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Post by zilch on Sept 13, 2022 14:21:05 GMT -5
Continuity/chronology question here... Working on an Elongated Man chronology and wondering when the "Sue attacked/Dr. Light mindwiped" incident happened. It should take place some time before Zatanna was depowered (circa JLA #191) and after she joined (circa JLA #165) and probably after the SSoSV are mindwiped (JLA #168). Any help/thoughts are always appreciated -z Anyway... Thanks for ALL the help... even the off-topic stuff was good to read, as always around here! For right now, I've decided to place it between JLA #186 and 187, just to make it as late as possible (i always try to do that with retcons). It may get moved to a different spot later, but for right now... i like it as a motivation for GA to quit in just an issue or two and Zatanna's power problems (subliminal guilt?) and Batman's leaving for forming the Outsiders. -z
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Post by zilch on Sept 11, 2022 16:03:35 GMT -5
Continuity/chronology question here...
Working on an Elongated Man chronology and wondering when the "Sue attacked/Dr. Light mindwiped" incident happened. It should take place some time before Zatanna was depowered (circa JLA #191) and after she joined (circa JLA #165) and probably after the SSoSV are mindwiped (JLA #168).
Any help/thoughts are always appreciated
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Post by zilch on Jul 15, 2022 11:07:01 GMT -5
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Post by zilch on Jul 14, 2022 11:16:46 GMT -5
Re Posted from the Bat Questions thread...
A couple'a questions...
Has a rundown of Bruce's mom's family tree ever been done?
Her maiden name (at least Post-Crisis) is Kane and we saw her mother and father in the Search for Bruce Wayne trip through time.
Martha has at least one brother, Thomas? who married Katherine Webb and she became Kathy Kane, the first Batwoman. Thomas also died.
Jacob 'Jake' Kane, a career military man, has two daughters one who is the second Batwoman. Relation to the main Kane family?
Elizabeth 'Bette' Kane is a tennis prodigy and related to both of the Batwomen?? This would give us another unnamed brother. The first Batwoman was her aunt, the second her cousin.
Any others? Any help would be appreciated.
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Post by zilch on Jul 11, 2022 17:40:32 GMT -5
A couple'a questions...
Has a rundown of Bruce's mom's family tree ever been done?
Her maiden name (at least Post-Crisis) is Kane and we saw her mother and father in the Search for Bruce Wayne trip through time.
Martha has at least one brother, Thomas? who married Katherine Webb and she became Kathy Kane, the first Batwoman. Thomas also died.
Jacob 'Jake' Kane, a career military man, has two daughters one who is the second Batwoman. Relation to the main Kane family?
Elizabeth 'Bette' Kane is a tennis prodigy and related to both of the Batwomen?? This would give us another unnamed brother. The first Batwoman was her aunt, the second her cousin.
Any others? Any help would be appreciated.
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Post by zilch on Dec 11, 2021 17:59:06 GMT -5
BAttling backpain/sciatica so posting will probably be lateish. This is the first thing ive typed sitting up since last sunday.
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Post by zilch on Nov 5, 2021 13:13:23 GMT -5
The Skrull knocked out Reed Richards and took his place, that's why Reed lies to the police. Reed Richards has been a Skrull for the last 60 years. Proof me wrong! Reed "Skrull" Richards, meet Garth "Proty" Ranzz.
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Post by zilch on Nov 3, 2021 21:54:34 GMT -5
Argent is a tincture of Silver (as in Silver Age, i guess). I wrote some fan fic featuring a continuation of the Argent crew pre-'63 gaining some other former heroes like Radar, the Gadgeteer, the teenaged daughter of Mlle. Marie, Gravedigger and one or two others. Their first mission would have been the rescue of two young boys, Willie Magnus and Niles Caulder from a pair of gorilla based villains, Ultra-Humanite and Monsieur Mallah... maybe i ought to get back to that story some day...
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Post by zilch on Nov 3, 2021 10:48:59 GMT -5
In Avengers #97, the person haranging the Avengers, Warren Craddock, was revealed to be a Skrull spy, specifically the fourth Skrull from the quartet first seen in FF #2.
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Post by zilch on Apr 26, 2021 8:36:58 GMT -5
It was an accident that the Marvel Silver Age we love was what it was at all. Joe Maneely was Stan's go to guy in the 50s. He personally liked him and loved his work. Maneely tragically died in a train accident in 1958. With an artist spot open, Stan offered work to Jack Kirby, who had recently saw his company with Joe Simon go bust and his main source of income, National Comics, closed off due to money issues with Jack Schiff. When Martin Goodman got the idea for a team book from a golf game with Jack Liebowitz, and conveyed this to Stan, it was Kirby who he tasked with the art/conception. If Maneely were still alive, Jack would still be at DC and it would have been a different book. The creative force of Jack Kirby would not have been there for the Big Bang of the Marvel Universe and a very different Marvel would have emerged. Would it have been as successful without Kirby, I think not, but that is a question we cannot answer.
I think if Maneely had lived, Jack would still be at Marvel, but his role would have been different. Maybe less Ditko too.
So we owe the existence of Marvel Comics, the bane of NPP later on, to:
1) The death of Joe Maneely. 2) The greed of Jack Schiff. 3) A tired writer/editor who was the cousin-in-law of the publisher and said the hell with it, let's make something I might want to read.
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Post by zilch on Apr 4, 2021 11:24:43 GMT -5
Reed needed four people because he needed them to run controls. He couldn't do it all by himself.
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Post by zilch on Feb 28, 2021 21:48:46 GMT -5
I always wanted to see a story about how the E-2 Kara was acclimated/raised on Earth with Clark being married. The Earth-One's excuse was "I'm a single guy, it wouldn't look right if a young girl were to come live with me..." Would E-2 Lois (who showed zero interest in things maternal) been an influence on the "feminist" Power Girl? Where did Kara live? The E-2 Fortress located outside of Metropolis??
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Post by zilch on Dec 15, 2020 14:43:42 GMT -5
Man, my just missed list just keeps on growing...
Day Three...
Jerry Siegel
If only for Superman (and the really fun stories through his run on the character), but there's Robotman, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, Red White and Blue, Slam Bradley, Spectre... wow!
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Post by zilch on Dec 15, 2020 14:36:39 GMT -5
Day two...
Gardner Fox
He created the super-hero team dynamic with the Justice Society and reused the formula for the Justice League. Lots of fun stuff in the Golden Age, with Flash and the Three Dimwits and Hawkman!
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Post by zilch on Dec 14, 2020 14:02:31 GMT -5
Damn... that was rough...
I've always wanted to be a writer.
There's some part of me that still plugs away at it, and the few times i've actually shown others my work, it's been met with general approval. Wanting to be a comic book writer was my internal identity for more years than i really care to admit, and is still in there, just staring at the cage bars. I love lots of writers and just jotting down the ones that really got me or started my internal gears turning, setting up the equipment on what Larry Niven called the "Playground of My Mind" gave me over 20 names. Then i had to start pairing off the list. Ouch, Ouch, Ouch. Amputation of adoration. Just stalling for time here folks... nothing to see here...
On the first day of Christmas...
Don Cameron
Who?
Golden Age writer who covered a big swath of National Comics... His creations include Antelope Boy, Tweedledum and Dee, Cavalier, Liberty Belle and others. Always a treat to read. Probably won't show up on anyone else's list.
On to Day Two!
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