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My first encounter with Bruce Springsteen, “the Boss”, was in the pages of Marvel Comics’ TRANSFORMERS #14 (reprinted in the Marvel UK issues 53 and 54 in April 1986 - where I read it). He appeared, thinly disguised, as “Brick Springstern” (though, confusingly, he is also referred to as “Brick Springhorn”). The Marvel Universe version of his E Street Band were the “Tenth Avenue Band”. I was nine years old and had no time for pop music, New Jersey or headbands. In more recent years, I have become aware of an early 1980s issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA where Steve Rogers and heavy friends spin some vinyl sides and “rap” about the genius of “Bruce Springsteen”. But wait? How can both Bruce AND Brick co-exist? Two men with near-identical songs, near-identical bands, and, surely, the same fan-base?

No writer at the so-called “House Of Ideas” has ever explored the exciting possibilities of Brick Springstern, or questioned how he maintains a career in the slipstream of his better-known doppelgänger.

Indeed, I believe that no editorial regime at Marvel has sought to investigate this character at all. So it is with pride, and a sense of the hand of history upon my shoulder, that I deliver to you KIT + THE WOLF - to the best of my knowledge, the second Brick Springstern comic, ever.