MARVEL SUPER-HEROES continued to feature reprints of Incredible Hulk stories from only a relatively few years earlier, but the character was popular enough that the title kept going even throughout this period when most of the other Marvel reprint series began to wind down. The weekly Incredible Hulk television show on CBS undoubtedly contributed to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #83
As I recounted yesterday, I purchased this issue of MARVEL'S GREATEST COMICS as well as the issue before and after it at Bush's Hobbies in Ronkonkoma on Memorial Day following a parade performance by my grade school band. I was indifferent to being in the parade but excited by the prospect of being able to … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #45
A couple noteworthy events happened at around this time. The first is that my Mom took me and my brother to see the movie ALIEN, which had just opened. She was a fan of science fiction and fantasy in film and on television, and so during this time she would regularly want to see any … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #44
We were in the twilight days of the Marvel reprint line, even though certain titles, mainly MARVEL TALES, would continue on indefinitely for another decade and a half. But the need to carve out rack space on mainstream Newsstands was diminishing as the number of mainstream outlets carrying comic books in 1979 continued to shrink, … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #82
The next issue of AMAZING SPIDER_MAN that came out introduced a character who would prove to possess remarkable staying power over the years, though it didn't really seem that way the first couple of years. This was the Black Cat, a sexy sneak thief who would go on to become a recurring love interest for … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #194
I picked up this issue of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE during my regular weekly comic-buying run to my neighborhood 7-11 on Thursday, another issue of a book that was mostly just there, and which I kept buying largely because of how much I loved the Fantastic Four. In just a couple of years, Moon Knight would become … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #52
I picked up the next issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES on my next weekly Thursday trip to my local 7-11. This was probably the heyday for this reprint series. While most of Marvel's other reprint titles had fallen by the wayside, MSH continued on without pause, buoyed by the popularity of the Hulk's weekly CBS television … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #80
In 1979, DAREDVIL was a series that had been limping along for years. Perhaps its only saving grace, the thing that kept it from being cancelled, was the fact that it was one of the original Marvel titles that had been launched at the start of the 1960s at the dawn of the Marvel Age. … Continue reading BHOC: DAREDEVIL #157
This was one of the better issues of STRANGE TALES that I got in my Windfall comics purchase of 1988. While typically the series felt like something of an afterthought, here editor Stan lee appears to be trying to bring a bit more attention to the Human Torch feature by having Johnny and the Thing … Continue reading WC: STRANGE TALES #128
I bought this issue of AVENGERS on one of my regular weekly Thursday trips to my neighborhood's local 7-11, whose spinner rack was my primary source of new comics at this time. Having wrapped up the Korvac Saga a few months earlier, AVENGERS was pretty clearly in a scheduling hole, and so editor Jim Shooter … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #179
The Tom Brevoort Experience 