While Golden Age publishers in general were relatively averse to having the stars of their assorted strips meet and team up on any sort of regular basis, the folks at DC/National Comics were a little bit more open to the idea of an occasional appearance or reference. Especially when it came to the features and … Continue reading Lost Crossovers: FLASH COMICS #77
We've been looking at some of the ideas that surfaced for what to do as a follow-up to DC's ultra successful 50th Anniversary Crossover limited series CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, which were being discussed and debated well before CRISIS had itself run its course. In the end, a number of different ideas were explored and … Continue reading Crisis II – The Villain Crossover
SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN is a resolutely strange series, albeit one that was incredibly successful for two decades thanks to the lasting appeal of Superman and the performance of actor Jack Larson as the cub reporter on the syndicated ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN television program. Every young reader of the period knew exactly who Jimmy Olsen … Continue reading WC: SUPERMAN’S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #77
I've been doing a deep dive of late into the early days of Superman, researching everything that is known or can be established about the development, purchase and evolution of the Man of Steel across his first decade, when he became virtually immediately a Pop Culture Phenomenon that conquered all forms of mass media simultaneously. … Continue reading The Selling of Superman: Correspondence between Jack Liebowitz and Jerry Siegel
I believe that I picked up this issue of GREEN LANTERN while on a shopping trip one Satuday. That's a pretty good, eye-catching and dramatic cover by artist Mike Grell. Grell had been a semio-regular fixture on GREEN LANTERN ever since the title came back from limbo in 1976, and his Neal Adams-influenced artwork was … Continue reading BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #110
This was the latest issue of DETECTIVE COMICS that I wound up with in my 1988 Windfall Comics purchase, where I bought a box of close to 150 Silver Age comic books for $50.00. And it represents a bit of a quantum leap forward from the earliest one that was in that purchase, the strongest … Continue reading WC: DETECTIVE COMICS #349
Picked up this latest issue of SUPERMAN during my regular weekly Thursday run to the 7-11 for new comics. It was a book that I'd followed steadily for some time. And yet, this turned out to be the last issue of the book that I bought for a few months. I don't quite recall what … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #329
As we've been talking about these past couple of weeks, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, the long-gestating DC 50th Anniversary project designed to streamline and tidy up their universe and their continuity was such an immediate and huge hit that plans were made even before the series had run its course to produce a sequel, a … Continue reading Crisis II – Julie Schwartz’s Idea
I feel like I've described the Mort Weisinger-edited Superman family of titles from the early Silver Age so many times by this point that there isn't really any way of doing so again. So take it from me, as silly and ridiculous and even childish as these comics seem, they were by far the best-selling … Continue reading WC: ACTION COMICS #316
As DC's editorial hierarchy began to develop its ideas for a sequel to the monstrously popular CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, they ran into a number of false starts and blind alleys. One of those never-was attempts was called CRISIS ON CAPTIVE EARTH, and while some minor aspects of it eventually made their way into LEGENDS, … Continue reading Crisis on Captive Earth: DC editors and creators respond
The Tom Brevoort Experience 