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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2015 18:31:28 GMT -5
A place for asking questions that don't require their own discussion threads. New people in particular, don't be afraid to tap the collected knowledge of the CCF! We seldom bite.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 18, 2015 22:02:42 GMT -5
Here's a question- How did Superman come back to life after the Doomsday Battle?
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Post by shaxper on Jul 18, 2015 22:06:12 GMT -5
Here's a question- How did Superman come back to life after the Doomsday Battle? I think I recall Pa Kent somehow going to Kryptonian Heaven to find him and basically pep-talking him into coming back to life. Dear god, was it really that lame? |
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Post by sabongero on Jul 18, 2015 22:11:44 GMT -5
Does anyone know where the idea for the "title smash" style cover originated from? I'm sure Walter Simonson was inspired somewhere.  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 18, 2015 22:13:53 GMT -5
Here's a question- How did Superman come back to life after the Doomsday Battle? I think I recall Pa Kent somehow going to Kryptonian Heaven to find him and basically pep-talking him into coming back to life. Dear god, was it really that lame? It sounds lame but the story was pretty well done, and I liked the idea that Superman only died because he saw himself as human and thus he should die, when the story seemed to say the opposite. Since I was a kid I've always felt that Superman should live forever, so it was neat to see that idea on paper both here and in DC One Million. On a slightly more complicated note, the story also posited that Eradicator saved Superman when he put his body in the regeneration matrix, which he only did to power himself rather than to bring Superman back from the dead. I like the Pa Kent angle better. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 19, 2015 0:34:16 GMT -5
Does anyone know where the idea for the "title smash" style cover originated from? I'm sure Walter Simonson was inspired somewhere. It was generally frowned upon and mostly a thing to be avoided for the artwork to interfere with or obscure the masthead during the Golden Age. MLJ seems to have extended more of a free hand to its artists in this regard than other publishers. To wit, PEP Comics #22:
Four months later, they did it again:
In the Silver Age, Neal Adams famously tried to incorporate the masthead into the cover art, but editorial heads objected (left: the published cover; right: the proposed cover):
Not precisely what you asked for, but important steps toward it.
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Post by Trevor on Jul 19, 2015 7:06:17 GMT -5
Seriously, comics fans in the '70s - You crapped your pants and cried like a baby every time you saw a reprint even if it was great stuff you had never seen, you thought Don McGregor was a great writer and Bob Haney wasn't, and you called Kirby's stuff old fashioned. What the HELL was wrong with you people? Not me! While I admit I loved the new material more, I enjoyed all the classic stuff too, and religiously collect those 100 pagers today. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 19, 2015 10:43:31 GMT -5
Are all the 100 page DC Spectaculars from the 70s reprint material or do some of them contain original content? The first batch of Super-Specs were all-reprints. Like Superman #252. And I have a Flash Super-Spec that's all reprints.
Then there was original materiel mixed in most of the time. I have five or six issues of Detective Comics and all of them contain one original Batman story and a chapter of the classic Manhunter story by Goodwin and Simonson.
Superman Family would have one story - Supergirl, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane alternated in the "original story" slot - while the rest of the issue was Superman Family reprints.
I love the Super-Specs! I have a Batman Super-Spec that I've had since it was only a few years old that is one of my favorite comic books. A crazy crazy original Penguin story, the insane 1940s Joker story titled "Rackety Rax Racket" (wherein Robin has to buy a doll with pennies to keep the Joker from killing Batman), an Ally Babble story, "Die Small, Die Big" (my favorite New Look story ever) and another New Look tale with gorgeous art by Gil Kane.
I didn't start buying comics until shortly after the Super-Specs were discontinued but I loved finding them in used-book stores. Most comics in those places were two for 25 cents, but the Super-Specs would usually have a little white tag on the corner marked 25 cents. And the guy who ran the place never heard of a comic-book bag.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 11:33:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the responses. I usually (but not always) avoid reprints but the completist in me wants all those 100 pg Batman issues. I'm also looking at GHOSTS and UNEXPECTED. Might avoid Tarzan though, never been too keen on that title  One reason why I dislike reprints, they sometimes don't print the whole original story. I had this one for years and really liked it...and then realised it doesn't actually reprint the whole of Spectacular Spider-Man Magazine 2.  A quick google describes the somewhat glaring omissions. Pages 1 & 2 and pages 45 & 46 have been condensed to one page each. Pages 4,5,8,9,10,11,17,21,23,24,27-29,33 and 36 were not reprinted. Page 22 panels 2 & 3 and page 25 panels 3-5 are not reprinted. Why the short-change? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 19, 2015 12:10:56 GMT -5
A famous example of the title-smash  And another  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 12:34:59 GMT -5
Okay, I've got another Superman question for you folk. Can anybody explain the electric blue Superman to me? How he got the electric powers, where Electric Red came from, and how he returned to his standard self? I wasn't buying many comics at the time; I know I've read some Justice League w/Blue, but I don't remember the beginning or the end of that bit.
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Post by JKCarrier on Jul 19, 2015 16:26:50 GMT -5
For completely silly reasons, I'm trying to find DC Comics that take place during, or otherwise refer to, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. So far I've got:
Wonder Woman #116 (August 1960)
Superboy #111 (March 1964)
Detective Comics #432 (February 1973)
Anyone know of any others?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 19, 2015 17:06:30 GMT -5
Okay, I've got another Superman question for you folk. Can anybody explain the electric blue Superman to me? How he got the electric powers, where Electric Red came from, and how he returned to his standard self? I wasn't buying many comics at the time; I know I've read some Justice League w/Blue, but I don't remember the beginning or the end of that bit. I read them at the time, but I totally don't remember... it was that good. The Blue version was definitely the one people mostly used outside the super-books... I think the red one MIA for a bit? I want to say it was Mr. Mxyzpltyk related, but I don't really recall. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 19, 2015 21:05:51 GMT -5
Okay, I've got another Superman question for you folk. Can anybody explain the electric blue Superman to me? How he got the electric powers, where Electric Red came from, and how he returned to his standard self? I wasn't buying many comics at the time; I know I've read some Justice League w/Blue, but I don't remember the beginning or the end of that bit. It had something to do with being deprived of solar power and his body mutating to look for other sources of power. Yeah, it was weird but in the short term it was kind of interesting especially the idea that as Clark Kent he was just as vulnerable as a regular person. The red version came about from a trap set by Cyborg Superman which split Superman in two and he was only able to be reunited mysteriously after the battle with the millennium giants |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 20, 2015 12:17:22 GMT -5
That's right! I remember those guys... made me think of bad copies of the Celestials.. not a great time for Superman, though Scorn was kinda fun.
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