When we left things off last week, we were talking about a pair of issues that I got in those plastic-wrapped bundles of coverless comics my local drug store had begun to sell. When this story was originally printed in the pages of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, the Comics Code Authority of the time wouldn't approve it, … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #79
A post from my long-ago Marvel blog, this one an example of a positive interaction with then-Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quesada. I don't remember what photo was posted with this story originally, so I substituted what I could. Why I Like Joe Q June 13, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Why I Like Joe Q
Now this is a comic that I did purchase deliberately, albeit without this cover and in one of those plastic wrapped bundles of assorted coverless comic books my local drug store had taken to selling. I bought both this issue of MARVEL TALES and the next at the same time, giving me two parts of … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #78
As usual, it's a collection of foreign printings of Marvel stories that have weird, interesting or simply bizarre covers on them. This cover to FANTASK is almost entirely the reason why I'm doing another installment of this feature. It's a great re-imagining of the cover to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1. I love those strange red 4s … Continue reading Great Covers: Marvel Around The World 8
Another book that came to me out of one of those plastic-sealed bundles of 5 or 10 coverless comic books being sold by my local drug store. I was reading INCREDIBLE HULK by this point, but it wasn't a particular favorite, so this reprint wouldn't have been what I picked up the bundle for. But … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #64
Here's another book with an unfamiliar cover, and one about which I remember very little. It was another issue that I got in one of those plastic-wrapped bundles of older coverless comic books being sold by my local drug store. And it was certainly not why I picked up the bundle in question, but rather … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #24
Here's another book that I took ownership of as a part of my Windfall Comics purchase in 1988. I had seen the cover to this issue of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY before in the pages of George Olshevsky's Marvel Comics Indexes, but I hadn't had the opportunity to read the story before this point. It's an … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #85
As i related yesterday, this was one of two consecutive issues of MARVEL PRESENTS that I got copies of, coverless, in those bundles of stripped comics being sold by my local drug store outlet. I seem to think that I got them both at the same time, which means that either the both of them … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL PRESENTS #10
Here are a pair of additional vintage interviews, one from Stan Lee and one from Roy Thomas, which first saw print in the long running magazine CARTOONIST PROFILES in its November 1969 issue. This is right at the end point of the Silver Age, at a time when Jack Kirby had relocated his family to … Continue reading Lee & Kirby: CARTOONIST PROFILES #4
This was perhaps the first truly excellent comic book that I put out, a single issue that accomplished its mandate exceptionally well and delivered on teh promise-of-the-premise in fine fashion. It's always going to be a little bit awkward talking about books I worked on in such glowing terms, so please understand that when I … Continue reading Personal Best: SPIDER-BOY #1
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