A post from my dearly departed Marvel blog in which I talk about how some characters and projects attain great longevity. Immortality April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego has begun--and this year, as with the past couple of years, I'm not … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Immortality
I hadn't really been wowed by the previous issues of DEFENDERS that I had sampled, so I don't know what made me pick this one up on my regular weekly trip to the 7-11, apart from it possibly being a small week for new comics and me thinking about how much better AVENGERS got once … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #60
Here's a weird little throwback adventure, one that some have theorized might have represented an earlier unpublished Sub-Mariner adventure being burned off, but that I think simply amounts to something of an inside joke. In this 1956 premiere issue of ADVENTURE INTO MYSTERY, there's a short 4-page story drawn by Tony Mortellaro about an undersea … Continue reading The Last Gasp of the Sub-Mariner
A post from my long-gone Marvel blog about the comic books that finally made me a Marvel fan. The Ones That Did It part one April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General We've had some intermittent service this past week or two as we did some work on the website. … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Ones That Did It, Part 1
I'm pretty sure that I got this issue of LUKE CAGE, POWER MAN from my school buddy Donald Sims, who also collected comics, a fact that bound us together as friends until the switch to Junior High. It's probably worth giving a little bit of context as to my own experiences with African-American culture. As … Continue reading BHOC: LUKE CAGE, POWER MAN #38
I'm pretty certain that it was Fred Hembeck who turned me on to this super-cool short story buried in this obscure issue of Charlton's mystery anthology series THE MANY GHOSTS OF DOCTOR GRAVES. Series such as this one were plentiful in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, each issue filled to the brim with … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: THE MANY GHOSTS OF DOCTOR GRAVES #5
In response to yesterday's post concerning DAREDEVIL #1, I received an e-mail from my friend Mark Evanier. Mark is one of the most knowledgeable people I know about classic comics and in particular the people who worked on them. He had a number of insights that he wanted to bring up, not just about yesterday's … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: A Guest Post on DAREDEVIL #1 and Related Matters
A post from my old time Marvel blog concerning the Japanese opening title sequences to the 1992 X-MEn cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzkxNbb_tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8HkDMht3d4 X-Men! This Is Their Day! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Spent a good part of last night reliving elements of my sordid past in the form of … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – X-Men! This Is Their Day!
This was the second of the two issues of MARVEL SPECTACULAR I picked up from my drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics when I went looking for more Thor adventures, and it was the Thor story that I enjoyed the most up to this point--largely, I expect, because the antagonist wasn't some Asgardian god … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #19
Some recent comments by reader and historian Ferran Delgado prompted me to go back and to take a closer look at DAREDEVIL #1, the last of what we would consider the formative Marvel titles to be launched and one that was plagued in its delivery by a variety of delays. I've written about those delays … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ditko & Everett & Brodsky: The Long Road to DAREDEVIL #1
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