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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 21, 2019 21:55:48 GMT -5
9. CATMAN VS. BATWOMAN AND BATMANDetective Comics #311 - "Challenge of the Catman!"Story by Bill FingerArt by Jim MooneyThis is another short Silver Age DC rumble that is so crazy that into my mind right away when I started thinking about great fight scenes. Big-game hunter and animal trapper Thomas Blake has gotten bored with such mundane pursuits, so he decides to become a costumed adventurer. He rather nonchalantly decides to be a criminal because Gotham already has Batman as a crimefighter and he wants to be different. With cats as his crime theme, he becomes Catman to differentiate himself from Batman, and starts planning a crime reign of terror. Catman robs the owner's office at a fancy night club called the Cat and the Fiddle, which is decorated by a giant statue of a well-dressed cat playing a fiddle. He has to clime up the statue to get to the office on the second floor of the club. And Batwoman shows up to face the challenge of the Catman and of course they fight it out on the giant statue! Unfortunately Batwoman, despite her motorcycle and her crime purse, can not quite meet the challenge because she gets all tangled up in the giant catgut on the giant fiddle. But Catman can't deliver the winning blow because Batwoman is just too beautiful, all tied up like that in her yellow, black and red costume! (This infatuation will be a theme in the other two Silver Age Catman appearances.) The rumble continues when batman and Robin show up just in time! But Catman escapes to bedevil the bats with various other schemes, one of which involves a giant robot cat! I had to include one batman story from the Jack Schiff era, didn't I? This Bill Finger story is one of my favorites, the Catman is another fun villain from Bruce Wayne's gentlemen's club (there are two others. At least!), Catman has a magic cloak that gives him nine lives, Batwoman has a major role along with her motorcycle and her infamous crimefighting purse, and Jim Mooney's art gives this story a distinctive look compared to the other Bob Kane ghost artists of the time. What's not to love? As far as I know, this story has never been reprinted. Detective Comics #311 bonus! The Martian Manhunter story is the first appearance of Zook!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 23, 2019 14:45:01 GMT -5
Flash Gordon vs. Ming the Merciless by Alex Raymond (sequence from the August 1938 Sundays). This is probably the image that first came to mind when making my list...so naturally it's higher up for me. The Incredible Hulk VS Wolverine from The Incredible Hulk #340 (1988) Hulk Versus Wolverine made my list as well...though my selection is from a latter appearance. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2019 14:46:08 GMT -5
I bet Hulk/Wolvie is on a lot of lists. In fact, you could come up with ten "rumbles" from the Hulk's title alone!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 23, 2019 14:57:23 GMT -5
Day Two Batman Versus The GCPD By Frank Miller Batman: Year One As others have remarked, it'd be easy to simply pick a single hero and do a top ten list of favorite beat downs solely based on them. Heck I could probably do that for a single hero...in a single year and not stress too much. But variety is the spice of life so I'm going to continue to split it up, so from Darwyn Cooke and Ted Grant on my first day I give you Frank Miller and Batman on my second and while there were a lot of great scenes in Year One my favorite by far was the confrontation with the GCPD in the old warehouse:  The action is clear and dynamic and the poses are just perfect in the way they capture how I feel Batman should fight.  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 23, 2019 17:01:18 GMT -5
The Incredible Hulk VS Wolverine from The Incredible Hulk #340 (1988) Hulk Versus Wolverine made my list as well...though my selection is from a latter appearance. And I'm going with an earlier appearance  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 23, 2019 22:21:39 GMT -5
Day Two Batman Versus The GCPD By Frank Miller Batman: Year One As others have remarked, it'd be easy to simply pick a single hero and do a top ten list of favorite beat downs solely based on them. Heck I could probably do that for a single hero...in a single year and not stress too much. But variety is the spice of life so I'm going to continue to split it up, so from Darwyn Cooke and Ted Grant on my first day I give you Frank Miller and Batman on my second and while there were a lot of great scenes in Year One my favorite by far was the confrontation with the GCPD in the old warehouse: The action is clear and dynamic and the poses are just perfect in the way they capture how I feel Batman should fight. I've never been much of a fan of Batman: Year One, but you really can't fault this sequence at all. |
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Post by brutalis on Jun 24, 2019 7:49:29 GMT -5
9. Elektra Vs. Bullseye
Daredevil # 181
Frank Miller/ Klaus Jansen
April 1982
Just missed my list. Cut it since I was Marvel heavy. But VERY close. Great minds and all that stuff Icc! |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jun 27, 2019 0:36:25 GMT -5
Day Two Judge Dredd vs Mean Machine (Angel)  Introduced with his family in 2000AD 160 (hell 1980...I so old...) From wikipedia "When he was young, he was gentle, nice and utterly unlike his viciously criminal family. Pa Angel was not pleased by the boy's kind nature and kidnapped a surgeon from nearby Texas City to operate on him, making him the crazed cyborg he is now. He has a mechanical right arm and a steel dome over his skull with a dial on the front. This dial has four settings; from 1, where he is surly and disagreeable, all the way up to 4, which is when he is fully berserk. His favorite attack is a headbutt with his steel skull. He is not very bright at best and has often been outwitted. Mean Machine's dial settings are: Surly Mean Vicious Brutal On occasion, an extremely hard headbutt causes Mean Machine's dial to get stuck on 4½, which causes him to go berserk, unable to stop headbutting anything he comes across." Sorry but it was easier and way more simply put than I had in me. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 27, 2019 7:18:22 GMT -5
Judge Dredd vs Mean Machine (Angel) I was wondering when we were gonna get some Dredd on this list! |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 2, 2019 12:06:34 GMT -5
9. Vision vs. Count Nefaria or "Androids Keep Falling on My Head" By: Shooter, Byrne & Marcos Avengers 166 (1977) The Avengers have been handed a bitter defeat at the hands of a wildly over-powered aristocrat, so it falls to the Vision to think approximately one mile outside the box in order to stop Nefaria. After an attempt to "disrupt" Nefaria has no effect, the Vision decides to drop in unannounced, and the villain finds himself down for the, er, count! It's bold and bonkers. . .and it works! Always wear a helmet, kids!  Buthoom, indeed! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 2, 2019 13:21:40 GMT -5
9. Vision vs. Count Nefaria or "Androids Keep Falling on My Head" By: Shooter, Byrne & Marcos Avengers 166 (1977) The Avengers have been handed a bitter defeat at the hands of a wildly over-powered aristocrat, so it falls to the Vision to think approximately one mile outside the box in order to stop Nefaria. After an attempt to "disrupt" Nefaria has no effect, the Vision decides to drop in unannounced, and the villain finds himself down for the, er, count! It's bold and bonkers. . .and it works! Always wear a helmet, kids! Buthoom, indeed! Ask not for whom the but hooms. The but hooms for whom. |
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