Another post from my long-vanished Marvel blog in which I answered some more questions from the readers. Monday Reader Mail April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General It's been a few weeks since I've done this, so let's pull a few questions from the response-threads, and lay down some answers:>Ditko … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Monday Reader Mail
This is another comic that I got from my friend Donald Sims, with whom I would often trade books. There's no way of tracking precisely when each book that I got in trade with him came into my possession, so I'm estimating as best I can. We were in each others' orbits for two school … Continue reading BHOC: CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #81
When I think abut the Christmas season, I'm often put in mind of this issue of DETECTIVE COMICS, the seminal issue #500. I bought it on Christmas eve, 1980, and I don't know that any of the gifts I received the following morning were a match for that reading experience. It's all tangled up in … Continue reading Perfect Game – DETECTIVE COMICS #500
A post from my ancient Marvel blog concerning artist Gene Colan coming into the offices for lunch. Lunch with Colan April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Secret plans were hatched around the Marvel offices yesterday to take me out for a special birthday lunch--but I snafued them completely and … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Lunch with Colan
This was another comic that I got from my school friend Donald Sims, set smack-dab in the midst of Jack Kirby's return to Marvel after a number of years away at DC where he innovated his Fourth World Saga, among other things. Kirby's comeback was well touted by Marvel, but his approach--an approach which had … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #204
One of the things I've been doing every evening during my current vacation break is revisiting older episodes of DOCTOR WHO. The entirety of the revived 2005 series is available on HBO MAX, which makes it entirely too easy to pull up an episode and sit through it again. I've mainly been confining my viewing … Continue reading Doctor Who: World Enough And Time
As the back issue marketplace for certain key old comic books began to truly heat up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and sums undreamed of were beginning to be demanded for and gotten for comics of a relatively recent vintage (comics that are in much greater supply than the Golden Age books that … Continue reading Lee & Ditko: The Non-Prototype of Uncle Ben and Aunt May
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the rediscovery of the opening credits to the 1966 MARVEL SUPER HEROES cartoon series. Since I wrote this, the English version of the opening has resurfaced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3g0tzgIezY The Marvel Super-Heroes Have Arrived! April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Got an interesting … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Marvel Super Heroes Have Arrived!
This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was another comic that I wound up with in trade with my classroom buddy, Donald Sims. Even by 1978, those first ten issues of SWAMP THING had gained a bit of a mythical stature among those in the know, so the character still had a bit of an … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #122
We've now arrived at the end of our second year of operation on this page, and so as I did last year, I want to get a handle on just what the most popular posts and features have been around these parts, so that they can influence future decision-making concerning what to write about. Also, … Continue reading End of the Year Stats – 2020
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