On that same trip that I talked my grandparents into taking to the distant Sun-Vet Mall so that I could go to Ed's Coins and Stamps, one of the very few shops that I knew of in my area that sold back issue comic books, my younger brother Ken also bought a copy of this … Continue reading BHOC: SPACE MAN #10
Now this was a comic book that I had been eagerly anticipating for several months once I had realized that its reprinting was approaching in the sequence. By 1978, the demise of Gwen Stacy was established canon--even the original Clone storyline was finished by then--but the story of her death was still referenced and talked … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL TALES #98
Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT is rightly hailed as one of the masterpiece comic series of all time. Between 1940 and 1952, Eisner and his studio of assistants produced a weekly comic book as a newspaper insert, as a hedge for newspapers against the growing readership of comic books. While the lead character of the Spirit … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: THE SPIRIT #30
This was yet another back issue that I picked up during my first trip to the Batcave, the very first full-on comic book specialty store that I had ever been in. I was drawn to this issue for a single, specific reason: somewhere in my travels, I had learned that this issue reprinted the 1950s … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #20
I bought a lot of comics during 1978 from 3-Bags, those ubiquitous plastic bags hung on pegs or dropped onto shelves in department stores, toy stores and grocery stores during the 1970s and beyond. Every once in a while, a new batch of 3-Bags would show up (this would happen on a monthly basis, I … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #18
I picked up this new issue of INVADERS during the same weekly run to the local 7-11, so at this point, I was buying titles from both of the major companies indiscriminately. While I had made the leap to trying out and enjoying several Marvel books, this hadn't led to me leaving my DC titles … Continue reading BHOC: INVADERS #25
The Tom Brevoort Experience 