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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 14, 2018 12:15:59 GMT -5
Yep, Dick Giordano is what I have read as a possibility. Although the 2 page spread was done by Denys Cowan and Giordano, so...perhaps the 1 page origins were both as well?? Yeah, looking over both the rogue's gallery pages and the two origins again, I'd say you're probably right about the latter two also being done by Cowan and Giordano. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 14:07:56 GMT -5
I bought that digest off the newsstand when it was new. Along with a few others. I know that I let my younger boys read a few of them. I pulled one out a couple years back and found that I needed high magnification reading glasses to be able to read the damn things. Yeah, Getting older wreaks havoc on OLD eyes trying to read those old DC digests! Thankfully I have a good pair of reading glasses. They were tough to read even for this guy:  |
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 14:57:00 GMT -5
Well, my 52 year old eyes that wears contact lenses and also needs reading glasses can still read these digests with no real issues. My eyesight is bad, if I can read these digests then pretty much anyone can.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 14, 2018 15:05:58 GMT -5
Well, my 52 year old eyes that wears contact lenses and also needs reading glasses can still read these digests with no real issues. My eyesight is bad, if I can read these digests then pretty much anyone can. Well, aren't you special?  Is that your picture up there? ^^ |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 16, 2018 15:00:21 GMT -5
I'm up to Detective Comics #444. I had forgotten that the Batman stories switched to continued stories - getting away from the done-in-one format that the series had utilized for so long - even before the 100-Page Super-Spectacular format had ended. In this one, the GCPD is after Batman because he shot Talia al Ghul in the back! Batman says he was framed. (He could also have said "It's Talia al Ghul! Do you REALLY think she's dead, you tool?!") Not so many super-heroes among the reprints this time. Instead we get Star Hawkins (I love Star Hawkins), Sierra Smith, Roy Raymond TV Detective and some other odd features like Gangbusters and a story about the INTERNATIONAL SKY POLCE! (Where's Mysto? Where's Captain Compass? SOMEBODY DROPPED THE BALL!) I'm almost done with #444 and that just leaves one more 100-Page issue of Detective Comics and I'm sure my Detective Comics project will go a lot faster once I get past the Super-Spectaculars. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 16, 2018 17:17:09 GMT -5
A Captain Compass reprint appears in Detective 420.  Bring Doritos. |
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Post by batusi on Feb 16, 2018 19:27:27 GMT -5
I'm up to Detective Comics #444. I had forgotten that the Batman stories switched to continued stories - getting away from the done-in-one format that the series had utilized for so long - even before the 100-Page Super-Spectacular format had ended. In this one, the GCPD is after Batman because he shot Talia al Ghul in the back! Batman says he was framed. (He could also have said "It's Talia al Ghul! Do you REALLY think she's dead, you tool?!") Not so many super-heroes among the reprints this time. Instead we get Star Hawkins (I love Star Hawkins), Sierra Smith, Roy Raymond TV Detective and some other odd features like Gangbusters and a story about the INTERNATIONAL SKY POLCE! (Where's Mysto? Where's Captain Compass? SOMEBODY DROPPED THE BALL!) I'm almost done with #444 and that just leaves one more 100-Page issue of Detective Comics and I'm sure my Detective Comics project will go a lot faster once I get past the Super-Spectaculars. A great comic!! I haven't read this 5 part multi story arc for awhile but remember being disappointed that Jim Aparo didn't finish up with the art for the last couple of issues.  I always wished Aparo would have done more of the early Batman/Detective Comics while he was still in his prime. |
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 19, 2018 23:25:34 GMT -5
Why does Batman have a big animatronic dinosaur in the batcave?
Sure, The Adventure on Dinosaur Island from 1946.
But really, grim, dark, moody batman has a big, honking, robot dinosaur?
Come on Bruce, you're not kidding anyone, you're justt a rich kid who likes his toys.
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 19, 2018 23:53:02 GMT -5
Why does Batman have a big animatronic dinosaur in the batcave? Sure, The Adventure on Dinosaur Island from 1946. But really, grim, dark, moody batman has a big, honking, robot dinosaur? Come on Bruce, you're not kidding anyone, you're justt a rich kid who likes his toys.   |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 20, 2018 1:53:06 GMT -5
Batman actually has TWO giant dinosaur robots. At least. He has a brontosaurus robot and a Tyrannosaurus Rex robot. For a very long time, he's been displaying the Tyrannosaurus Rex but if you go back far enough, you'll see the brontosaurus. I assume he keeps it in storage, maybe at the Bat-Cave underneath the Wayne Foundation building that he used for most of the Bronze Age.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 20, 2018 1:57:24 GMT -5
Why does Batman have a big animatronic dinosaur in the batcave? Sure, The Adventure on Dinosaur Island from 1946. But really, grim, dark, moody batman has a big, honking, robot dinosaur? Come on Bruce, you're not kidding anyone, you're justt a rich kid who likes his toys. There's a Golden Age story called "How to Be the Batman" where Batman gets amnesia and Robin has to train him so that he can learn to be Batman again. There's a great scene where Robin is showing him around the Bat-Cave and Amnesia Batman is saying things like "Why do I dress like this? Am I some kind of circus performer?" and "Why do I fight crime? Shouldn't the police be doing this?" and "What's this room? Am I a museum curator? I thought you said I was a crime fighter?" |
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Post by MDG on Feb 20, 2018 9:37:23 GMT -5
There's a Golden Age story called "How to Be the Batman" where Batman gets amnesia and Robin has to train him so that he can learn to be Batman again. There's a great scene where Robin is showing him around the Bat-Cave and Amnesia Batman is saying things like "Why do I dress like this? Am I some kind of circus performer?" and "Why do I fight crime? Shouldn't the police be doing this?" and "What's this room? Am I a museum curator? I thought you said I was a crime fighter?" The stuff in the Batcave didn't strike me half as odd as the fact that Superman created individual rooms devoted to his family and friends in his fortress. |
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 20, 2018 10:02:43 GMT -5
There's a Golden Age story called "How to Be the Batman" where Batman gets amnesia and Robin has to train him so that he can learn to be Batman again. There's a great scene where Robin is showing him around the Bat-Cave and Amnesia Batman is saying things like "Why do I dress like this? Am I some kind of circus performer?" and "Why do I fight crime? Shouldn't the police be doing this?" and "What's this room? Am I a museum curator? I thought you said I was a crime fighter?" The stuff in the Batcave didn't strike me half as odd as the fact that Superman created individual rooms devoted to his family and friends in his fortress. But the Fortress is about keeping alive his lost world. So it makes sense. Batman has a big penny because it is cool, even if he won't admit it. His portrayal in the Batman Lego Movie is more in line with someone with a geek collection than the Dark Knight in the comics. |
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Post by MDG on Feb 20, 2018 10:18:45 GMT -5
The stuff in the Batcave didn't strike me half as odd as the fact that Superman created individual rooms devoted to his family and friends in his fortress. But the Fortress is about keeping alive his lost world. ... Not the Lois Lane room. Or the Jimmy Olsen room. Or the Perry White Room. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 20, 2018 10:26:35 GMT -5
Or the Pete Ross room. Or the statute made of Lori Lemaris' shed scales.
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I always wished Aparo would have done more of the early Batman/Detective Comics while he was still in his prime. 
