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Post by Action Ace on Jan 13, 2015 22:06:04 GMT -5
When Carmine Infantino left DC in the late 1970s, he spoke openly about a conflict between series creator Joe Simon and Superman editor Mort Weisinger over the book's supposedly sympathetic view towards Hippie culture. According to Infantino, the book was buried, not due to low sales, but rather due to Weisinger,  Mister we could use a man like Mort Weisinger again.  |
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Post by Action Ace on Jan 13, 2015 22:08:20 GMT -5
I can't even begin to describe the awesomeness of that page! Batman and the Brave and the Bold.... the cartoon AND the comics... don't miss out! |
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Post by Action Ace on Jan 28, 2015 22:15:47 GMT -5
from today's Multiversity Guidebook...
EARTH 47
Home of the psychedelic champions of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld led by Sunshine Superman, and including the Shooting Star, Speed Freak, Magic Lantern and Brother Power the Geek, The Love Syndicate is financed by the immortal teenaged President Prez Rickard. All is groovy.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 30, 2015 19:44:27 GMT -5
from today's Multiversity Guidebook... EARTH 47 Home of the psychedelic champions of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld led by Sunshine Superman, and including the Shooting Star, Speed Freak, Magic Lantern and Brother Power the Geek, The Love Syndicate is financed by the immortal teenaged President Prez Rickard. All is groovy. I just read this and came here to say the same thing! |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jan 30, 2015 21:08:59 GMT -5
"Brother Power the. . .Gleek?"
The Wonder Twins (unaired pilot) 1978
Following their popular appearances on the The All-New Super-Friends Hour, siblings Zan and Jayna (The Wonder Twins) and their pet super-monkey Gleek were given their own series on the powerhouse ABC Saturday morning line-up.
The pilot episode, scripted by DC Comics writer E. Nelson Bridwell for Hanna-Barbera, opened with a rocket falling out of low-Earth orbit over the San Francisco Bay area. The Wonder Twins and Gleek, responding to an urgent plea from then-President Jimmy Carter, race to the coast. After touching rings and exclaiming, "Wonder Twin powers. . .activate!" Zan assumes the shape of an enormous geyser, retarding the rocket's descent, while sister Jayna transforms into a blue whale whose broad back cradles the rocket and allows it to land gently in the sea.
The curious Gleek reaches the rocket's hatch first and uses his elongated, prehensile tail to open it. Inside is the gaily painted former congressional hopeful Brother Power, limbs akimbo, appearing all but lifeless in the crippled craft. Gleek is compelled to touch the inert form and on doing so, the simian sidekick is imbued with all of Brother Power's memories. In effect, Gleek has become the Geek!
Formerly a chattering space-primate, Gleek is now an eloquent and persuasive speaker. He convinces Zan and Jayna to help him gain an audience with President Carter in order to share key information that could strengthen the upcoming Camp David Peace Accords, as well as warning Carter about the threat posed by Governor Ronald Reagan, the man who had ordered Brother Power to be shot into space.
Jayna, in the form of an American Bald Eagle easily gains entrance to the White House while Zan, disguised as a pitcher of sweet iced tea keeps watch over Gleek as he outlines a powerful strategy to the President with regard to Begin and Sadat.
Deemed "the worst children's programming ever conceived" by a pre-Teletubbies TV Guide, "Brother Power the. . .Gleek?" never aired and the series was abandoned. It can however be found on youtube.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 30, 2015 21:17:47 GMT -5
"Brother Power the. . .Gleek?"
The Wonder Twins (unaired pilot) 1978
Following their popular appearances on the The All-New Super-Friends Hour, siblings Zan and Jayna (The Wonder Twins) and their pet super-monkey Gleek were given their own series on the powerhouse ABC Saturday morning line-up.
The pilot episode, scripted by DC Comics writer E. Nelson Bridwell for Hanna-Barbera, opened with a rocket falling out of low-Earth orbit over the San Francisco Bay area. The Wonder Twins and Gleek, responding to an urgent plea from then-President Jimmy Carter, race to the coast. After touching rings and exclaiming, "Wonder Twin powers. . .activate!" Zan assumes the shape of an enormous geyser, retarding the rocket's descent, while sister Jayna transforms into a blue whale whose broad back cradles the rocket and allows it to land gently in the sea.
The curious Gleek reaches the rocket's hatch first and uses his elongated, prehensile tail to open it. Inside is the gaily painted former congressional hopeful Brother Power, limbs akimbo, appearing all but lifeless in the crippled craft. Gleek is compelled to touch the inert form and on doing so, the simian sidekick is imbued with all of Brother Power's memories. In effect, Gleek has become the Geek!
Formerly a chattering space-primate, Gleek is now an eloquent and persuasive speaker. He convinces Zan and Jayna to help him gain an audience with President Carter in order to share key information that could strengthen the upcoming Camp David Peace Accords, as well as warning Carter about the threat posed by Governor Ronald Reagan, the man who had ordered Brother Power to be shot into space.
Jayna, in the form of an American Bald Eagle easily gains entrance to the White House while Zan, disguised as a pitcher of sweet iced tea keeps watch over Gleek as he outlines a powerful strategy to the President with regard to Begin and Sadat.
Deemed "the worst children's programming ever conceived" by a pre-Teletubbies TV Guide, "Brother Power the. . .Gleek?" never aired and the series was abandoned. It can however be found on youtube.
Wasn't someone finishing off a pitcher of sweet iced tea in one of Reagan's "It's Morning in America" ads later that year? It's a conspiracy! |
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Post by brianf on Feb 9, 2020 19:40:11 GMT -5
oh, photobucket - you ruin my reading plans
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Post by shaxper on Feb 9, 2020 20:55:13 GMT -5
oh, photobucket - you ruin my reading plans Holy thread necromancy, Batman! If you right click the image, copy the url, and enter it into your browser, you should be able to see the original images that way. I'd love to go through and restore this whole thing myself, but time has not been my friend as of late. Great to see this again. Thanks for digging it up! |
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Post by brianf on Feb 10, 2020 0:27:00 GMT -5
oh, photobucket - you ruin my reading plans Holy thread necromancy, Batman! If you right click the image, copy the url, and enter it into your browser, you should be able to see the original images that way. I'd love to go through and restore this whole thing myself, but time has not been my friend as of late. Great to see this again. Thanks for digging it up! Good to know! But yeah, a childhood friend had a copy of Brother Power #1 and my memory of reading that as a young pup always kinda dazed me with its weirdness. I was recently made aware of Allreds Geek one shot and after doing some research I saw that both Gaimen & Straczynski also wrote single issue BPTG stories and all 5 comics are pretty cheap to buy, so I sent ahead and ordered myself the Brother Power The Geek "complete collection" today. Google tells me he's being used in the current Inferior Five comic by Giffen & Lemire too. So of course I had to check this board if there was a thread. There's always a thread!  Viva CCF! |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 10, 2020 10:39:54 GMT -5
Holy thread necromancy, Batman! If you right click the image, copy the url, and enter it into your browser, you should be able to see the original images that way. I'd love to go through and restore this whole thing myself, but time has not been my friend as of late. Great to see this again. Thanks for digging it up! Good to know! But yeah, a childhood friend had a copy of Brother Power #1 and my memory of reading that as a young pup always kinda dazed me with its weirdness. I was recently made aware of Allreds Geek one shot and after doing some research I saw that both Gaimen & Straczynski also wrote single issue BPTG stories and all 5 comics are pretty cheap to buy, so I sent ahead and ordered myself the Brother Power The Geek "complete collection" today. Google tells me he's being used in the current Inferior Five comic by Giffen & Lemire too. So of course I had to check this board if there was a thread. There's always a thread! Viva CCF! Feel free to expand this thread by discussing these other Brother Power appearances here. I'm sure we'd all be curious to know how the character has been treated since. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2020 11:05:08 GMT -5
The Straczynski Brave and the Bold issue made it into my list for this past year's 12 Days of Christmas.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 10, 2020 12:53:00 GMT -5
from today's Multiversity Guidebook... EARTH 47 Home of the psychedelic champions of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld led by Sunshine Superman, and including the Shooting Star, Speed Freak, Magic Lantern and Brother Power the Geek, The Love Syndicate is financed by the immortal teenaged President Prez Rickard. All is groovy.
When I was running my Comics Timelines page, I put Brother Power in with the Love Syndicate years before this, so it was a natural (although instead of Shooting Star, whom I didn't know about, I used Batwings from 'The Batman Nobody Knows').
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Post by brianf on Feb 18, 2020 0:35:26 GMT -5
So I just got done reading the 5 comics that are the body of work featuring Brother Power The Geek, being - Brother Power the Geek ! & 2 (1968) Swamp Thing Annual 5 (1989) Geek Vertigo Visions 1 (1993) Brave and the Bold 29 (3rd Series, 2010) My first thoughts are - this is a good, pleasant read. I am really happy I own these comics. It's amazing that 5 comics spanning 40 plus years read as one enjoyable story. It would make sense to collect this 5 issues in a TPB. Now, I'm not claiming there would be an audience for it, but if printed I'd most likely buy a copy to support a project like that. Before I talk about the post-1960's comics I want to say I really like the 2 BPTG comix from the 1960s. They are silly and goofy, but as someone who loves kooky stuff like the Beach Blanket Bingo movie, Dragnet hippy episodes, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp and other silly 1960's culture artifacts, I will claim to be an unabashed (new) fan of Joe Simons hippy rag doll comics. As I read the original Brother Power comics today I'd quote passages to my wife, and we had a grand time. So while BPTG has only been featured in 5 comic books, he's been in a buncha cameos, and I think his 1st post series use was in a Fred Hembeck Dateline strip from the late 70s So lets share all the cameos I've dug up before talking about his post 60's appearances. And hey, Hembeck uses him as a butt of joke! And did you know you can buy an original Hembeck sketch card via his ebay store for around $15? I own a Deadman, he ships real fast!  |
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Post by brianf on Feb 18, 2020 0:41:40 GMT -5
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #3 (1985)  |
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Post by brianf on Feb 18, 2020 0:46:31 GMT -5
Brother Powers actual 1st use in a DC comic in almost 20 years came via Keith Giffens Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer in 1986 - surprise - it was as a gag!  |
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