The last book that I picked up on that bike visit to Ed's Coins & Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall was this issue of DC SPECIAL, a reprint title. And I would guess that the reason why I purchased this issue was that it was cheap. For all that i was flush with cash after … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL #14
One of the benefits that came with my new Stationery Store outlet that stocked a wider variety of comic books than the town 7-11 did was exposure to a broad range of material. The 7-11 had stopped carrying any oversized comics (which is how I had missed FANTASTIC FOUR #200 some months earlier) including all … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL SERIES #17
I'm not certain after all these years where I might have read about it, but by 1982 I was more plugged into comic book fandom than I had been and was reading the occasional fanzine and promotional magazine. It might even have ben spotlighted in Dick Giordano's editorial Meanwhile column. Wherever I saw the notice, … Continue reading FSC: BATMAN ANNUAL #8
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
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
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