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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 8:45:47 GMT -5
Every time, I open up a Comic Book and even watched a old Super Friends Cartoon - I always consider him a FOE - First and Foremost. Never a Friend based on my own knowledge of this character that I often seen with the legendary Justice Society of America.  Here's a Classic Battle Picture ... |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 10, 2016 9:00:31 GMT -5
I used to have that calendar. Sigh.
Cei-U!
I summon the lost treasure!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2016 9:54:03 GMT -5
I used to have that calendar. Sigh. Cei-U! I summon the lost treasure! I had a friend who had that calendar and it's gorgeous! ...  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2016 11:12:53 GMT -5
Solomon Grundy began as a soulless monster, not stupid so much as ignorant, who killed because he enjoyed it. Unlike Universal's Frankenstein Monster, after whom Solly's original visual was based, there was nothing sympathetic about him at all. Murphy Anderson softened the visual a bit in Showcase #55 but it was Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox, and Mike Sekowsky in JLA #46-47 that turned Grundy into DC's version of the Hulk (both in terms of appearance and personality), a move I personally detest. The Golden Age Grundy is one of my all-time favorite villains. None of the subsequent versions would make my Top Fifty. Cei-U! I summon the scary-ass swamp creature! Thanks, Cei-U! I'd often wondered if Grundy had always been Hulk-like or not. I had a suspicion that he'd been changed into a Hulk knock-off, but I haven't read any of his earlier appearances. All-Star Comics #33 was reprinted in Super-Team Family #4 in 1976. I bought it when it first came out (when I wasn't really buying very many DC comics). It's a key book for me because of how few Golden Age stories I had read. (And forty years later, I still haven't read any more of the 1940s Solomon Grundy stories.) The line-up of the JSA is still my favorite line-up (though I've come to appreciate the Black Canary issues in recent years). (The Moonman story from World's Finest is also a lot of fun. Dick Sprang art! When I was a kid I thought it was really really dumb and I bet I didn't read it for 20 or 25 years even though I was reading the JSA story every year or so. When I eventually did read it again, I completely changed my mind about it! I've slowly come around on the Batman/Superman team-ups, especially when Sprang is doing the art.) I don't know hard if it is to find Super-Team Family #4 or how much it might be, but I'd guess you can get a beat-up copy for just a few dollars. It's well worth the trouble and expense just to read the greatest JSA story ever! Edited to add: I just checked eBay and there's a Super-Team Family #4 up for auction. There's only a few hours left! Nobody has bid on it so you can get it for $2! But hurry! |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 10, 2016 11:30:46 GMT -5
From that very issue:  This is "my" Solomon Grundy. Scary as hell. And I love the Silver Age World's Finests, especially the pre-Weisinger era issues drawn by either Sprang or Curt Swan Cei-U! I summon the nostalgia! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 10, 2016 11:38:24 GMT -5
Thanks Hoosier! An affordable reprint! It's on my want list.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2016 12:24:00 GMT -5
I seem to remember reading that one of the other Golden Age Solomon Grundy appearances was reprinted somewhere during the 1970s, but I've never read it and I don't remember what issue. An issue of Wanted maybe?
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 10, 2016 12:52:13 GMT -5
I found it. Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains #4 from 1972.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 10, 2016 13:13:40 GMT -5
It was definitely James Robinson who tried to make him a good guy, and did the changing personality thing... it was one of those continuity band-aids that was more trouble that it was worth IMO.
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 10, 2016 22:34:30 GMT -5
I thought anytime Grundy was destroyed he was "reborn" with different powers, personality & intelligence. Yes, this was the Robinson explanation. |
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 10, 2016 22:55:07 GMT -5
It was definitely James Robinson who tried to make him a good guy, and did the changing personality thing... it was one of those continuity band-aids that was more trouble that it was worth IMO. I think it was 1 of those continuity band-aids that actually made sense... |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 11, 2016 1:36:46 GMT -5
It was definitely James Robinson who tried to make him a good guy, and did the changing personality thing... it was one of those continuity band-aids that was more trouble that it was worth IMO. Roy Thomas did it first. |
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