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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 24, 2024 15:04:46 GMT -5
I’m up to #453 in project to read all my issues of Detective Comics from #244 to the present. I had been reading one issue per day, usually right before I went to bed, but I’ve slowed down a little bit. Reading hundreds of consecutive issues of the same comic book will do that to you. But I think I’ll get back to reading one a day pretty soon. I am in the mid-70s now. I like this run, but there’s a certain sameness to it. A little goes a long way sometimes. I’m almost up to that four-part storyline with Captain Stingaree, and I love that one. I noticed that this issue was written by David V. Reed, and I think he must’ve started in the last two or three issues and I just hadn’t noticed until now. I like David V. Reed. Some of his stories are awfully silly, but they’re silly in a Golden Age way. Yet they’re drawn by 1970s artists. I like the contrast. And he wrote an awful lot of good stories. There’s all sorts of loony comic-book stuff going on a lot of the time. I believe David V. Reed wrote many comics for DC back in the 1950's, of course uncredited at that time. He left the industry and returned for a year or so in the 1970s. At least, that's what I recall reading somewhere David V. Reed wrote some of the classics of the 1950s! “Bullet-Hole Club” “The Private Life of Commissioner Gordon” “Mayor Bruce Wayne” “The Joker’s Millions” “The Joker’s Utility Belt” “The Gorilla Boss of Gotham City” “The Bride of Batman” “Two-Face Strikes Again” “The Sleeping Beauties of Gotham City” … and many more! |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 24, 2024 17:08:50 GMT -5
It's funny, I'm exactly the opposite. As a kid, the variety in art and characters of the reprint stories in the big books was fascinating and fun, but now they don't interest me at all.
This is not about the reprint books of the mid-70s. Those were the 100–Page Super-Spectaculars. 100 pages for 50 cents! (Later 60 cents.) Detective Comics #438 to #445. I love those! I had quite a few of them when I was a kid. I got them at used-book stores for half-price. The Dollar Comics were giant-size, but not 100 pages. Detective Comics #481 to #495. No reprints.  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 24, 2024 17:18:54 GMT -5
This is not about the reprint books of the mid-70s. Those were the 100–Page Super-Spectaculars. 100 pages for 50 cents! (Later 60 cents.) Detective Comics #438 to #445. I love those! I had quite a few of them when I was a kid. I got them at used-book stores for half-price. The Dollar Comics were giant-size, but not 100 pages. Detective Comics #481 to #495. No reprints. LOL |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2024 10:57:37 GMT -5
I’m up to Detective #494.
After all these years, Black Lightning is finally growing on me.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 19, 2024 10:52:43 GMT -5
I read up to Detective Comics # 500 and then took a little break. (I got Tomb of Dracula (digital) from the library and read about #15 to #36 over the last few weeks.)
I finally went back to Detective and read #501 and #502. This is the storyline where it turns out that Mlle. Marie had a baby just before she died at the end of World War II and the father is Alfred Pennyworth, who it turns out was British Intelligence and working with the French Resistance.
Also, Lucius Fox was involved because he was with the OSS.
Despite being kind of stupid and completely unnecessary, I have long felt this arc was pretty entertaining.
Also, Batgirl fights Gotham’s evil Brother Voodoo.
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