The Marvel Age of Comics

BHOC: AVENGERS #187 I picked up the newest issue of AVENGERS on my now-weekly Thursday trip to the Stationery Store....

FSC: X-MEN MARVEL ILLUSTRATED Paperback By 1982, Marvel had been making inroads into establishing itself as a children's book publisher as much as a periodical comic book publisher....

BHOC: FUN AND GAMES MAGAZINE #1 This shows you just how in the tank i was for Marvel at this point. The next time I visited the Stationery Store that had become my main outlet for buying new comics, this book was situated among the other stacks on the shelf....

BHOC: DOCTOR STRANGE #36 I was never really much of a DOCTOR STRANGE fan, and so outside of a few key runs, it wasn't a title that I read avidly....

FSC: THE X-MEN COMPANION IIFSC: THE X-MEN COMPANION II In my memory, the second volume of the two-book X-MEN COMPANION series that was released by Fantagraphics, the publishers of the Comics Journal, took forever to arrive.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/21/fsc-the-x-men-companion-ii/

BC: WHAT IF #1BC: WHAT IF #1 At the time when I started getting into Marvel Comics in the late 1970s, WHAT IF was considered something of a special book, at least among my small circle of comic-reading acquaintances.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/21/bc-what-if-1/

BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #237BHOC: CAPTAIN AMERICA #237 After a steady run, CAPTAIN AMERICA was about to enter the doldrums, a period of frequent fill-ins and creative instability.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/21/bhoc-captain-america-237/

BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #196BHOC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #196 As I revealed when we covered the previous issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, as a young reader I completely bought into the legitimacy of Aunt May's death in this storyline.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/20/bhoc-amazing-spider-man-196/

FSC: MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #4FSC: MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #4 When it was first launched, there was a veneer of respectability about the MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL line.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/14/fsc-marvel-graphic-novel-4/

BHOC: MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS #19 Here's another book that I picked up on my post-grade school graduation trip to Bush's Hobbies in Ronkonkoma.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/14/bhoc-marvel-collectors-item-classics-19/

BHOC: FANTASY MASTERPIECES #8 On that selfsame trip to Bush's Hobbies following my graduation from grade school, I indulged in my interest in golden age comics by picking up this issue of FANTASY MASTERPIECES, which reprinted the first battle between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, a story I had read about previously in Jim Steranko's HISTORY OF COMICS.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/13/bhoc-fantasy-masterpieces-8/

BHOC: FANTASY MASTERPIECES #8 On that selfsame trip to Bush's Hobbies following my graduation from grade school, I indulged in my interest in golden age comics by picking up this issue of FANTASY MASTERPIECES, which reprinted the first battle between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner, a story I had read about previously in Jim Steranko's HISTORY OF COMICS.... http://tombrevoort.com/2026/06/13/bhoc-fantasy-masterpieces-8/

BC: GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1