I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that my grade school friend Donald Sims had loaned to me. I had purchased and read issue #25 when it had first come out, and I'd read the story from this issue when it had been reprinted a short time after publication in … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #26
You never know what's going to turn up, even so many decades after the fact. Over at the Heritage Auction site, they have a variety of offerings on display for an upcoming auction dedicated to original comic book artwork. https://comics.ha.com/c/search/results.zx?dept=1938&mode=live&auction_name=7468 And among the many treasures that can be seen there are the unused pencils for … Continue reading SUPERMAN #43: The Lost Pencils of Joe Shuster
I continued to read through the stack of the complete run of SHAZAM that my grade school buddy Donald Sims had lent to me--it took a lot less time than these assorted issue reviews have been taking. The next issue was the final reprint issue in the run. As you'll recall, with its sales flagging … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #24
I seem to remember picking up this issue of DC COMICS PRESENTS at some non-traditional outlet that my family had visited rather than one of my regular haunts for new comics. I was reading the book on a semi-regular basis, and even if I hadn't been, the appearance of the Doom Patrol in this issue … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS #52
I was continuing to work my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims, and I was up to issue #23. As the cover indicates, by this point the character was the star of a popular Saturday morning live action series, which is … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #23
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
As I mentioned last week, on my trip to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall after graduating from 6th Grade, I bought not only the first part of the Doom patrol's crossover with CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, but also the concluding part in DOOM PATROL #102 as well. Ed's had a broad range … Continue reading BHOC: DOOM PATROL #102
Occasionally, a comic book story will appear that, while it's telling an engaging and emotionally-compelling tale, will have as its main focus some manner of experimentation with the very format of communicating comic book stories to the audience. These bits of formal experimentation were typically very memorable for the way in which the story was … Continue reading 5BC: Five Mainstream Stories That Played With The Format of Comics
This issue of LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES was the culmination of the Great Darkness Saga, a storyline that had been building in the tile over the preceding couple of months. It was the storyline that really put the Legion on the map in terms of becoming an enormously popular fan favorite series. Prior to this, the … Continue reading FSC: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #294
Every time that I'd gone to Ed's Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall, I had availed myself of their back issues of DOOM PATROL. They had an extensive run of issues, and I had started out by buying #100 and continuing forward chronologically. But the next issue of DOOM PATROL that I was to … Continue reading BHOC: CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #48
The Tom Brevoort Experience 