Another posting from my Marvel blog of long ago, this one continuing to answer questions put forward by the readership about the post-One More Day set-up for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. What Would You Do..With One More Set of Spidey Answers? October 24, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General All right, I didn’t … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – What Would You Do…With One More Set of Spidey Answers?
The bundles of coverless comic books that had been stripped and were meant to have been pulped but instead were sold at a cut rate at my local drug store we're virtually all Marvel titles. At that time, Marvel and DC were being handled by different distributors, albeit going through the same wholesalers ultimately. So … Continue reading BHOC: BLACK LIGHTNING #2
The original artwork for classic stories is always of interest to me. There's a bunch of information that we can discover from it. And even apart from that, it's often fun just to see how these stories were originally drawn, without the added intermediary step of them having to be reproduced and printed in a … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: The First New Captain America Story – From The Original Art
Here's another interesting find that I came across and for which I've been able to locate very little reliable information. As with the issues of EL SORPRENDENTE HOMBRE ARANA that we've been looking at from time to time, this issue of LOS 4 FANTASTICOS contains an original never-printed-in-the-United-States story featuring the Fantastic Four created by … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: LOS 4 FANTASTICOS #11
A post from my Marvel blog of a different decade, this one talking about a month in which Marvel's market share rose to be 50%. Fifty October 27, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General FiftyA lot of noise has been made of the fact that, in the just-reported sales figures for … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Fifty
The All-New, All-Different X-Men hit like a lightning bolt out of the blue when the new iteration of the team debuted in GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1. The title had been a reprint book for several years, and so the quantities of the early new issues that made it to the stands were much smaller than most … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #103
With the fact that Maus was banned from circulation in some school districts making national news this past week, the time seemed to be good to discuss COMIX BOOK, the short-lived Marvel magazine that published work by underground cartoonists--including the prototype short story for Art Spiegelman's Maus. COMIX BOOK was an outgrowth of Marvel's concerns … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: COMIX BOOK #2 and the first Maus
I hadn't really thought about it this way before, but as things turned out, I wound up getting both the beginning and the end of the initial Masters of Evil cycle in my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988. For, like AVENGERS #6, this issue also features Zemo and the Masters, and begins to bring their … Continue reading WC: AVENGERS #15
A post from my old-time Marvel blog discussing the oft-invoked fan belief that good sales are hardly a mark of quality material. Sales versus Quality October 28, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Bouncing off of yesterday’s topic, let’s talk about that perennial conflict: sales versus quality.It’s a typical argument that … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Sales vs Quality
Marvel's decision to launch a licensed comic dedicated to 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 1976 is a bit of a mysterious choice. Clearly, the outfit was trying to move into licensed properties--in addition to 2001, they did STAR WARS and LOGAN'S RUN at about this time, and had great success with expanding on the mythology … Continue reading BHOC: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY #5
