And so we come to the end of the run of SHAZAM that I borrowed from my grade school buddy Donald Sims so many years ago. Or maybe we do. I'm honestly not certain after all of these years whether he had this final issue in his complete stack. If nothing else, I don't recall … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #35
Now this next issue of SHAZAM was something of a shock to the system, and one that was only slightly blunted by the fact that I'd seen this cover in contemporaneous house ads when it had come out. This was right towards the end of the complete run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #34
Ever since DC had acquired the rights to publish new adventures of the rival character they had once put out of business, they had been teasing readers with the prospect of a full-on mano-a-mano showdown between Superman and Captain Marvel to determine once and for all which one of them was the mightiest. There had … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #30
And on and on it went! I continued to steadily eat my way through the complete run of DC's SHAZAM, which had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I have to say, it's fun looking back at these issues and seeing how deftly (or not) the editors were in avoiding … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #29
This was another comic book that my household had two copies of. For whatever reason, my younger brother Ken was apparently on a buying spree, picking up his own copies of books that I'd already purchased. And again here, there isn't anything so noteworthy about this random issue of SUPERMAN to justify that choice apart … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #339
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
Despite the fact that it was by all measure a solidly-crafted and consistently entertaining comic book, I avoided picking up issues of SUPER FRIENDS, the tie-in series to the long-running Saturday morning animated show. And that was because it embarrassed me. I knew that Super friends the cartoon was aimed at a younger audience than … Continue reading BHOC: SUPER FRIENDS #23
This was another comic book that my younger brother Ken also picked up a copy of after I had bought one. To this day, i really don't quite understand why he would do that, but it was a pattern that repeated again and again. Sadly, what he got was a bit of a dud--Green Lantern … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #120
At the beginning of the 1980s, after a number of rough years, DC really began to get its act together and to modernize its approach to doing comic books. The primary instigator of this change was new publisher Jenette Kahn and the vehicle through which it became viable was the emerging Direct Sales marketplace of … Continue reading FSC: OMEGA MEN #1
This next issue of SHAZAM, which I experienced while reading through the complete run of the series which I'd borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims, is noteworthy in that it reintroduced a character who in the coming years would explode in popularity and eventually even get his own self-titled movie: Black Adam! And … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #28
