On that same trip that I talked my grandparents into taking to the distant Sun-Vet Mall so that I could go to Ed's Coins and Stamps, one of the very few shops that I knew of in my area that sold back issue comic books, my younger brother Ken also bought a copy of this … Continue reading BHOC: SPACE MAN #10
I continued over a period of a day or two to delve into the complete run of SHAZAM that my grade school friend Donald Sims had lent to me. By now I was up to issue #7, an issue that I can vaguely remember having seen on the spinner rack at my local 7-11 some … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #7
My younger brother Ken came along with my grandparents and I on that trip to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall. And accordingly, he wound up buying a couple comic books as well. Ken was never as into the medium and the characters as I was, but like any kid of that era, … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN THE BARBARIAN #42
It's been a long time since we last looked at the unique work produced by veteran creator Manny Stallman on the short-lived Raven strip that ran in T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents for the Tower Comics imprint. As opposed to the rest of the title, which was steeped in the clean and elegant linework of creator Wally Wood, … Continue reading Brand Echh – T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #10
On that same trip to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall courtesy of my accommodating grandparents, I also purchased a back issue of THE FLASH, one of my favorite series. Ed had a decent stock of back issues of the title at reasonable prices, so I flipped through them and landed on this … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #173
The reason i borrowed this issue of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS from my grade school friend Donald Sims should be fairly obvious to anybody who has been reading this page for any length of time: I was enamored of DC's 100-Page Super-Spectacular format. I loved these big, fat books, a mixture of a new story or … Continue reading BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #224
When I was a kid, my grandparents would come to our house practically every Saturday. They lived just about an hour away and were close with my mother, so they'd make the drive and arrive, donuts in hand, for whatever the family wound up doing that weekend day. You could make our family dog at … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #101
As we covered not long ago, Airboy was one of the most successful characters of the Golden Age of Comics. Not quite a super hero, more an adventurer aviator, the characters was perhaps better positioned to adjust to the changing tastes of the evolving audience, particularly in the postwar period. Created in 1942, AIRBOY COMICS … Continue reading The Last Airboy Story
I was still routinely buying SUPERMAN and enjoying it for the most part, despite the fact that it was never quite as electrifying as the Marvel books that I was most into during this period, nor also the DC titles that I loved the best. What SUPERMAN had going for it was familiarity. It was … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #337
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims. SHAZAM #6 featured the series' second photo cover, and it was a bit less successful and convincing than the prior one which had run on issue #2. But there was something appealing … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #6
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