A post from my old Marvel blog about the short-lived NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET black and white magazine. Thursday, 9:28 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Today's Bad Comic I Was Associated With wasn't really all that bad at all--yet the series lasted only two issues.In the late 1980s, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Bad Comics I Was Associated With
When the cover price on comic books went up to 35 cents, this presented certain new challenges for readers. Primary among them was the fact that a dollar would no longer get you three comics--you needed to be packing an extra nickel. I didn't really yet have a ready source of income at this point, … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #57
The final issue of Steven Grant, Steve Gerber and Frank Miller's 1988 freelancer newsletter.
By the late 1960s, a whole new niche market had opened up on the newsstand for comics. That was the niche of the black and white magazine, a format primarily pioneered by Warren Publications but one that almost every publisher and would-be publisher would experiment with. The great value in producing a black and white … Continue reading Brand Echh – Hell-Rider #1
A post from my old long-gone Marvel blog on the various Marvel editorial credits and how they work. Monday, 12:55 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General People ask all the time about the number of editorial credits on our books. The snarky ones even go so far as to … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Editorial Credits
There was a little store in one of the mini-malls where my Mother regularly shopped--I can't recall if it was a candy store or a stationary store or what. But the important bit here is that it carried a tiny selection of comic books. Tiny--just a few titles at any given time. So each time … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #140
I've been a regular viewer of DOCTOR WHO since around 1981, starting with Tom Baker (his first three seasons, which were ubiquitous here in the U.S. for many years) and I've watched it regularly and continuously since then--albeit with the huge gap in the middle that everybody suffered through in the 90s. In my household, … Continue reading Doctor Who: Spyfall part one
One of the things that John Romita used to say is that Stan Lee based a lot of his theories on how to grab comic book audiences and how to speak to the readership from Charles Biro, who co-edited the Lev Gleason line of titles in the 1940s and 50s. Biro was a pioneer who … Continue reading Daredevil is Exposed
A post from my old Marvel blog discussing how I'd gotten my Marvel internship thirty years ago. My So-Called Career In Comics pt. 1 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General All right, it's Monday, so it's the beginning of another new and exciting week-long series! And for this one, … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – My So-Called Career In Comics Part One
I bought this issue at my local 7-11, and some time later, my brother Ken also bought himself a copy for some reason. This was the second new off-the-racks issue of MARVEL'S GREATEST COMICS that I purchased, having jumped on board the FANTASTIC FOUR/Marvel train not long before. This issue reprinted FANTASTIC FOUR #95, whereas … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #76
