Now this was a comic book that I truly enjoyed. As always, I was very much excited to get the year's regular team-up between the Justice League and their antecedent counterparts, the Justice Society. It had become a regular yearly event. But the truth is, most of those stories had become disappointing. In particular, throughout … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #171
So after a bit of a bumpy road as a reader over the preceding year, where I wasn't able to consistently get copies of the issues, my new Stationery Store outlet made it possible for me to once more become a regular reader of THE FLASH. The character had been my absolute favorite as a … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #278
A combination of switching my shopping to the new Stationery Store and having a bit more coin in my pocket (it was during this time that I'd decided to forego school lunches, instead channeling the dollar-a-day I was given by my parents for sustenance into funds for buying more comic books) got me to finally … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN #316
And so we come to the end of the run of SHAZAM that I borrowed from my grade school buddy Donald Sims so many years ago. Or maybe we do. I'm honestly not certain after all of these years whether he had this final issue in his complete stack. If nothing else, I don't recall … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #35
This was another comic book that my younger brother Ken also picked up a copy of after I had bought one. To this day, i really don't quite understand why he would do that, but it was a pattern that repeated again and again. Sadly, what he got was a bit of a dud--Green Lantern … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #120
This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was another comic book that my household wound up owning two copies of, meaning that at some point my younger brother Ken picked up his own copy. Which is understandable in a way, as I would never let him read my comics for fear of them getting damaged. … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #154
ACTION COMICS was pretty much the first title that I read with any regularity; it and THE FLASH. And that was due to the fact that, as opposed to SUPERMAN or JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA or most of the DC line, ACTION was published monthly. That meant that there were new issues arriving more regularly … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #499
One of the benefits of my newly-opened and newly-discovered source for new comic books, the Stationery Store that had opened in the new strip mall close to my home, was being once again able to find comic book titles that had disappeared from the spinner rack at the 7-11. And so, for the first time … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #277
Only a block or two away from my home in Farmingville, a new strip mall was being constructed. A new road had been put in behind my house a year or so earlier, which turned into a major throughfare, so putting up a commerce area right where it crossed the main road through town up … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN #315
The cover to this issue of GREEN LANTERN bugs my eye in a way that it didn't when I first bought it back in 1979. Having spent time working with John Romita Sr., who was attuned to every discontinuity in spatial relationships on a cover and made me similarly sensitive to them, it bugs me … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #119
