This was the final issue of SUPERBOY that I got as a part of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, in which I bought a box of almost 150 Silver Age comics for $50.00, a huge bargain even at that time. By this point, editor Mort Weisinger's Superman titles were beginning to run out of … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #136
This issue of INFERIOR FIVE doesn't contain a literal crossover at all. It was a parody comic in the same sort of vein as Marvel's NOT BRAND ECHH, albeit with a series of continuing characters. But the depictions of the Marvel characters being parodied in this one are so thin that I think an argument … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: INFERIOR FIVE #10
I've always been just a little bit fascinated by this cover to ACTION COMICS #319. That's an awful lot of empty dead space to leave at the upper left side of the cover--an area that falls into the "Dynamic Live Area" that is most likely to be visible on racks whether the books are displayed … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #319
This next issue of GREEN LANTERN (Co-Starring GREEN ARROW) guest-starred the original Green Lantern of Earth-2, Alan Scott. I assume that this crossover had been planned before the DC Implosion that cost Scott his back-up series that had been running across the prior three months, but it was a nice way to fold the character … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #111
For those who know, the significance of this issue of SUPERBOY is readily apparent. For those who don't, you'll be finding out all about it by the time we get to the end of the coverage of this issue. By 1966 when this issue was first published, editor Mort Weisinger's approach to the Superman titles … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #131
This is another comic whose contents I barely remember, whose story didn't really make much of an impact on me, and that I likely bought simply because it was there and I had the forty cents to spare. I was still lukewarm on BRAVE AND THE BOLD in general--it still felt "off" to me as … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #145
By the late 1960s, DC's sales were in a bit of trouble. The approach that they had been using for decades had suddenly begun to falter, and nobody then in a position of authority seemed to know how to reverse that situation. Accordingly, new blood was needed--and that came in the form of Carmine Infantino … Continue reading Great Covers: METAL MEN #37
We're getting down to the end in my summations of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, which means that we're going to start to see the same titles show up again and again, issue after issue. These were the books which were a part of that purchase in some bulk, the ones whose demand on … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #317
A while ago, when I ran a piece on the first appearance of Captain Comet, certain fans were upset that I'd labeled it as the first Silver Age super hero. And I get what they're saying--the specific codifications of the different eras of comics are hardly universally agreed-upon, and pieces like that one do make … Continue reading The Last Captain Comet Story
Hey, it's a comic with Go-Go Checks! Go-Go Checks, for those who aren't familiar, are that checkerboard pattern at the top of the cover. These ran on all of the DC titles for about a year in the mid-1960s. The intention was to make it easier for prospective buyers to spot the quality DC books … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #128
The Tom Brevoort Experience 