BRAVE AND THE BOLD was still a series that I was lukewarm on, though I'd begun to follow it with a certain amount of regularity. Part of this was that at this point I had enough disposable income to drop on a couple of extra comics each week, as well as the fact (unrealized by … Continue reading BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #153
By 1940, the newsstands of the nation were filling up with stories of all-new superhuman champions. Superman had set off a flood of imitators, and costumed characters were clearly a bit of a gold mine. Not all of them were great, some of them were downright bizarre, and many wouldn't last the test of time. … Continue reading The Second Atom Story
Sheldon Mayer is one of the most important figures in the Golden Age of Comics, though he's one that relatively few people have heard about. An obsessive cartoonist, Mayer broke into the business at a young age, in the era in which comic books were just starting out. For a time, he worked at the … Continue reading Forgotten Masterpiece: Scribbly Returns!
The mailman showed up with my subscription copy of this month’s JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, featuring this cover by long-time interior artist Dick Dillin. I remain a fan of Dillin’s work, despite it’s occasional awkwardness–like Irv Novick on FLASH, Dillin defined the look of JUSTICE LEAGUE for me, drawing the series for 12 years solid … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #146
The next issue of my JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA subscription turned up in my mailbox, and confirmed that from this point forward, my subscription copies would be arriving flat, without having been folded in half. That was a welcome development, although it was offset somewhat by the fact that the books would occasionally still get … Continue reading BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #129
The Tom Brevoort Experience 