FANTASTIC FOUR UNLIMITED #8 December, 1994 FANTASTIC FOUR UNLIMITED #8 represents the one and only time I had the opportunity to write a Fantastic Four story, and it remains a highlight of my career. I can’t be completely objective about how the final product turned out, but I was very pleased with the results. Artists … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR UNLIMITED #8
FUN BOYS SPRING SPECIAL April, 1991 Jeff Bonivert’s wonderfully nostalgic FUN BOYS one-shot had perhaps an unexpected effect on me. The tale tells of a trio of kids who make the weekly pilgrimage to Pop’s Comic Book Shop for their weekly fix, and who run afoul of the local bully on the way home. Said … Continue reading BHOCOS: FUN BOYS SPRING SPECIAL #1
FANTASTIC FOUR #1 November, 1961 I saw this book at a New York show in the early months of 1991. I’d already spent all of the cash I’d put aside for the weekend when I spied it on a dealer’s wall across the way. It had a post-it on it identifying it as a “beaten, … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #1
2014 Note: There was an entry for FANTASTIC FOUR #29 at this point, but the text of it has been lost to the mists of time. There are a handful of entries that are similarly missing.
WHAT IF #11October, 1978 This is probably the most blatantly self-indulgent story Marvel ever published. It also has the dubious honor of being the last Fantastic Four story Jack Kirby ever illustrated. I can’t imagine what Roy Thomas was thinking when he came up with this premise, nor how he inveigled Kirby into doing it. … Continue reading BHOCOS: WHAT IF #11
FANTASTIC FOUR #200November, 1978 One of the supreme frustrations of collecting comics back in the 70s was the fact that you could never be sure that you’d be able to get every successive issue of a given title. I was a major, major Fantastic Four fan by the time #200 was to be released, and … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #200
MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4 1977 On that same first comic shop trip to HEROES WORLD, I discovered and purchased the Fantastic Four volume of the George Olshevsky MARVEL COMICS INDEX. These handsome tomes reproduced the covers to every issue of a given series, and indexed their contents as well. I spend literally hours poring over … Continue reading BHOCOS: MARVEL COMICS INDEX #4
FANTASTIC FOUR #51 June, 1966 In 1978, I went to my first comic book shop–ironically, a recently-opened HEROES WORLD in Levittown. (Similarly ironic, my father ended up being transferred to the bank branch in the same mall, which made access to the store–which was 45 minutes away from our home by car–a regular possibility.) I … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR #51
FANTASTIC FOUR POCKET BOOKS 1977 I was still looking for a copy of ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS when this little paperback came out from Pocket Books, part of a new line which would reprint the earliest stories of the various Marvel properties that were now on television. It collected the first 6 issues of FF, … Continue reading BHOCOS: FANTASTIC FOUR POCKET BOOKS
POWER RECORDS FANTASTIC FOUR 1974 Having become a fan of the Fantastic Four, I was hot to read the first FF story–FANTASTIC FOUR #1. My quest to do so had already met one dead end, in that I couldn’t locate a copy of ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS anywhere. Instead, I turned to this item, the … Continue reading BHOCOS: POWER RECORDS FANTASTIC FOUR
The Tom Brevoort Experience 