One of the benefits that came with my new Stationery Store outlet that stocked a wider variety of comic books than the town 7-11 did was exposure to a broad range of material. The 7-11 had stopped carrying any oversized comics (which is how I had missed FANTASTIC FOUR #200 some months earlier) including all … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL SERIES #17
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
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
That same week, I also picked up the latest issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, with this dramatic if a bit generic cover image. It was a relatively rare cover done by longtime series penciler Dick Dillin who, for whatever reason, was seldom approached to do the covers for the issues he was drawing. The … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #170
One of the benefits of my newly-opened and newly-discovered source for new comic books, the Stationery Store that had opened in the new strip mall close to my home, was being once again able to find comic book titles that had disappeared from the spinner rack at the 7-11. And so, for the first time … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #277
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
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
Only a block or two away from my home in Farmingville, a new strip mall was being constructed. A new road had been put in behind my house a year or so earlier, which turned into a major throughfare, so putting up a commerce area right where it crossed the main road through town up … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN #315
SHOGUN WARRIORS is a good example of a kind of comic book that you simply don't see too often these days. It was based on a line of disparate toys imported from Japan under that umbrella marketing name and was used to give the localization of those different elements a cohesive backstory. In essence, it … Continue reading BHOC: SHOGUN WARRIORS #8
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
The Tom Brevoort Experience 