DeFalco then moved to Marvel, where he wrote two issues of Avengers and the final five issues of Machine Man plus a Machine Man issue of Marvel Team-Up, before launching Dazzler in March 1981.

1977) and a Cain story in House of Mystery #258 (May - June 1978). He scripted several Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane stories for the Superman Family title the final issue of Starfire (Oct.-Nov. DeFalco briefly wrote for DC Comics in the late 1970's. He later joined Marvel Comics, with whom he would spend the next twenty years of his career. During his tenure with Archie Comics, he 'initiated and developed the Archie Comics Digest Series, which is still being produced today and remains the company's most profitable publishing series.' Learning fast, DeFalco was soon writing for the flagship title Archiw as well as for other titles including Scooby-Doo and Josie and the Pussycats. While in college, DeFalco 'wrote for a few local newspapers, a weekly comic strip and did a few short stories', and after graduation 'got in touch with the various comic book companies', which led to him beginning his comics career as an editorial assistant with Archie Comics in mid-1972. Even the hard-hitting journalists at the Daily Bugle were stumped, some of them prone to wild, inflammatory conjecture.Tom DeFalco was born on Jin Queens, New York City. They had mysteriously vanished, leaving the regular citizens to speculate on their whereabouts. Indeed, many of the costumed, super-powered beings, of good and bad guy persuasions, were off-Earth.

The sartorial alteration Peter Parker made for his alter ego took place while he was away on business. There was a whole lot more to the makeover that debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #252, written by Tom DeFalco with art by Ron Frenz and Brett Breeding. But in 1984, Spider-Man had consistently stuck with a highly identifiable red, blue, and bewebbed outfit for over twenty years of comic book adventures with changes no more drastic than shedding his armpit webs or slicing a few holes in the side to accommodate extra appendages. That notion seems a little strange these days, given that the wall-crawler and all his fellow denizens of the mighty Marvel universe now cycle through new get-ups at roughly the rate of Cher on stage in Las Vegas during the peak of her quick-change razzle dazzle. It was such a big deal when Spider-Man changed his costume. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read.

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