As we covered a bit last week, there were two separate issues of Larry Houston's fan-published super hero comic magazine THE ENFORCERS that I found on my first trip to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware. We covered the first last time: https://tombrevoort.com/2026/03/22/fsc-the-enforcers-2/ #3, obviously, was the second. I would spend the next fifteen-plus years vainly … Continue reading FSC: THE ENFORCERS #3
This book was one of the big unexpected finds I made during my first visit to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington, Delaware. I was constantly on the hunt for obscure bits of comic book history--there was nothing quite like the thrill of coming across some old super hero property that was a forgotten, hidden gem--and I … Continue reading FSC: THE ENFORCERS #2
Woweekazowie #4, produced by Phil Iro, was really a pretty good fanzine. It contained a balanced mix of text features and fan-created comic strips, with the emphasis more on the latter. A number of creators who would later work in and around the industry produced their own home-grown strips for Woweekazowie. It's another one of … Continue reading More Woweekazowie #4
In the early 1980s at the beginning of the end of their tenure as a publishing house, Charlton came up with a way to produce a book more cheaply. They outsourced the creation of the content to fans and would-be professionals and paid not a penny--publication itself would be the only compensation these creators would … Continue reading Brand Echh – Charlton Bullseye #4
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