I'd mentioned earlier that in my latest trip to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall, I had started going backwards in buying back issues of DOOM PATROL, a series that I really adored. The reason for this move is very simple: the next issue that I needed, #103, wasn't available. I don't know … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #104
This issue of DOOM PATROL was another that I purchased at Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall on a Saturday when my grandparents had taken me there. Ed had a big chunk of DOOM PATROL back issues, a group that I was fascinated by, and so I had started by buying #100 and … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #99
As I mentioned last week, on my trip to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall after graduating from 6th Grade, I bought not only the first part of the Doom patrol's crossover with CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, but also the concluding part in DOOM PATROL #102 as well. Ed's had a broad range … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #102
Every time that I'd gone to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall, I had availed myself of their back issues of DOOM PATROL. They had an extensive run of issues, and I had started out by buying #100 and continuing forward chronologically. But the next issue of DOOM PATROL that I was to … Continue reading BHOC: CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #48
SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANOS wasn't a war comic, not in the way that i understood that term. It wasn't at all attempting to get across the true horror and cost or warfare. Instead, it was a war movie, a big, grand, fun adventure where the enemy were clowns and caricatures and nobody really … Continue reading BHOC: SGT FURY AND HIS HOWLING COMMANDOS #153
When I was a kid, my grandparents would come to our house practically every Saturday. They lived just about an hour away and were close with my mother, so they'd make the drive and arrive, donuts in hand, for whatever the family wound up doing that weekend day. You could make our family dog at … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #101
For whatever reason, Ed's Coins and Stamps seemed to have a much greater variety of old DC titles than he did Marvels, and so much of what I bought from him on this first trip followed suit. This issue of DOOM PATROL was among them. I had never seen a copy of DOOM PATROL before … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #100
Crossovers among characters originating in different comic books have become by this point so commonplace as to not even be worthy of notice, and crossovers between characters from different publishing entities have similarly increased to the point where, while they've still got a bit of built-in excitement to them, they're still relatively commonplace. But the … Continue reading 5BC: Five Times Super Heroes Met Real People
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
The Marvel revolution of the early Silver Age took those toiling in the field entirely by surprise. That's entirely due to the fact that, prior to 1961, Martin Goodman's publishing enterprise, whether it was known as Timely or Atlas or Marvel had been producers of enormous amounts of shlock. Goodman's professed publishing strategy was to … Continue reading The First Spider-Man Parody
