Here's another comic that I got in trade with my 5th Grade friend and classmate Donald Sims. And on the surface, it seems as though this book should have been an easy home run: it features the Fantastic Four's greatest enemy in a lead role, and it was the Marvel equivalent to my beloved SECRET … Continue reading BHOC: SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP #10
The Golden Age craze for super heroes only truly lasted a couple of years, immediately following the debut of Superman and the entry of the United States into World War II. That said, it was a genre that was virtually unique to comic books, and so fortune-minded publishers would continue to toy with it for … Continue reading Brand Echh – Captain Flash #1
Joe Kubert was one of the most talented cover artists of his time. Typically, though, his skills would primarily be put to use on the war and western comics that he usually drew throughout the Silver and Bronze Ages of Comics--where he perfected almost infinite variations on the "heroes exclaim that they're out of danger … Continue reading Great Covers – FLASH #189
A post from my dearly departed Marvel blog, part of a sequence where I talked about the history of cover philosophy at Marvel. Covers pt 3 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing our sequence on the history of covers and cover theory (Marvel covers primarily, because I'm limited … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Covers, Part 3
This is another comic that I'm pretty sure I got from my grade school friend Donald Sims in some long-forgotten trade. We would often swap comics, and I got a number of books from his collection that I really wanted that way. He was pretty much the only other person I knew during this time … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #253
We've spoken before about how Wally Wood, the master illustrator and cartoonist, was wooed by new start-up company Tower to create a series for them. What Wood and his collaborators came up with was THUNDER Agents, a fun hybrid of spies and super heroes that is fondly remembered by those who read them, even though … Continue reading Brand Echh – T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #9
Here's a strip from the past that even I have little information on. In fact, I don't know where I got it from, where it might have seen print. Hopefully, some curious reader of this blog page will help us in that regard. But I saved copies of this amazing little two-page story when I … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: The Silencing of the SHAZAM Sayer
A post from my dearly departed Marvel blog in which I talk about how some characters and projects attain great longevity. Immortality April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego has begun--and this year, as with the past couple of years, I'm not … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Immortality
I hadn't really been wowed by the previous issues of DEFENDERS that I had sampled, so I don't know what made me pick this one up on my regular weekly trip to the 7-11, apart from it possibly being a small week for new comics and me thinking about how much better AVENGERS got once … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #60
Here's a weird little throwback adventure, one that some have theorized might have represented an earlier unpublished Sub-Mariner adventure being burned off, but that I think simply amounts to something of an inside joke. In this 1956 premiere issue of ADVENTURE INTO MYSTERY, there's a short 4-page story drawn by Tony Mortellaro about an undersea … Continue reading The Last Gasp of the Sub-Mariner
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