This was another book I got out of a 3-Bag purchased at either a department store or a toy store, most likely the former. And it was Jack Kirby's final issue both writing and illustrating the adventures of the character he'd helped to bring into the world three and a half decades earlier. If I'm … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #214
The 3-Bag package was a godsend to me, at least during the year or so when the books so packaged were from a point before I had started reading Marvel titles. It gave me an easy (if somewhat inconsistent) way of catching up on recent books that I had missed. There was a period in … Continue reading BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #173
This is another comic book that I got out of a 3-Bag, and almost certainly the reason why I bought it in the first place, given that I was obsessed with the Fantastic Four at that point. I have a dim recollection that it was bought in a local Two Guys department store that my … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL’S GREATEST COMICS #72
STRANGE TALES had been a long-running suspense/monster series that transitioned into becoming a super hero title as the Silver Age got under way. But it was a lesser Marvel title, especially at the early part of that transition, and so back issues were relatively plentiful and relatively affordable when compared with FANTASTIC FOUR or AMAZING … Continue reading WC: STRANGE TALES #111
A post from my ancient Marvel blog concerning comics I had edited a decade earlier. Today, that would be Twenty-Three Years Ago. Ten Years Ago August 8, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General I’m one of the relatively few editors in the industry who can do this sort of thing, so … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Ten Years Ago
Here's another issue of another title that I got in a 3-Bag distributed through either a department store or a toy store. At the time I would have purchased that bag, the books it contained would have been around 9 months old. Which was handy for catching up with recent issues of assorted Marvel series … Continue reading BHOC: PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #7
As anybody who knows me knows, my favorite Marvel comic book is FANTASTIC FOUR. It was my entranceway into the Marvel Universe in the first place, and it and its characters remained close to my heart. Once I became a full-fledged editor, I made it very clear to people that the next time there was … Continue reading Personal Best: FANTASTIC FOUR #60
A post from my Marvel blog of years ago detailing a pitch for an early 1980s DAREDEVIL Saturday Morning cartoon series. Like a Daredevil... August 11, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General History is littered with Marvel tie-in projects that never got done. As far back as 1974, Stan Lee was … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Like a Daredevil
This issue of THOR is another comic that I got out of a 3-Bag purchased either at a department store or a toy store, which is where 3-Bags could be located in 1978, at least in my area--they'd already faded out of Supermarkets a while earlier. While I had begun to read THOR not long … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #260
A post from my old Marvel blog on the anniversary of the day Marvel writer and Executive Editor Mark Gruenwald died. In the years since, Mike Wieringo also passed away on the same date, prompting a change to M-Day--and thereafter, so did the great Joe Kubert. G-Day August 11, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – G-Day
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