This is another comic that I'm pretty sure I got from my grade school friend Donald Sims in some long-forgotten trade. We would often swap comics, and I got a number of books from his collection that I really wanted that way. He was pretty much the only other person I knew during this time … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #253
A post from my dearly departed Marvel blog in which I talk about how some characters and projects attain great longevity. Immortality April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General So this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego has begun--and this year, as with the past couple of years, I'm not … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – Immortality
I hadn't really been wowed by the previous issues of DEFENDERS that I had sampled, so I don't know what made me pick this one up on my regular weekly trip to the 7-11, apart from it possibly being a small week for new comics and me thinking about how much better AVENGERS got once … Continue reading BHOC: DEFENDERS #60
Here's a weird little throwback adventure, one that some have theorized might have represented an earlier unpublished Sub-Mariner adventure being burned off, but that I think simply amounts to something of an inside joke. In this 1956 premiere issue of ADVENTURE INTO MYSTERY, there's a short 4-page story drawn by Tony Mortellaro about an undersea … Continue reading The Last Gasp of the Sub-Mariner
A post from my long-gone Marvel blog about the comic books that finally made me a Marvel fan. The Ones That Did It part one April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General We've had some intermittent service this past week or two as we did some work on the website. … Continue reading Blah Blah Blog – The Ones That Did It, Part 1
I'm pretty sure that I got this issue of LUKE CAGE, POWER MAN from my school buddy Donald Sims, who also collected comics, a fact that bound us together as friends until the switch to Junior High. It's probably worth giving a little bit of context as to my own experiences with African-American culture. As … Continue reading BHOC: LUKE CAGE, POWER MAN #38
This was the second of the two issues of MARVEL SPECTACULAR I picked up from my drugstore's Big Bin of Slightly Older Comics when I went looking for more Thor adventures, and it was the Thor story that I enjoyed the most up to this point--largely, I expect, because the antagonist wasn't some Asgardian god … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #19
Now that I had begun to buy THOR regularly, the next time I was in our local drugstore I took the opportunity to go digging around in their Big Bin of Slightly-Older Comics for any THOR releases. I didn't come up with any issues of the eponymous title, but I did find what turned out … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SPECTACULAR #18
Another book I got out of a 3-Bag during this time. I had only just started reading THOR and I was still on the fence about it. In part, this was because, during the 1970s, while it carried some of the trappings of a super hero title, THOR was being skewed to appeal to the … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #256
Just the same as the last three times: here's a collection of the covers to more international editions of Marvel material that I've gathered over the years. These are often fascinating for how they're colored or the manner in which the publishers used localized talent to do their own interpretations of the Marvel characters. So … Continue reading Great Covers: Marvel Around The World 4
