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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 16:42:09 GMT -5
Shaxper in CCF #1 (2014). yeah but is it really a first appearance, I mean he had a recurring role in the CBR before that. I mean it's a great first issue, but not really a first appearance...  -M Great point. But this was the ALL NEW Rebooted Shaxper! I could argue CCF Shaxper isn't the same Shaxper as the CBR Shaxper that appeared previously. After all is Al Pratt Atom the same as Ray Palmer Atom? A backup character in an anthology vs headliner in his own title?
I would argue that all of us that existed previously in the CBR universe are all new & different here in the CCF universe.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 9, 2017 19:55:27 GMT -5
Savage tales #1  For Manny's first appearance by the legendary Gray Morrow.  |
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Post by james on Mar 10, 2017 22:13:24 GMT -5
Who could forget this??  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 10, 2017 23:01:53 GMT -5
I would say that Shen Kuei aka Cat made one of the all-time great first appearances in MoKF #38.  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Mar 11, 2017 16:09:51 GMT -5
When a family member is brutally gunned down by the Mob, an ordinary man swears an oath of deadly vengeance, becoming judge, jury and executioner to the vile criminal element he despises. That man's name. . .Bob Dickering?!  The Comet (John Dickering) is murdered by the ruthless "Big Boy" Malone. His death is witnessed by Dickering's brother Bob, who carries him away from the fray.  Bob swears on his brother's body to bring his killers and all criminals not merely to justice, but to their doom!  |
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 11, 2017 22:37:23 GMT -5
   Ditko, like Kirby, just had an energy and power that was hypnotic. I remember seeing the teaser ad in the few comics I had at the time and hearing about the next great creation of Steve Ditko on the Superhero Hotline. I got up at night and secretly called and heard the news updates. Still remember the toll-free number I dialed it repeatedly hoping for new updates (1-800-223-7760). I knew just about nothing about comics at the ripe impressionable age of 10, but there was a lot of hype and this looked wild. This needs to be a movie ! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 23:32:21 GMT -5
 and, of course, sticking to the X-men:  (the only one who had previously appeared was Wolverine, right?) |
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 12, 2017 9:14:41 GMT -5
And Cyclops, of course.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 13, 2017 10:41:01 GMT -5
This one was pretty cool:  First-ever full view of this face ( All-Star Western 10)  |
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 13, 2017 13:57:29 GMT -5
When a family member is brutally gunned down by the Mob, an ordinary man swears an oath of deadly vengeance, becoming judge, jury and executioner to the vile criminal element he despises. That man's name. . .Bob Dickering?! The Comet (John Dickering) is murdered by the ruthless "Big Boy" Malone. His death is witnessed by Dickering's brother Bob, who carries him away from the fray. Bob swears on his brother's body to bring his killers and all criminals not merely to justice, but to their doom! Man, great choice! Though available online I really wish these stories would be collected in tangible form. And since you brought this story up, I was blown away by the one which preceded it. The Comet is brainwashed by an old foe and rather than figuring a way out of his predicament, is broken by three days of psychological torture. There's no ace up his sleeve, no last minute rescue from a sidekick, no slip up on the part of the bad guy - The Comet loses all. He goes on a killing spree, murders policemen by the dozen, and becomes Public Enemy Number One. It's very startling to see the good guy fall so heavily from grace without any sort of reset button being triggered at story's end - well, other than his being murdered in the following issue at any rate. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 15, 2017 15:45:44 GMT -5
Detective Comics 29 - The first appearance of Dr Death
As familiar as you might be with The Case of the Chemical Syndicate, can you recall which of the four suspects - Lambert, Stryker, Crane, and Rogers - turned out to be the villain of the piece in Batman's first appearance in Tec 27? Can you recall a single line of dialogue he spoke before being knocked into a vat of acid?
How about Frenchy Blake? No? Frenchy Blake - the bad guy in Batman's second appearance in Tec 28? Got dangled out of a window only seconds after discovering that he was even in a Batman story? Crumpled like a house of cards and whined "don't hit me again, please I can't bear it"?
Nothing?
But I bet you recognize this guy:
Batman's first supervillain and recurring arch foe. The first guy to actually challenge Batman and in so doing, forced him to up his game. There's no sneaking up on villains who are unprepared and ill equipped to deal with a masked vigilante; to get to Dr Death Batman has to scale a building, take a bullet, rely on the weaponry he retrieves from a utility belt which until then seemed to serve no real function, smash and leap through a window to escape with his life, and take down his burly assistant so he can dive through a trap door to even get close to his target.
So many great moments in this 10 page issue:
A classic line
Batman shot for the first time and the first time he goes into his utility belt
Bruce Wayne getting out of that predicament by playing the bored, eccentric, not necessarily bright playboy
And, of course, the image above where Dr Death stands triumphant even as he's about to be engulfed in flames.
This is the earliest story you can find that is quintessentially Batman. A guy whose forte is going after the strangest villains midnight has to offer, whose failure doesn't mean a small racket will continue, but that all of Gotham might die a horrible death (in this case, a flesh eating disease), a specialist who needs to be at the top of his game to resolve matters which baffle the police.
What can Batman do that the police can't? This. |
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