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Post by Duragizer on May 6, 2023 22:07:27 GMT -5
Batman: The Brave and the Bold had a retro-style Harley. I wasn't into the show (really not a fan of Silver Age Batman), though it had its share of inspired designs.
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Post by Chris on May 6, 2023 22:24:16 GMT -5
what Bronze Age or later introduced character/team/property would you be interested in a genuine Silver Age version of (in an alternate history where that happened).
For no good reason whatsoever - A hard-edged cyberworld of punch cards and vacuum tubes.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2023 22:30:10 GMT -5
Duragizer, Batman: Brave and the Bold got me thinking about characters that received some of the "throwback treatment" on that show. Huntress would be fun, and can you imagine Silver Age Ambush Bug? This shot of the Outsiders also made me think they could be cool as well:
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2023 22:33:14 GMT -5
what Bronze Age or later introduced character/team/property would you be interested in a genuine Silver Age version of (in an alternate history where that happened).
For no good reason whatsoever - A hard-edged cyberworld of punch cards and vacuum tubes.I love it!
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Post by Chris on May 6, 2023 22:39:20 GMT -5
For no good reason whatsoever - A hard-edged cyberworld of punch cards and vacuum tubes.I love it! Imagine one of those two sci-fi legends, Mort Weisinger or Julius Schwartz, editing it and bringing in a couple of actual SF writers like Edmond Hamilton to work on it.
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Post by Chris on May 6, 2023 22:40:37 GMT -5
I don't think this one would be wildly different in the Silver Age, but I think it would be different enough -
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 7:03:35 GMT -5
I don't think this one would be wildly different in the Silver Age, but I think it would be different enough - That's another great choice, I've always loved her costume design, but even her backstory/premise from the DC Comics Presents annuals would have been interesting placed back during that era as well I think.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 7:16:49 GMT -5
I’m curious how Booster Gold would work in the Silver Age. Truth be told, I can’t see him existing during that period, but it’s fun to imagine what an early 60s Booster Gold would have been like.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 7:22:28 GMT -5
I’m curious how Booster Gold would work in the Silver Age. Truth be told, I can’t see him existing during that period, but it’s fun to imagine what an early 60s Booster Gold would have been like. Yeah, as I've been digesting all the great mentions in this thread, I've come to realize thinking through the less "intuitive" ones (like Booster Gold!) are fun indeed. You had mentioned Venom earlier as well, my mind has been actively imagining both the visual (and I'm with you on Ditko on that) and how the storyline might have been adapted!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 7:25:21 GMT -5
Indeed.
I know origins are probably reliant on the era. If the Hulk was debuting today, I could imagine a serum or super-steroid rather than a gamma bomb. So, what would Venom’s origin have been in 1962, or 1963, or 1964? Hmm…
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 7, 2023 8:33:26 GMT -5
Did you ever read that issue of Deadpool where he travels back in time to the pages of an Amazing Spider-Man comic? Oh, you're right! That was Deadpool #11 during the Joe Kelly run, I have an Omnibus with that issue. It's hilarious, I must have been thinking of that one subconsciously when I posted. Putting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the SA would have been fun. I can see it now..."The most offbeat title of 196x, you won't want to miss the hippest teenagers in town!!" Fun indeed! I wonder if Silver Age TMNT would have an Archie vibe... maybe some female Turtles? Or not, just some interspecies dating action?
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 7, 2023 8:36:18 GMT -5
Those pics posted of the Silver Age guys doing modern character... seems like they were just following the guide and not drawing them as they would have... THATS more interesting to me. Like, what would Bane be like in the Silver Age? Would he be snorting Super-Smack? Or some sort of vial he drank?
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 8:47:56 GMT -5
I wonder if Silver Age TMNT would have an Archie vibe... maybe some female Turtles? Or not, just some interspecies dating action? That evokes this image for me (from 1991):
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Post by chadwilliam on May 7, 2023 9:52:00 GMT -5
Those pics posted of the Silver Age guys doing modern character... seems like they were just following the guide and not drawing them as they would have... THATS more interesting to me. Like, what would Bane be like in the Silver Age? Would he be snorting Super-Smack? Or some sort of vial he drank? No way would anyone be snorting anything during the Silver Age. I figure rays or a serum. The closest approximation to Bane circa 1966 comic book wise might be The Hooded Hangman:
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Post by MWGallaher on May 7, 2023 10:18:24 GMT -5
I was trying to picture a Silver Age Killraven/War of the Worlds in the 60's, maybe as a replacement for the Watcher back-up in SILVER SURFER, when I realized we already have an analog to what that might have been in Drake and Colan's original, (then) uncontinued Guardians of the Galaxy in MARVEL SUPER-HEROES #18, 1968.
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