BRAVE AND THE BOLD was still a series that I was lukewarm on, though I'd begun to follow it with a certain amount of regularity. Part of this was that at this point I had enough disposable income to drop on a couple of extra comics each week, as well as the fact (unrealized by … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #153
The last of the four Tempo DC paperbacks that I wound up buying was this one dedicated to WORLD'S FINEST and the team-ups between Superman and Batman. Again here, I can't quite explain this purchase apart from it probably being an acquisition of opportunity: some point at which the number of available options was limited … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD’S FINEST Tempo Paperback
Especially in the first half of the 1970s in which I grew up, comic books were a ubiquitous item. Almost every kid read them, at least a little bit, and they were on sale in every candy store and convenience store you were likely to encounter. This changed as the decade went on and those … Continue reading BC: BATMAN #263
At around this time, I wound up buying a number of Tempo paperback editions dedicated to assorted DC characters. These were DC's answer to the Marvel Pocket Books format, and they released six volumes through Grosset & Dunlap's Tempo imprint all at once. I wound up owning four of those six, starting with this BATMAN … Continue reading BHOC: BATMAN Tempo Paperback
I'm not 100% certain who I borrowed this issue of BATMAN from. it might have been my grade school friend Donald Sims as with most of the books that we've been looking at recently. But I suspect that it was actually my next-door-neighbor Johnny Rantinella. Johnny was a year younger than I was and a … Continue reading BC: BATMAN #257
We covered Marvel's propensity for replacing late-running stories in their meant-to-be-new magazines with emergency reprints in depth a while ago. Here's that piece again for those who may have missed it: https://tombrevoort.com/2021/01/09/a-guide-to-marvels-unannounced-1970s-reprint-issues/ For the most part, DC didn't suffer from this same problem. Their editorial staff was both larger and much more well-organized and regimented … Continue reading BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #229
This issue of DETECTIVE COMICS was another that I borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims to read. I wasn't a big Batman reader particularly, but something about this issue evidently made me want to take a closer look at it. I had no idea that it was significant, containing the first appearance of … Continue reading BC: DETECTIVE COMICS #411
The reason i borrowed this issue of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS from my grade school friend Donald Sims should be fairly obvious to anybody who has been reading this page for any length of time: I was enamored of DC's 100-Page Super-Spectacular format. I loved these big, fat books, a mixture of a new story or … Continue reading BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #224
I picked up another idiosyncratic issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD when it arrived at my local 7-11 spinner rack. By this point I was buying the series semi-regularly, even though I typically found its contents to be a bit weird and off-putting. There were no other writers in the field at that point like … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #152
There would typically be some specific reason why I asked to borrow a particular comic book from my grade school friend Donald Sims. Usually, it was because I'd gotten interested in a specific character and was invested in learning more about them. So it was with this 100-Page issue of DETECTIVE COMICS, which I borrowed … Continue reading BC: DETECTIVE COMICS #441
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