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Published by Sterling in Captain Flash #1-4. She's secretly Janie Jackson, a seemingly-demure 10-year-old & daughter of a police lieutenant, who goes out and fights crime as Tomboy.

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I need to sit down and scan my whole 90s indie comics collection so decent scans of this stuff (not just dinky little low-res thumbnails) are available to everyone.

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It’s Cowboy Wally’s world - we’re all just living in it.

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X-Men Monday #315 – Jason Loo Talks ‘X-Vengers’ Plus, an eXclusive look at 'X-Vengers' #1, 2 and 3!

In today's edition of #XMenMonday, writer @jasonloo.bsky.social returns to discuss his upcoming #XMen: #AgeOfRevelation series 'X-Vengers'. Plus, eXclusive 'X-Vengers' art from @sergiodavila.bsky.social and Joshua Cassara! #Avengers @tombrevoort.bsky.social

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#3 - The Comic Shop Owner #47 - Comic Zines and Industry Periodicals #53 - Comic/Movie Tie-Ins #30 - The Distributors

#?? - The Comic Convention Dealer #18 - The "Erotic" Comic Book #?? - Autobiographical Comics #?? - The Industry

#21 - Comics Are Not For Kids Anymore (DC Ad Campaign) #13 - The Fan Favorite #4 - The Angry Young Sellout #6 - The Fanboy

Comic Industry Trading Cards!!

Collect Them All!

DORK #1, Aug 1992 by Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social

(split into three images for easier reading)

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Untold Tales of Spider-Man No. 6 has a clever and classic Wizard scheme that feels just Silver Age enough, but Kurt Busiek also taps the Spidey/Human Torch dynamic nicely. Throw in some soap opera as well as the fact that Pat Olliffe depicts a killer Johnny Storm.
#UntoldSpidey

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BC: SHAZAM #2 As I mentioned previously, my grade school friend Donald Sims possessed a complete 35 issue run of SHAZAM, the DC Comics revival of the original Captain Marvel of the Golden Age of Comics published in the 1970s. At one point, I convinced Don to let me borrow the run so that I could read it all, and that's what I did over the course of about a week or so. I'm going to continue to jump around in terms of other borrowed comics that I read in my early days as we go, but don't be surprised to see SHAZAM well-represented in this feature.

BC: SHAZAM #2

As I mentioned previously, my grade school friend Donald Sims possessed a complete 35 issue run of SHAZAM, the DC Comics revival of the original Captain Marvel of the Golden Age of Comics published in the 1970s. At one point, I convinced Don to let me borrow the run so that I could…

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BHOC: MARVEL TALES #105 I continued to make MARVEL TALES a regular purchase, it being one of the few remaining reprint titles at this point. My circle of comic book reading friends looked down our noses at reprint books, the understood belief was that they were "worthless" because they wouldn't accrue in value as back issues, something that we were all very invested in despite the fact that nobody among us especially thought about selling his comic books. But that monetary return was one of the ways we justified reading and collecting comic books to other kids and adults on a level that they could understand.

BHOC: MARVEL TALES #105

I continued to make MARVEL TALES a regular purchase, it being one of the few remaining reprint titles at this point. My circle of comic book reading friends looked down our noses at reprint books, the understood belief was that they were "worthless" because they wouldn't…

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Prince Valiant by Hal Foster
#comicstrip #princevaliant #arthuriana #middleages #comicstrips

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The story behind part one of the two-part classic story "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" which bid farewell and closed the door to the Earth-One Superman.

40 years later and I still get emotional thinking about the little moments in the story that made Superman the first and the best.

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I have not, no.

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Perfect Game – SUPERMAN #423 It cannot be overstated just how amazing an impact was made by writer Alan Moore on comic books. He came along at exactly the right time, just as the Direct Sales Market was making it possible to do comic book stories with greater sophistication for a somewhat older audience. It was a rare thing for a writer in comic books to become a super-star in this era--typically, it was the most popular artists who achieved that goal, though some of them did mostly write their own material--but Moore did it virtually from the moment he began working for DC Comics on SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING.

Perfect Game – SUPERMAN #423

It cannot be overstated just how amazing an impact was made by writer Alan Moore on comic books. He came along at exactly the right time, just as the Direct Sales Market was making it possible to do comic book stories with greater sophistication for a somewhat older…

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BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #237 This issue of INCREDIBLE HULK was another comic book that my household owned two copies of growing up. As had happened in the past, for some reason my younger brother Ken bought himself a copy of this issue at some point after I'd gotten mine. This may have simply been an opportunistic purchase on his part, as while he'd read the series in the past, he wasn't suddenly getting back into it. But it does mean that this cover sparks more memories than those of the issues surrounding it. Eventually, that second copy fell to me as well, as pretty much all of Ken's comics did over time.

BHOC: INCREDIBLE HULK #237

This issue of INCREDIBLE HULK was another comic book that my household owned two copies of growing up. As had happened in the past, for some reason my younger brother Ken bought himself a copy of this issue at some point after I'd gotten mine. This may have simply been…

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Sluggo Saturday (“Nancy” strips from September 18-23, 1944):

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The First Quicksilver Story Quicksilver was one of the many second banana super heroes who profligated throughout the Golden Age of Comics, filling up the back pages of assorted anthology titles and providing thrills but not …

Five years ago, I wrote about the first Quicksilver story: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/04/t...

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Blah Blah Blog – Covers, Part 6 A post from my old Marvel blog, part of a series discussing the history of covers at Marvel. Covers pt 6 April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General Part six of our analysis of the hist…

Five years ago, I reposted this piece about covers: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/04/b...

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BHOC: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #155 My subscription to JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA was still ticking along, though I wouldn’t renew it again after it too ran its course like my FLASH subscription. So the next comic that I got was…

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Justice League of America: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/04/b...

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That was the first Flair card done, and I’m not sure that figure came from anywhere specifically. But by the time I first saw this image, it was already in this state.

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Marvel Preview: World of Revelation #1 THE WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW IS GONE!

THE WORLD OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW IS GONE!
#XMen #MarvelComics @tombrevoort.bsky.social
Read the World of Revelation #1 preview here:

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Really cool piece of Marvel-gaming history up for auction at Heritage right now. Cool to see @tombrevoort.bsky.social's name attached, too. comics.ha.com/itm/video-ga...

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Brand Echh – Tod Holton, Super Green Beret #1 If there’s ever an award given for the most tone-deaf comic book of the 1960s, then TOD HOLTON, SUPER GREEN BERET stands a pretty good chance of winning. It was published in the opening days …

Five years ago, I wrote about Tod Holden, Super Green Beret #1: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/03/b...

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Blah Blah Blog – Mortality A post from my 13-year-old Marvel blog concerning some then-recent deaths within the industry. Mortality April 28, 2007 | 1:00 AM | By Tom_Brevoort | In General As has been reported almost everywhe…

Five years ago, I reposted this piece about the deaths of Stéphane Peru and Steve Gerber: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/03/b...

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BHOC: ACTION COMICS #483 This was the fourth chapter in Superman’s clash with the super-powered android Amazo, a conflict designed as the backdrop through which to introduce a new and marketable new piece of Kryptoni…

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Action Comics: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/03/b...

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BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #200 Among the other comic books that I borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims in order to read them was WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #200. I was interested in it mostly due to my understanding of how centennial issues were managed: they always contained a seminal story for the series involved, and so they were always terrific. I'll admit that I was underwhelmed by WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #200 on these grounds. It doesn't do much of anything to commemorate the occasion at all, and it's treated as just another in a string of disposable one-off stories, perfectly fine on its own but in no way legitimizing that #200 on the cover.

BC: WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #200

Among the other comic books that I borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims in order to read them was WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #200. I was interested in it mostly due to my understanding of how centennial issues were managed: they always contained a seminal…

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BHOC: GODZILLA #24 I wasn't used to Marvel titles wrapping up their runs cleanly. In my experience, when a Marvel book would come to an end--such as CHAMPIONS or NOVA--the series would be left in a cliffhanger state with outstanding business left to be wrapped up. That business would generally get tied off in some other Marvel book a bit down the line, a bit of housekeeping. So GODZILLA was the first such title that I experienced in which its last issue contained a definitive finale to the series. It's clear that the creative team knew that this would be the final issue in advance and plotted it that way.

BHOC: GODZILLA #24

I wasn't used to Marvel titles wrapping up their runs cleanly. In my experience, when a Marvel book would come to an end--such as CHAMPIONS or NOVA--the series would be left in a cliffhanger state with outstanding business left to be wrapped up. That business would generally get…

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The cover shows a rocket ship heading towards Earth, above the headline “Return from the Moon.” The Spirit’s face, partially in shadow, is in the background.

Will Eisner's The Spirit from September 28, 1952. Art by Wally Wood & letters by Ben Oda.

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In this six panel strip, Flash is demonstrating his special rocket ship to US military and government officials when he receives an SOS from an oil tanker that is under attack by an enemy warship. He successful destroys the warship and goes to help survivors of the tanker who escaped on lifeboats. But the last panel shows an attack squadron of planes that have just launched from an enemy aircraft carrier.

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from September 28, 1941.

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Prince Valiant by Hal Foster
#comicstrip #princevaliant #arthuriana #middleages #comicstrips

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