The Tom Brevoort Experience

Now this was a book that we fans had been waiting for ever since the Rocketeer had first debuted in the back pages of STARSLAYER #2 and #3 a short while previously.

The strip had caused a huge stir in fandom, largel...

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 the only thing that kept the title from immediate cancellation. But it was performing so poo...

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 my grade school graduation, I wasn’t looking to blow it all at once. So finding a book like this one that...

Valiant’s next series was one of its more unique and distinctive. It was barely a super hero series at all, though its events took place in the same continuum as the other Valiant super hero titles. This was ARCHER & ARMSTRONG, and it debuted with a #0 issue for some reason. The story in this issue provides the origin of the partnership between the two titular leads a...

As I mentioned last week, on my trip to Ed’s Coins and Stamps in the Sun-Vet Mall after graduating from 6th Grade, I bought not only the first part of the Doom patrol’s crossover with CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, but also the concluding part in DOOM PATROL #102 as well. Ed’s had a broad range of DOOM PATROL back issues, no doubt a reflection of the fact that in 1979, not m...