Joe Brancatelli is a publication consultant, which means that he helps media companies start, fix and reposition newspapers, magazines and Web sites. He is also the former executive editor of Frequent Flyer magazine and has been a consultant to or columnist for more business-travel and leisure-travel publishing operations than he can remember. He began his career as a business reporter and created JoeSentMe.com in the dark days after 9/11 while stranded in a hotel room in San Francisco. He lives on the Hudson River in Cold Spring, New York.

SEPTEMBER 1: SHAZAM! THE BATTLE FOR CAPTAIN MARVEL
Considering all the volatile and unstable elements that went into reviving Captain Marvel after a 20-year hiatus and bringing C.C. Beck back to comics, it was a miracle things went so long before they exploded. The odds against National's stable of writers and editors, Beck and Captain Marvel prospering together were simply overwhelming.