I find that I'm interested every year in how many people read each of the assorted pieces I've posted, what material has proven to be the most popular, and how that changes from year to year. So since starting up this page, I've done a listing like this every year, laying out the most popular … Continue reading End of the Year Stats – 2023
This is an amazingly impactful cover, especially as originally seen in the context of a 1968 newsstand. There's no way that this image wouldn't grab your attention more violently than the comics scattered around it. That extreme close-up--so much so that the logo is shunted off to the side and made smaller--the danger to Batman … Continue reading Great Covers: BATMAN #205
This was one of the strangest issues of THOR that I bought as a relatively new Marvel reader, and I didn't completely understand why for several years, until I had learned enough about the history of comics to be able to fully appreciate it. Ever since the end of his Ragnarok storyline, writer/editor Roy Thomas … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #280
Well, that was a very Russell-y special then. It's always a good idea to keep in mind that the Christmas episodes tend in general to be lighter and livelier and more silly than the show typically gets, the better to be consumed during such a festive period. So as a story, the whole thing is … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road
I suspect that the middle-late 1960s was a tough time for longtime Superman line editor Mort Weisinger. For the first time in recorded history, Batman was routinely outselling his cash cow from Krypton as a result of the faddish success of the 1966 BATMAN television series. This state of affairs wouldn't last--the Man of Steel … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #344
This was a pretty welcome issue of MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION with its reprinting of this conflict between the Avengers and the X-Men. I was a bit unhappy about how the Beast and the Angel had been miscolored on the cover--somebody was pretty clearly working from reference of them in their original blue and yellow costumes. … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION #46
Well, from the looks of this cover image, we're about to get a bit more action in this issue of ACTION COMICS. I'm not 100% certain who would have been responsible for it. The actual cover art was done by Curt Swan and George Klein, but they likely would have been working from a sketch … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #343
I had sampled the occasional issue of MAD Magazine before this, as well as its nearest knock-off, CRACKED, but I found neither of them so much to my liking that I followed them with any regularity. Now, it has to be said that MAD in particular was a trend-setting publication, and while it was past … Continue reading BHOC: CRAZY #46
In the early 1940s when war raged across the globe, comic book sales were at an all-time high, thanks in large part to them being one of the few entertainment mediums that were available to entertain children. Sure, there were radio programs broadcast in the afternoon, and the Saturday Morning Matinee at the theater that … Continue reading The First Spider Woman
It must be said, this is a really striking cover to this issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA. And it showed a sort of novelty of approach that just wouldn't have been done only a few years earlier, not showing potentially sales-driving guest-star the Hulk clearly in the image (though his presence in the story is cover … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #230
The Tom Brevoort Experience 