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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 5, 2020 9:17:34 GMT -5
The obscure Golden Age hero The Green Turtle operated out of a cave in the Chinese Himalayas. Early Fox star The Flame, co-crated by Will Eisner and Lou Fine, also originally used a cave as his HQ. I know there were others from that era, but I'd have to dig through my notes.
Cei-U! I summon the hellacious heating bills!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 9:59:35 GMT -5
I really need to read about this Green Turtle now!
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 5, 2020 10:42:02 GMT -5
I really need to read about this Green Turtle now! From my book:
The cover feature of Blazing Comics was “The Green Turtle,” a super-hero created by Chinese-American cartoonist Chu F. Hing. The Turtle, a.k.a. Ching Qwai, was a costumed mystery-man aiding the Chinese against the Japanese with the help of his manservant Wun Too, young war refugee Burma Boy, and Ra-Tin, daughter of an executed mandarin. Operating from a cave in the mountains and flying a distinctive rocket plane, Green Turtle's only super-power was the ability to cast the shadow of a huge cartoony turtle, a shadow that didn't always match his own position. A tad wordy and brutally violent at times, the series' only serious flaw was its continually promising to reveal the hero's origin than putting it off.
Cei-U! I summon the original hero on a half-shell!
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jul 5, 2020 10:57:36 GMT -5
I really need to read about this Green Turtle now! From my book:
The cover feature of Blazing Comics was “The Green Turtle,” a super-hero created by Chinese-American cartoonist Chu F. Hing. The Turtle, a.k.a. Ching Qwai, was a costumed mystery-man aiding the Chinese against the Japanese with the help of his manservant Wun Too, young war refugee Burma Boy, and Ra-Tin, daughter of an executed mandarin. Operating from a cave in the mountains and flying a distinctive rocket plane, Green Turtle's only super-power was the ability to cast the shadow of a huge cartoony turtle, a shadow that didn't always match his own position. A tad wordy and brutally violent at times, the series' only serious flaw was its continually promising to reveal the hero's origin than putting it off.
Cei-U! I summon the original hero on a half-shell!
Oh, also, Gene Luen Yang (along with Sonny Liew) did a graphic novel giving the Green Turtle a backstory! It's titled The Shadow Hero, and well, it's neat!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 11:08:46 GMT -5
I never fail to learn anything here!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 12:07:56 GMT -5
From my book: The cover feature of Blazing Comics was “The Green Turtle,” a super-hero created by Chinese-American cartoonist Chu F. Hing. The Turtle, a.k.a. Ching Qwai, was a costumed mystery-man aiding the Chinese against the Japanese with the help of his manservant Wun Too, young war refugee Burma Boy, and Ra-Tin, daughter of an executed mandarin. Operating from a cave in the mountains and flying a distinctive rocket plane, Green Turtle's only super-power was the ability to cast the shadow of a huge cartoony turtle, a shadow that didn't always match his own position. A tad wordy and brutally violent at times, the series' only serious flaw was its continually promising to reveal the hero's origin than putting it off. Cei-U! I summon the original hero on a half-shell!
Oh, also, Gene Luen Yang (along with Sonny Liew) did a graphic novel giving the Green Turtle a backstory! It's titled The Shadow Hero, and well, it's neat! I loved that series, though I read it in trade. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on Jul 5, 2020 12:49:39 GMT -5
The Champions, and later The Thunderbolts, had a mountain HQ in Marvel comics. The Thunderbolts took the abandoned complex over and found an old '60s X-Men villain, Ogre, still living there from when Factor Three used it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 12:51:19 GMT -5
I guess caves are just popular. Hasn’t Bigfoot/Sasquatch been known to live in caves?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 5, 2020 18:23:10 GMT -5
I knew you guys wouldn’t let me down. I should have known about the Phantom. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Phantom comic other than the Defenders of the Earth ones. The Phantom is one of the grandpappies of superheroes. Some really great stuff, in both the newspaper strip and the comic. The Jim Aparo and Don Newton ones, from Charlton, are all great and the Hermes ones, from Peter David and Sal Velutto are also darn good. Also recommend David's mini-series, with Joe Orlando, from DC. The regular series, with Luk McDonnel on art, was pretty good.\\The cave even made it into the serial...
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 5, 2020 18:25:03 GMT -5
Two of the hard rules about Time Travel in PreCrisis Superman stories were that one can't change the past and can't coexist with a past/future self (the time traveller would become a kind of "ghost"). Stop. (The former rule was a important plot point in Crisis too). Did the other titles which were supervised by other editors follow these rules too? I remember a DC Presents story where Superman Teemed up with The Atom and the latter was surprised to know these (he could travel in time thanks to the "Time Pool"). The Time Masters mini-series, from 1990, created the rules that time travelers could only use a method of travel once; but I don't think that was held much beyond the last issue of the series, even though it was supposed to establish the hard rule.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 5, 2020 18:31:06 GMT -5
I guess caves are just popular. Hasn’t Bigfoot/Sasquatch been known to live in caves? With aliens, yes....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 19:29:55 GMT -5
Not that one, the real one.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 5, 2020 20:48:24 GMT -5
Has Steve Ditko's " Mr. A" ever been collected in any form ?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2020 20:56:41 GMT -5
Has Steve Ditko's " Mr. A" ever been collected in any form ? Robin Snyder ran a couple of kickstarters for collected versions of Ditko's stuff, including Mr. A. How available they are now, I don't know, but they do exist. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 6, 2020 19:16:50 GMT -5
Not that one, the real one. Real one? I'll have you know the Six Million Dollar Man was a documentary series; one of the first reality tv shows ever devised. He uncovered the truth about Bigfoot, androids, aliens who kill people when they touch them, deadly space probes that land on earth instead of Venus.........................um.................cranky old defense contractors who need a bit of Dickens in their Christmas.............U-Boats with nerve gas, astronauts who go through storms and climb high tension wire towers looking for childhood friends who are dead (while over-emoting).........defuse Russian doomsday weapons, on Russian soil.......go to college with Sonny Bono............and the horrors of leisure suits!
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