I bought a lot of issues of BRAVE AND THE BOLD (or as this cover would have it, THE NEW BIG BRAVE AND THE BOLD) despite the fact that I was never really all that wild about it. I liked the Jim Aparo artwork well enough, and I liked a number of the characters who … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #144
I have to confess, of all of editor Mort Weisinger's assorted Superman titles of the late 1950s and 1960s, SUPERBOY is the one that I warmed to the least. In general, I liked the daffy storybook construction of most of the line's output, but somehow the low-stakes small town conflicts of the Boy of Steel … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #124
THOR continued to roll along in a storyline that I felt relatively invested in, even though much of it took place in Asgard and began to feel more like a Conan/Barbarian series as a result. This was writer/editor Roy Thomas' big Ragnarok storyline, the first such story I had encountered, and so that gave it … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #277
I had come to really enjoy NOVA over the course of the first batch of issues I had read featuring the character. Which was a bit of a turn-around for me. There were a bunch of titles in the Marvel line that I studiously avoided for a bit thinking that they weren't really for me. … Continue reading BHOC: NOVA #22
As we begin to narrow things down among the various comics that I wound up with in my great Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, we're inevitably focusing more and more on the titles that simply weren't considered all that desirable by collectors in this period--that's why there were so many issues of them. This definitely … Continue reading WC: STRANGE TALES #119
This latest issue of MARVEL TALES that showed up at the 7-11 was the wrap-up to the three issue reprinting of a trio of issues of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in which new writer Gerry Conway had repurposed the story originally produced for SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN magazine several years earlier and transformed it into a new story. In … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #97
I was still a regular follower of THE INVADERS, Roy Thomas' super hero comic book set in World War II during the Golden Age of Comics. But the bloom was off the rose for me a little bit by this point. I don't know that I realized it at the time specifically, but the departure … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #34
It really is something to look at the development of the Marvel line during the formative years between 1961 and 1965. It's pretty amazing how all of the key strips would take these sudden surges in quality, that the material kept getting better, stronger and more polished, and the ambition got greater and greater as … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #120
Picked up this issue of INCREDIBLE HULK on that week's Thursday trip down to the 7-11 for the new comics, a trip I made like clockwork every week. While I was still a bit lukewarm on the character, the series as a whole had been growing stronger, mainly as new writer Roger Stern began to … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #229
With this latest issue of AVENGERS, the ten-month-long Korvac Saga came to an end. Unfortunately, artist George Perez, who had been instrumental in convincing writer Jim Shooter to pen a storyline featuring all of the Avengers past and present, fell off abut a third of the way into the storyline, and it was plagued by … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #177
The Tom Brevoort Experience 