A post from my old Marvel blog about how I would go about picking the creators to work on a given title. Monday, 5:24 permalink 2006-10-10 09:56:08 I'm asked fairly constantly how one goes about selecting a new creative team for a given series, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about that today.I … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Selecting A Creative Team
I've mentioned before that my father worked at Chase Manhattan Bank out of a branch in the same Levittown Mall location that housed a Heroes World store. And so, needing somebody to perform a massive data-sorting project, one day he made a deal with me: if I would go to work with him on a … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #91
This was a noteworthy issue of DETECTIVE COMICS, though not for especially good reasons. Because this was the final issue to be edited by Jack Schiff before the Batman titles were moved over into Julie Schwartz's editorial stable in an attempt to buoy their sinking sales. And one glance at this cover tells you precisely … Continue reading WC: DETECTIVE COMICS #326
Another post from my old Marvel blog about the making of Civil War. Civil War Mobilization April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Continuing our look back at the making of CIVIL WAR.A couple of weeks and a few drafts of issue #1 later, as well as revisions to the overview, and we … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Civil War Mobilization
This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was the first released under the auspices of the DC Explosion, which saw the line increating its cover price to 50 cents a copy from 35 while adding additional pages of material. Here, the Human Target, a feature that briefly ran in the back pages of ACTION COMICS … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #143
When we talk about the forces that came into play in the creation of the original Marvel super heroes, in particular the Fantastic Four and attempt to apportion credit (or blame) between the two men who worked on those early strips, one earlier feature that is inevitably invoked is Jack Kirby's series for DC, CHALLENGERS … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: When Challengers of the Unknown Presaged Fantastic Four
A post from my old Marvel blog in which I touch on a variety of then-current issues as the week comes to an end. Friday mop-up April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I didn't get to cover as many blog topics this week as I had planned on--largely because of yesterday's unexpected … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Friday mop-up
Now this was a good issue all around, one that catapulted the new X-MEN into the upper tiers of my favorite comics of the era. I'd been growing more enchanted by this strange new team for a couple of issues now, having had to work out who everybody was on the fly a little bit … Continue reading BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #113
It's maybe hard to believe when viewed from the vantage point of 60 years of additional history, but heading into the Silver Age of Comics, the Atom was at one point a successful and viable character--more viable than, say, Hawkman, whom he beat to having a series to call his own and in gaining membership … Continue reading WC: THE ATOM #16
Here's another post with me answering questions from the readership from my Marvel blog of long ago. Reader Questions 2 February 18, 2010 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General More questions from you: >Aside from the digital elephant in the room and the obvious "just tell good stories and they will come", … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Reader Questions 2
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