Christmas 1978 was a huge comic book windfall for me. Whereas in years past I had filled my wish list with an assortment of toys, starting here, I would instead begin asking for books on comics. ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS had eluded me for months, so much so that I eventually got to read the … Continue reading BHOC: ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS
Another issue of INCREDIBLE HULK that I bought by rote when it showed up on the spinner rack at my local 7-11 one Thursday. I was enjoying the title well enough, but it was never a huge favorite of mine. The concept felt so limited to me, and I had a hard time relating to … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #233
As I've mentioned before, I was never a huge fan of the Hulk during my initial foray into the Marvel Universe. And in fact, it was my younger brother Ken who started buying issues of his comic before I did--though I read those issues and eventually ended up with them, and kept carrying on buying … Continue reading GH: INCREDIBLE HULK #283
Now here was an issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES that I quite liked. The story was reprinted, of course, from an INCREDIBLE HULK that had gone on sale seven or so years earlier, back when Roy Thomas had taken over the series. And it was a good example of the simple pathos that worked best with … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER HEROES #79
This issue of INCREDIBLE HULK was the conclusion of the two-part Corporation saga that had begun in CAPTAIN AMERICA #230 a couple of weeks earlier. Though the roots of this saga had been developing for years, all the way back to a number of Jack Kirby's final stories for Marvel, in which he introduced the … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #232
It must be said, this is a really striking cover to this issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA. And it showed a sort of novelty of approach that just wouldn't have been done only a few years earlier, not showing potentially sales-driving guest-star the Hulk clearly in the image (though his presence in the story is cover … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #230
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, INCREDIBLE HULK went through a consistent pattern with me: it would start with some storyline that I was interested in, then segue into a bunch of issues that left me cold, to the point where I'd be on the verge of dropping it, then a story would come along … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #231
This particular week, I also picked up the latest issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES which reprinted stories published a number of years earlier in INCREDIBLE HULK. Since the Hulk now had his own television series, this reprint title began performing better as young viewers sought out the Green Goliath's adventures in print. Marvel tended to blurb … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #78
This next issue of INCREDIBLE HULK was eminently forgettable, and so I forgot about it almost entirely until we reprinted it in a MARVEL MASTERWORKS volume a year or so back. It was a fill-in job, a break in the ongoing storylines and continuity, and so it didn't have all that much to offer to … Continue reading BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #230
Another week brought more new comic books, including this issue of MARVEL SUPER-HEROES starring the Hulk. Or, as he was billed on the recurring cover blurbs during this period, "Marvel's TV Sensation!" I'd imagine that there were a lot of young readers who picked up their first issue of a Hulk comic book as a … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #77
The Tom Brevoort Experience 