Tom Brevoort (@tombrevoort)

Comic Book Movies We’re about to go into what is perhaps the busiest super hero movie summer of all time, certainly to a degree that I could never have imagined or hoped for when I was a kid. And that, naturally eno…

Ten years ago, I wrote about great movies based on comic books: tombrevoort.com/2016/03/13/w...

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Great Covers – TEEN TITANS #17 A funky TEEN TITANS cover by Nick Cardy that evidences the influence of psychedelic posters and prints of the era on comic book cover imagery. The Teen Titans logo is re-lettered for this issue so …

Ten years ago, I spotlighted this great cover: tombrevoort.com/2016/03/13/a...

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Great Covers – MASTER OF KUNG FU #86 A very simple Mike Zeck cover for MASTER OF KUNG FU, relying on the character’s intensity of expression to ensnare prospective readers.

Ten years ago, I spotlighted this great cover: tombrevoort.com/2016/03/13/a...

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Great Covers – FANTASTIC FOUR #48 A pretty brilliant Jack Kirby cover to FANTASTIC FOUR. Rather than simply showing Galactus on this first appearance cover, Kirby instead chooses to focus on the reactions of the public, the FF, and…

Ten years ago, I spotlighted this great cover: tombrevoort.com/2016/03/13/a...

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Great Covers – BATMAN #200 A fun Neal Adams BATMAN cover for the book’s 200th issue, highlighting previous milestones from its history (and even using the logo from one of them as the title logo to this issue.)

Ten years ago, I spotlighted this great cover: tombrevoort.com/2016/03/13/a...

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Secrets Behind the Comics 1 In 1947, still more than a decade before the Marvel revolution that would forever change the comic book industry and make his name a household word, Stan Lee toiled in obscurity at the editor of Ma…

Five years ago, I wrote about Stan Lee’s Secrets Behind the Comics: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/13/s...

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Brand Echh – Magic Agent #1 The American Comics Group was a regular fixture on comic book racks from the 1940s all the way through to the end of the 1960s. The firm specialized in short one-off supernatural mystery anthologie…

Five years ago, I wrote about John Force, Magic Agent #1: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/13/b...

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Blah Blah Blog – Normal Service Resumes A post from my vintage Marvel blog talking about the scant notoriety of the editor. Since dashing off this piece years ago, I can point to at least two more editors who would qualify: Karen Berger …

Five years ago, I reposted this piece about the scant notoriety of editors: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/13/b...

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BHOC: INVADERS #29 This issue of INVADERS was yet another new comic that I picked up early-for-me during my first trip to the Batcave, the comic book specialty shop located in the South Shore Mall in Bay Shore, some …

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Invaders: tombrevoort.com/2021/03/13/b...

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‘Magik and Colossus’ #2 review: family matters One of, if not the best X-Men spinoff currently being published

"Magik and Colossus #2 continues to balance the great action and even better character work for the two leads, making them feel more relatable than ever before."
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‘X-Men United’ #1 sets up an intriguing new direction Emma Frost builds a school inside the mind, but Cyclops believes it may be the most dangerous idea mutants have tried yet.

"X-Men: United #1 lays the foundation for a new direction that blends classic #XMen themes with a bold new setting..."
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‘Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant’ #2 prepares for war One step closer to an inevitable confrontation between Storm and Akujin.

"This is another masterfully crafted issue in a run that X-Men fans, Storm fans, and comic book fans in general should not miss out on..."
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GH: GREEN LANTERN #162 Green Lantern had been my second-favorite super hero going back to my youth, when I found him occupying the back pages of THE FLASH. Once he got his own series again, I followed it regularly right …

The wonderful @tombrevoort.bsky.social did a blog post highlighting this issue

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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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