A post from my old Marvel blog in which I answered some more questions from the audience. Reader Questions 5 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Finishing out the week with more Reader Questions. We're definitely going to cycle into next week with the balance of these.>1. When you … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 5
Another Marvel reprint title that came out of a 3-Bag. I seem to recall getting this particular issue at the Two Guys discount store, where they carried 3-Bags and to which my family would regularly go when we needed household goods. On this particular day there were a few 3-Bags in the batch on that … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #81
This is the single greatest issue of SUPERMAN ever put together in the character's 80 year history. Closer to home, it's the special Anniversary issue that I'm always jockeying against in my own mind when it comes to put together a book of this sort for the Marvel characters. Of course, I fail to clear … Continue reading Perfect Game – SUPERMAN #400
A post from my defunct Marvel blog concerning the reading order of the books tying in to Civil War. Friday, 5:23 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General No, I will not give you a list of what order the CIVIL WAR tie-ins should be read in.The plain fact of … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Civil War Tie-Ins
I've gone over this before, but it bears repeating. In 1978, there were no trade paperbacks, no Marvel Masterworks, no organized system reprinting the comic books of earlier days. There were a few scattered and irregular collections and that was about it. But Marvel, at least, maintained a regular and robust reprint program as a … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #65
In response to having serialized his final Fantastic Four story, the wonderful Leonardo Ortolani sent me over an additional tale very much in the same spirit which I had never seen before. He told me that he had done it in early 1994, right after Jack Kirby passed, and that it ran in a fanzine … Continue reading Lee & Kirby & Ortolani: Farewell to the King
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning comic book projects that I made something of a mess of. Comics I Screwed Up pt 1 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General There's no getting around it. If you do this job for any length of time, no matter how … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Comics I Screwed Up, Part One
I bought a lot of comics during 1978 from 3-Bags, those ubiquitous plastic bags hung on pegs or dropped onto shelves in department stores, toy stores and grocery stores during the 1970s and beyond. Every once in a while, a new batch of 3-Bags would show up (this would happen on a monthly basis, I … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #18
I haven't posted one of these in a long time, but this cover is just too good not to share. It's the work of Mac Raboy, the regular artist on Captain Marvel Jr. and the subject of a recent biographical book put out by TwoMorrows. And it's a scream. The expression on Hitler's face in … Continue reading Great Covers: MASTER COMICS #29
Herbie Popnecker was introduced in a short one-off story that originally saw print in FORBIDDEN WORLDS #73. It was intended as a throwaway tale, one more short strange adventure to fill the pages of the anthology series. But the story and the character proved popular with readers, and creator Richard Hughes subsequently brought him back … Continue reading The First and Last of Herbie
