A year or two ago, I was on a convention panel where I was able to tell former X-MEN editor Louise Simonson just how much she'd screwed all of those X-MEN editors who came after her with her performance in that role in 1982. An incredible number of high-quality releases came out of the X-Men … Continue reading FSC: MARVEL AND DC PRESENT THE UNCANNY X-MEN AND THE NEW TEEN TITANS #1
One of the other benefits of my new Stationery Store comic book purchasing location was the fact that I could reliably get comics that I'd only been able to follow ad hoc up to that point. I'd been a mostly regular reader of SUPERMAN FAMILY for some time, but I'm not quite sure how, as … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #197
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
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
That same week, I also picked up the latest issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, with this dramatic if a bit generic cover image. It was a relatively rare cover done by longtime series penciler Dick Dillin who, for whatever reason, was seldom approached to do the covers for the issues he was drawing. The … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #170
One of the benefits of my newly-opened and newly-discovered source for new comic books, the Stationery Store that had opened in the new strip mall close to my home, was being once again able to find comic book titles that had disappeared from the spinner rack at the 7-11. And so, for the first time … Continue reading BHOC: THE FLASH #277
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
By the year 1982, there wasn't any writer's work that I was enjoying more consistently than that of Marv Wolfman. I'd liked him at Marvel, where he wrote FANTASTIC FOUR and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as well as an assortment of other things such as NOVA (though I didn't follow TOMB OF DRACULA, his most respected work … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS ANNUAL #1
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I didn't need to read issue #19, as I'd bought that one when it first came out--and went through it here: https://tombrevoort.com/2016/11/05/i-feel-like-this-issue-of-shazam-was-probably/ So it was on to issue #20 for … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #20
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