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
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I didn't need to read issue #19, as I'd bought that one when it first came out--and went through it here: https://tombrevoort.com/2016/11/05/i-feel-like-this-issue-of-shazam-was-probably/ So it was on to issue #20 for … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #20
The well-remembered Project Pegasus Saga was continuing to run through the pages of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, breathing new life into a series that had been moribund for the better part of a year. Newly installed writers Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio were determined to do something worthwhile with the title and to make it better than … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #55
MARVEL SUPER-HEROES continued to feature reprints of Incredible Hulk stories from only a relatively few years earlier, but the character was popular enough that the title kept going even throughout this period when most of the other Marvel reprint series began to wind down. The weekly Incredible Hulk television show on CBS undoubtedly contributed to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #83
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
This is another comic book that I never quite borrowed. Rather, I saw it lying around over at the house of my neighbor Charles Grella at some point when I was there. I think the fact that it was such an odd thing was what made me remember it; at the time, the Legion of … Continue reading BC: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #4
DAREDEVIL was a series that I had been buying and enjoying for about a year, but right around here it started to steadily get better and better--in such a gradual way that you almost didn't notice it happening. Most of this was down to the arrival of new penciler Frank Miller. As these books were … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #160
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
It has to be said that 1975 wasn't the best year for DC Comics. Editorial Director Carmine Infantino was in his last year running the firm, and the fortunes of the organization were on the wane. This despite having placed a couple of properties onto television and the Superman movie going ahead. A lot of … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #18
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