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
In the fall of 1975, SHAZAM continued to limp along. The once-promising launch of one of the greatest and best-remembered comic book characters of the Golden Age had been reduced to being a quarterly reprint title, kept alive only due to the success of the similarly-named Saturday Morning live action television program. This was something … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #22
And finally we arrive at the nadir of the SHAZAM run that I was experiencing all at once thanks to it having been loaned to me by my grade school buddy Donald Sims. Sales on the series had clearly been poor, and yet the character was starring in a successful Saturday morning live action series. … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #21
Continuing with my read-through of the complete run of SHAZAM which I'd borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims, who had inherited it from some older relative who had outgrown comic books. The next three issues were all ones that I already owned and which I've written about previously: https://tombrevoort.com/2016/06/18/another-delight-filled-100-page-spectacular-this/ https://tombrevoort.com/2016/07/23/i-have-a-vague-memory-of-getting-this-issue-of/ https://tombrevoort.com/2016/08/21/another-100-page-spectacular-and-a-sure-call-for/ It was … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #17
DC was facing the steadily-worsening decay of their circulation in the early 1970s, and one of the ways in which they attempted to combat this was in innovating alternate formats for comic books that would carry a higher cover price and therefore be more attractive to outlets to carry. It was these efforts that led … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #13
I continued to make my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that i had borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims one week. While it's taking us months to go over these books, I read them all in two, maybe three days when I first borrowed them. This next issue was a return … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #12
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
I mentioned meeting my buddy David Steckel in gifted class a couple weeks ago. David was, like myself, an avid comic book reader. But he only liked Marvel comic, and turned up his nose at anything from DC or other companies, which he felt were too childish and stupid. Accordingly, every once in a while … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL #15
One of the casualties of the haphazard manner in which I've grabbed and kept things over the years is that on a more-than-occasional basis, I'm not sure precisely where I culled it from originally. That's the case with this cool four-page 1940s vintage behind-the-scenes article on the making of Captain Marvel comics during the Golden … Continue reading How The Comics Are Made
As interest in comic books and super heroes began to grow in the 1960s, several fly-by-night companies attempted to get in on the action. One such organization was Super Comics, published by Israel Waldman. Waldman's M.O. was to try to make a buck as cheaply as possible, and so for his Super Comics output, he … Continue reading Brand Echh – Plastic Man #16
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