A post from my long-gone Marvel blog, this one published on the one-year anniversary of the passing of artist Mike Wieringo. M-Day August 13, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I hate to turn this blog into maudlin city all week, but that’s the luck of the draw. We’ve got one … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – M-Day
The place where i regularly bought my comic books on a weekly basis was a 7-11 in the center of town. It was close enough to home that even at a young age, I was able to bike there regularly. This led me to work out that new comic books were put out on Thursday, … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #12
In the late 1970s, things were not looking good for the comic book industry in general or for Marvel in particular. As "mom & pop" stores were steadily replaced by large chain outlets such as 7-11, the venues for comic book sales continued to dwindle. Comics were a small-margin business, and even those places that … Continue reading PIZZAZZ #1
A short while back, we covered an issue of SUPERMAN that I had purchased in 1988 as a part of my big Windfall Comics buy. That issue featured a single full-length Superman adventure rather than the usual three shorter stories that the title typically ran. (That story was broken up into three discrete chapters so … Continue reading The First Book-Length Superman Adventure
A pair of posts from my old Marvel blog, these both part of an extended sequence in which I attempted to annex an empty office in the DC building as "Marvel North". Secret Invasion Two! August 14, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Over at the Newsarama blog, it was recently … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Secret Invasion Two!
This issue of THOR was another book that came to me inside a plastic 3-Bag along with two other comics, likely ones we've already covered. I had started to follow THOR by this point, although I was still a bit ambivalent about it. As I've said before, it still felt too much like a barbarian … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #264
Given that today is Stan Lee's birthday and that he is likely the most photographed comic book creator in the world, it seems like an ideal time to do another installment of this series. Once again, these are all vintage photographs of assorted comic book writers, artists and editors from years past. Jack Kirby in … Continue reading Comics Creators in the Wild 9
As Dave Lister explains to Arnold Rimmer in an early episode of the British science fiction comedy series RED DWARF, "Death isn't the handicap it used to be." Today, it's a given that, in the world of super heroes, death is, at worst, a revolving door, and any character who breathes his or her last … Continue reading 5BC: Five Best Silver Age Character Deaths
A post from my Marvel.com blog of a decade-plus ago. This one requires some explanation, as it really doesn't work without the photo, which I no longer have. At a DC Halloween party the year editor Steve Wacker left for Marvel, another staffer dressed up as him. I incorporated a photo of this event into … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Secret Invasion: The Infiltration
By now, I imagine that you all know the drill here: this was another book that I got in a 3-Bag purchased from either a department store's toy section, or a toy store proper. SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN was very much a series without a mission statement in these early days (apart from selling more Spider-Man comic … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #11
