SECRET ORIGINS OF THE SUPER DC HEROES 1975 This was DC’s answer to Marvel’s very successful ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS. It was also one of the most highly-awaited books in my household from the time I saw the first house ads for it. Big and expensive, I had to wait for Christmas before I could … Continue reading BHOCOS: SECRET ORIGINS OF THE SUPER DC HEROES
THE FLASH #153 June, 1965 Back in the days before comic book shops were a part of my life–before I could drive, certainly, or even bike to a nearby shop–the one place where I was guaranteed to see back issues of comic books was at annual shopping mall collectibles shows. These events have largely dried … Continue reading BHOCOS: FLASH #153
MARVEL TALES #53 September, 1974 My first exposure to the comic book Spider-Man (I had watched the 1967 cartoon for years on Channel 5. However, as a child of 3, I didn’t quite understand the concept of the web-shooters–I thought that Spider-Man had strung up all of these ropes around the city, so that he … Continue reading BHOCOS: MARVEL TALES #53
THOR #233 March, 1975 Much like CAPTAIN AMERICA #183, which came out at the same time, THOR #233 was one of my early purchases which made me, for a long time thereafter, an avowed hater of Marvel Comics. And, unlike CAP #183, even today it’s not very good. THOR is a series that, in my … Continue reading BHOCOS: THOR #233
CAPTAIN AMERICA #183 March, 1975 CAP #183 is a great comic book, the concluding chapter in Steve Englehart’s Nomad saga. But when it was first published, it was one of a couple of comics that completely put me off Marvel as a company. (THOR #233 and MARVEL TEAM-UP #16 were two others…) As a new, … Continue reading BHOCOS: CAPTAIN AMERICA #183
SWISH INTO ACTION #1 1975 The oldest surviving example of my earliest attempts at creating comics, SWISH INTO ACTION was done in the second grade. It’s a fairly credible attempt for an eight-year-old–and the lettering never did get much better over the years. SWISH INTO ACTION derives much of its entertainment value from its unintentionally-provocative … Continue reading BHOCOS: SWISH INTO ACTION #1
A few years earlier, in 1973, I did Halloween as Spider-Man in a store-bought Ben Cooper costume, with my younger brother Ken attired as Batman.
For Halloween in 1975, my mother created a homemade Flash costume for me, since there wasn’t one commercially available. I had it for years.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #114 December, 1974 Already a regular reader of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (whenever I could find copies–this was only the third issue I’d ever read), this wonderful 100-Page Super-Spectacular introduced me to their predecessors, the Justice Society of America. I’d already encountered the notion of Earth-2 in the pages of FLASH, but … Continue reading BHOCOS: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #114
An example of the boiler plate letter that DC would send out in response to fan mail, which i received a copy of in 1974. This boiler plate was updated over the years, with information adjusted and changed. This example is from earlier, likely the late 1960s.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 