Tom Brevoort (@tombrevoort)

Encyclopedia Brown is a series of books featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown, nicknamed "Encyclopedia" for his intelligence and range of knowledge.

The 29 books in the series were written by Donald J. Sobol, with the first book published in 1963.

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More pages from NA #40…

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NA #40 interior pages…

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New Avengers 40 cover by Aleksi Briclot

Daily Avengers Read! New Avengers issue 40, flashbacking to show how the Skull invasion plot began and who the leader, Veranke, chose to take the place of, (not a)spoiler…it was Spider-Woman, by Brian Michael Bendis, Jim Cheung & John Dell III #Avengers

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That panel is actually from Fantastic Four #34, not Strange Tales #130.

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MA #12 double splash page…

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MA #12 interior pages…

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Mighty Avengers 12 cover by Marko Djurdjevic

Daily Avengers Read! Mighty Avengers issue 12, we find what Nick Fury has been up to since the end of his secret war, he discovers Contessa Valentina Allegra De Fontaine is a Skrull, kills her & makes plans & moves, by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev & Matt Hollingsworth #Avengers

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FSC: 2000 AD #124 This was the third issue of the British weekly 2000 AD that I picked up on my very first visit to Xanadu Comics in Wilmington after my family had relocated to Delaware. This cover image is interesting, in that it doesn't represent any of the material that's actually in the issue. It appears to have been just a spot illustration that artist Carlos Ezquerra did for one purpose or another that was repurposed as a cover for this issue. There's an attempt through copy to connect the depicted character, Kil-Gorr the intergalactic hitman, to the comic's alien editor Tharg, but once readers turned to the editorial page on the inside front cover, they became instantly aware just how tenuous that connection truly was.

2000 AD #124

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BC: SHAZAM #13 DC was facing the steadily-worsening decay of their circulation in the early 1970s, and one of the ways in which they attempted to combat this was in innovating alternate formats for comic books that would carry a higher cover price and therefore be more attractive to outlets to carry. It was these efforts that led to SHAZAM becoming for a while a regular 100-Page Super-Spectacular series, with new material bookending classic vintage reprints of Captain marvel's golden age exploits. This was a format that I adored as a kid, so I was primed and ready to move into the next batch of books in the stack of SHAZAM back issues that I had borrowed from by grade school friend Donald Sims.

SHAZAM #13

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BHOC: SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Tempo Paperback The third Tempo paperback that I wound up buying was dedicated to the adventures of Superboy and the futuristic Legion of Super-Heroes. I seem to think that I got this book at a short-lived convenience store that operated in the local supermarket mall for a short time called Shanes. I had never entirely clicked to the Legion of Super-Heroes as a concept, despite having read a number of their stories over the years. In part, I'm sure that's because when I began sampling, the series was being edited by Murray Boltinoff, whose sensibilities were different from Julie Schwartz's and my own.

SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Tempo paperback

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More pages from Avengers #39…

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Avengers #39 interior pages…

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Avengers 39 cover by David Mack

Daily Avengers Read! New Avengers issue 39, Maya seeks out Daredevil for a chat but finds Skrulls eager to take her out, after surviving them she hooks up with Hawkeye, by Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack & José Villarubia #Avengers #Echo

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Brand Echh: PSI-FORCE #1 Among the assorted titles launched as a part of the New Universe in 1986, PSI-FORCE was one of the more consistent and popular, though as with the other series in the group, it went through a bit of a creative shakeup due to having been started so far under the gun. It also suffered from the same sort of haphazard micromanagement that plagued the line at the time of its creation. At one point, editor Bob Budiansky revealed to me that he'd been forced to redo this first issue cover from scratch at least three times due to feedback from EIC Jim Shooter.

Brand Echh: PSI-FORCE #1

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BHOC: WONDER WOMAN Tempo Paperback All in all, I wound up buying four of the six paperback editions that Tempo Books put out featuring the DC super heroes--though I didn't purchase them all at once. Rather, I wound up picking them up at odd times and in odd places. Because they were paperbacks, they wound up being available in a lot of stories that didn't otherwise carry comic books, and so on a couple of different occasions I prevailed upon my parents to get one or another for me. I passed on the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA volume because I'd already read all of the stories that it contained, and for some reason the SUPERMAN volume never made its way into my hands.

WONDER WOMAN Tempo Paperback

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Great Covers: HOUSE OF SECRETS #88 Here’s another masterful Neal Adams cover from an issue of HOUSE OF SECRETS, one of DC’s mystery/supernatural anthology titles. It has to be said that, especially in the early part of t…

Five years ago, I spotlighted this great cover: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/07/g...

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Brand Echh: Justice Machine Annual #1 As the Direct Market first established itself as a viable venue in which to sell comic books directly to consumers with mitigated risk, there was a bit of a gold rush from new publishers, all attem…

Five years ago, I wrote about the debut of the Elementals: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/07/b...

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Blah Blah Blog – The Editorial Approach A post from my decade-back Marvel blog focusing on my methodology in editing a particular comic book story. The Editorial Approach April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General The month …

Five years ago, I reposted this piece about how I edit a script: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/07/b...

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BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #224 Here’s another new book that I picked up during my first trip to the Batcave comic book shop in the South Shore Mall, and it represents, I believe, the first issue of INCREDIBLE HULK that I b…

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Incredible Hulk: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/07/b...

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NA #38 interior pages…

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New Avengers 38 cover by Marko Djurdjevic

Daily Avengers Read! New Avengers issue 38, Cage is looking for his wife & child and finds out Jessica & Danielle are in Avengers Tower and he’s not happy about it, and due to Dr. Strange leaving the team Danny finds the a new HQ, by Brian Michael Bendis, Micheal Gaydos & José Villarubia #Avengers

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Forgotten Masterpiece: PARTICLE DREAMS #6 Matt Howarth was and remains one of the most splendidly individualistic and iconoclastic creators of comic book stories in the field. While he has in recent years turned his efforts to the worlds o…

Five years ago, I wrote about this great Keif Llama story: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/06/f...

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5BC: Five Characters Marvel “Adopted” Over the years, DC Comics (mostly while still operating under the name National) would occasionally buy out the rights to characters and titles from other publishers who had either gone out of busi…

Five years ago, I wrote about five characters Marvel appropriated from other publishers: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/06/5...

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Blah Blah Blog – Bucky’s Long Road Home A post from my old Marvel blog concerning the development of the storyline that introduced the Winter Soldier. Bucky’s Long Road Home April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General W…

Five years ago, I reposted this piece on the making of the Winter Soldier story: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/06/b...

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BHOC: AVENGERS #172 Here’s another new comic that I picked up during that first trip to The Batcave, the first true comic book specialty shop that I ever patronized. As I mentioned last week, while I was more in…

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Avengers: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/06/b...

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NA Annual #2, after the battle Jessica seeks safety at Avengers Tower with Tony’s team…

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NA Annual #2 interior pages…

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New Avengers Annual 2 cover by Jim Cheung, John Dell III and Justin Ponsor

Daily Avengers Read! New Avengers vol 1 Annual 2, after his recent defeat the Hood wants revenge on the Avengers so he gathers his forces and attacks the Sanctum Sanctorum, the team along with Tigra hold on until Dr. Strange unleashes dark forces for the win, by Bendis, Pagulayan & Huet #Avengers

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