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Post by rick on Nov 22, 2014 23:44:25 GMT -5
Kurt, this thread shows exactly why Roy has worked with you. The attention to detail along with your enjoyable writing style makes for an informative and fun thread.
Nice work sir.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 23, 2014 8:31:25 GMT -5
Thanks, Rick! Adventure Comics #433May-June 1974 (February 28, 1974) $.20  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Swami and… The Spectre” 13 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Russell Carley (Art Continuity), Jim Aparo (Art and Lettering), no coloring credits. FC: The Spectre SC: Gwen Sterling SynopsisThe lucrative con game of Swami Seelal is threatened when Vandergilt, the wealthy husband of one of the phony mystic's patrons, refuses to make further donations. On Seelal's orders, Vandergilt dies in a construction site ‘accident’ the next day. His suspicions aroused when he learns that Mrs. Vandergilt is one of the swami's flock, Jim Corrigan questions the alleged psychic but, without corroborating evidence, can't make a case. Later that same day, Gwen Sterling seeks out Swami Seelal for advice. She tells him she has fallen hopelessly in love with a ghost and is seeking some method of restoring her unliving paramour to life. Thinking Gwen is both insane and ripe for fleecing, Seelal promises his help. When he learns that the ghost in question is Corrigan, the swami sees an opportunity to get the suspicious cop out of the way as a bonus. Using Gwen to lure Corrigan to a lonely cemetery, Seelal's henchman blows up the detective's car with a hand grenade then attempts to silence the girl. The Spectre saves Gwen by having the dead rise and drag the killer into a grave. Returning to his Corrigan identity, the Spirit Sleuth again tells Gwen that although he cares for her, a romance between them is impossible. Elsewhere, Swami Seelal is horrified to see The Spectre rise from his crystal ball in the middle of a séance. As the others look on in puzzlement ― only Seelal can see Spectre ― the vengeful ghost turns the swami's body to glass which shatters when it falls from its chair. Vandergilt's murder is avenged. Behind the ScenesThis episode is loosely based on the “Spectre” story in More Fun Comics #54. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2014 9:13:33 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #434July-August 1974 (April 30, 1974) $.20  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Nightmare Dummies and… The Spectre” 20 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Russell Curley (Script Continuity), Frank Thorne (Penciller), Jim Aparo (Inker), no lettering or coloring credits. FC: The Spectre SC: Gwen Sterling SynopsisOn a lonely country road, two truck drivers for the Monarch Mannikin [sic] Company are horrifyingly butchered by the very mannequins they are hauling. A day later, the staff and customers of a department store are slaughtered when the store's mannequins likewise come to life. The police are dismissive of the survivors' eyewitness accounts… except for Lt. Jim Corrigan. Following this improbable lead to the Monarch factory, Corrigan meets Zeke Borosovitch, an old man who continues to make mannequins by hand despite the company's move to automation. His fellow employees regard Borosovitch with amusement for the way he treats his creations, as though the mannequins had real feelings. His hints that the mannequins are capable of murder if sufficiently provoked arouse Corrigan's suspicions. In the parking lot, Jim is approached by Gwen Sterling who has tracked him down to plead her case. Rebuffed by the unliving policeman once more, the emotionally distraught Gwen is taken in hand by old Zeke, who takes her to his workshop for tea and sympathy. Later that night, Corrigan finds a strangely silent Gwen on his doorstep. He invites her in. When his back is turned, Gwen draws a meat cleaver from her purse and attempts to kill Jim. Turning into The Spectre, he uses the cleaver to chop the girl to pieces, revealing her as one of Borosovitch's animated mannequins in the process. He returns to the Monarch factory in time to rescue the real Gwen and punish her captor, whose strange magic is no match for that of the Ghostly Guardian. The next morning, the mannequins from Zeke's workshop are taken away and burned ― including one who looks remarkably like a certain sinister sculptor. Points to PonderThe Spectre kills the ersatz Gwen Sterling before identifying her as one of Borosovitch's mannequins.
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Post by zilch on Nov 24, 2014 19:21:31 GMT -5
Russell Curley (Script Continuity) should be Russell Carley Whose job btw, was turning Fleisher's plot into a standard script, since MF wasn't sure how to do it... |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 25, 2014 9:42:56 GMT -5
Justice League of America #113September-October 1974 (June 6, 1974) $.60  Cover Art: Nick Cardy, signed “The Creature in the Velvet Cage!” 20 pages Julius Schwartz (Editor), Len Wein (Writer), Dick Dillin (Penciller), Dick Giordano (Inker), no lettering or coloring credits. FC: Batman, The Elongated Man, Green Lantern, Superman, teamed as the Justice League of America GS: The Flash, Hourman, The Sandman, Wonder Woman, teamed as the Justice Society of America Reintro: Sandy the Golden Boy (Sandy Hawkins) Intro: The Horned Owl Gang SynopsisFour visiting Justice Leaguers ― Batman, Elongated Man, Green Lantern, and Superman ― pitch in to help Earth-Two's Flash, Hourman, Sandman, and Wonder Woman round up the criminal Horned Owl Gang. Shortly after, an alarm sounds in The Sandman's roadster. The gas-masked crimebuster races off without a word to the others. They follow him to the “plush townhouse” that Sandman, as playboy Wesley Dodds, calls home. There, in a secret sub-basement, they find their friend standing amidst the rubble of a strange room where someone — or something — had been kept in comfortable but hitherto inescapable isolation. Dodds reveals that the creature he had kept imprisoned was none other than his former partner, teenage Sandy Hawkins, a.k.a. “The Golden Boy.” Many years before, Sandy had been transformed into a monstrous silicon-based lifeform by the explosion of an experimental “silicoid gun” he and his mentor were developing. The silicon giant briefly raved about crushing the world before collapsing into unconsciousness. From that day forward, Wes kept Sandy perpetually sedated in this hidden chamber. With a monster on the loose, the eight heroes waste no time in scouring the city. Three times does a JSA/JLA team encounter the inarticulately raging silicon giant: at an outdoor wedding, a sandlot baseball game, and on “famed Machismo Beach.” The thing that was once Sandy Hawkins uses strange earth-based super-powers to resist capture by the heroes during the first two encounters. Only the sight of The Sandman calms the creature long enough for the other heroes to knock him out. A moment later, the city is rocked by a massive earthquake. The combined talents of Superman and Green Lantern prevent any serious damage or injuries. However, in sealing the fault line, the heroes notice that it runs beneath the site of each of their battles with Sandy. The silicon giant awakes and reveals that he still retains the personality of Sandy Hawkins. He had neither deliberately escaped from his “velvet cage” nor been on a rampage. It was an earlier temblor that shattered his cell. Sensing the bigger quake coming, Sandy had been attempting to use his powers to absorb the earthquake's seismic energy into himself. His roars of rage had actually been cries of pain. Years of suspended animation had rendered the former sidekick temporarily mute, unable to explain his actions to the attacking super-heroes before now. Finally, he reveals that his seeming madness was only a temporary side-effect of his transformation but that long-term exposure to Sandman's sleep gas left him too debilitated to speak. “Oh, God, what have I done?” cries Sandman. “All the years… so many years of Sandy's life… wasted… because I was too proud… too ashamed… to admit what I had caused!” Wonder Woman hopes that Amazon science will restore Sandy to human form. Batman observes it will take more than science to repair The Sandman's shattered spirit. ContinuityIt is unclear exactly when the accident that transformed Sandy actually took place, though it can obviously have occurred no earlier than December of 1945 (see the sixth Good Guys note below). The Good GuysThis is the last appearance of The Sandman as a participant in the annual JSA/JLA crossovers. Sandman reveals that it was guilt over Sandy's fate that caused Wesley Dodds to abandon his purple-and-gold costume for his original outfit. It is implied that Sandman continued his super-heroic career after these events but this cannot be confirmed. The Sand-Car seen in this issue is markedly different from that seen in Justice League of America #46. It is possible that the silicoid gun seen in flashback in this story is an early version of the sand-based weapon wielded by Sandman in Justice League of America #46 and 47 but this cannot be confirmed. The city out of which The Sandman operates is established as York City in this issue. Sandy the Golden Boy was last seen in the “Sandman” story in Adventure Comics #102 (March 1946). Despite Wonder Woman's confidence regarding a quick cure for Sandy's condition, the former Golden Boy will not be restored to human form until the “Whatever Happened to…?” story in DC Comics Presents #47 almost eight years later. Fashion WatchHourman wears red boots with three broad yellow stripes in this issue. The boots are colored solid red in several panels. He wears a simplified version of the belt last seen in Justice League of America #83, with less elaborate filigree and a red, less detailed buckle. Wonder Woman's boots are drawn without their white trim throughout this story. Points to PonderConsidering Wesley Dodd's Sandman identity is supposed to be secret, it seems odd that seven super-heroes in full costume would casually walk through the front door of Dodd's townhouse in broad daylight as depicted in this story.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 26, 2014 9:32:44 GMT -5
The Flash #229September-October 1974 (June 20, 1974) $.60  Cover Art: Nick Cardy, signed “The Rag Doll Runs Wild!” 20 pages Julius Schwartz (Editor), Cary Bates (Writer), Irv Novick (Pencils), Frank McLaughlin (Inks), no lettering or coloring credits. FC: The Flash [of Earth-One] GS: The Flash SC: Iris Allen, Joan Garrick Villain: The Thinker Reintro: The Rag Doll (Pete Merkel) SynopsisOn his way to work one morning, Barry Allen ― The Flash of Earth-One ― tells his wife Iris that he is having lunch with an unnamed beautiful woman. The woman in question is Joan Garrick, spouse of his Earth-Two counterpart, Jay Garrick. Joan had contacted Barry out of concern for her husband, who has been acting uncharacteristically moody for several days. Barry agrees to try to find out what's bothering Jay. When the two Flashes link up, Barry learns that Jay fears he is losing his touch as a crimefighter. An old foe, the triple-jointed Rag Doll, has been committing a series of audacious thefts right under Jay's nose. Normally, capturing the criminal contortionist would be no big deal for the Scarlet Speedster but three times Rag Doll has escaped because of an error in judgment on the Earth-Two Flash's part. No sooner has Jay unburdened himself to Barry then they stumble across Rag Doll committing yet another theft. Once more the elder hero fumbles the ball, but Barry has no problem rounding up the costumed crook. Barry at first wonders if Jay is indeed losing his touch until he notices a strange vibratory aura surrounding the heads of both Flash and Rag Doll. At police headquarters, The Rag Doll claims he has no memory of his crimes and insists on a polygraph test to prove it. In the middle of the test, the indicators suddenly go flat as though the felon were dead. When his mask is removed, the horrified heroes discover that he has been inexplicably transformed into a real rag doll! Their investigation stymied, Barry returns to Earth-One while a disheartened Jay goes home. Later that night, a furtive figure steals into the police station for a look at The Rag Doll's cloth corpse. It is The Thinker, who had been mentally controlling both Rag Doll and Jay Garrick as part of a subtle scheme to demoralize The Flash into retirement. But The Thinker isn't as clever as he'd like to believe. The Earth-One Flash suddenly appears and reveals that Rag Doll's ‘transformation’ was nothing but a super-speed swap intended to flush the mastermind out of hiding. But Barry too has been overconfident and Thinker manages to trap the Crimson Comet momentarily until Jay ― seeking evidence to back up his conviction that Rag Doll's transformation was a trick ― arrives to free his fellow Flash and capture his old nemesis. Explaining the evening's events to Iris later, Barry confides that he could've escaped The Thinker's trap at any time but wanted Jay to get the credit as an extra boost to his restored confidence. Meeting MinutesThe Earth-One Flash makes reference to a “trans-Earth signaler,” apparently a device for communicating between the two realities. It is not clear if only the Flashes possess this device or if it is available to other JSA and JLA members. The Bad GuysThe Rag Doll was first and last seen in the “Flash” story in Flash Comics #36 (December 1942). Fashion WatchThe Thinker has abandoned the costume and improved Thinking Cap he wore in The Atom #29. He is also bald and unathletic once more.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 27, 2014 8:58:59 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #435September-October 1974 (June 27, 1974) $.20  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Man Who Stalked The Spectre” 13 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Russell Carley (Script Continuity), Jim Aparo (Art and Lettering), no coloring credits FC: The Spectre Intro: Earl Crawford SynopsisAn armed robbery by the Grandenetti gang leads to the deaths of several policemen and innocent bystanders. Crashing their car during the subsequent chase, the felons scatter. One takes refuge in a meat locker where he encounters The Spectre. When the police break in, they find their quarry frozen to death in a huge block of ice. The next day, freelance magazine writer Earl Crawford adds the incident to his growing file of bizarre criminal deaths. Crawford is convinced that all the deaths are connected. Feeling sure that the force behind the slayings is now after the Grandenettis, the journalist persuades the editor of Newsbeat to let him cover the police's pursuit of the gang. The reporter soon finds himself tagging along with a hostile Jim Corrigan as he is called to a toy store where one of the gang members, Mitch Grandenetti, has taken hostages. Inside the store, the desperate hoodlum watches in disbelief as The Spectre causes a small figurine of a Viking warrior to grow to lifesize and attack him. Moments later, the police enter the building and find Mitch has somehow escaped. But Earl Crawford knows better: he has found a little action figure of the vanished crook, its head split by a tiny broadaxe. Later, Crawford is given a tip to pass along to Corrigan that the last of the Grandenettis is holed up in an abandoned sawmill in New Jersey. The reporter races to the scene hoping to warn the fugitive of the occult force threatening him but is instead forced at gunpoint into the mill. Grandenetti is about to kill Crawford when Spectre appears, turns the gangster into wood and runs him through the saw. With Grandenetti dead and The Spectre gone, the horrified newsman stumbles off in search of “a good stiff drink.” Behind the ScenesThe Grandenetti gang is named for former “Spectre” artist Jerry Grandenetti. ContinuityJim Corrigan contemptuously refers to Earl Crawford as “Clark Kent” several times in this story. When a policeman overhears this, he asks the reporter if he is “really Superman.” This mitigates against this being The Spectre of Earth-One (unless we conclude that the officer is somehow referring to the many times when Kent has been ‘mistakenly’ accused of being the Man of Steel). Crawford, incidentally, does look like Clark Kent. The Good GuysThe city out of which The Spectre operates is identified as New York in this issue. Earl Crawford states it has been eight months since the first of the string of murders he is investigating (as told in the “Spectre” story in Adventure Comics #431), implying that The Spectre has been openly operating in New York only for that long. Points to PonderExactly why The Spectre chooses to reveal himself to Earl Crawford in the final scene of this issue is unclear, especially when we've seen him control who can and can't perceive him in earlier episodes and even earlier in the story.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 28, 2014 8:54:25 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #436November-December 1974 (August 29, 1974) $.20  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Gasmen and... The Spectre” 13 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Russell Carley (Script Continuity), Jim Aparo (Art and Lettering), no coloring credits. FC: The Spectre SC: Earl Crawford SynopsisStrangely costumed men enter a custom car show and kill everyone in the crowd with poison gas. Word of this atrocity reaches the offices of Newsbeat magazine, where Earl Crawford is fighting a losing battle with his editor over his story about “an angry spook ... using his magical powers to kill crooks!” Assigned to cover the car show massacre, Crawford encounters Jim Corrigan who, having learned that neither the show's receipts nor any of the valuable cars are missing, is trying to fathom the motive behind the crime. Meanwhile, in an abandoned observatory not far away, the mastermind behind these events ― a would-be military genius calling himself Field Marshall Offal ― debriefs his men. The next morning, Offal demands the city of New York pay a billion dollar ransom or his gasmen will strike again. Volunteering to deliver the money, Lt. Corrigan drives to a remote area outside the city where he is forced to board one of Offal's helicopters. Unknown to Jim, Earl Crawford has been trailing him and attempts to follow the chopper. Shortly after, The Spectre invades Offal's headquarters and makes mincemeat of the madman's army. The self-styled field marshall himself attempts to flee by boat, only to be seized and devoured by a giant squid summoned by the Disembodied Detective. By the time Crawford arrives at the observatory, only Corrigan remains to tell the tale but, as usual, he isn't talking.
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Post by foxley on Nov 28, 2014 16:35:18 GMT -5
Field Marshal Offal? I guess you need guts to pull off a name like that!  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 29, 2014 9:05:52 GMT -5
The Brave and the Bold #116December 1974-January 1975 (September 17, 1974) $.60  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed, main image; Nick Cardy, Teen Titans vignette, Deadman, Robotman and Silent Knight headshots; Bob Brown (pencils), Mike Esposito (inks), Batman vs. Copperhead vignette “Grasp of the Killer Cult” 20 pages Murray Boltinoff (Editor), Bob Haney (Writer), Jim Aparo (Art and Lettering); no coloring credits. FC: Batman [of Earth-One/B] and The Spectre SC: Commissioner James W. Gordon [of Earth-One/B] SynopsisA series of strangulation murders, motiveless crimes committed by otherwise upstanding citizens, haunt Gotham City. NYPD Lt. Jim Corrigan tells Batman and Commissioner Gordon of his suspicions that the murders are somehow tied to the Thugees, a cult of Kali worshippers who plagued 19th Century India until wiped out by the British army. Corrigan has trailed one of Gordon's suspects ― a traveling salesman named John T. Weaver ― from New York, where he is wanted for a similar murder. The commissioner laughs at Jim's theory but Batman, aware of the detective's other identity of The Spectre, isn't so quick to dismiss it. Invisibly attending an earlier victim's funeral, Spectre sees Weaver stealing a pickax from the cemetery's tool shed after the mourners have departed. Using his magic to disintegrate the pick (stolen for use in a Thugee rite) and capture the killer, he delivers him to police headquarters. “Weaver” is actually a respectable family man named Henry Barnes, who protests his innocence. Neither Gordon's interrogation skills nor a polygraph test can shake his story. When a witness fails to identify the suspect in a line-up, the lawmen have no choice but to let Barnes go despite Corrigan's violent objections. Continuing his own investigation, Batman learns that the corpse of the latest murder victim has been stolen from the morgue. Following the body thief's trail outside the city, the Caped Crusader is startled when the man ― Valentine, the suspect in the victim's death ― begins to dig a grave. With The Spectre's aid, Batman captures the suspect yet, once again, the police are unable to get past his claims of innocence. The case seems at a standstill until Batman discovers the link between this man, whose real name is James Wilson, and Weaver/Barnes: both had been members of “The Dirty 'Dozers,” US Army engineers who served in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. Traveling back in time to the Indian village of Phansigar, Spectre watches as the Dirty 'Dozers dig up a cemetery sacred to Kali to clear a path for a vitally needed road. Meanwhile in the present, Batman trails Valentine/Wilson to a Gotham hotel, where a reunion of the 'Dozers is underway. Though at first it seems like any get-together of old army buddies, the sudden unveiling of a statue of Kali tells the Masked Manhunter that something far more sinister is underway. Before he can act, he is seized. His impending death by strangulation is averted when the statue comes to life and tells the entranced vets “I release you from your sacred killings... forever!” before carrying Batman away. ‘Kali’ was, of course, The Spectre who reveals that the former engineers have been possessed by Thugee ghosts, roused from their graves in Phansigar by the 'Dozers decades before. Now free of the vengeful spirits, the veterans manfully turn themselves over to the authorities to answer for their crimes. Behind the ScenesSome scholars now believe that the fearsome reputation of the Thugee cult was largely undeserved, the product of deliberate misinformation supplied by the British Army officer credited with stamping the cult out. The fame and fortune he enjoyed subsequently were a direct result of (and alleged to be the motive for) that exaggeration. ContinuityBatman and The Spectre behave as though they have worked together before, which suggests that either the story in The Brave and the Bold #75 does not feature the Earth-Two Spectre or that the heroes shared a different, untold adventure. Considering Commissioner Gordon's attitude towards Jim Corrigan in this story, which differs markedly from that shown in #75, the latter may be the more logical alternative.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 17:43:52 GMT -5
Enjoying this thread! Getting excited for the 1976 All Star Comics #58-74 entries!
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 30, 2014 9:24:42 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #437January-February 1975 (October 31, 1974) $.25  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Human Bombs and… The Spectre” 13 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Russell Carley (Script Continuity), Ernie Chua (Penciller), Jim Aparo (Inker), no lettering or coloring credits. FC: The Spectre SC: Gwen Sterling SynopsisJim Corrigan hears a news bulletin reporting that his friend, Gwen Sterling, is the seventh victim of a series of kidnappings. Persuading his captain to assign him to the case, Jim learns that no ransom has been asked for, nor any other sort of demand made. Elsewhere, Gwen is taken forcibly into an abandoned bauxite mine. Inside she finds a chamber full of scientific equipment, its walls lined with cells housing the other kidnap victims. An argument over payment breaks out between the pair of hoods who abducted the girl and their employer, a man in a lab coat they refer to as “Doc” and “Frankenstein.” The scientist exposes the duo to his “stroboscopic hypno-wheel,” a device which compels those exposed to obey his orders. He commands the thugs to dive into a large tank of barracuda, where they are swiftly devoured. He then turns to one of his male captives, gloating that the man is to become the first of his “human bombs.” The next morning, the entranced man appears in a downtown bank and threatens to activate the bomb strapped to his chest if he isn't given all the money on the premises. When a guard attempts to stop him, the man detonates the explosive, killing himself, the guard and others. With the city now aware of the possible consequences of resisting, the mesmerized human bombs commit robbery after robbery. Responding to an alarm at Tiffany's, Corrigan is horrified to discover that the human bomb this time is Gwen. Following the hypnotized woman back to the mastermind's hideout as The Spectre, the Discarnate Detective destroys the hypno-wheel, frees the six surviving abductees, and forces the scientist to hurl himself into a pit full of alligators. The Good GuysWe learn in this issue that Jim Corrigan works out of the 101st Precinct in Manhattan.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 1, 2014 10:11:22 GMT -5
Adventure Comics #438March-April 1975 (December 31, 1974) $.25  Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed “The Spectre Haunts the Museum of Fear” 10 pages Joe Orlando (Editor), Michael Fleisher (Writer), Ernie Chua (Penciller), Jim Aparo (Inker), no lettering or coloring credits. FC: The Spectre SynopsisA small town mailman is abducted in broad daylight and taken to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. The leader of the kidnappers, called “the Professor” by his assistants, boasts that their victim is a “fine specimen” destined to become part of “the most perfect museum exhibit of all time!” Awaking prematurely from the chloroform used on him, the frightened postman grabs a knife from a nearby tray of surgical implements and attempts to escape. To his horror, he discovers that he was to be stuffed and put on display as part of a macabre exhibit of typical Americans. Cornered, he is shot dead, to the considerable displeasure of the Professor, who bemoans the damage to his “specimen.” The mailman's corpse is discovered the next morning on the waterfront, the taxidermy knife still clutched in his hand. As Jim Corrigan begins his investigation, the murderous museum employees kidnap a businessman. That night, Jim hears of a break-in at a taxidermy supply company. Answering the call, he observes the Professor's men loading pilfered supplies into a van. Slaying one of the pair with his patented ‘death stare,’ The Spectre assumes the dead man's shape and accompanies his oblivious partner back to the museum. He puts an end to the mad taxidermist and his perverse hobby by bringing the museum's gorilla exhibit to life. The Good Guys Jim Corrigan's call sign is “Phantom Unit 64.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2014 11:23:56 GMT -5
The Spectre and gorilla on the cover-how can you go wrong?  -M |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 1, 2014 19:32:35 GMT -5
The Brave and the Bold #116December 1974-January 1975 (September 17, 1974) $.60 Cover Art: Jim Aparo, signed, main image; Nick Cardy, Teen Titans vignette, Deadman, Robotman and Silent Knight headshots; Bob Brown (pencils), Mike Esposito (inks), Batman vs. Copperhead vignette “Grasp of the Killer Cult” 20 pages Murray Boltinoff (Editor), Bob Haney (Writer), Jim Aparo (Art and Lettering); no coloring credits. FC: Batman [of Earth-One/B] and The Spectre SC: Commissioner James W. Gordon [of Earth-One/B] I had this when I was a kid, picked it up at a used bookstore for 25 cents!
I haven't seen this comic for years, though. The main thing I remember is being kind of TRIPPED OUT by all the material about Kali and the thugee cult. I looked it up at the middle school library and was surprised to find out that Kali was a real god and the thugees were a real cult.
(Well, the other thing I remember is the Brave and Bold #78 reprint with Batman, Batgirl, Wonder Woman and Copperhead, which is one of the funnest dumb stories of DC's late Silver Age. But that's not Earth-2.)
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