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
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the nature of how a shared universe such as Marvel's operates on a practical level. Cooperation April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Getting back to some of the issues we were dancing around a few days ago, and some of the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog -Cooperation
Now that I had begun to buy THOR regularly, the next time I was in our local drugstore I took the opportunity to go digging around in their Big Bin of Slightly-Older Comics for any THOR releases. I didn't come up with any issues of the eponymous title, but I did find what turned out … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #18
There were some relatively professional fanzines published by the late 1970s. One such fanzine was Woweekazowie, the fourth issue of which concerns us today. It was produced by Pete Iro and was staffed with contributions from people who would either go on to work within the comic book field itself or who would circle it … Continue reading Woweekazowie #4
Another old post from my Marvel blog in which I answer questions posed by the audience. Viewer Mail April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Got a lot of feedback the last couple of days, so let's hit some Viewer Mail...>WellI think that's a dangerous thought, Tom.The Spider-Clone story galvanized … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Viewer Mail
