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
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 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
What it's taking you all months to experience was merely a day or two to me. I had borrowed the compete run of SHAZAM from my grade school friend Donald Sims, who had gotten it handed down to him by some other older relative. and there was no way that an unread comic book in … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #27
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
In the fall of 1975, SHAZAM continued to limp along. The once-promising launch of one of the greatest and best-remembered comic book characters of the Golden Age had been reduced to being a quarterly reprint title, kept alive only due to the success of the similarly-named Saturday Morning live action television program. This was something … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #22
Another benefit to my new comic-buying locale, the Stationery Store in the new supermarket mall, was that it also carried all of the limited series that started to appear at this time. Inspired by the television success of projects such as ROOTS, which aired for a limited span of time and was promoted as a … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD OF KRYPTON #3
