I remember that I passed up this issue of SUPERMAN FAMILY for weeks after it first came out, and for the most minor of reasons. I was a fan of the New Doom patrol, who were guest-starring in the Supergirl story across these three issues. But in this middle one, the chapter is only a … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #192
As my family would go shopping around town, I would occasionally get momentary access to spinner racks and other shelf spaces that I couldn't get to on a regular basis. And in most of those instances, these trips revealed comic books that I wanted to buy. Such was the case with this issue of SUPERBOY … Continue reading SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #246
SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES was one of those titles that consistently failed to hook me for the long term. It always felt like a series i should really enjoy, with an awesome variety of futuristic heroes. But I found most of the individual issues no better than okay. Every so often, something would … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #247
I had skipped buying SUPERMAN FAMILY #192 the previous month, for reasons that I'm not quite certain of apart from just a general dissatisfaction with the title. That was the problem with DC's Dollar Comics anthologies, they were wildly inconsistent. While any given issue probably had something in it that you thought was pretty great, … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #193
This was the final issue of SUPERBOY that I got as a part of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, in which I bought a box of almost 150 Silver Age comics for $50.00, a huge bargain even at that time. By this point, editor Mort Weisinger's Superman titles were beginning to run out of … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #136
For those who know, the significance of this issue of SUPERBOY is readily apparent. For those who don't, you'll be finding out all about it by the time we get to the end of the coverage of this issue. By 1966 when this issue was first published, editor Mort Weisinger's approach to the Superman titles … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #131
Hey, it's a comic with Go-Go Checks! Go-Go Checks, for those who aren't familiar, are that checkerboard pattern at the top of the cover. These ran on all of the DC titles for about a year in the mid-1960s. The intention was to make it easier for prospective buyers to spot the quality DC books … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #128
I have to confess, of all of editor Mort Weisinger's assorted Superman titles of the late 1950s and 1960s, SUPERBOY is the one that I warmed to the least. In general, I liked the daffy storybook construction of most of the line's output, but somehow the low-stakes small town conflicts of the Boy of Steel … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #124
Like the rest of editor Mort Weisinger's Superman line-up of titles in the 1960s, SUPERBOY was a top seller. Though not appreciated all that much by the fan community of the next two decades due to the fact that Weisinger aimed his material squarely ad a younger audience than most, these books had a range … Continue reading WC: SUPERBOY #119
Now this was a bit of a seminal issue in DC Comics history, though you really couldn't tell so by looking at this cover. But it represents one of the very few times that a super hero legitimately was killed off during the Silver Age of Comics. And even though that character would be revived … Continue reading WC: ADVENTURE COMICS #304
The Tom Brevoort Experience 