Bought this one at the 7-11 during another cigarette run. Picked it up because the Flash was on the cover (and I remembered seeing #107 four months earlier when I bought my first comic.) This was another book that I loved to death. I can remember taking it into Kindergarden class for Show-and-Tell one week, … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #109
I’m pretty certain that this issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD came from one of those 3-Bags that were sold in supermarkets and department stores. I can’t imagine that I would have chosen it for myself–but as with the LOIS LANE issue earlier, there don’t seem to be any other comics that would have shared … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #110
Got this one at that same post-Church candy store. Look at that lovely Nick Cardy cover, very clearly done from a Carmine Infantino sketch. This was the first new issue of FLASH that I ever had. Artwork on this one was by Irv Novick, whose style I would come to associate with the character, as … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #224
My Grandparents lived not all that far from us. They were frequent visitors to my family’s home, and on rarer occasions we would go to theirs. It was on one such trip that I got this, WORLD’S FINEST #220, the second part to the story I had read earlier. I was a little bit astonished … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #220
More than anything else, it was this next comic that made me a fan forever. And again, I couldn’t tell you why I decided to purchase this comic at this time. I know I got it at the 7-11 and that my Dad bought it for me. But I didn’t know who the Flash was. … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #DC-22
It doesn’t get any more classic than this–E.E. Hibbard’s cover illustrating the first meeting of the Justice Society of America in ALL-STAR COMICS #3. Granted, it’s just a shot of a bunch of super heroes sitting around a table, looking like a club photo in a high school yearbook. But this was the very first … Continue reading Great Covers – ALL STAR COMICS #3
My father never showed any particular interest in religion, but my Mom came from a family that had strong Catholic traditions, and so she still went to church every Sunday, dragging me and my younger brother along with her. This would eventually lead to years of “Church class”, where our young minds would be indoctrinated … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #219
I have no idea why I would have bought this comic book. I would have guessed that it came in one of those 3-to-a-bag packs that were prevalent in this era, but there are no other comics that I read of the same exact vintage, so that seems to let that explanation out. It’s possible … Continue reading BHOC: LOIS LANE #133
I got my very first comic book at the age of six, at a 7-11 where my father would go to buy cigarettes. On this visit, for some reason the comic book rack had been moved to near the door, and while we waited in the checkout line, my attention was drawn to it. I … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #268
travisellisor: page 1 from Superman #268 by Curt Swan and Bob Oksner Splash page from the first comic book I ever read.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 