I was continuing to work my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims, and I was up to issue #23. As the cover indicates, by this point the character was the star of a popular Saturday morning live action series, which is … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #23
My buddy David Steckel and I were both enormous fans of the Fantastic Four, which was one of the things that brought us together in the first place. So we'd regularly let one another borrow and read the assorted issues that we had that he other did not. Which is how I wound up taking … Continue reading BC: GIANT-SIZE FANTASTIC FOUR #3
In the fall of 1975, SHAZAM continued to limp along. The once-promising launch of one of the greatest and best-remembered comic book characters of the Golden Age had been reduced to being a quarterly reprint title, kept alive only due to the success of the similarly-named Saturday Morning live action television program. This was something … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #22
As I've mentioned before, my friend David Steckel, whom I'd met through the Sachem School District's gifted student program, was a much a fan of the Fantastic Four as I was. What's more, he had inherited a bunch of comics from an older relative who had outgrown them, so he had an assortment of older … Continue reading BC: FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #10
And finally we arrive at the nadir of the SHAZAM run that I was experiencing all at once thanks to it having been loaned to me by my grade school buddy Donald Sims. Sales on the series had clearly been poor, and yet the character was starring in a successful Saturday morning live action series. … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #21
As I've mentioned before, I first really met my friend David Steckel when the both of us attended the once-a-week gifted student education program in our school district. It was designed to give the top students in the community more creative and hands-on learning opportunities, and was a terrific program that did a lot for … Continue reading BC: FANTASTIC FOUR #56
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I didn't need to read issue #19, as I'd bought that one when it first came out--and went through it here: https://tombrevoort.com/2016/11/05/i-feel-like-this-issue-of-shazam-was-probably/ So it was on to issue #20 for … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #20
This is another comic book that I never quite borrowed. Rather, I saw it lying around over at the house of my neighbor Charles Grella at some point when I was there. I think the fact that it was such an odd thing was what made me remember it; at the time, the Legion of … Continue reading BC: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #4
It has to be said that 1975 wasn't the best year for DC Comics. Editorial Director Carmine Infantino was in his last year running the firm, and the fortunes of the organization were on the wane. This despite having placed a couple of properties onto television and the Superman movie going ahead. A lot of … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #18
When I was growing up in the early 1970s, you didn't have a whole lot of choice about who your friends were. You were pretty much limited to any other kids who happened to live on your street. In my case, that included a kid my age who lived down the block named Charles Grella. … Continue reading BC: SUPERMAN #274
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