I was saddened to discover upon purchasing this latest issue of INVADERS that it was the final issue of the series. Which is a bit of a strange reaction given that my interest in the title had been waning for some months, pretty much coinciding with when artist Frank Robbins stepped down in favor of … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #40
It was almost the end of the road for INVADERS, though I didn't know that at the time. But looking back, it seems almost inevitable. The artwork had been progressively getting less and less polished, and editor and series creator Roy Thomas had been letting other people write his baby. I can't imagine that the … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #39
INVADERS was a series on a downward slope, and much closer to cancellation that I realized as a regular reader. I could tell that something was off about the book, but I was so invested in the Golden Age as a concept and in the formative versions of these characters, like the Justice Society of … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #38
Picked up this next issue of INVADERS when it put in an appearance at the 7-11 which was my regular Thursday destination spot for new comic books. The title was still a favorite even though it wasn't at its best any longer, a situation that would continue until its eventual demise in only a couple … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #37
Boy, it's hard to believe that the scantily-clad woman strung up on the center of this THOR cover will one day wield the hammer herself and become the title character. But such are the ways of time and comic books. And female imperilment was a leaned-upon trope in the 1970s when it came to selling … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #279
I was still a regular follower of THE INVADERS, Roy Thomas' super hero comic book set in World War II during the Golden Age of Comics. But the bloom was off the rose for me a little bit by this point. I don't know that I realized it at the time specifically, but the departure … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #34
Again, as with yesterday's book, I believe I picked up this issue of INVADERS on that same excursion to the Heroes World in Levittown with my grandparents. I wasn't really aware of it at the time, but the series had definitely reached its peak earlier, and now with the departure of artist Frank Robbins, it … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #31
It has to be said that it was around this period that INVADERS began to lose its zip. I still faithfully read the title every month, all the way to its finish a year or so later, but it was clear that the gloss was off of it. Artist Frank Robbins' work on the series … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #30
This issue of INVADERS was yet another new comic that I picked up early-for-me during my first trip to the Batcave, the comic book specialty shop located in the South Shore Mall in Bay Shore, some distance from my home. INVADERS was a regular purchase for me, one of the titles that had led me … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #29
I bought this issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA from my regular 7-11, though I'm not sure exactly why. I wasn't at this point a regular reader of the title (though I would become one with this issue) and the one issue that I'd sampled previously ad been a reprint of a 1960s Human Torch story. But … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #219
The Tom Brevoort Experience 