Another folded-in-half subscription copy of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA showed up next in my mailbox. This one had a decent cover by Ernie Chua/Ernie Chan, though Wonder Woman has a strange torso, and a few of the background figures are a bit weird. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the continuing serial over in … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #128
The same Waldbaums a month later, and score again! The other issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA that I had missed, available to me in a 3-Bag. In this case, I still have one of the other books this came with, which will be the next book I cover. This issue has an interesting cover–I … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #120
I really must not have been buying many comics during this period, spending money instead on baseball cards and Wacky Packages and the like. Because, before you knew it, another folded-in-half subscription copy of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA turned up in my mailbox. And boy, look at the weak reproduction on this cover–Flash’s head is … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #127
There was a supermarket not that far from my home, a Waldbaums. It wasn’t the regular supermarket my mother shopped at, so we only went there when she needed something in particular that she couldn’t find elsewhere. The big appeal of the place for me is that they still carried those 3-Bags of comics, all … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #119
Another day, another subscription comic book in my mailbox, folded neatly down the middle and wrapped in coarse brown mailing paper. That’s how this issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA came across the transom, finishing up writer Gerry Conway’s first two-part story on the title he would wind up writing for so many years. The … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #126
I had just begun third grade when I bought this SUPER-FRIENDS treasury edition. And it represented a bit of a leap on my part. As much as I watched it every Saturday morning, I felt that Super-Friends was more kiddie than the regular comics I’d been reading, and thus somehow beneath my level as a … Continue reading BHOC: LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-41
It must have been an off-month or something, because the next thing I knew, another subscription issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA was waiting for me, folded in half, in my mailbox. This means that, apart from my sub copy of FLASH, I only got a single comic book in the month between JLA issues. … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #125
It came in the mail, folded in half as was the custom of the time: my subscription copy of the second half of 1975′s team-up between the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and their counterparts in the Justice Society of Earth-2. As I’ve mentioned while chronicling the preceding issue, this storyline was, to put it generously, … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #124
I was super-excited when my subscription copy of this issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA turned up in my mailbox, folded in half as was the custom of the time. That’s because it was the first part of the annual Justice League/Justice Society team-up. While I was familiar with the JSA, the only previous team-up … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #123
It was always an unexpected thrill when a new subscription copy would turn up in the mailbox. I can recall this issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA waiting for me after returning from school one day. This Mike Grell cover is in particular a strong piece, with some excellent coloring–it’s full of mood and portent. … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #122
The Tom Brevoort Experience 