The Brevoort History of Comics

On the following pages, I'll be quickly examining various comics and comics-related paraphernalia that were of particular significance in my life, as I moved towards becoming an actual paid comics professional--my personal History of Comics.

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FSC: MARVEL AGE #1 In 1982, I was still ordering my comics through the mail order service offered by Geppi's Comic World in Maryland....

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BC: SHAZAM #29 And on and on it went! I continued to steadily eat my way through the complete run of DC's SHAZAM, which had been lent to me by my grade school friend Donald Sims....

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BHOC: MEET THE DEALERS #13 That next weekend, my family had some reason to journey down to the South Shore Mall in search of some time or other that couldn't be so easily procured closer to home....

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BHOC: SUPERMAN #339 This was another comic book that my household had two copies of. For whatever reason, my younger brother Ken was apparently on a buying spree, picking up his own copies of books that I'd already purchased....

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FSC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #197 BRAVE AND THE BOLD had almost run its course at the point when this issue first came out....

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BC: DAREDEVIL #68 My pal David Steckel had gotten a bunch of his comic books from some older relative who was over them, passed down as such things often were in those days....

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BHOC: SUPER FRIENDS #23 Despite the fact that it was by all measure a solidly-crafted and consistently entertaining comic book, I avoided picking up issues of SUPER FRIENDS, the tie-in series to the long-running Saturday morning animated show....

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BHOC: GREEN LANTERN #120 This was another comic book that my younger brother Ken also picked up a copy of after I had bought one....

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FSC: OMEGA MEN #1 At the beginning of the 1980s, after a number of rough years, DC really began to get its act together and to modernize its approach to doing comic books....

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BC: SHAZAM #28 This next issue of SHAZAM, which I experienced while reading through the complete run of the series which I'd borrowed from my grade school friend Donald Sims, is noteworthy in that it reintroduced a character who in the coming years would explode in popularity and eventually even get his own self-titled movie: Black Adam!...

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BHOC: BRAVE AND THE BOLD #154 This issue of BRAVE AND THE BOLD was another comic book that my household wound up owning two copies of, meaning that at some point my younger brother Ken picked up his own copy....

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BHOC: ADVENTURE COMICS #465 The one real immediate benefit of finding my new Stationery Store source for new comic book purchases is that suddenly all of the thicker books that my 7-11 had quietly stopped carrying at some point in the past were now readily available to me....

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FSC: COMICO PRIMER #1 By 1980, I started to attend comic book conventions in New York City. My father would take myself and occasionally a comic book reading friend or two on the Long Island Railroad into New York City and give us a couple of hours inside one of the cons that were going on there....

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BC: DEFENDERS #33 THE DEFENDERS was always a bit of a weird series to me. On the outside, it looked like any other regular Marvel comic of the period....

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BHOC: ACTION COMICS #499 ACTION COMICS was pretty much the first title that I read with any regularity; it and THE FLASH....

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BHOC: UNCANNY X-MEN #125 UNCANNY X-MEN was on a roll at this point in time, and while this latest issue was something of a transition story, moving events in the direction of resolving some long-percolating plotlines, it was still ultra-enjoyable....

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FSC: ELFQUEST #1 ELFQUEST was one of the seminal self-publisher titles in the very early Direct Sales market place of the late 1970s and early 1980s....

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