My grade school friend Donald Sims only had two comic books from Jack Kirby's by-then-gone Fourth World line of titles. This was the other one, MISTER MIRACLE #2. And like FOREVER PEOPLE #1 which I spoke about last time, this comic book seemed strange and alien to my young sensibilities. It was clearly a super … Continue reading BC: MISTER MIRACLE #2
The Sandman was introduced in NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMICS #1 and immediately became the featured player in ADVENTURE COMICS staring with #40. He was a character steeped in an old formula and clearly influenced by the radio hero the Green Hornet. Like the Hornet, his main weapon was a gas gun, and he battled … Continue reading The First Sandy Story and the Super-Heroification of the Sandman
I would occasionally venture over to my friend Don Sims' house across town, located several blocks behind my regular 7-11 haunt (which became a communal space for us on Thursdays) down on the access road that paralleled the Long Island Expressway. Don had a nice little collection of comic books, including a bunch that had … Continue reading BC: FOREVER PEOPLE #1
This extended THOR storyline, in which writer/editor Roy Thomas vainly but valiantly attempted to integrate the events of Jack Kirby's recent series THE ETERNALS into the mainstream Marvel Universe was tedious, and it went on forever. Twice during its run I dropped the title, but wound up coming back on weeks when the number of … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #285
I expect that I picked up this issue of INCREDIBLE HULK on my weekly bicycle trip down to my neighborhood 7-11 on Thursday afternoon, which is when the new comic books arrived back in those days. It was a series that I was following, more because it was a part of the larger Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC:INCREDIBLE HULK #236
Continuing at our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE, the Xerox-printed compilation of material that DC Comics wrote off in teh wake of the 1978 "DC Implosion" which saw 40% of their line cancelled and a number of staff members laid off. These stories were reproduced in this fashion so that DC could continue to hold … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: PREZ #5
Continuing on with our look at CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2, a xeroxed collection of material that had been spiked due to the DC Implosion and intended to secure copyright to these stories for the company. Only 35 copies of this hand-bound edition were initially made, though over the years others have generated their own copies … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #61
The most successful of all of Jack Kirby's assorted creations in the decade of the 1970s was undoubtedly KAMANDI, the story of the last human boy on Earth in a future time when animals have become intelligent and walk upright. It was a sort of quasi-spin on the popular Planet of the Apes franchise, but … Continue reading CANCELLED COMIC CAVALCADE #2: KAMANDI #60
These next couple of years' worth of THOR stories were truly a mixed bag, and as a reader, I had a difficult time remaining engaged--to the point where I dropped the title more than once, only to come back shortly thereafter on a week when I had spare cash and multiple issues were still available … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #284
It's been a while since we dropped one of these on you. So here are more photographs taken over the years depicting practitioners of the medium, both editorial and creators. As usual, there's a lot of Stan Lee. One of the earliest photographs that survives of Jakob Kurtzburg, who would come to be called Jack … Continue reading Comic Creators in the Wild 12
The Tom Brevoort Experience 