Golddragon71
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Immortal avatar of the Dragon Race The Golden Dragon
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Post by Golddragon71 on Oct 28, 2014 12:27:26 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 18, 2014 15:23:02 GMT -5
What is the Status of DarkHawk ? Last I saw him he was possible cannon fodder in Avengers Arena.
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 19, 2014 5:16:31 GMT -5
What is the Status of DarkHawk ? Last I saw him he was possible cannon fodder in Avengers Arena. He survived Avengers Arena, but didn't appear in Avengers Undercover (the sequel to Arena) as far as I know. |
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Post by foxley on Nov 19, 2014 5:23:21 GMT -5
Wasn't the Icicle a foe of the Green Lantern? Why was he going on about Jay Garrick? It sounds like the writer went "The Icicle was the golden age Captain Cold, right?".
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 19, 2014 6:55:29 GMT -5
What is the Status of DarkHawk ? Last I saw him he was possible cannon fodder in Avengers Arena. He survived Avengers Arena, but didn't appear in Avengers Undercover (the sequel to Arena) as far as I know. Didn't Chase end up Darkhawk? I know it went back and forth, and Chris Powell, seemed dead for a while, but then wasn't. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 10, 2014 21:31:40 GMT -5
Just read the Fallen Angels mini... what the heck happened to have that get completely abandoned? Just bad sales? Sure, Ariel eventually made it back to a comic (like 20 years later), but none of the other new characters did... despite seemingly a budding relationship between Chance and Sunspot.. you'd think they'd get a mention at least.
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Post by JKCarrier on Dec 11, 2014 1:56:58 GMT -5
Just read the Fallen Angels mini... what the heck happened to have that get completely abandoned? Just bad sales? Sure, Ariel eventually made it back to a comic (like 20 years later), but none of the other new characters did... despite seemingly a budding relationship between Chance and Sunspot.. you'd think they'd get a mention at least. Colleen Doran has been posting some of her artwork from the 2nd Fallen Angels miniseries that never saw print. The storyline involved child abuse and AIDS and other touchy subjects...apparently Marvel got cold feet and decided to kill the project: www.facebook.com/311416896313/photos/pb.311416896313.-2207520000.1418280383./10152525522621314 |
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 11, 2014 4:40:01 GMT -5
Just read the Fallen Angels mini... what the heck happened to have that get completely abandoned? Just bad sales? Sure, Ariel eventually made it back to a comic (like 20 years later), but none of the other new characters did... despite seemingly a budding relationship between Chance and Sunspot.. you'd think they'd get a mention at least. I always wondered about Chance and the Marauder Scrambler. I usually dislike all characters in comics being related, but two Korean mutants with exactly the same powers? |
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Post by gothos on May 18, 2015 14:51:40 GMT -5
I've been trying to reconstruct the history of how Poison Ivy "strayed" from her original version, so if you're in a mood to play fact-checker, give this a read:
'Though I would not retract my earlier statement that Gerry Conway is principally responsible for making Poison Ivy a "mistress of plants"-- which eventually led to her becoming a sort of plant-woman in her own right-- I have to fill in some blanks that led to this association.
Ivy's creator Kanigher wrote a total of four Poison Ivy tales: two for Batman feature-stories, and a two-part continuity in 1971 for ROSE AND THE THORN, a backup feature in LOIS LANE. The character then apparently went into limbo for the next three years, until she was revived by writer Len Wein in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #111 (1974), where she became a member of Libra's "Injustice Gang." Wein possibly realized that Kanigher's conception of Ivy wasn't powerful enough to hold her own in a standard superhero set-up, and it's in this issue that she starts using a gun that can accelerate the growth of plants, so that said plants can then attack or entangle heroes, as needed. Perhaps because Wein was working from the concept that Ivy was not any sort of scientist, Ivy tells Mirror Master that fellow gang-member Chronos, who was a scientist, helped Ivy design her plant-stimulating weapon. In the same issue, in a text-piece credited to Martin Pasko, Poison Ivy's "wanted poster" gives her the name "Pamela Isley" and says that she "uses knowledge of horticulture against the Batman," which I would regard as a bit of back-dating, since the Kanigher version did not actually plant-gimmicks as such, unless her hypnotic lipstick was supposed to be plant-derived. The text-piece also mentions her ability to creep up a wall like real ivy, which was definitely in Kanighter's first story, but the piece strangely credits her tendency to make men fall in love with her only to "psychological trickery."
The version of Ivy with her trusty plant-accelerator gun seems to last for the next few years, appearing in SUPER FRIENDS #1 (1976), before Gerry Conway's WORLD'S FINEST story portrays her as turning human beings into plant-creatures-- which may have spurred later authors to portray Ivy as making herself into a plant-like entity.'
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Confessor
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Post by Confessor on May 20, 2015 3:43:31 GMT -5
There's still a charming, whimsical corner of the DC Universe? It's a little place just east of Otisburg. Otisburg? Otisburg?!!! It's an itty-bitty place. |
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Post by Action Ace on May 20, 2015 19:10:08 GMT -5
It's a little place just east of Otisburg. Otisburg? Otisburg?!!! It's an itty-bitty place.Holy One Year Later Batman!  |
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Post by Honeystinger on Jun 2, 2015 20:26:14 GMT -5
Back in the early 70's the Phantom Stranger had a regular supporting cast. There was Dr Thirteen and his wife, but a gang of teenagers also kept popping up. They were pretty generic characters - Attila the leader, Mr Square the brainy guy, Spartacus the black guy and Wild Rose the girl guy. They were just viewpoint characters; they did nothing, added nothing to the plots, and had virtually no interaction w/the Stranger outside of asking obvious questions. One issue revealed that Mr Square had a thing for Wild Rose, who seemed to be hooking up w/Attila, and that was the sum total of their characterization. But, oddball that I am, I kinda liked them. As far as I know, they've never appeared outside of those half-dozen or so issues. Am I wrong? Dr. Thirteen and his wife Marie were a major reason the Phantom Stranger became my favorite comic back in the 1970s. They just clicked with me for some reason. It may have helped that Terrence wasn't ranting in my first issue (#5), just quietly determined to expose the Stranger. Later, in Action Comics Weekly, he showed signs of rethinking his attitude toward magic; did DC ever follow up on that? But my lost character is Terrence's wife, Marie. He was better with her by his side. I was very annoyed with DC for retconning this blond, blue-eyed woman out of existence in favor of a dead Asian woman, just because someone assumed that the half-Asian sorceress Traci Thirteen was Dr. Thirteen's daughter. I don't know who started that idea; Traci's origin story never identified her dad by name. |
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Confessor
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Not Bucky O'Hare!
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Post by Confessor on Jun 2, 2015 20:41:33 GMT -5
Otisburg? Otisburg?!!! It's an itty-bitty place.Holy One Year Later Batman! A good punch line is worth... ...waiting for.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 12:50:01 GMT -5
It's a little place just east of Otisburg. Otisburg? Otisburg?!!! It's an itty-bitty place.Itty-Bitty Place for Otis! |
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Post by gothos on Aug 19, 2015 17:42:47 GMT -5
To my knowledge only one of the 1950s "Silent Knight" stories was ever reprinted, in an issue of DC SUPER STARS methinks.
Has anyone read unreprinted stories of the Knight?
I remember that he gets his armor in a mysterious, if not quite supernatural, manner-- wonder if that origin was ever again referenced.
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