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Post by batusi on Feb 19, 2018 21:47:04 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 19, 2018 20:02:24 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 19, 2018 10:12:28 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 18, 2018 0:37:48 GMT -5
Times change and so should origin stories...every 10 years or so should do it! Although, that said... I do have my preferences & the past 30 years of changes just ain't cutting it! I prefer classic origins.
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Post by batusi on Feb 18, 2018 0:19:28 GMT -5
Did anyone mention Dick Sprang?
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Post by batusi on Feb 17, 2018 21:18:06 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 17, 2018 10:20:19 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 17, 2018 0:55:49 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 16, 2018 19:27:27 GMT -5
I'm up to Detective Comics #444. I had forgotten that the Batman stories switched to continued stories - getting away from the done-in-one format that the series had utilized for so long - even before the 100-Page Super-Spectacular format had ended. In this one, the GCPD is after Batman because he shot Talia al Ghul in the back! Batman says he was framed. (He could also have said "It's Talia al Ghul! Do you REALLY think she's dead, you tool?!") Not so many super-heroes among the reprints this time. Instead we get Star Hawkins (I love Star Hawkins), Sierra Smith, Roy Raymond TV Detective and some other odd features like Gangbusters and a story about the INTERNATIONAL SKY POLCE! (Where's Mysto? Where's Captain Compass? SOMEBODY DROPPED THE BALL!) I'm almost done with #444 and that just leaves one more 100-Page issue of Detective Comics and I'm sure my Detective Comics project will go a lot faster once I get past the Super-Spectaculars. A great comic!! I haven't read this 5 part multi story arc for awhile but remember being disappointed that Jim Aparo didn't finish up with the art for the last couple of issues. I always wished Aparo would have done more of the early Batman/Detective Comics while he was still in his prime.
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Post by batusi on Feb 15, 2018 20:34:50 GMT -5
I don't consider too many comics past the late 80's as "classic", but that's just me.
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 14:57:00 GMT -5
Well, my 52 year old eyes that wears contact lenses and also needs reading glasses can still read these digests with no real issues. My eyesight is bad, if I can read these digests then pretty much anyone can.
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 12:12:44 GMT -5
I bought that digest off the newsstand when it was new. Along with a few others. I know that I let my younger boys read a few of them. I pulled one out a couple years back and found that I needed high magnification reading glasses to be able to read the damn things. Yeah, Getting older wreaks havoc on OLD eyes trying to read those old DC digests! Thankfully I have a good pair of reading glasses.
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 12:04:20 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I loved that digest. It's a great collection of stories, and I loved the added bonus of those 1-page origins. And yeah, it's hard to find any information on the credits for them at the usual sources, like the GCD. The art, esp. in the Catwoman origin, looks like it could have been done by Dick Giordano, though. Yep, Dick Giordano is what I have read as a possibility. Although the 2 page spread was done by Denys Cowan and Giordano, so...perhaps the 1 page origins were both as well??
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 10:02:12 GMT -5
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Post by batusi on Feb 14, 2018 6:29:21 GMT -5
Here are a couple of the 1 page origins...
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