The year 1977 had given way to 1978, and in the first days of the new month, the mailman arrived with another subscription copy of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA for me. I would end up with two copies of this issue--a few weeks later I'd be having a birthday, and as a gift my friend … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #153
This week's DOCTOR WHO episode crystalized one of the failings of the season for me. And it is this: the stories don't seem to be of consequence to the main characters. There's danger and adventure and stuff, yeah. But somehow, the principles seem to remain at a distance from it all. None of it changes … Continue reading Doctor Who: Can You Hear Me?
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning comics I worked on and made a mess of. As with yesterday's post, the preceding installments of this series haven't turned up yet. Comics I Screwed Up pt 5 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Rounding out our survey of comic … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Comics I Screwed Up, Part 5
I very much remember buying this issue of ACTION COMICS at the local 7-11, where its very nice Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez cover stared out at me. This was part two of a long four-part saga that I recall enjoying--in part because it featured a villain I was acquainted with: Amazo, the android who duplicated all … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #481
This is the first issue of Dr. Jerry Bails' newsletter, The Comicollector, dated September 1961. It was intended as a more periodical release than Bails' main fanzine, Alter-Ego , intended to provide a place for fans to buy, sell and swap comics and to disseminate the latest news and gossip from the big publishers. It … Continue reading The Comicollector #1
In 1973, Charlton took one last late stab in getting a foothold into the super hero market with the publication of E-MAN, a light-hearted and whimsical super hero series about an energy being birthed in a star who came to Earth and became a costumed adventurer. It was a fun title and well-remembered, but it … Continue reading Brand Echh – E-Man #2
A post from my old now-gone Marvel blog concerning the history of Marvel's cover design. (One of the hazards of these reposts is that I often don't have copies of all of a given sequence, and none of it is in the right order--hence, Part Four without Parts One, Two or Three...) Covers pt 4 … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Covers, Part Four
I bought this issue of DEFENDERS from out of the local drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Out-Of-Date Comics, one of my usual haunts for picking up books and the closest thing I had to a ready source of back issues in 1977. I can't say what drew me to in in particular, apart from simply … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #30
Well, going to have a lot less to say about this episode than the last one, I expect. Praxeus was a nice, simple done-in-one adventure without any particular connectivity to the ongoing arc of the series. Without the lead-in bit last episode, you really could have watched this one at any point during the series. … Continue reading Doctor Who – Praxeus
It seems as though--for good reason or bad--people got a kick out of seeing the Ego-Man story parodying Stan Lee from SICK magazine last week. And so, since there were a number of these done, I thought I would show you another one. In this case, the inaugural installment, from SICK Magazine #120. The Grand … Continue reading Brand Echh – Sick #120 – Ego-Man
