BRAVE AND THE BOLD had almost run its course at the point when this issue first came out. It was something of a holdover of a rapidly-diminishing era, one in which comic books were largely an impulse purchase by entertainment-hungry buyers. In those days, team-up titles typically did well, giving a reader two characters for … Continue reading FSC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #197
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
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
The Tom Brevoort Experience 