You'd see this happen from time to time in the mid- to late-1960s on the Marvel books. There's be a cover like this one that somebody--either editor Stan Lee or publisher Martin Goodman--didn't like, feeling that it was too cluttered and difficult to read from a distance, and it would get colored in a horrific … Continue reading (Not So) Great Covers: THOR #153
My regular 7-11 still wasn't getting copies of THE FLASH, so I wound up keeping up with the title by running across them in other further-off locations, during family shopping trips and the like. And so, I came across this particular issue at a distant 7-11 that was across the street from the fast food … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #267
There's something extremely comforting about the Superman titles edited by Mort Weisinger at the start of the Silver Age of Comics. They were unfailingly consistent in terms of their execution and in the level at which they placed their stories. While there were occasionally physical challenges to be overcome, these Superman stories weren't about action-oriented … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #311
Continuing to shine a light on CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #1 and the reams of material left homeless and unfinished when Dc was forced to go through a sudden contraction that eliminated titles from the publishing schedule and editors from their jobs. It was a bad moment for the firm, and while some of this material … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #1: CLAW THE UNCONQUERED #13
As we've talked about before, MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE was a series adrift. Following the departure of writer/editor Marv Wolfman, the title limped along for close to a year, running assorted one-off and two-part stories that all had the feeling of being a fill-in about them. There wasn't any permanent creative team, and you never quite knew … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #45
The opening up of the Direct Sales marketplace, comprised of a string of independently-operated comic book specialty shops across the Nation and eventually the globe--offered up new promise in terms of the way in which comic books were sold. Up to this point, Comics were sold like any other periodical publication: a print run was … Continue reading Brand Echh: JCP Features the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1
Having had success with their FOCUS ON JOHN BYRNE volume dedicated to perhaps the most popular mainstream artist of the decade, Fantagraphics decided to follow up with a similar volume on one of the other hottest artists of the era, George Perez. At the time this volume saw print, George had garnered great acclaim for … Continue reading FOCUS ON GEORGE PEREZ
The few other comic book collectors and readers in my area tended to scoff at the Marvel reprint titles, because as they were not originals, they weren't going to accrue in value like the new books would. But as i had no real desire to ever sell my collection, that wasn't a big deal to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #76
Like the rest of editor Mort Weisinger's Superman line-up of titles in the 1960s, SUPERBOY was a top seller. Though not appreciated all that much by the fan community of the next two decades due to the fact that Weisinger aimed his material squarely ad a younger audience than most, these books had a range … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #119
Continuing on with our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #1, one of the rarest DC non-publications, which was simply a set of photocopies of issues and pages that were spiked during the massive line reduction and layoff that was nicknamed the "DC Implosion" . The idea behind the DC Explosion was that each title would … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #1: BLACK LIGHTNING #12: The Ray
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