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Post by MDG on Mar 7, 2017 6:45:42 GMT -5
Well, that's pretty damn big of you, Batman! I don't see you bustin' through any brick walls or outracing bullets.
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Post by Polar Bear on Mar 7, 2017 7:00:01 GMT -5
In the early 70s when Wonder Woman became the non super powered Diana Prince in her own title, I think WW left the JLA. I was just wondering how her absence from the JLA book was handled. Heh. I just happened to re-read Batman and the Outsiders #1. IIRC, the JLA handle Batman's disappearance in the following issue of JLA with barely a single mention of his absence. Great friends. Okay, now I can't get it out of my head: who was behind the Batman-JLA/Superman fallout, Batman and the Outsiders' writer Barr or editor Wein? Someone's gotta know...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 7:24:27 GMT -5
Heh. I just happened to re-read Batman and the Outsiders #1. IIRC, the JLA handle Batman's disappearance in the following issue of JLA with barely a single mention of his absence. Great friends. Okay, now I can't get it out of my head: who was behind the Batman-JLA/Superman fallout, Batman and the Outsiders' writer Barr or editor Wein? Someone's gotta know... Both.
link to Barr interview
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 7, 2017 12:29:57 GMT -5
Anybody know when the first instance of Batman using a grappling gun was?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 12:53:54 GMT -5
Anybody know when the first instance of Batman using a grappling gun was? Tim Burton's Batman?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 13:11:45 GMT -5
Anybody know when the first instance of Batman using a grappling gun was? Tim Burton's Batman? You are correct Sir. IGN Grapple Gun article
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 7, 2017 14:17:06 GMT -5
He did use a sort of grapple rifle in DKR #1 (and a similar handgun in #3), although he only ever carried it once and seemed to use a grappling hook otherwise.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 7, 2017 14:34:50 GMT -5
They did use Bat-mortars, a couple of times, in the tv series. This was drawn from reality, as mortars were used to launch climbing ropes up cliffsides, in WW2 (especially D-Day). They also used to used grenade launchers to fire climbing lines, on the tv show SWAT (also based on actual equipment) and I always thought Batman should be using one. James Bond tried it out in Diamonds Are Forever; so, you'd thing one of the Bat writers would have thrown it in, during the 70s.
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Post by Polar Bear on Mar 7, 2017 18:05:47 GMT -5
Okay, now I can't get it out of my head: who was behind the Batman-JLA/Superman fallout, Batman and the Outsiders' writer Barr or editor Wein? Someone's gotta know... Both.
link to Barr interview
Thanks, Michael! I don't think Mssrs. Barr & Wein get enough credit for this move, as Batman's departure from the satellite JLA is what set up not only the Batman-Superman dynamic that Frank Miller depicted so well in The Dark Knight Returns #4 but also the state of affairs we find in the post-Crisis/pre-New 52 DCU from 1987 until, I'd argue, 2003's Superman/Batman #1 (though if someone else wants to propose an earlier date for their becoming actual friends, I'm open to hearing it).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 18:56:21 GMT -5
Grapping Gun - Tim Burton's Batman - You Tube
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 22:22:23 GMT -5
Thanks, Michael! I don't think Mssrs. Barr & Wein get enough credit for this move, as Batman's departure from the satellite JLA is what set up not only the Batman-Superman dynamic that Frank Miller depicted so well in The Dark Knight Returns #4 but also the state of affairs we find in the post-Crisis/pre-New 52 DCU from 1987 until, I'd argue, 2003's Superman/Batman #1 (though if someone else wants to propose an earlier date for their becoming actual friends, I'm open to hearing it). I loved BATO by Barr & Aparo. It made sense to me that Batman would lead a more covert team than the JLA. However I did miss the Superman/Batman team that Crisis erased.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2017 22:18:21 GMT -5
Are there any DC Super Heroes, through the Silver Age (lets say before 1970 or Jack Kirby joining) who debuted in their own title without having a series in an anthology book or trial issues in things like Showcase or Brave and Bold?
Without spending too much time dwelling on this, I can't think of any offhand
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 12, 2017 22:33:56 GMT -5
Are there any DC Super Heroes, through the Silver Age (lets say before 1970 or Jack Kirby joining) who debuted in their own title without having a series in an anthology book or trial issues in things like Showcase or Brave and Bold? Without spending too much time dwelling on this, I can't think of any offhand Captain Action, maybe? Though he was licensed.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 12, 2017 22:37:56 GMT -5
Are there any DC Super Heroes, through the Silver Age (lets say before 1970 or Jack Kirby joining) who debuted in their own title without having a series in an anthology book or trial issues in things like Showcase or Brave and Bold? Without spending too much time dwelling on this, I can't think of any offhand Rex the Wonder Dog.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 12, 2017 22:41:44 GMT -5
Are there any DC Super Heroes, through the Silver Age (lets say before 1970 or Jack Kirby joining) who debuted in their own title without having a series in an anthology book or trial issues in things like Showcase or Brave and Bold? Without spending too much time dwelling on this, I can't think of any offhand Rex the Wonder Dog. That was a paw choice Slam
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