue had initially gone on sale before I'd started to follow Marvel comics, and so the … Continue reading BHOC: IRON MAN #103
Now here was a beauty! This issue of TALES OF SUSPENSE features only the 4th appearance of Iron Man, the super hero who took over the title, ushering it into the Marvel Age of Comics. Like every book covered in this feature, I acquired this issue as part of my Windfall Comics purchase, where through … Continue reading WC: TALES OF SUSPENSE #42
An entry from my old Marvel blog, this one the wrap-up to a sequence in which I guided the audience in trying to determine what was the worst single Marvel comic book ever published. Worst of the Worst - Winners September 2, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General …if you can … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Worst of the Worst – Winners
This was another issue that came to me fresh out of a 3-Bag of nine month old comics purchased at a department store or a toy store. I had just transitioned over to buying INCREDIBLE HULK for myself--prior to that, it was a series that my younger brother Ken had been following for a while, … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #216
I don't usually tend to talk much about the Marvel Studios productions here. And there's a good reason for that: in my position, I'm privy to certain information about these productions ahead of time, and secrecy is always a watchword. So it's best to simply avoid the topic entirely most of the time, so as … Continue reading Fifteen Thoughts About Spider-Man: No Way Home
Here we are with the third and final segment of this behind-the-scenes instructional booklet about making comic books produced by Charlton and sold by direct mail order only (though it was also offered as a subscription premium.) These descriptions of the various types of comic book stories are a bit funny in just how far … Continue reading The Comic Book Guide For The Artist-Writer-Letterer 3
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