I seem to remember picking up this issue of DC COMICS PRESENTS at some non-traditional outlet that my family had visited rather than one of my regular haunts for new comics. I was reading the book on a semi-regular basis, and even if I hadn't been, the appearance of the Doom Patrol in this issue … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS #52
The last book that I picked up on that bike visit to Ed's Coins & Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall was this issue of DC SPECIAL, a reprint title. And I would guess that the reason why I purchased this issue was that it was cheap. For all that i was flush with cash after … Continue reading BHOC: DC SPECIAL #14
Another benefit to my new comic-buying locale, the Stationery Store in the new supermarket mall, was that it also carried all of the limited series that started to appear at this time. Inspired by the television success of projects such as ROOTS, which aired for a limited span of time and was promoted as a … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD OF KRYPTON #3
One of the other benefits of my new Stationery Store comic book purchasing location was the fact that I could reliably get comics that I'd only been able to follow ad hoc up to that point. I'd been a mostly regular reader of SUPERMAN FAMILY for some time, but I'm not quite sure how, as … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #197
By the year 1982, there wasn't any writer's work that I was enjoying more consistently than that of Marv Wolfman. I'd liked him at Marvel, where he wrote FANTASTIC FOUR and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN as well as an assortment of other things such as NOVA (though I didn't follow TOMB OF DRACULA, his most respected work … Continue reading FSC: DC COMICS PRESENTS ANNUAL #1
When I was growing up in the early 1970s, you didn't have a whole lot of choice about who your friends were. You were pretty much limited to any other kids who happened to live on your street. In my case, that included a kid my age who lived down the block named Charles Grella. … Continue reading BC: SUPERMAN #274
This next issue of SUPERMAN was a bit of a minor milestone and it was heavily promoted in house ads throughout the DC line at the time. It was also the 40th Anniversary Issue of the title, and while it wasn't upsized to mark the occasion, that did provide cover for this story was being … Continue reading BHOC: SUPERMAN #338
ACTION COMICS continued on in the manner that it had been progressing, seldom my favorite comic that I bought in a given week but always reliable for some basic round-the-bases entertainment. But the fact that editor Julie Schwartz was continuing to target his stories at the same audience that he'd courted since he took over … Continue reading BHOC: ACTION COMICS #498
The last of the four Tempo DC paperbacks that I wound up buying was this one dedicated to WORLD'S FINEST and the team-ups between Superman and Batman. Again here, I can't quite explain this purchase apart from it probably being an acquisition of opportunity: some point at which the number of available options was limited … Continue reading BHOC: WORLD’S FINEST Tempo Paperback
We covered Marvel's propensity for replacing late-running stories in their meant-to-be-new magazines with emergency reprints in depth a while ago. Here's that piece again for those who may have missed it: https://tombrevoort.com/2021/01/09/a-guide-to-marvels-unannounced-1970s-reprint-issues/ For the most part, DC didn't suffer from this same problem. Their editorial staff was both larger and much more well-organized and regimented … Continue reading BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #229
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