I'm not certain after all these years where I might have read about it, but by 1982 I was more plugged into comic book fandom than I had been and was reading the occasional fanzine and promotional magazine. It might even have ben spotlighted in Dick Giordano's editorial Meanwhile column. Wherever I saw the notice, … Continue reading FSC: BATMAN ANNUAL #8
I have to admit that, during the period when it was first being serialized in the pages of EPIC ILLUSTRATED magazine, I was really knocked out by Jim Starlin's running science fiction serial Metamorphosis Odyssey. No doubt in part due to the fact that I had yet to read a significant amount of science fiction … Continue reading FSC: MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #3
By the year 1982, there wasn't any writer's work that I was enjoying more consistently than that of Marv Wolfman. I'd liked him at Marvel, where he wrote FANTASTIC FOUR and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as well as an assortment of other things such as NOVA (though I didn't follow TOMB OF DRACULA, his most respected work … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS ANNUAL #1
I hadn't been a fan of Jim Warren's assorted Warren Magazines. I'd sampled a couple of issues here and there of CREEPY and EERIE, but both the storytelling style and the subject matter left me reasonably cold. I was a super hero guy for the most part, and that was a genre that Warren didn't … Continue reading FSC: THE GOBLIN #1
At the very end of the 1970s, comic books began to take a cue from network television. There, the concept of a limited series of broadcasts had become popular as important destination viewing, garnering ratings that proved such programming to be attractive to potential viewers. Accordingly, first DC and them Marvel began to experiment with … Continue reading FSC: WOLVERINE Limited Series #1
As we covered a bit last week, there were two separate issues of Larry Houston's fan-published super hero comic magazine THE ENFORCERS that I found on my first trip to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware. We covered the first last time: https://tombrevoort.com/2026/03/22/fsc-the-enforcers-2/ #3, obviously, was the second. I would spend the next fifteen-plus years vainly … Continue reading FSC: THE ENFORCERS #3
This book was one of the big unexpected finds I made during my first visit to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware. I was constantly on the hunt for obscure bits of comic book history--there was nothing quite like the thrill of coming across some old super hero property that was a forgotten, hidden gem--and I … Continue reading FSC: THE ENFORCERS #2
This was the third issue of the British weekly 2000 AD that I picked up on my very first visit to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington after my family had relocated to Delaware. This cover image is interesting, in that it doesn't represent any of the material that's actually in the issue. It appears to have … Continue reading FSC: 2000 AD #124
As I mentioned last week, it was on my first trip to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware that I wound up picking up a small selection of copies of the UK weekly 2000 AD. I had a read a little bit about Judge Dredd and the weekly comic book paper that was the backbone of … Continue reading FSC: 2000 AD #123
At the time of my family's move to Delaware in 1981, there was only one comic book shop in the area, and it was in far-off Wilmington. This was Xanadu Comics, best remembered as the store that AMERICAN SPLENDOR cartoonist Harvey Pekar's future wife Joyce Brabner once worked at. It was too far off to … Continue reading FSC: 2000 AD #122
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