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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 20, 2015 0:56:41 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. Can't recall the bit about his armor, but I can tell you that accd'g to the GCD, Silent Knight reprints have appeared in DC Special #12; B and B's #112 and #116; Best of the B and B #1; World's Finest #182; DC Special #5; and Best of DC#26. |
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Post by gothos on Aug 23, 2015 15:54:36 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. Can't recall the bit about his armor, but I can tell you that accd'g to the GCD, Silent Knight reprints have appeared in DC Special #12; B and B's #112 and #116; Best of the B and B #1; World's Finest #182; DC Special #5; and Best of DC#26. Thanks for the info; obviously there were a lot more reprints than I thought. I never even came across "Best of B and B." |
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Post by MWGallaher on Aug 24, 2015 9:24:17 GMT -5
The Silent Knight had a stealth reboot at DC. Vertigo's The Crusades was initiated as an update of the Silent Knight. I was always interested in Vertigo's revival of abandoned DC series, but this one cut any explicit ties to its inspiration, along with the title, which I suppose allowed creators Steven Seagle and Kelley Jones to retain ownership (they later had the series collected at Image Comics). In fact, they may never have intended it to be a direct revival of the character; Vertigo has often served as a means to renew lapsed trademarks, and this case may have been more similar to iZombie, which began "life" as "Gravedigger", but obviously had no connection to DC's first Gravedigger, a WWII series.
This one, though, did retain some strong similarities to its inspiration, although its Medieval Mute was one who was revived in the 20th Century.
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Sept 16, 2015 8:24:33 GMT -5
DC seems to be bringing back its lost bat-characters. First Steph and now Cass. At this point I'm wishing they'd do the same for he super-side of things, but it won't happen.
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Post by dupersuper on Sept 16, 2015 19:40:19 GMT -5
DC seems to be bringing back its lost bat-characters. First Steph and now Cass. At this point I'm wishing they'd do the same for he super-side of things, but it won't happen. Well, they've brought back Wally and Donna (as a mass murderer) and Alpha Centurion...I'm still waiting on Elongated Man and Sue... |
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Post by gothos on Oct 7, 2015 17:34:15 GMT -5
I know there are some Krypto fans out there-- anyone know when he got his first "solo story?" All I remember was the one where he goes back in time to fight Titano, but that's pretty late.
Speaking as I am of marginal characters, I was looking through old LSH stories to see when each Legionnnaire debuted in an actual Legion story, as opposed to being a guest-star in a Superboy or Supergirl tale. I was surprised that Star Boy, introduced in a 1961 Superboy story, doesn't actually appear in a story for over twenty issues of ADVENTURE COMICS. That the editor was trying to insert the character is shown by the fact that he appears in group photos of the membership, in keeping with the status he was given in the Superboy tale-- but Jerry Siegel never puts him in an actual story, and not until #317 in 1964 does Star Boy get something substantial to do. Maybe Edmond Hamilton, who'd been writing the series for about a year, got bugged by his editor and finally decided to make SB the boyfriend to the new female character he introduced in #317: Dream Girl. But for all the emphasis the character got before that, the readers probably could have easily forgotten that he even existed.
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