2014 Note: There was an entry for THOR #300 at this point, but the text of it has been lost to the mists of time. There are a handful of entries that are similarly missing.
BHOCOS: THOR #300
BHOCOS: UNCANNY X-MEN #137
X-Men #137 - September, 1980 More has probably been said and written about X-MEN #137 than virtually any other comic book of the period. And every word of it is true. More than any other single issue, this story made X-MEN the unrelenting sales juggernaut it continues to be to this day. It’s never been … Continue reading BHOCOS: UNCANNY X-MEN #137
BHOCOS: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE BRIDE OF HEMBECK #3
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE BRIDE OF HEMBECK #3June, 1980 I first became aware of the work of Fred Hembeck on the Daily Planet coming attractions pages in many DC comics in the late 70s, where Fred was doing a small one-tier gag strip. It was Glenn Hauman who introduced me to the collections of … Continue reading BHOCOS: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE BRIDE OF HEMBECK #3
BHOCOS: BATMAN #238
BATMAN #238January, 1972 BATMAN #238 exemplifies what made the DC 100-Page Super-Spectaculars truly the best buy in comics. It contained a pair of Batman classics from the 50s (one with art by the renowned Dick Sprang), the first Doom Patrol story, a Jack Cole-penned Plastic Man adventure, a short Sargon the Sorcerer story by Joe … Continue reading BHOCOS: BATMAN #238
BHOCOS: EC CLASSIC REPRINT #3
EC CLASSIC REPRINT #3 1973 I read my first EC Comic in the late 70s, after hearing good things about the line in places like THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK. I ended up mail-ordering a set of 8 reprints from SUPERHERO MERCHANDISE–the outfit that would eventually become HEROES WORLD, and who sent me copies of their catalog … Continue reading BHOCOS: EC CLASSIC REPRINT #3
BHOCOS: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1November, 1965 I first read about the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents in Maurice Horn’s WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMICS, and thought they sounded interesting. I was always on the look-out for new and esoteric comics in my childhood. So when I found this dilapidated copy of issue #1 at The Batcave on Long Island (which is … Continue reading BHOCOS: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. AGENTS #1
BHOCOS: BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS (Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman) We’re not talking about the second-rate latter-day attempts to bring Gatchaman to the States as either G-FORCE or EAGLE RIDERS here. Sure, BATTLE OF THE PLANETS was sloppily edited, with the background music skipping all over the place wherever something had been cut for standards. And sure, … Continue reading BHOCOS: BATTLE OF THE PLANETS
BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #200
FANTASTIC FOUR #200November, 1978 One of the supreme frustrations of collecting comics back in the 70s was the fact that you could never be sure that you’d be able to get every successive issue of a given title. I was a major, major Fantastic Four fan by the time #200 was to be released, and … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #200
BHOCOS: MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4
MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4 1977 On that same first comic shop trip to HEROES WORLD, I discovered and purchased the Fantastic Four volume of the George Olshevsky MARVEL COMICS INDEX. These handsome tomes reproduced the covers to every issue of a given series, and indexed their contents as well. I spend literally hours poring over … Continue reading BHOCOS: MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4
BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #51
FANTASTIC FOUR #51 June, 1966 In 1978, I went to my first comic book shop–ironically, a recently-opened HEROES WORLD in Levittown. (Similarly ironic, my father ended up being transferred to the bank branch in the same mall, which made access to the store–which was 45 minutes away from our home by car–a regular possibility.) I … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #51
