A trio of posts from my old Marvel blog in which I polled the readership for answers on how they might change certain things about Marvel and the competition. Fix My Marvel March 30, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I've been seeing a bit of a decline in the number … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Fix My Marvel
Here's another book that came to me out of a 3-Bag purchased at a toy store or a department store. It was the first issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA following the departure of the character's co-creator Jack Kirby as writer, artist and editor, and it gives every indication of having been something of a rush job. … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #215
When we left things off on this sequence revising the two-year marriage between Clark Kent and Lois Lane in the SUPERMAN newspaper strip between 1949 and 1952, and its eventual disillusionment, Lois had penned an article revealing to the world that her husband was really the Man of Steel. Making his way to the Daily … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: The Buried Newspaper Marriage of Superman and Lois Lane, Part 3
We've looked at a bunch of different titles from the short-lived Atlas Comics line of 1975 in the past (and no doubt will continue to in the future), so I'm just going to hit teh basics here one more time. After his son Chip Goodman was passed over for the position of publisher at Marvel … Continue reading Brand Echh: The Cougar #1
A pair of posts from my Marvel blog of more than a decade ago, talking about the titles I had edited ten years previous to that time. Yeah, it's confusing. Ten Years Ago This Month February 5, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Got time to pound out a quick blog … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Ten Years Ago This Month (Then)
A new crop of 3-Bags started turning up at the department stores and toy stores in my area, though they were beginning to become harder to find as more and more outlets used the space for something else that was presumably easier to keep in order and also brought in more revenue for the square … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #165
We've talked before recently about how, despite the success of the Justice Society of America in ALl-STAR COMICS, no other comic book companies really ever set forth with their own teams of costumed crime-busters. There were a couple of one-off team-up stories here and there, but that was about it. This is one of those. … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: PRIZE COMICS #24
The series was only nine issue old, and already somebody--presumably editor/scripter Stan Lee--felt it necessary to raise the stakes even further. This SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS cover promises something unbelievable--and without even reading the story, you can likely intuit the outcome. SGT FURY was a weird title. It was created in response to … Continue reading WC: SGT. FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS #9
A post from my old Marvel bog in which I answer a question submitted by a reader. Question, Answer February 10, 2009 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I’m a bit behind, but reader Matt DiCarlo sent me this e-mail last December:>Tom,I realize you're super busy, so I'll make this quick. If … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Question, Answer
Another Thursday, another opportunity to ride my bike down into the center of town to our 7-11 after school to pick up the new comics. The conveyance and the distance has changed, and even the day of the week, but the process remains the same even today. There isn't much overt to say about picking … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #486
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