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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 23, 2017 2:41:55 GMT -5
Those have to be two of the best Silver Age covers ever Neutralizing Rita Farr by trapping her in a glass jar MAKES NO SENSE! Which is part of what's awesome about it. She's just playing along, biding her time, waiting for the right time TO STRIKE! |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 2, 2018 10:42:57 GMT -5
I really liked seeing so many Doom Patrol enemies end up on the Classic Comics Christmas lists this year. Not just the obvious ones like Brain and Mallah and the Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Man but deep cuts like Videx, Lord of Light.
Preminani really was up there with any artist of his generation in terms of drawing (and design!) chops, and it's nice to see him get some recognition.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 2, 2018 13:05:27 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #91. I don't like Mento. He's awfully dull to be so full of himself. I don't see what Rita sees in him. It's more than a little annoying that the creative team decided to hitch Rita with the first male who wasn't a villain or in a wheelchair or a brain in a robot body or possessed by a negative energy being. |
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Post by brutalis on Jan 2, 2018 13:09:57 GMT -5
I don't like Mento. He's awfully dull to be so full of himself. I don't see what Rita sees in him. It's more than a little annoying that the creative team decided to hitch Rita with the first male who wasn't a villain or in a wheelchair or a brain in a robot body or possessed by a negative energy being. But doesn't that make Rita even more of a freak and fitting for the team? With all of the bizarre and fun folks she meets being a DP member she goes and marries the 1st dull rich guy that comes her way! how freakish is that?!?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 13:22:34 GMT -5
Mento when he was introduced to the Doom Patrol, I felt that this member was kind of out of place and that's why after reading a few issues of the Doom Patrol when he was on the team ... this member made it impossible to enjoy it. I felt that Doom Patrol should never ever expand and should left alone just like the Fantastic Four; once the Fantastic Four added She-Hulk to replace the Thing ... FF was never, ever same and when they added Mento; Doom Patrol was never, ever same. I'm not complaining about Mento; but the dynamics of the Doom Patrol changes everything and that's why ... I stopped reading it when Mento after a few issues came in and that's why I don't like this character at all. I just had a hard time dealing with it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 2, 2018 15:24:23 GMT -5
I don't like Mento. He's awfully dull to be so full of himself. I don't see what Rita sees in him. It's more than a little annoying that the creative team decided to hitch Rita with the first male who wasn't a villain or in a wheelchair or a brain in a robot body or possessed by a negative energy being. But doesn't that make Rita even more of a freak and fitting for the team? With all of the bizarre and fun folks she meets being a DP member she goes and marries the 1st dull rich guy that comes her way! how freakish is that?!? I don't think there's any reason at all why Rita has to get married. It seems like they just couldn't get Rita hitched fast enough once they introduced Mento. I like to think of Rita in terms of her Hollywood past, so if I was writing Doom Patrol, she might have had at least one previous marriage to another Hollywood star or a director or screenwriter ... or maybe to a sports figure considering her athletics past. Maybe she was married to some Hollywood hanger-on and was in the process of getting a divorce when she became Elasti-woman. And that could have been part of the story engine, with Rita dealing with some leech she had married a little hastily a few years earlier. When she does want to deal with relationships again, she's not going to be interested in a boring rich egomaniac like Steve Dayton. Ugh! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 2, 2018 15:30:11 GMT -5
I just checked the Comic Book Database for Mento and he's in about half of the issues of Doom Patrol from his introduction in #91 to the end of the series in #121. BOOOOOO!
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Post by brutalis on Jan 2, 2018 17:18:29 GMT -5
To be fair Dayton was kind of the typical 50/60's Hollywood version of the rich intelligent benefactor who uses his money to become something he isn't and to be part of the gang. Maybe at that time DC was a bit afraid of going too far out there with the freak aspect and wanted someone that they felt readers might better connect with. To me Dayton only really became interesting in Teen Titan's under Wolfman/Perez when after years of using his cereal bowl helmet it finally turned him into his own special brand of Fruit Loops.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2018 17:19:11 GMT -5
I just checked the Comic Book Database for Mento and he's in about half of the issues of Doom Patrol from his introduction in #91 to the end of the series in #121. BOOOOOO! I stopped reading Doom Patrol right around issue #94 and/or #95 and that's was the end of my love for the Doom Patrol. If I want to have an issue run ... I would have issues #1 to #90 and that's would be it. I agree with you 100% ... |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 2, 2018 17:24:10 GMT -5
Y'know, it didn't bother me at the time, but I'm with you on Mento. "Billionaire Playboy" didn't fit in with the rest of the team, thematically.
I liked Beast Boy, though, and he gave Beast Boy a reason to hang around!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 2, 2018 17:27:36 GMT -5
I just checked the Comic Book Database for Mento and he's in about half of the issues of Doom Patrol from his introduction in #91 to the end of the series in #121. BOOOOOO! I stopped reading Doom Patrol right around issue #94 and/or #95 and that's was the end of my love for the Doom Patrol. If I want to have an issue run ... I would have issues #1 to #90 and that's would be it. I agree with you 100% ... Ummm...there was no Doom Patrol 1-85...at least not of the first volume. The DP first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 and the book didn't become Doom Patrol until issue 86. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 2, 2018 18:47:15 GMT -5
I just read #92 ... and he doesn't bother me near as much as just regular Steve Dayton. It's that Mento costume! Make him stop!
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 4, 2018 3:16:15 GMT -5
Now that I'm a little more familiar with Rita Farr and her early appearances, I think it's time to get a little more serious about her filmography. I'm thinking about writing it in the form of an article for a movie magazine, with a short biography, and then several paragraphs about the behind-the-scenes material as each film was getting made. along with the summaries for each film.
And I decided to fit in as much movie stuff about the film industry in the DC Universe as I can without forcing it. I got two studios - The Argus Motion Picture Company from Detective Comics #40; and Mega Studios (headed by L.B. Warden) from Detective Comics #430.
And I got the names of some actresses. Julie Madison was Bruce Wayne's girlfriend in the very early days of Batman, and she became an actress. Tiz Marlow is the DCU's Elizabeth Taylor. Tiz is in the Batgirl story in Detective #414, and she seems to be roughly a contemporary of Rita Farr.
I've got a few others.
And then there's Gregory Reed, who played Superman in the DC Universe. I'm not sure how old he is supposed to have been in the late 1950s, but I'm putting him in at least one of Rita's early movies.
If anybody can think of any other DCU movie stuff that might be useful to help flesh out the cast list of some of the movies in Rita's filmography, let me know.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 9, 2018 1:54:56 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #96. It's a pretty good one! General Immortus, Garguax and the Brotherhood of Evil have teamed up and are operating from a base on the moon! I'm thinking of reading up to #100 and then returning to the Grant Morrison issues for a while. (And I'm making progress on Rita Farr's filmography.) |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 9, 2018 14:19:08 GMT -5
I'm up to Doom Patrol #96. It's a pretty good one! General Immortus, Garguax and the Brotherhood of Evil have teamed up and are operating from a base on the moon! I'm thinking of reading up to #100 and then returning to the Grant Morrison issues for a while. (And I'm making progress on Rita Farr's filmography.) Love those Bob Brown figures! So well done! He was perfect for the DP, Tomahawk, and the Challengers, and it's funny, as much as I love him on this strips, I don't care for him all that much on Batman. |
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