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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 7:03:41 GMT -5
I like anything aquatic, I'd even buy Man From Atlantis comics from the '70s that were fairly uninspired, and it felt like they should've made some use of Dolphin in Aquaman at the very least. I actually liked the lack of a colorful costume but I imagine that hurt in terms of not attracting attention. Those visual elements; you can't write seriously with 'em but you can't sell without 'em? Same here. I bought MFA also. Dolphin did become part of Aquaman's title in the 90's and was in his DC Rebirth title.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 7:06:24 GMT -5
Justice Society of America 1-10. Aug. 1992 - May 1993. Written by Len Strazewski. Pencils by Mike Parobeck. Inks by Mike Machlan. An amazing series. One of my top 10 favorites. Great characters. Great concept. Great writing and art.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 24, 2019 11:31:11 GMT -5
I like anything aquatic, I'd even buy Man From Atlantis comics from the '70s that were fairly uninspired, and it felt like they should've made some use of Dolphin in Aquaman at the very least. I actually liked the lack of a colorful costume but I imagine that hurt in terms of not attracting attention. Those visual elements; you can't write seriously with 'em but you can't sell without 'em? Same here. I bought MFA also. Dolphin did become part of Aquaman's title in the 90's and was in his DC Rebirth title. Glad she wasn't forgotten about in the '90s!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 24, 2019 14:27:25 GMT -5
Dolphin - DC Comics - Showcase # 79, December 1968. Writer/Artist: Jay Scott Pike Pure conjecture on my part, but the fact that the Dolphin story didn't even fill up the entire page count of Showcase #79 (it was augmented with the 7-page reprint of Aqualad's debut) suggests to me that it wasn't prepared for Showcase. I suspect that it was originally intended as a serial fantasy for one of DC's romance comics, Pike's usual stomping grounds. Maybe DC had second thoughts about introducing fantastic elements into their romance line and decided to use up the pages here? It's definitely more akin to the love comics than to the superheroes. That's interesting conjecture. It was certainly odd that the story was short and had to have the back-up tale. Now that you mention it it does seem possible it wasn't meant for Showcase.
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Post by MDG on Jun 24, 2019 15:21:03 GMT -5
Pure conjecture on my part, but the fact that the Dolphin story didn't even fill up the entire page count of Showcase #79 (it was augmented with the 7-page reprint of Aqualad's debut) suggests to me that it wasn't prepared for Showcase. I suspect that it was originally intended as a serial fantasy for one of DC's romance comics, Pike's usual stomping grounds. Maybe DC had second thoughts about introducing fantastic elements into their romance line and decided to use up the pages here? It's definitely more akin to the love comics than to the superheroes. That's interesting conjecture. It was certainly odd that the story was short and had to have the back-up tale. Now that you mention it it does seem possible it wasn't meant for Showcase. I've heard that idea before, but don't remember where.
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Post by Farrar on Jun 24, 2019 19:52:16 GMT -5
I've read in a few interviews that Pike said that DC wanted to greenlight an ongoing Dolphin feature, but he asked for creator rights and of course DC refused (no surprise there, it was 1968), so he said to heck with it. Interesting that he'd done an earlier story--well, the art anyway, I can't find a writer credit--with an underseas setting and an enigmatic aquatic woman for Atlas back in the 1950s (Astonishing #59). The story, "The Girl Behind the Glass", was reprinted in Strange Tales #177, here's a snippet of it from that issue:
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 27, 2019 11:34:55 GMT -5
How about Ragman? Has anyone read that?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2019 12:04:44 GMT -5
How about Ragman? Has anyone read that? it's been awhile. It was am interesting concept. I remember liking it
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 27, 2019 12:39:08 GMT -5
How about Ragman? Has anyone read that? I'll get to it eventually.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 27, 2019 12:39:44 GMT -5
I have a run of the original Ragman series somewhere. It's been quite a while since I read it, but I like it. It's Robert Kanigher doing a series he actually cares abut, so it's pretty sharp. Good Kanigher is really good. Bad Kanigher is equally bad. This is good Kanigher.
The art is also good. The first four issues have layouts by Joe Kubert with finishes by Nestor Redondo's studio. The last issue is all Kubert. So you can't go wrong there!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jun 27, 2019 12:44:21 GMT -5
How about Ragman? Has anyone read that? I used to have the entire original 5-issue run a long time ago. I remember really liking it and thought it was one of the best of DC's short-lived explosion/implosion titles in the latter half of the 1970s. It was good concept: you can't get more street level that a hero who wears a patched-up costume, works out of a junkyard and fights thugs and drug-pushers in a low-income neighborhood.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 27, 2019 15:11:35 GMT -5
I've only read Ragman #1 and the cross-over in the Batman Family comic. Up there with Marvel's Scarecrow in the legion of the undeservedly lost. I would've added DC's Rima but I think it fully ran it's Green Mansions course in it's few issues.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 27, 2019 15:25:09 GMT -5
I very much enjoyed Ragman, though I wish that Kanigher had made him Jewish. His name was as Irish as the map if Dublin (Rory Regan), but when I read those issues all those years ago, it seemed that everything about the character screamed that he was Jewish. I wondered whether Kanigher himself or an editor thought that a Jewish superhero was pushing the envelope too much. I figured that the name gave him cover so that he could still infuse the series with an element of Jewish culture. There was an aspect of the Golem about Ragman, after all. Maybe later it was revealed that his name was "Americanized"? Here's a nice taste of K and K on Ragman. diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2012/04/bring-on-back-ups-ragman-by-kanigher.html
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 27, 2019 15:40:00 GMT -5
Often in the past the rag and bone man would be Irish in England and in parts of the U.S.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 27, 2019 15:45:54 GMT -5
Often in the past the rag and bone man would be Irish in England and in parts of the U.S. Not the case in NYC, aka Gotham. The series wasn't set in England. The term rag and bone man isn't associated with America or with being an Irish immigrant in America.
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