A post from my old Marvel blog reprinting an e-mail I sent to a creator working on a project that wound up never happening. Looking for the Easy Win November 24, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Trying to get everything done so I can get out of her for the … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Looking For The Easy Win
My brother Ken was a fan of monster movies. Whenever Channel 7's 4:30 movie would cycle around to monster week, he'd be there, glued to the set. For me, they didn't do much, but for him, they were of great interest. So it's no great surprise to me that he wound up buying this issue … Continue reading BHOC: GODZILLA #8
The sixth issue of the freelancer newsletter published by Steve Gerber, Steven Grant and Frank Miller in 1988.
Attempts to tap into the Marvel style weren't limited to only the 1960s. One of the most blatant attempts happened in the 1970s, and represented a tragedy of unfulfilled potential. In 1974, after he had sold Marvel and thereafter his son Chip had been pushed out of the company in favor of Stan Lee, Marvel … Continue reading Brand Echh – The Destructor #1
A post from my old, now-defunct Marvel blog concerning my 20th year on staff as an editor at Marvel. My 30th anniversary with Marvel is less than a week away now. Twenty Redux December 14, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General It turns out that I'm going to miss the twentieth … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Twenty Redux
I had fallen into becoming a regular reader of DAREDEVIL based on the two previous issues of the title and the stories reprinted in SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS, so when this new issue arrived at my local 7-11, I snatched it up unhesitatingly. At the time, DAREDEVIL was a title in transition, though … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #151
Saw this one over at the very fine blog http://marvelsilverage.blogspot.com/ and I thought it was worth showing to a wider audience. On the right is the cover to ASTONISHING #50, published by Timely/Atlas/Marvel in 1956. And on the left is its UK reprinting in Alan Class's CREEPY WORLDS--except there, they shot from the uncorrected original … Continue reading Your Comics Code at Work: ASTONISHING #50
A post from my old Marvel blog concerning why CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN expanded from 5 to 6 issues and why consequently other stories that took place after its conclusion were going to be coming out first. REBORN Skinny January 5, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General There still seems to be … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – REBORN Skinny
Finally, we come to the last comic that I bought on that fateful first trip to a comic book store--the Heroes World in Levittown. I had only just begun reading X-MEN, but this was both an issue #100 (which I already understood to be a milestone issue regardless of the title) and also had the … Continue reading BHOC: X-MEN #100
The fifth issue of Steven Grant, Steve Gerber and Frank Miller's freelancer newsletter from 1988
The Tom Brevoort Experience 