This is going to become a common refrain as we move through the next couple of years or so: another blah issue of DEFENDERS came out and was bought by me. It truly is a testament to just how well the mythology that all of the books that were a part of the Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #72
This particular issue had been spotlighted on the monthly Bullpen Bulletins page, so I was more excited to snap it up than usual. And in the end, it was simply all right--an issue dedicated more to character-building than heroic adventure. This was one of the elements that made this period of UNCANNY X-MEN stand out … Continue reading BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #122
This was the first issue of POWER MAN AND IRON FIST that I bought new off of the stands. I had sampled a random issue or two of both POWER MAN and Iron Fist's appearances in MARVEL PREMIERE, but neither of them had especially hooked me. But the big added factor here was the guest-appearance … Continue reading BHOC: POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #57
MARVEL TALES continued to carry on, reprinting stories from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN that had originally been published only a relatively few years prior. But as I was still in the process of filling in the gaps in my Marvel knowledge, these reprints were invaluable to me, and I followed them as avidly as any new comic … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #104
I expect that I picked up this issue of INCREDIBLE HULK on my weekly bicycle trip down to my neighborhood 7-11 on Thursday afternoon, which is when the new comic books arrived back in those days. It was a series that I was following, more because it was a part of the larger Marvel Universe … Continue reading BHOC:INCREDIBLE HULK #236
GODZILLA was a book that was probably more my younger brother Ken's speed than mine. he was the one in the family who was a fan of monster movies and the like, whereas I couldn't be bothered with them. Still, I wound up as a regular reader of the title for its final five issues, … Continue reading BHOC: GODZILLA #23
It was my younger brother Ken rather than me who kept picking up copies of CONAN THE BARBARIAN. I couldn't have been less interested in sword and sorcery adventures back then, any more than I was interested in war or western or romance comics. But given that I was who i was and that Ken's … Continue reading BHOC: CONAN THE BARBARIAN #99
For all that the title was still clearly struggling to get itself out of the scheduling hole that it had been trapped in for the past year or so, AVENGERS remained a consistently enjoyable read. I think a strong part of that came down to the book's artists: George Perez, who had left the series … Continue reading BHOC: AVENGERS #184
These next couple of years' worth of THOR stories were truly a mixed bag, and as a reader, I had a difficult time remaining engaged--to the point where I dropped the title more than once, only to come back shortly thereafter on a week when I had spare cash and multiple issues were still available … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #284
The new issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA continued on with what would turn out to be a six-part storyline, which was something of a rarity for this period. While you'd get soap opera subplots that might run for months and even years, the A-stories in the Marvel books would typically be dispatched in a couple of … Continue reading BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #234
The Tom Brevoort Experience 