THE MAD WORLD OF MARVELDOM was a short fanzine released in October 1967 by Greg Kishel and Fran Shusterich. It isn't especially noteworthy apart from that. But it does give us a sense as to what the fans of Marvel were talking and thinking about during the firm's heyday of the Silver Age.
Continuing our look at the obscure 1966 strip Blooperman, which incorporated a number of parody ideas from comics fandom, many of which had been originated by Marvel writer/editor Roy Thomas years earlier. Once again here, the character's designed Jon D'Agostino draws the small vignette of Blooperman on this cover for GO-GO #5. Writer Gary Friedrich … Continue reading Brand Echh: The Fannish Adventures of Blooperman, Part Three
The concluding installment of our look at the fan comic book put together by future comics creators Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud when they were high school students. It was produced between 1976 and 1978 and was never published professionally. Kurt and Scott have been working on this story for close to two years now, … Continue reading The Battle of Lexington, Part Four
Continuing our look at The Battle of Lexington, a fan comic book put together by future well-known creators Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud back in their fan days. It was produced between 1976 and 1978 according to sources. Hey! A Gil Kane punch! There's more Battle of Lexington still to come!
PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN was in the middle of a very good run of stories mainly revolving around the true identity of a mysterious new foe for the wall-crawler, the creepy Carrion. It was clear based upon the assorted clues dropped into the narrative that Carrion was somebody who knew an awful lot about … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #29
Continuing our look at THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, a fan comic book produced by writer Kurt Busiek and artist Scott McCloud while they were in high school together. Sorry, for some reason Page 17 is missing in the copy I got this all from. Cameos from what I assume were Kurt and Scott's circle of … Continue reading The Battle of Lexington, Part Two
I had sort of backed into buying SGT FURY regularly after my younger brother Ken had started doing it and then lost interest. I'd never really ben interested in war comics, but the fact that present day Nick Fury was such a presence throughout the Marvel line convinced me that it was "important" to read … Continue reading BHOC: SGT FURY #151
So at around this point, I finally got my hands on a copy of the first volume of the MARVEL POCKET BOOKS paperback collections of early AMAZING SPIDER-MAN stories. Some months earlier, I had bought a copy of Volume 2 and loved it, but the first volume was by that point simply no place to … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN POCKET BOOKS Volume 1
THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON was a fan comic book produced by Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud while in High School. Never published anywhere, it featured an enormous battle between different Marvel super heroes that they liked set in and around the area of their hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts. As McCloud describes it on his website: … Continue reading The Battle of Lexington, Part One
Now I know that I picked this issue of MARVEL PREMIERE up in a candy store in a distant strip mall that my parents had gone to for some shopping reason. My regular 7-11 didn't seem to carry issues of MARVEL PREMIERE--they had quietly stopped getting all sorts of books, including double-sized issues such as … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL PREMIERE #47
The Tom Brevoort Experience 