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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 25, 2019 10:45:08 GMT -5
Although the "Captain Bat" story in B&B 120 was the best possible thing that you could remember from old comic books.  |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 25, 2019 19:15:18 GMT -5
Batman/Black Canary crossover, probably written by Haney, in which Batman revealed that he hates cottage cheese. I also hate cottage cheese (unless it's on fruit salad), so found it validating. Cottage cheese is one of my favorite snacks. I can’t keep it in the house a lot though cause I’ll sit and eat and entire carton in one sitting if I decide not to have self control. Spoilers for mature content On the subject there was a really weird horror movie about a (this is all how I precieved it) promiscuous woman that takes a deformed/Strange man off the streets and has sex with him. The husband comes home to his wife in the throes of passion towards him. Then all of sudden naked spread eagle she starts birthing these small humanoid type things that start coming out of her vagina and attacking the husband. He tries to fight them off and if I remember right ends up killing his wife. I can’t remember if he lives and/or the “children” do or not.
It was in a title called Demon Dreams and drawn by Suydam, if I’m spelling his name right. But I never knew if that’s the story it originated in or not. Easily the freakiest thing I’ve read in a comic. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 25, 2019 20:17:35 GMT -5
Alpha Flight # 48 i found and browsed through and yeah one of the characters gets their legs fused in an icky way but i still remember Heather Hudson in her Vindicator outfit she was surrounded by bees or something. Alot of weird stuff like that happened in issues like that whether it was Alpha Flight, Power Pack, Uncanny X-Men 208 where Rogue was trying to save Colossus from him being sucked underground and other comics. Must be part of that Mendela Effect or whatever which even happens in comic books where today we still remember weird comic book moments that happened in the comics blah blah Hadn't heard of the Mandela Effect before, so thanks for bringing it up! It perfectly captures something I could still swear I had seen and heard in the first of the three (there are only three) Indiana Jones movies. It's the scene when Indy squares off against the giant guy showing off with his giant sword in the marketplace. Instead of engaging the guy in a fight, Indy just pulls out his pistol and shoots him. I would swear that when I first saw it, Indy wearily says, "Oh, sh*t." before he shoots the guy dead. I never saw or heard it when I rewatched the movie, but it's as if I can see and hear it perfectly that way in my memory. I'm guessing that over the years I may have conflated Indy's reaction in that scene with the story that Harrison Ford and Spielberg tell about why they didn't stage the whip vs. sword confrontation that had been planned. Ford, the story goes was sick as a dog with dysentery and he/ they just said, "Sh*t, I'm just gonna shoot him." Of course, for all I know, I'm making that up, too!  For a long time, I thought that Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? had one very explicit scene of violence. I saw it when I was around 7 or 8. It was on Channel Four's Friday night horror slot, hosted by Indianapolis's horror host, Sammy Terry. They mostly showed Universal horror movies, and that's the first place I saw Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, captive Wild Woman, The Invisible Man and so many other films. But one Friday they showed Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? It's the only Sammy Terry movie that scared me. And it scared me a lot! It scared me so much that I thought I saw Baby Jane explicitly beating the maid to death with a hammer. I thought it showed the hammer bearing down, cracking her skull open and blood flying everywhere as she did it again and again. I also remember the maid falling to the ground and a close-up of her misshapen bloody head. When I saw it again 15 years later, it's not like that at all. The maid goes in to check on Blanche, who's tied up and gagged in the bed. Baby Jane grabs the hammer off a small table and you see Blanche's face as the shadows work across her face during the killing. It's very effective. But it's not what I remember. I think I must have been so disturbed, even a little traumatized, that I dreamed the explicit version and thought the film had shown it. www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Original+Sammy+Terry%27s+Nightmare+Theatre+Intro+1962&&view=detail&mid=54FC0136308AAECD44C754FC0136308AAECD44C7&&FORM=VRDGAR |
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Post by MWGallaher on May 1, 2019 8:15:36 GMT -5
Last week's cover contest featured Phil Maurice offering Marie Severin's cover to Strange Tales #156. That reminded me that the following issue, Strange Tales #157, included one of the first comic book sequences I can remember:  I wasn't a comic reader at that time--in fact, I was barely a reader at all, approaching my 7th birthday. But this scene, and the preceding page with the Ancient One merging into a stone, had such an impact on me that it seared itself into my young brain. I know where I was: at the Rexall drug store at the corner of Whitney and Thomas in Memphis, Tennessee (you can see this very store, long gone now, in the film The Firm!). My mother had stopped there to pick up something, and for some reason, I was browsing the comic rack, which I don't recall doing ever before, in the brief period while she made her purchase, and this was the comic I browsed, just long enough to see that bizarre scene, served up by Marie Severin and Herb Trimpe. I know it happened because as soon as we got in the car to leave, I asked my mother what a "forelock" was. I didn't get to buy the comic, or finish reading it, or else I'd have learned the answer from the comic itself. One of the nifty things I realize from this memory, since I can place it in time as being around March of 1967 (knowing that stores then didn't keep comics on the stands long past their expiration dates) is that my reading skills must have developed pretty fast. I had just started school in September 1966, and I learned to read then. So in 6 or 7 months, I had become a good enough reader to read unfamiliar words like "forelock", something quite beyond the usual first grade vocabulary. As for earlier comic book memories, there are only two: I can remember seeing this cover on the stands, when I would have been 5:  Then, at the age of 6, I owned my first comic, before I could read:  |
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Post by beccabear67 on May 1, 2019 14:11:56 GMT -5
I could've sworn that Action Comics #304 had a Supergirl/Black Flame cover and that I owned a somewhat beat copy of it once... I was looking it up to add to a virtual jigsaw last night and found my memory was totally wrong. The first splash page of the story inside was the image I remembered. The strange thing is I think I went through this with the same false memory once before when I wanted to post about the Black Flame character in a thread about the Supergirl tv show awhile back.
As for really early comic book memories; I remember a Gold Key Tom & Jerry comic with the mice carved out of soap on the cover. Those mice were great realist sculptors! I've never looked for the comic since, probably wasn't the greatest comic ever published, but I remember that where I can't really recall any specific Scamp cover or story and I had a lot more of them. Also I remember a regular format Archie with a Bermuda Triangle story/cover, but again never have tried to identify what issue that would've been.
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Post by mikelmidnight on May 2, 2019 11:43:24 GMT -5
I remember a comet landing in Riverdale that generated radiation which caused everything to age and deteriorate. Archie saved the day by scooping it up with a helicopter (so he was out of range) and depositing it somewhere.
I want to add here that as a youngster, the lack of continuity in Archie comics annoyed me? I understood that it was episodic humor and never wanted or expected Marvel Comics-style ongoing soap operatic storylines, but I could never reconcile the random heroic Archie who would save the day with the incompetent loser he seemed to be in other stories.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 2, 2019 12:22:25 GMT -5
I remember a comet landing in Riverdale that generated radiation which caused everything to age and deteriorate. Archie saved the day by scooping it up with a helicopter (so he was out of range) and depositing it somewhere. I want to add here that as a youngster, the lack of continuity in Archie comics annoyed me? I understood that it was episodic humor and never wanted or expected Marvel Comics-style ongoing soap operatic storylines, but I could never reconcile the random heroic Archie who would save the day with the incompetent loser he seemed to be in other stories. Maybe heroic Archie was from Riverdale-Two. |
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