Love Everlasting Volume 1; and Ice Cream Man Volume 11- Horror, Horror. Ice Cream Man is great as always, but Love Everlasting was a surprise, despite the all-star creative team (Tom King, writer; Elsa Charretier, artist; Matt Hollingsworth, colorist; Clayton Cowles, letterer). I was not…
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First thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire."
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I am so glad I stopped reading this series after #1.
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A Cover a Day
Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow…
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The Massive, Extravagant, Over-the-top Golden Age JSA Re-read
Welcome to our re-read of the first and greatest superhero team in comics ... and quite a bit more! My plan is to re-read and discuss the Golden Age Justice Society of America, which ran from All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940) to All-Star Comics #57…
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Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale
As I did with "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" discussion, I borrowed the title from a tpb collection but I plan to go beyond the actual contents of the collection itself. Catwoman has the unique distinction of appearing in the first three…
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Riddle Me This
There were but two Riddler stories published during the Golden Age,* the first being...DETECTIVE COMICS #140 - "The Riddler"The Riddler has a fairly nondescipt origin story: basically he was a kid who cheated at puzzles. When he grew up, he got…
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The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told
BATMAN #1 - "The Joker"The Joker got off to a strong start with not one but two stories in the very first issue of Batman. No clown, he, but a psychopathic thief and serial killer from the very beginning whose murders were nothing short of…
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Batman vs. The Penguin
The Penguin first appeared in two consecutive issues of Detective Comics. DETECTIVE COMICS #58 - "The Penguin" Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting an art exhibition when they take note of an odd little man who resembles a penguin. Suddenly,…
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The Crimes of Two Face
DETECTIVE COMICS #66 - "The Crimes of Two-Face!"[In Two-Face's earliest appearances he was known as Harvey Kent, but that was later changed, apparently to avoid confusion with a well-known denizen of Metropolis. Also, his girlfriend Gilda repeatedly…
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Comical Comic Cuts
So - I know I've only been here a week, but I thought I might be able to brighten up everyone's lives a little with a new thread devoted to comical cartoons based around superheroes. I have loads of funny material that I've picked up over the…
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Tragedy!
So, next weekend I was going to be setting up at my first show in about 6 years. I went to my storage unit, and there was a different lock on it... My unit was broken into, and they replaced the lock, so the management of the place never noticed. I…
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