Batman #48 (Aug. - Sept. 1948). Win Mortimer cover art. Exposing the 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave!

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from November 13, 1938.

Pareidolia is our brain's weird ability to recognize patterns, like faces. Caricaturist @celestiaward.bsky.social looks at how an alien uses it against us in Fantastic Four #4, by @ryannorth.ca & @ramosland.bsky.social. @tombrevoort.bsky.social @aiptcomics.com @delgaduck.bsky.social

‘Sinister’s Six’ #2 doubles down on character drama @davidmarquez.bsky.social @tombrevoort.bsky.social #MarvelComics #NCBD #XMen #comicsky Read @davidbrooke.bsky.social's review:

In today's #XMenMonday, @hackintimseeley.bsky.social discusses the #XMen: #AgeOfRevelation series 'Undeadpool', #Deadpool, #Cable, and more. Plus, an eXclusive look at 'Undeadpool' #2 and 'Inglorious X-Force' #2! @tombrevoort.bsky.social

BC: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #134 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN continued to be Marvel's most popular and consistently best-selling title throughout the 1970s, as the character began to have a larger footprint across popular culture. So it wasn't any surprise that my grade school buddy Donald Sims had a number of…

BHOC: DEFENDERS #73 I know that I say this every time we roll around to another issue, but it's positively baffling to me just how long I continued to buy DEFENDERS despite not really enjoying the title for years. I'm sure that some of this was simply having the available funds--I was never…

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

this is going to be good as hell! Alex and I have talked a lot about our special lad and Alex has got some great stuff planned for him!

Lee & Ditko & Orlando & Rockwell: Another New Discovery in the Multiple Car Crash of TALES TO ASTONISH #61 Here's some more new business building on old business that has just cropped up. It's been a number of years now since I first wrote about the catastrophic journey of getting the Giant-Man…

BHOC: EC CLASSIC REPRINTS #10 And finally we come to the last of the box of eight classic EC reprints issues by the short-lived East Coast Comix organization that I purchased from the Superhero Merchandise catalog. Reading through this lot was somewhat transformative for me, in that it expanded my…

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The Spirit from November 7, 1948. Art by Will Eisner, with letters by Abe Kanegson.

Five years ago, I wrote about this story from Avengers Chronicles: tombrevoort.com/2020/11/07/b...

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Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Thor: tombrevoort.com/2020/11/07/b...

"@jedmackay.bsky.social and @mahmudasrar.bsky.social craft a tight, visually stunning showdown that frames Cyclops as both strategist and moral compass in a world on the brink." #XMen #MarvelComics @tombrevoort.bsky.social #NCBD #comicbooks #comicsky Read @davidbrooke.bsky.social's review:

Probably the best AVENGERS run of the 90s. Kurt Busiek and George Perez were cooking with fire here! -Venkman007 #KurtBusiek #GeorgePerez #Avengers #90s #90scomics #comics #comicbooks #comicsky #Superheroes #Marvel #marvelcomics #AvengersAssemble

The first Superman Sunday newspaper strip was published on November 5, 1939.

Joe Mad goes Rogue... Variant for X-Men of the Apocalypse #4 by Joe Madureira #xmen #XSpoilers

Cyclops & Magik (Darkchild) engage in a high stakes duel in Age of Revelation Amazing X-men 2. A fantastic and creative verbal duel of truths that hurt. So things get said. I was not for AoR, but I have to say this is another good issue especially if you like Cyclops & his role with the X-men.

Gasoline Alley by Frank King from November 4, 1923.

In today's #XMenMonday, we discuss the #XMen: #AgeOfRevelation series 'Iron & Frost' with @cavan.bsky.social. Plus, an eXclusive look at 'Iron & Frost' #2 from @colemancomicart.bsky.social and new variant covers for #3! @tombrevoort.bsky.social

A buddy just pointed out there's a new book about Secret Wars (2015) being Kickstarted soon, so it feels like the right time to reshare the oral history I did about that comic featuring Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Tom Brevoort, and more.

BC: SHAZAM #4 I had continued to read through the accumulated run of SHAZAM that I had borrowed from my grade school pal Donald Sims across the course of a couple of days. The stories never quite captured the flavor of the character's original run, and there was an undercurrent that the creators…

BHOC: EC CLASSIC REPRINTS #9 If you were to ask me today about what constituted the best work that EC put out during its short but well-remembered time, I'd say without question the war titles edited and overseen by Harvey Kurtzman. They followed the EC tradition of tightly-plotted stories with…

Lost Crossovers: ADVENTURE COMICS #85 This is a little bit of a cheat, but only a little bit in my eyes, as the crossover element in this story is big and prevalent, even though it doesn't quite entirely qualify as a bona fide crossover in the way most others do. As we've spoken about in the past,…

BHOC: EC CLASSIC REPRINTS #8 When the title was launched by EC in the 1950s, SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES was intended to be something of a sampler series for the line's variety of offerings. So each issue would present an assortment of tales in the horror, science fiction and crime genres. But the stories…

Sluggo Saturday (“Nancy” strips from October 16-21, 1944):

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Five years ago, I wrote about the rough road in the making of the Giant-Man story in Tales to Astonish #61: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/31/l...

Five years ago, I wrote more about the relationship between the creation of Spider-Man and the Fly: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/31/l...

Five years ago, I wrote about this issue of Doctor Strange: tombrevoort.com/2020/10/31/b...

All the first issues are out for Age of Revelation now, and overall I’ve enjoyed them. Some are more compelling than others, but for a bunch of three issue bad future stories, I’m not mad about anything. #XSpoilers

The Expatriate X-Men break in to free a mutant using Rift’s Powers. #Xmen #Xspoilers

Having read all of October’s Age of Revelation I really love how it ties each book together making a Balkanized America sort of like a Westeros where by the last story (Cloak or Dagger) you have a real clear sense of where each of these stories are in relation to each other. #xspoilers

My brain is spinning on Omega Kids since I read it last week (probably because I was also listening to the Cerebro episode on Quentin Quire at the same time), and I find the idea of Quentin as a bumbling teacher really compelling. #XSpoilers

Coming soon to ArtValt: the making of Star Blazers issue #10 (1997), the beginning of our Be Forever Yamato adaptation. See it November 1 (and all previous issues RIGHT NOW) at timeldred.com! #anime #comics #scifi #starblazers #宇宙戦艦ヤマト

On this day in 1966 - in the fourth and final episode of the Doctor Who serial 'The Tenth Planet' - William Hartnell's First Doctor regenerated into Patrick Troughton's Second. Troughton's first full appearance would come the next week in the first episode of 'The Power of the Daleks.'

#xspoilers Full Age of Doug Roundtable on the way tomorrow from CXF, but wanted to say the surprise of the week was Cloak OR Dagger. Check that out if you have means and are deciding on X-Books this week. Expat X-Men is also good!

and x-vengers, listen, I am a simple man, I love Dani, I love Cannonball, you put them on a team I'm in! I even got some 'berto and they're close in proximity to doug too? gimme all that new mutants drama! get messy with it! I just want Dani to be leading more teams always #xspoilers

Undeadpool, very excited we're getting some cable with some technarchy warlocky arm stuff going on, lot of that going around this week! excited to see if Cable and Pool end up fighting or they swerve us and its another team up! wasn't quite sure which direction given the end of this #xspoilers

Expatriate X-men really down for this team, wasn't expecting them and kamala to have beef, can't wait to see how Piotr ties in I wonder if they run into the Amazing team since they're currently fighting Darkchild! also wonder if they'll end up finding Kitty if they go towards Revelation #xspoilers

#XVengers 1 #AgeOfRevelation #XSpoilers #ASpoilers That Dani Moonstar needs to lead her own series after this! Please

#Undeadpool 1 #AgeOfRevelation #XSpoilers Count me as one of the six Alpha Warriors fans

I've thought Cloak and Dagger were neat for a long time, but just haven't gone to dive into their stories, so I appreciate this excuse to check them out if nothing else. #XSpoilers