This was the final issue of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY that I got in my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, and it was a story that I'd read before, when it was published years earlier in SPECIAL MARVEL EDITION. Nevertheless, i was still happy to get the original printing, which my circle of comic book readers … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #123
Here's a very nice cover to JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY that features Wally Wood inking Jack Kirby's cover pencils. Kirby and Wood didn't really get to work together much during the Marvel Age--Wood was way too valuable as a penciler in his own right, given that he was capable of plotting as well, a skill set … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #122
This issue of JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY featuring Thor was another one that I came by as part of my Windfall Comics purchase of 1988, wherein I paid a guy I had bumped into at the Post Office $50.00 for a long box filled with close to 150 Silver Age comic books. It was the best … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #121
It really is something to look at the development of the Marvel line during the formative years between 1961 and 1965. It's pretty amazing how all of the key strips would take these sudden surges in quality, that the material kept getting better, stronger and more polished, and the ambition got greater and greater as … Continue reading WC: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #120
Every year, the Smith Haven Mall near to where I lived held a week-long crafts fair. For seven days, assorted artists and craftspeople would set up little booths throughout the Mall and hock their wares. And every year, there wound up being two or three guys selling back issue comic books out of cardboard boxes. … Continue reading BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS’ ITEM CLASSICS #1
This is another comic that I'm pretty sure I got from my grade school friend Donald Sims in some long-forgotten trade. We would often swap comics, and I got a number of books from his collection that I really wanted that way. He was pretty much the only other person I knew during this time … Continue reading BHOC: THOR #253
The Tom Brevoort Experience 