Now this next issue of SHAZAM was something of a shock to the system, and one that was only slightly blunted by the fact that I'd seen this cover in contemporaneous house ads when it had come out. This was right towards the end of the complete run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #34
Ever since DC had acquired the rights to publish new adventures of the rival character they had once put out of business, they had been teasing readers with the prospect of a full-on mano-a-mano showdown between Superman and Captain Marvel to determine once and for all which one of them was the mightiest. There had … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #30
And on and on it went! I continued to steadily eat my way through the complete run of DC's SHAZAM, which had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims. I have to say, it's fun looking back at these issues and seeing how deftly (or not) the editors were in avoiding … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #29
This next issue of SHAZAM, which I experienced while reading through the complete run of the series which I'd borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims, is noteworthy in that it reintroduced a character who in the coming years would explode in popularity and eventually even get his own self-titled movie: Black Adam! And … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #28
What it's taking you all months to experience was merely a day or two to me. I had borrowed the compete run of SHAZAM from my grade school friend Donald Sims, who had gotten it handed down to him by some other older relative. and there was no way that an unread comic book in … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #27
I was still making my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that my grade school friend Donald Sims had loaned to me. I had purchased and read issue #25 when it had first come out, and I'd read the story from this issue when it had been reprinted a short time after publication in … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #26
I continued to read through the stack of the complete run of SHAZAM that my grade school buddy Donald Sims had lent to me--it took a lot less time than these assorted issue reviews have been taking. The next issue was the final reprint issue in the run. As you'll recall, with its sales flagging … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #24
I was continuing to work my way through the complete run of SHAZAM that had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims, and I was up to issue #23. As the cover indicates, by this point the character was the star of a popular Saturday morning live action series, which is … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #23
In the fall of 1975, SHAZAM continued to limp along. The once-promising launch of one of the greatest and best-remembered comic book characters of the Golden Age had been reduced to being a quarterly reprint title, kept alive only due to the success of the similarly-named Saturday Morning live action television program. This was something … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #22
And finally we arrive at the nadir of the SHAZAM run that I was experiencing all at once thanks to it having been loaned to me by my grade school buddy Donald Sims. Sales on the series had clearly been poor, and yet the character was starring in a successful Saturday morning live action series. … Continue reading BC: SHAZAM #21
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