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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 6:02:18 GMT -5
Bob Haney edition:
Batman once sold his soul to Hitler by shaking his fist at the sky and shouting "Batman wants to live!" when trapped in a well. And yes, "Batman wants to live" were his exact words. Brave the Bold 108.
While still a Lieutenant, James Gordon shot a man he thought was pointing a weapon at him. As it turned out however, the man was an unarmed alien being. What did Gordon - thinking that he had just murdered an innocent person - do? He buried the body that evening and told no one what had happened until Batman confronted him about it decades later. Brave and the Bold 139.
Forced to decide between blowing his cover when disguised as a criminal and letting an innocent person be shot in the chest, Superman once chose the latter. But it's OK, because after dumping the body in a ditch, Superman returned to perform super speed surgery on the guy and bring him back from the brink of death. Brave and the Bold 150.
The Atom once enabled Batman to finish a case from beyond the grave by shrinking himself down and jumping around on different parts of the deceased crime fighter's brain. Brave and the Bold 115. # 150 is also the issue in which Superman, while still 'undercover', is apparently shown demonstrating a power he does not have: Intangibility, which allows him to walk through a solid brick wall, and rematerialize. When letter-writers called Haney on this-nobody said Aparo screwed up the art, it looked good, anyway-the explanation from Haney, handed down by editor Paul Levitz-was that Superman flew into the room so quickly, it 'looked like' he was a 'ghost' walking through walls. It was that 60s-style, 'No, we didn't goof, you just didn't realize that [name of character] was [doing something we pulled out of our editorial nether regions to justify another 'Haney Howler'] explanation. I think readers and/or DC editorial had had enough of this, since Haney was reassigned to Green Arrow's World's Finest feature not long after. I remember an old "Adventures of Superman" episode from the 50's show that had him become intangible to penetrate a closed off hiding place for a wanted criminal. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 19, 2016 8:19:35 GMT -5
Bob Haney edition:
Batman once sold his soul to Hitler by shaking his fist at the sky and shouting "Batman wants to live!" when trapped in a well. And yes, "Batman wants to live" were his exact words. Brave the Bold 108.
While still a Lieutenant, James Gordon shot a man he thought was pointing a weapon at him. As it turned out however, the man was an unarmed alien being. What did Gordon - thinking that he had just murdered an innocent person - do? He buried the body that evening and told no one what had happened until Batman confronted him about it decades later. Brave and the Bold 139.
Forced to decide between blowing his cover when disguised as a criminal and letting an innocent person be shot in the chest, Superman once chose the latter. But it's OK, because after dumping the body in a ditch, Superman returned to perform super speed surgery on the guy and bring him back from the brink of death. Brave and the Bold 150.
The Atom once enabled Batman to finish a case from beyond the grave by shrinking himself down and jumping around on different parts of the deceased crime fighter's brain. Brave and the Bold 115. # 150 is also the issue in which Superman, while still 'undercover', is apparently shown demonstrating a power he does not have: Intangibility, which allows him to walk through a solid brick wall, and rematerialize. When letter-writers called Haney on this-nobody said Aparo screwed up the art, it looked good, anyway-the explanation from Haney, handed down by editor Paul Levitz-was that Superman flew into the room so quickly, it 'looked like' he was a 'ghost' walking through walls. It was that 60s-style, 'No, we didn't goof, you just didn't realize that [name of character] was [doing something we pulled out of our editorial nether regions to justify another 'Haney Howler'] explanation. I think readers and/or DC editorial had had enough of this, since Haney was reassigned to Green Arrow's World's Finest feature not long after. It was a stretch, sure, but in Haney's defense Superman HAD been occasionally shown vibrating his molecules a la Flash to pass through solid objects prior to this story. And it sure beats the second (or was it third?) Legion story, wherein we learned Superboy can change one element into another by shouting real loud. Cei-U! I summon the semi-justification! |
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Post by realjla on Feb 19, 2016 14:52:33 GMT -5
# 150 is also the issue in which Superman, while still 'undercover', is apparently shown demonstrating a power he does not have: Intangibility, which allows him to walk through a solid brick wall, and rematerialize. When letter-writers called Haney on this-nobody said Aparo screwed up the art, it looked good, anyway-the explanation from Haney, handed down by editor Paul Levitz-was that Superman flew into the room so quickly, it 'looked like' he was a 'ghost' walking through walls. It was that 60s-style, 'No, we didn't goof, you just didn't realize that [name of character] was [doing something we pulled out of our editorial nether regions to justify another 'Haney Howler'] explanation. I think readers and/or DC editorial had had enough of this, since Haney was reassigned to Green Arrow's World's Finest feature not long after. It was a stretch, sure, but in Haney's defense Superman HAD been occasionally shown vibrating his molecules a la Flash to pass through solid objects prior to this story. And it sure beats the second (or was it third?) Legion story, wherein we learned Superboy can change one element into another by shouting real loud. Cei-U! I summon the semi-justification! "Superboy, we need you to change this mercury into potassium." "k". "What?" "I said 'K'!" |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 19, 2016 16:37:44 GMT -5
This has to be the first time a hero caught his wife cheating in comics. From Sword of the Atom #1. The Atom is my favorite "straight" DC Superhero. Good call! The Atom is the first character to get a second team-up in Brave and the Bold. The first team-up issue was # 50, and he appeared in # 53 and # 55. The Flash and the Martian Manhunter were right behind, both re-appearing in # 56. The Atom had his own team-up book for a couple issues, appearing in Super-Team Family # 11-14, with Supergirl, the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Captain Comet, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and the Secret Society of Super-Villains/ |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 16:46:09 GMT -5
This has to be the first time a hero caught his wife cheating in comics. From Sword of the Atom #1. The Atom is my favorite "straight" DC Superhero. Good call! The Atom is the first character to get a second team-up in Brave and the Bold. The first team-up issue was # 50, and he appeared in # 53 and # 55. The Flash and the Martian Manhunter were right behind, both re-appearing in # 56. The Atom had his own team-up book for a couple issues, appearing in Super-Team Family # 11-14, with Supergirl, the Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Captain Comet, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and the Secret Society of Super-Villains/ Mad props to the Mighty Mite, who also got to team-up with hawkman and with his Earth-2 counterpart, which led to a great cover. (And one of the few on which the Atom isn't being shot, run over, zapped or otherwise injured.)  |
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Post by foxley on Feb 19, 2016 19:20:30 GMT -5
One golden age story gave Superman the power to subliminally control people's actions by thinking really hard at them, and reshape his body to disguise himself as an alien by rubbing himself really hard.
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Post by chadwilliam on Feb 19, 2016 21:05:42 GMT -5
# 150 is also the issue in which Superman, while still 'undercover', is apparently shown demonstrating a power he does not have: Intangibility, which allows him to walk through a solid brick wall, and rematerialize. When letter-writers called Haney on this-nobody said Aparo screwed up the art, it looked good, anyway-the explanation from Haney, handed down by editor Paul Levitz-was that Superman flew into the room so quickly, it 'looked like' he was a 'ghost' walking through walls. It was that 60s-style, 'No, we didn't goof, you just didn't realize that [name of character] was [doing something we pulled out of our editorial nether regions to justify another 'Haney Howler'] explanation. I think readers and/or DC editorial had had enough of this, since Haney was reassigned to Green Arrow's World's Finest feature not long after. It was a stretch, sure, but in Haney's defense Superman HAD been occasionally shown vibrating his molecules a la Flash to pass through solid objects prior to this story. And it sure beats the second (or was it third?) Legion story, wherein we learned Superboy can change one element into another by shouting real loud. Cei-U! I summon the semi-justification!
I think Superman's inability to vibrate through walls was actually established during the course of one of the first two Superman/Flash races. Flash could vibrate through an obstacle, whereas the Man of Steel had to run over (or plow through) them. The explanation had to do with Superman having super-dense molecules and I think it's a hindrance which has remained relatively intact since.
As for Haney and Reptisaurus! reminder that it was everyone else deviating from true continuity, I'm reminded of the following exchange from The Tick live action show:
The Tick: The ashen of his knifey teeth! The flames shooting from his nostrils! He was ten feet tall if he were an inch!
Arthur: No he wasn't, he was a head shorter than me!
The Tick: He was seven feet tall if he was a day!
Arthur: You're making this up!
The Tick: No I'm not, I'm making it good!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 21:18:23 GMT -5
One golden age story gave Superman the power to subliminally control people's actions by thinking really hard at them, and reshape his body to disguise himself as an alien by rubbing himself really hard. That's not what happens to me... |
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Post by realjla on Feb 20, 2016 14:02:18 GMT -5
'Holy Slip 'n' Slide! He pulled a real tromBONER that time!'
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 21, 2016 3:12:47 GMT -5
Rorschach is probably the most well known and instantly recognizable character from Alan Moore's Watchmen, but he wasn't the first Rorschach in comics. In September 1982, the short story Sunburn in 2000 AD #282 introduced us to Rorschach Skubbs, a henpecked husband from the year 2256 AD who murders his wife while on a visit to a resort on the surface of the Sun. Fleeing capture, Rorschach leaves what he thinks is the zone that marks the boundary of the resort police's jurisdication, only to discover (very briefly) that he has stepped outside the resort's protective shielding...
The story was written by Alan Moore.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 1, 2016 14:55:49 GMT -5
One golden age story gave Superman the power to subliminally control people's actions by thinking really hard at them, and reshape his body to disguise himself as an alien by rubbing himself really hard. That's not what happens to me... Now you've made it seem dirty. Though it wasn't that difficult. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 12, 2016 17:06:44 GMT -5
It's not a favorite character of mine but it is an interesting tidbit
I'm reading the Dark Horse Creepy Archive hardcovers and I'm up to issue #75 cover date Nov 1975
There is a story called Snow written by Bruce Bezaire, penciled by Rich Buckler and inked by Wally Wood
Its a post apocalypse story in a n ice age world and a man protecting a young child from cannibals in the city
Decent story-nothing special. Except the man's name is Luthor Manning
So its a bit strange. Deathlok and Luthor Manning had already appeared at Marvel for about a year. And Rich Buckler with Doug Moench created the Marvel character. But here the name is used a short time later with Buckler's involvement but a different writer. No cyborgs involved
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Post by berkley on Apr 12, 2016 22:28:39 GMT -5
It's not a favorite character of mine but it is an interesting tidbit I'm reading the Dark Horse Creepy Archive hardcovers and I'm up to issue #75 cover date Nov 1975 There is a story called Snow written by Bruce Bezaire, penciled by Rich Buckler and inked by Wally WoodIts a post apocalypse story in a n ice age world and a man protecting a young child from cannibals in the city Decent story-nothing special. Except the man's name is Luthor ManningSo its a bit strange. Deathlok and Luthor Manning had already appeared at Marvel for about a year. And Rich Buckler with Doug Moench created the Marvel character. But here the name is used a short time later with Buckler's involvement but a different writer. No cyborgs involved That is interesting - makes me wonder if Buckler had a hand in writing that Creepy story, though uncredited. But maybe he just liked the name once he read Bezaire's script. Or maybe he'd forgotten where it came from by the time he created Deathlok. |
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Post by foxley on Apr 13, 2016 3:29:09 GMT -5
In early appearances, Bruce Wayne was often described as being a champion polo player (with mentions as late as the 50s) and the owner of several prize polo ponies.
Does anyone know if he was ever actually shown playing polo in the comics?
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Post by Pól Rua on Apr 13, 2016 8:27:46 GMT -5
It's not exactly obscure, but I've always appreciated the fact that Steve Rogers is an artist. During the Gruenwald run, Steve got a job working for Marvel Comics drawing issues of Captain America. There was also a story in Avengers around the same time, by Roger Stern, where Cap used his drawing skills to basically do a police sketch during a case while interviewing a witness. I really dug that little detail, using a bit of Steve's unique character stuff to enhance the story. I like that there was a nod to this in the Captain America film where he's waiting to go on backstage, and he sketches himself as a performing monkey in a costume. That was a nice touch. |
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