Amazingly, in the wake of the hugely successful BLACK PANTHER film and the impact it carried worldwide, people around the globe now know and recognize the name Wakanda as that of the fictional African nation which was never conquered, and which is protected from all outside forces by the lineage of the Black Panther. The … Continue reading The First Wakanda Story
A post from my old Marvel blog on the anniversary of the day Marvel writer and Executive Editor Mark Gruenwald died. In the years since, Mike Wieringo also passed away on the same date, prompting a change to M-Day--and thereafter, so did the great Joe Kubert. G-Day August 11, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – G-Day
Here was another somewhat older issue that I got out of a 3-Bag at a department store or a toy store, where such things were sold in the late 1970s. In fact, it was likely the reason that I bought the 3-Bag in question. As spoken about before, I had become a massive fan of … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #28
This one isn't about a comic book feature that saw print but rather one that didn't--at least not in its original intended form. SHOWCASE was the round-robin series that would move from editor to editor throughout the DC stable, each of whom was expected to debut some new feature within its pages as a try-out … Continue reading SHOWCASE #50 and the Non-History of Yankee Doodle Dandy
This is, I think, one of the most discussed comic book stories of all time, so I don't know that I'm going to have a whole lot that's new to add to the conversation. What I can bring to the table is some personal perspective. I would have been 19 years old in 1986 when … Continue reading Perfect Game – BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, Book One
A post from my old Marvel blog outlining the conditions for readers to post responses to my content. The spirit of these rules still persists, though not these conditions specifically, as we are no longer on Marvel.com. The Rules July 3, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General It seems like the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Rules
This issue of MARVEL TALES was another book that I got out of a 3-Bag from a department store or toy store. It reprinted AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #99, a story that I've seen an argument for being the Silver Age end of the story begun in AMAZING FANTASY #15. Scripter Stan Lee would write one more … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #80
I may be in the minority here, but I am not a huge fan of the Weeping Angels. I agree that they were the centerpoint of one of the best single episodes of the new series, "Blink", which was genuinely scary and well put together. The problem is that the attributes of the Angels as … Continue reading Doctor Who: Village of the Angels
SHOWCASE was a bit of an institution in the latter half of the 1950s and the 1960s. It was a series that birthed a great number of characters and series that would go on to star in their own titles. It was the experimental laboratory in which DC tested out new ideas for comic books, … Continue reading WC: SHOWCASE #39
A blog post from long ago courtesy of my defunct Marvel blog, this one about the late Flo Steinberg Flo July 7, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Flo Steinberg gave me her Stan Lee Slurpee cup.Flo’s cleaning out her apartment, so she’s trying to hand off as much stuff to … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Flo
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