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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 19:00:42 GMT -5
It looks like the last work he's had published was for Humanoids' Screaming Planet, a series I just wrapped up about a month ago. The works were published in 2016. Speaking of Screaming Planet, I just found and picked up a copy of the HC at Half Priced Books this afternoon. Lots of talent on that project. -M
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 24, 2019 22:46:04 GMT -5
From Superman 139 written by Otto Binder. Superman's hair and fingernails have grown due to the effects of Red Kryptonite. Earlier in the tale, Superman tried cutting his finger nails with the full force of his X-Ray vision but nothing happened. It took Supergirl and Krypto's "combined X-Ray vision" to do the trick. So yes, Superman's hair doesn't grow unless he's under a red sun or red kryptonite is involved. He's lucky to have come to Earth with a full head of hair. Ok thanks. I would have never considered x-ray vision as a possible answer though. Originally, Superman didn't use "heat vision" to melt/burn things but his "X-Ray vision" turned up to a higher degree. I would have thought that same thing though they may be, DC would have just gone with referring to this power as "heat vision" by 1961, but it looks like it was still in use then at least on occasion. Edited to Add: And I see that rberman already cleared this up above. Whoops!
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Post by Confessor on Mar 25, 2019 3:55:30 GMT -5
I think Superman's heat vision is one of his oddest, yet coolest, powers. It's particularly effective visually in films...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 8:35:19 GMT -5
Anyone know the current status of Kandor in current DC continuity (and has Superman's time as Superboy been retconned out?).
I know I could use Wikipedia, but I do find everyone here has a talent for being clear, concise and to the point.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2019 11:05:13 GMT -5
Anyone know the current status of Kandor in current DC continuity (and has Superman's time as Superboy been retconned out?). I know I could use Wikipedia, but I do find everyone here has a talent for being clear, concise and to the point. Superboy went away with the byrne revamp, with a new Superboy introduced in the Time Trapper storyline, to reconcile Legion continuity. he existed only in the Trapper's pocket universe and didn't survive the story (Matrix/Supergirl did, though). Then, we got the clone, with the Reign of the Supermen, who would continue for a while; but, was killed in Infinite Crisis. He got better. Lois & Clark's kid was also a Superboy, later. Kandor was eliminated with the Byrne revamp. An extra-dimensional version was introduced, that wasn't Kryptonian in origin; then, Superman: birthright reintroduced the concept, as Kryptonian. Which stuck around a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 11:28:50 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm more confused about Superman than any other character, I think. I enjoyed Byrne's run as a kid, but when I revisited some Superman comics a few years ago - and there were two Supermen - I got confused further. ;-)
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 26, 2019 13:57:07 GMT -5
So is Bat Lash the first modern American western comic? Note I said American. So I don't want to hear Blueberry.
I'm thinking the changeover from "traditional" to a more modern western of the type you see in the cinema with Leone and Pekinpah.
I'm having a hard time with anything before Bat Lash.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 26, 2019 14:15:38 GMT -5
So is Bat Lash the first modern American western comic? Note I said American. So I don't want to hear Blueberry. I'm thinking the changeover from "traditional" to a more modern western of the type you see in the cinema with Leone and Pekinpah. I'm having a hard time with anything before Bat Lash. I think someone could make an argument for Lobo. But I tend to think you're right with Bat Lash.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 26, 2019 14:22:51 GMT -5
So is Bat Lash the first modern American western comic? Note I said American. So I don't want to hear Blueberry. I'm thinking the changeover from "traditional" to a more modern western of the type you see in the cinema with Leone and Pekinpah. I'm having a hard time with anything before Bat Lash. I think someone could make an argument for Lobo. But I tend to think you're right with Bat Lash. I hadn't even thought about Lobo. The black protagonist definitely stands out. I've not read the books so I can't say how the stories stack up to more traditional westerns. Good job.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 26, 2019 15:01:05 GMT -5
So is Bat Lash the first modern American western comic? Note I said American. So I don't want to hear Blueberry. I'm thinking the changeover from "traditional" to a more modern western of the type you see in the cinema with Leone and Pekinpah. I'm having a hard time with anything before Bat Lash. I think someone could make an argument for Lobo. But I tend to think you're right with Bat Lash. Despite its short run (the debut in Showcase followed by seven fine issues), Bat Lash is probably the best known "modern" Western comic. Lobo, which was groundbreaking in its use of a solo black character as the star, was there earlier, but only lasted the one issue. Tomahawk was getting edgy in its anti-war, anti-prejudice, pro-Indian stories beginning in early 1969. Another trope that had appeared in a batch of 1950s movies was the white man or woman, usually a survivor of a raid, raised by Indians. Revisionist Westerns, like "Little Big Man" and "Soldier Blue," (both from 1970) brought back that trope, and it was used in comics as well. Firehair, also a more modern Western character, a white boy raised by Indians, first appeared in Showcase the month before the last issue of Bat Lash, on sale in August 1969. However, Cheyenne Kid, a Charlton comic, was also about a white boy raised by Indians, and long preceded all of the above, starting in 1957 and running through 1973. And there was a great little Gil Kane story called "Stand Proud the Warrior Breed" about a hardass half-breed (not a white reared by Indians, but a half-white half-Indian accepted by neither culture) which appeared in Super DC Giant S-15 (on sale in July 1970). Well worth a look. I'm guessing that "The Outcasts," a 1968 TV western about an ex-Confederate teaming up with an ex-slave, as well as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" were influences on Marvel's Gunhawks, featuring Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 26, 2019 16:05:28 GMT -5
Lobo actually had a second issue, though I've never seen a copy in person.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 26, 2019 16:34:50 GMT -5
I think someone could make an argument for Lobo. But I tend to think you're right with Bat Lash. Despite its short run (the debut in Showcase followed by seven fine issues), Bat Lash is probably the best known "modern" Western comic. Lobo, which was groundbreaking in its use of a solo black character as the star, was there earlier, but only lasted the one issue. Tomahawk was getting edgy in its anti-war, anti-prejudice, pro-Indian stories beginning in early 1969. Another trope that had appeared in a batch of 1950s movies was the white man or woman, usually a survivor of a raid, raised by Indians. Revisionist Westerns, like "Little Big Man" and "Soldier Blue," (both from 1970) brought back that trope, and it was used in comics as well. Firehair, also a more modern Western character, a white boy raised by Indians, first appeared in Showcase the month before the last issue of Bat Lash, on sale in August 1969. However, Cheyenne Kid, a Charlton comic, was also about a white boy raised by Indians, and long preceded all of the above, starting in 1957 and running through 1973. And there was a great little Gil Kane story called "Stand Proud the Warrior Breed" about a hardass half-breed (not a white reared by Indians, but a half-white half-Indian accepted by neither culture) which appeared in Super DC Giant S-15 (on sale in July 1970). Well worth a look. I'm guessing that "The Outcasts," a 1968 TV western about an ex-Confederate teaming up with an ex-slave, as well as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" were influences on Marvel's Gunhawks, featuring Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy. Firehair I've read both in Showcase and the back-ups in (Son of) Tomahawk, which itself had moved into being largely a western. I don't think I've read the Thorne issues of Tomahawk before it became Son of. Those late issues were a big break from the fighting dinosaurs era of Tomahawk. As an aside, the single issue of Reno Jones, Gunhawk #7 was probably the first Marvel comic I ever read, purchased by one of my older brothers a good two years before I started buying my own comics.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 26, 2019 19:04:35 GMT -5
Speaking of Westerns.... I have to look up Magic Wind again one of these days. An American publisher was translating them and they were quite good (a bit of horror, which I don't always like but worked well). It was a little indy publisher, so it may well be they're not around anymore, sadly.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Mar 26, 2019 19:58:34 GMT -5
Has anyone here ordered anything from the Tales of Wonder website?
Any good?
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 26, 2019 20:05:58 GMT -5
I have ordered a couple of Artist Editions. They were pretty good.
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