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Among comic book fans, the legend of EC Comics loomed large. Even among readers who’d never experienced the books firsthand, there was an awareness of how the company had set a high benchmark…

One of the reasons why I got along so well with my buddy David Steckel is that we tended to like a lot of the same Marvel comics. Like myself, he was a huge fan of the Fantastic Four, and that affe…

The various assorted issues of SHOGUN WARRIORS have all mostly blurred in my memory after so many years. It was a title that I liked, and which I bought regularly all throughout its 20 issue run. B…

When writers Ralph Macchio and Mark Gruenwald took over the reins of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, the series that featured stories of the Thing teaming up with a diverse assortment of other Marvel superstars…

More photographs from years and decades past showcasing the writers, artists and editors of our favorite comic books. Mark Gruenwald in M.C. Hammer costume for Halloween, early 1990s John and Virgi…

When I was a kid, Green Lantern was my second favorite super hero, right behind the Flash (just as he was right behind the Scarlet Speedster in those days, when his strip was a back-up in FLASH.) T…

Another post from my old Marvel blog talking about the “core four” titles of the Marvel Heroes line. Core Four Fan Perspective May 12, 2008 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General A li…

Another book that I picked up brand new was the next issue of SUPERMAN FAMILY. I followed this series right up until its demise, though I really couldn’t tell you quite why. I wasn’t es…

As Marvel began to become more of a force within the industry at the height of the super hero fad of the 1960s, the firm began to get some formidable press. This well-remembered article ran in Esqu…

The 1960s was a time of social change, as the fight for Civil Rights for black Americans was constantly in the headlines of the era. Marvel gets (and takes) big props for their progressiveness in i…

A post from my Marvel blog of time gone by, this one talking about the then-recent acquisition by the Library of Congress of the original art to AMAZING FANTASY #15. I did a deep dive on these page…

Having sampled and enjoyed a coverless issue of NOVA in one of the plastic-wrapped bundles of coverless comics that I bought from my regular drug store, I was ready to pick up the latest issue of t…

The switch-over from 100-PAGE SPECTACULARS to GIANTS didn’t have any effect on my purchasing habits–I would inevitably go for a large comic book over other offerings first, even if it was a title t…

This issue of BATMAN marked the end of an era, and the beginning of another, shorter one. It was the first DC GIANT issue that I purchased, the smaller replacement for the 100-PAGE SPECTACULARS tha…

Hello there! Padawan J here, the resident Star Wars expert from the ODPH! This week I'm going to be reviewing the 2nd issue of DNX from Marvel Comics!

Lots of action and a big turning point make 'DNX' #2 event-caliber stuff.

A deep character piece that reaffirms the Master of Magnetism's place with the X-Men and in the world.

Jubilee takes command as the dangers inside Apocalypse's mysterious tomb continue to test her at every turn.

In the early 1980s, after having spent a couple of years working outside of the field in animation, Jack Kirby was making a bit of a comeback. Pacific Comics, one of the new independent publishers …

As I’ve related before, my buddy David Steckel had inherited a bunch of assorted comic books from older cousins who had outgrown them, and so his haphazard collection reached all the way back…

MARVEL SUPER-HEROES continued in reprinting Incredible Hulk stories from a couple short years earlier, but which were old enough that they were still new to me. To be honest, I often enjoyed these …

The final series that got launched under the DEFIANT comics banner was PRUDENCE & CAUTION. Like the previous DOGS OF WAR, this title was also a direct spin-off of the company’s core WARRI…

I was very surprised to come across this second volume of Doctor Strange adventures in the Pocket Books line of paperback reprints in a local bookstore. These releases had seemed to have been tied …

This is a bit of a break from our usual fare here, more in keeping with the Blah Blah Blog segments that I repost from my old Marvel blog that were relevant to my work situation. But I typically re…

Here’s another comic from the Silver Age that I acquired in my Windfall Comic haul in 1988, paying a three-for-a-dollar price for them. The Flash had been my favorite super hero as a kid, and…

An entry from my old Marvel.com blog of a decade-plus past, this one speaking a bit more about the “Core Four” titles that make up the center of the Avengers/Marvel Heroes line. It look…

A new issue of MARVEL TALES had also appeared on my local spinner rack–new to me, of course, but old hat to readers of only a relatively few years previous who had already read the story cont…