Another delight-filled 100-Page Spectacular, this one revolving around the Marvel Family. I’m guessing that it was the package more than anything that made me pick this up, as I wasn’t a huge SHAZAM fan. Then again, like the earlier Treasury Edition, this book was filled with classic Captain Marvel reprints from the Golden Age, A.K.A. … Continue reading BHOC: SHAZAM #14
Not a whole lot of memories of this one at all. A 7-11 purchase I’d guess, and another 100-Page Spectacular, a format I liked. But really, very little of it has stayed with me, apart from the fact that I owned it. The lead story is a really beautifully drawn clash between Superman and one … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #278
So in that same 3-Bag with FLASH #225 was SHAZAM #9, one of the two books I was forced to give to my younger brother, and which he handily destroyed shortly thereafter. But I did get to read it even though it wasn’t mine, so let me share a few impressions. As opposed to the … Continue reading BHOC: SHAZAM #9
First saw this one in a DC House Ad, and the presence of the Flash meant that I had to have it. Another 7-11 purchase unless I miss my guess, and the second installment in the Wonder Woman’s twelve labors plotline. This particular issue of WONDER WOMAN was produced by Cary Bates and Irv Novick, … Continue reading BHOC: WONDER WOMAN #213
Now here’s a favorite comic of mine, and the one that was responsible both for making me realize that it was an actual job that real human beings had to make the comics that I was reading and me determining that this was what I wanted to do. From this point on, I began making … Continue reading BHOC: FLASH #228
My father brought this SHAZAM Treasury Edition home for me during a frequent cigarette run. I’d be wiling to bet that he thought it was a Flash book–red costume with a lightning bolt, how hard is it? Either way, I enjoyed my first encounter with the World’s Mightiest Mortal. It was a pretty huge deal … Continue reading BHOC: LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-27
I mentioned earlier that I would follow the Flash anywhere at this point, and this comic is a good example of that. The appearance of the Scarlet Speedster on the cover is the only reason I picked up this issue of WONDER WOMAN, and I was embarrassed to do it even so, in that way … Continue reading BHOC: WONDER WOMAN #212
I know that I owned this SUPERMAN 100-Page Super-Spectacular–my second book in this beloved format–but i remember relatively little about it beyond that. I’d imagine that this is because I didn’t have it for very long, for reasons that will become apparent in a few entries. I’ve always loved this format–the size and heft of … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #272
A little bit vague about exactly where this book came from, but I do remember my Mother reading it to me, or at least parts of it. This was the second part of a two-part story, but I’m not even sure that I realized that at the time, given how thoroughly the first chapter was … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #431
Bought this one at the 7-11 during another cigarette run. Picked it up because the Flash was on the cover (and I remembered seeing #107 four months earlier when I bought my first comic.) This was another book that I loved to death. I can remember taking it into Kindergarden class for Show-and-Tell one week, … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #109
The Tom Brevoort Experience 