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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2017 16:36:24 GMT -5
Great splash but this never happened
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 20, 2017 17:12:23 GMT -5
I'm tempted to write "Every cover for a title edited by Julius Schwartz" but that might be a bit glib.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2017 17:26:31 GMT -5
Maybe , but I read somewhere that they would draw the cover first and then write a story about it.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 20, 2017 19:08:35 GMT -5
Great splash but this never happened
Really? Aw that is a shame...so they don't battle with/against Spidey? I wanted this for the cover alone plus my desire to have any and all Spidey appearances in other titles through the 60s.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2017 19:43:55 GMT -5
They battle a Spider-man robot created by Kang. But them being captured all together like this doesn't occur and they never meet the real Spidey , although he does save the day by beating the fake at the end.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 20, 2017 19:45:58 GMT -5
This one stands out in my mind because of how DC didn't even try to pretend that the kid who bought this comic just to find out how Jimmy Olsen could cut Superman's indestructible hair hadn't fallen for the old bait and switch when they opened the comic. Rather than even attempt to come up with a story to go along with this Neal Adams image, DC simply inserted a splash page of Jimmy Olsen answering letters about Superman sent to The Daily Planet in which he informs a reader that "Superman could only get a haircut on a planet with a red sun" into their tale and went on to do a story about something else. Then, there's a little editor's box which reads "Here's the answer to the question posed on the cover - ed." You almost expect there to be a giant "NO REFUNDS!!" after that too. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go post in the 'Comics which made you so angry you destroyed them' thread.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Sept 20, 2017 19:53:18 GMT -5
They battle a Spider-man robot created by Kang. But them being captured all together like this doesn't occur and they never meet the real Spidey , although he does save the day by beating the fake at the end. That explains the blue face on the cover...always wondered and kinda thought it was an inking error or something.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 20, 2017 20:15:29 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 21, 2017 5:32:41 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Sept 21, 2017 11:56:08 GMT -5
Diablo only appears in Gilded Lily's flashback origin story, and never encounters Sasquatch and Aurora.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 21, 2017 22:39:10 GMT -5
In the story within, Batman has to enter The Riddler's cell to search for a clue. That's it - no gloating from either The Riddler or Robin; Robin hasn't joined forces with the criminal as the cover suggests; a despair ridden Batman certainly isn't locked up behind bars. Still, a nice story so I can't complain too much. However... Ugh. One of my favorite covers of all time and while you could argue that this a symbolic cover done in the style of say, those covers with a giant Joker menacing a tiny Batman and Robin, rather than an image to be taken literally, it really doesn't work on a symbolic level either. The cover suggests Menace! Fear! Terror! while the story within delivers One of the very few times the comics attempted to emulate the lampoonish nature of the TV series and it had to be in the very issue which featured the return of The Scarecrow. I mean, look at the cover - they knew the mood such a return should evoke - and now look at Batman and Robin running around in broad daylight fighting over who gets to to hug a tree. And The Scarecrow has a submarine. Oh, and Batman enters the story while heading to a jungle gym to hand out Ice Cream in an Ice Cream truck as Bruce Wayne. Come on!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 23, 2017 18:52:49 GMT -5
In the book, Luthor rejects this theory and fires the woman with the glasses.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 25, 2017 1:38:04 GMT -5
Diablo only appears in Gilded Lily's flashback origin story, and never encounters Sasquatch and Aurora. Holy crap, is that Ditko?
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Post by MDG on Sept 25, 2017 6:21:07 GMT -5
Diablo only appears in Gilded Lily's flashback origin story, and never encounters Sasquatch and Aurora. Holy crap, is that Ditko? Byrne, who when inking, was never big on varying line weights. Looks like he tried to sneak a clever signature ailing the left margin near Sasquatch.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 25, 2017 9:32:01 GMT -5
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