This was around the point where I dropped off in my brief dalliance with SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES after following it again for a few issues. Somehow, the future time period and the stakes therein didn't speak to me, and the odd schizophrenic conflict between the futuristic environment and the more dated aspects … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #251
I was always a sucker for a cover like this one whose background was made up of earlier covers. DC took this approach with some regularity on anniversary issues. Now, one really does have to ask whether a #150 is worth this manner of celebration. At the time, this wasn't really a thing. However, since … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #150
The question came up again this week, prompting a bunch of discussion (often blaming one person in specific for perceived slights): why did the announced and eagerly-anticipated 1983 crossover book starring the Avengers and the Justice League of America never see print and remain uncompleted? There are a bunch of fan rumor and innuendo and … Continue reading Why Did The 1983 JLA/AVENGERS Crossover Not Happen?
Despite having followed the series for a few issues now, I still wasn't entirely a convert to SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES. For whatever reason, its stories of adventure in the far future with a veritable army of super-powered characters didn't grab me the way that other comics of the time did. In some … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #250
For almost the entirety of its run, I had been a regular reader of BATMAN FAMILY. But during the famous DC Implosion, in which DC's publishing line was significantly pruned back, BATMAN FAMILY had been merged with DETECTIVE COMICS in an effort to keep the series that the company had been named after alive. Clearly, … Continue reading BHOC: DETECTIVE COMICS #483
The first DC SAMPLER must have proven to be a success, because for the next couple of issues, DC did it again--producing a free comic book-sized magazine promoting all of their upcoming series. You can really see that the switch-over to what DC would become was in full swing by this point, and there's a … Continue reading DC SAMPLER #2
By 1983, DC was on a creative upswing. The arrival of new President and Publisher Jenette Kahn had coincided with efforts to expand DC's efforts into the growing Direct Market of comic book specialty shops that had sprung up across the country. At this time, DC's fortunes on the mainstream Newsstand weren't looking all that … Continue reading DC SAMPLER #1
As I've mentioned often in the past, growing up, I was never all that much of a fan of Batman. I didn't dislike the Masked Manhunter, it was more a question of liking a particular flavor of him. I first encountered the Caped Crusader in daily reruns of the 1966 live action television show, and … Continue reading GH: BATMAN #359
So last month I had backed into buying SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES, purchasing the most recent two issues, albeit in reverse order. In my head, I never made a specific decision that I was going to continue to follow the series, but when this next issue turned up at the 7-11, I … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #248
I had a weird love/hate relationship with BRAVE AND THE BOLD throughout almost the entirety of its existence. I bought the book more often than not, the matching up of the Caped Crusader with other stalwarts from across the DC Universe proving too enticing too often. Plus, there was the superlative artwork of B&B artistic … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #147
