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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 8, 2020 11:26:02 GMT -5
I don't know the ins and outs of trademark law the way I do copyright because it has never interested me as much. I do know that Trademarks are maintained as long as they're used and defended. What "use" means is a little fuzzy (at least to me) but since trademarks apply to names, logos, symbols, etc. I would say that, if not required, that cover appearance is a stronger use of the trademarked name, in this case Metamorpho and Metal Men, along with their logos. Thank you, counselor. Makes perfect sense. I hope this counts toward your pro bono hours. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 8, 2020 12:25:15 GMT -5
Thanks for chiming in, Slam. My inference is that the plain text (or, in this domain, plain lettering) on the interiors isn't considered a trademark violation; for example, DC's Shazam series quickly dropped "The Original Captain Marvel" from its place on the logo (presumably at Marvel's insistence or concern over same), but continued to refer to the character by "Captain Marvel" in the stories themselves. It's the cover that's identifying the product for sale, not the contents themselves, so that's where usage is most restricted.
If we're correct in guessing that trademark maintenance was a motivator, I wonder if DC had a schedule on hand somewhere for squeezing in trademarks of potential value periodically. They clearly didn't make an attempt to keep them all live--witness Nightmaster, Jason's Quest, Lady Cop, Dolphin--but they did seem to want to hang on to things like Wildcat, Metal Men, Creeper, marks that I could imagine competitors nicking. If they did have that sort of renewal schedule, B&B would have been one of the most convenient vehicles. Given that there are expenses involved in establishing formal trademarks and maintaining them, I can imagine that less appealing ones would be low priority.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 8, 2020 12:45:31 GMT -5
Thanks for chiming in, Slam. My inference is that the plain text (or, in this domain, plain lettering) on the interiors isn't considered a trademark violation; for example, DC's Shazam series quickly dropped "The Original Captain Marvel" from its place on the logo (presumably at Marvel's insistence or concern over same), but continued to refer to the character by "Captain Marvel" in the stories themselves. It's the cover that's identifying the product for sale, not the contents themselves, so that's where usage is most restricted. If we're correct in guessing that trademark maintenance was a motivator, I wonder if DC had a schedule on hand somewhere for squeezing in trademarks of potential value periodically. They clearly didn't make an attempt to keep them all live--witness Nightmaster, Jason's Quest, Lady Cop, Dolphin--but they did seem to want to hang on to things like Wildcat, Metal Men, Creeper, marks that I could imagine competitors nicking. If they did have that sort of renewal schedule, B&B would have been one of the most convenient vehicles. Given that there are expenses involved in establishing formal trademarks and maintaining them, I can imagine that less appealing ones would be low priority. I suspect that's correct. I also suspect that there is a balancing of how likely someone is to come in and take the trademark. Could someone come up with another comic title using Lady Cop or Jason's Quest? Sure. But are they likely to do so? Not so much. On the other hand, Wildcat is a no-brainer. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 9, 2020 17:16:16 GMT -5
Two-Timers:
The list of characters who only made one return appearance as Batman's partner in B&B is shorter than I would have guessed. In order of time between appearances:
Rose and the Thorn (0 issues apart between appearances): This was not the only 2-part team-up in B&B, but it was the only one to list the same co-star(s) in both halves: there was a Green Arrow (Green Arrow/Atom according to the splash) followed by “4 Famous Co-Stars”) and a Guardians/Green Lantern two-parter. This pair of issues was written by Thorn creator Robert Kanigher, and, as Prince Hal speculated earlier, it may have been a "vanity project" granted Kanigher just to kill time on the march to the concluding 200th issue.
Supergirl (13 issues apart between appearances): This is the only instance in which the short wait for a repeat suggests a particularly positive response, with just over a year passing. But both issues were written by Cary Burkett, so it may have been just his fondness for the pairing. I remember seeing several requests for the Girl of Steel in the letter columns, and I always expected they would resist using her, since Batman was teaming with another Kryptonian next door in World's Finest. I haven't re-read these in a while, but I remember liking them, so she did bring something fresh to the dynamic.
Nemesis (23 issues apart between appearances): This character had the advantage of already being present as the ongoing back-up feature. The second and final appearance served as the finale. That makes some sense, but the first doesn’t: anyone who was buying B&B was already buying Nemesis’s comic, so it didn’t bring any potential for attracting new readers. Burkett, who created Nemesis, was also the writer on this pair. Nemesis was nothing special, with the same super-disguise gimmick that Unknown Soldier and Human Target plied, as did Batman himself in plenty of B&B issues. I like the backup series more for the delightful Dan Spiegle artwork more than anything else about this spy series.
The Demon (28 issues apart between appearances): B&B was the first place that Etrigan appeared outside of creator Jack Kirby’s auspices. His second B&B appearance offers us the one-time artistic pairing of penciler Rich Buckler with inker Jim Aparo on the cover. One thing I appreciated was that Bob Haney didn't neglect the Demon's supporting cast, as one might have expected.
Kamandi (37 issues apart between appearances): Kamandi, too, made his first broader DCU appearances in B&B. In the first team-up, Batman time-traveled to Kamandi’s future, where his bat costume helped him (somewhat) to fit in with a society of intelligent animals (including, naturally, bats). In his return appearance, Kamandi traveled backwards in time to modern-day Gotham. It makes for a nice diptych.
Man-Bat (46 issues apart between appearances): Man-Bat’s first guest appearance in issue 119 gave us his first logo, never again used to my knowledge. When he returned in 165, he had an aborted 2-issue series under his belt and a weird bat-wing-scalloped logo. I really liked both of the logos, and both issues have some dynamite Aparo covers on them.
Swamp Thing (54 issues apart between appearances): As a big Swamp Thing fan, I was disappointed that it took so long for Swampy to return to B&B. I love Mike Kaluta’s art, but his cover for the second one struck me as really off-model. Neither team-up quite stood up to the standard established by Batman’s first encounter with Swamp Thing in 1973’s Swamp Thing #7.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 10, 2020 10:50:28 GMT -5
" I really liked both of the logos, and both issues have some dynamite Aparo covers on them." MWGallaher, at the risk of revealing how deep my nerdiness runs, are you admitting with this statement that part of the thrill of B and B was seeing how the characters' logos looked together? |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 10, 2020 13:20:18 GMT -5
" I really liked both of the logos, and both issues have some dynamite Aparo covers on them." MWGallaher, at the risk of revealing how deep my nerdiness runs, are you admitting with this statement that part of the thrill of B and B was seeing how the characters' logos looked together? Absolutely! Logos were one of DC's strengths in that era, and I used to copy those almost as I'd copy drawings of the characters. There was a magic unique to comics to seeing two cool logos united; I really can't think of any comparable prior phenomenon in other media that had that effect. I wasn't enough of a sports fan to know if that was something you'd see capitalized on in sports back then, though it obviously is now in our more graphics-dominated broadcasting and promotion. (I always thought that Marvel's counterpart, Marvel Team-Up, suffered in comparison by having weaker designs, especially when they featured guests without previously-established logos, like Mr. Fantastic, Hawkeye, Vision, Hercules, Valkyrie, Yellowjacket, Moondragon, Wasp...) |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 10, 2020 13:22:01 GMT -5
Three-peats:
Three of my very favorite DC characters were in the quartet of three-time B&B co-stars.
Adam Strange (issues 90, 161, 190): Adam’s own series was in reprints over in Strange Adventures when he got his first co-starring appearance. DC must have still had some faith in the concept. That first appearance was in a story that didn’t add up even by Haney standards Adam gets diverted into the future (he notices the buildings in Gotham are different) long enough to rip off a piece of newspaper showing that Batman dies on Thursday, April 23, 19--. Batman worries about his impending demise and notices that April 23 is on a Thursday this year! (Wait, what about those new buildings in Gotham?) When he doesn’t die, he just concludes that the article--which also revealed his identity as Bruce Wayne--”must have been wrong!” Wait, what about the other years from 1971-1999 that have a Thursday April 23?
The second appearance had a nice twist, with Batman solving half of a mystery on the planet Rann while Adam handled the Earth-side of the case in Batman’s stead.
Finally, Carmine Infantino gets another shot at drawing his old pal Adam in an adventure where Batman returns to Rann.
All in all, pretty good usage of a partner that might seem difficult to team Batman with, introducing some fun Sci-Fi.
Creeper (issues 80, 143, 178): One of my favorites, the Creeper made for an excellent co-star, with his first appearance in B&B drawn by Neal Adams, the other two by Jim Aparo, who did a very effective job on not only the Creeper, but on his very Ditko-esque boss. The final team-up was one of those by the esteemed Alan Brennart; perhaps the least of his own quartet of B&B scripts but still a memorable one.
Mr. Miracle (issues 112, 128, 138): My favorite Kirby character was a joy to find appearing in my favorite comic book! A natural pairing, since the Batman is well known for his own escape abilities. Barda and Oberon show up, too.
Phantom Stranger (issues 89, 98, 145): The first PS appearance was a bit of a disaster, but the second led editor Murray Boltinoff to draft Jim Aparo as the fill-in artist, since Jim was drawing the Stranger’s own comic at the time. That led to Jim being installed as the primary artist for the second half of B&B’s 200 issue run.
Two-Face is a special case: he was the mystery villain in issue 106, alluded to as the question mark on the cover with “Batman and Green Arrow Plus ?”. In the two-part 129-130, he didn’t get his own logo on the cover, but he was listed as a co-star underneath Green Arrow’s logo on 129, and was part of the “4 Famous Co-Stars” banner on the following one.
There were also a few three-way team-ups, in which two guests were cover-billed with Batman:
118: Wildcat, Joker: Coming a mere 7 issues after the Joker’s shocking first appearance as a B&B co-star is an indicator, I presume, of how issue 111 must have sold through the roof. This time, the Joker has his own distinctive logo (rather than the nondescript type used on 111), one month ahead of his solo comic’s debut.
123: Plastic Man, Metamorpho: Fun to see two shape-changing co-stars confront each other. Plas was the hard-luck sad sack that Haney tended to portray him as, and Rex was Haney’s baby, so he was the Element Man as he was meant to be.
131: Wonder Woman, Catwoman: As I discussed earlier, I was undecided on whether to consider this a Catwoman cover billing; despite not getting a distinctive logo, the cover banner did read “Batman and Wonder Woman vs. the Catwoman!”, a more prominent position than other villains received. Since some of the more recognizable villains did receive consideration as a co-star even when they weren’t actually teamed with Batman in the story, I think DC was intentionally using this as a point of promotion, and merits being considered as a three-star event.
136: GA, Metal Men: Green Arrow horns in on the action in the second part of a two-parter. According to the letters page, readers were clamoring for more two-parters. Well, maybe, maybe not, but here’s another one, giving Haney the chance to build up some of B&B’s forgotten “supporting cast”...but I’ll get back to that later!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 10, 2020 13:42:16 GMT -5
" I really liked both of the logos, and both issues have some dynamite Aparo covers on them." MWGallaher , at the risk of revealing how deep my nerdiness runs, are you admitting with this statement that part of the thrill of B and B was seeing how the characters' logos looked together? Absolutely! Logos were one of DC's strengths in that era, and I used to copy those almost as I'd copy drawings of the characters. There was a magic unique to comics to seeing two cool logos united; I really can't think of any comparable prior phenomenon in other media that had that effect. I wasn't enough of a sports fan to know if that was something you'd see capitalized on in sports back then, though it obviously is now in our more graphics-dominated broadcasting and promotion. (I always thought that Marvel's counterpart, Marvel Team-Up, suffered in comparison by having weaker designs, especially when they featured guests without previously-established logos, like Mr. Fantastic, Hawkeye, Vision, Hercules, Valkyrie, Yellowjacket, Moondragon, Wasp...) Awright! A fellow logo-lover! You caught perfectly what I've always thought. Which is why I always preferred the Silver Age Batman logo for B and B. It was far more graceful, more sweeping in design, more mysterious and easier to incorporate into the "headline" of the cover. The logo that replaced it is too square and clunky to be used on an angle, and only rarely was an element of the design as opposed to an element that had to be incorporated as is, except for changing its size. Even so, there were a few nice covers with that logo. Some fine examples:      But don't get me started about how bad I felt when the Brave and Bold flag went the way of all great logos... |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 10, 2020 19:32:25 GMT -5
MWGallaher , I didn't pick up on this when I first read your post: "I wasn't enough of a sports fan to know if that was something you'd see capitalized on in sports back then, though it obviously is now in our more graphics-dominated broadcasting and promotion." Short answer -- for me anyway -- is yes, and for the same reasons as we like the comic logos together. The example I thought of right away was from when I was in high school. The Fleer trading card company created a special set about the World Series that showed the logos of each of the participants next to each other. I loved seeing the different combinations, especially the teams that only made it a time or two compared to say, the Yankees and the Dodgers.   
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 11, 2020 8:10:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the example, Prince Hal ! My exposure to baseball cards only brought to mind individual team logos on the cards, and broadcast sports seemed to be much less reliant on team graphics then. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 11, 2020 11:26:51 GMT -5
Four-scores:
Now it's time to consider the characters and team who teamed with Batman four times in Brave & Bold.
Aquaman teamed with Batman in issues 82, 114, 126, and 142. With Jim Aparo having been one of Aquaman’s more prominent artists, it was good to see him returning to the character in B&B. Neal Adams handled the first one. Jim did 114 and 142, but only inked 126. The credits listed “Art: Jim Aparo John Calnan”, in that order, and this violation of the comics convention of listing penciler first has led to much misattribution; Calnan penciled, Aparo inked (as confirmed in this issue’s letter column), and Ben Oda lettered (as confirmed by my eye).
Hawkman teamed with Batman in issues 70, 139, 164, and 186, with an Aquaman team-up in 51. That’s a pretty high count for a character not usually remembered as a key B&B player. My favorite of these was the final one, pitting the duo against Anton Lamont, the Fadeaway Man, a previously-established (in Detective Comics #479) Hawkman opponent. Aparo does some nicely-researched Egyptian antiquities and a terrific Hawkman.
The Spectre teamed with Batman in issues 75, 116, 180, and 199. The Spectre, of course, is another character highly associated with primary B&B artist Aparo, but he only got to illustrate two of these, with Ross Andru handling the interiors on the first and last appearances (Neal Adams, who established himself as a premier Spectre artist in the 60’s, provided the cover for #75, Aparo the covers for all the rest).
Metamorpho teamed with Batman in issues 68, 101, 123 and 154. Issue 101 is probably my favorite Brave and Bold issue of them all. It was my introduction to the character of Metamorpho, who was revived there after disappearing since the end of his solo title a few years earlier. Metamorpho was, as I mentioned before, Bob Haney’s baby. Metamorpho would continue to B&B’s follow-up series, Batman and the Outsiders.
Teen Titans teamed with Batman in issues 83, 94, 102 and 149. The Titans were another feature with which Bob Haney had a lot of experience, and I always found the team appealing.
Plastic Man teamed with Batman in issues 76, 95, 123, and 148. I don’t know why Bob Haney “adopted” Plas, but he seems to have been the only one using the character during most of this stretch. In issue 95, he was cover-billed as “?”, a nice marketing gimmick, but one that ran the risk of disappointing readers who anticipated someone a little more spectacular!
The first five may have only had four team-ups with Batman, but they appeared more times than that in B&B. We had Aquaman and Hawkman teaming in issue 51, the second team-up installment of the run. Aquaman also partnered with the Atom in #73. The Spectre clashed with the Flash in #72. Metamorpho not only debuted solo with a pair of trial issues in 57-58, he also teamed with the Metal Men in #66.
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 14, 2020 8:32:37 GMT -5
Fivers:
A sextet of characters appeared in five Batman-led team-ups during B&B’s run.
Black Canary: issues 91, 100, 107, 141, 166: For a character who didn’t have much of a solo presence in the 70’s (I can only remember the 2-part Adventure Comics back-up drawn by Alex Toth and some solo chapters amongst the run of shared Green Arrow/Black Canary back-ups in World’s Finest), Black Canary had a position of considerable prominence in B&B. With only modest super-powers, she was a good fit for the kinds of stories Bob Haney liked to tell in B&B, and as a member of the JLA, fitting her into a Batman story didn’t have to bog the story with exposition and introductions. The Canary first showed up in Batman’s 25th B&B team-up. She was the second female co-star (after Wonder Woman, of course), in an era when potential female co-stars were few. The artist for that issue, Nick Cardy, would surely have been the top choice of many fans at the time to illustrate anything with Black Canary.
Deadman: issues 79, 86, 104, 133, DC Special Series 8: I’ve said more than once that Deadman is one of the most reliably high quality superhero features in comics, in my opinion, of course. Of the “corporate property” characters--those who’ve been handled by multiple artists and writers in multiple contexts over multiple years--I’d wager that a randomly selected Deadman story is likely to be a better read than, say, a randomly selected Spider-Man or Flash or Daredevil or Green Lantern. Deadman’s B&B appearances maintain the standard, from the earliest, which wrapped up Deadman’s solo series with the participation of prime Deadman artist Neal Adams, to the later issues under Haney and Aparo.
Wildcat: issues 88, 97, 110, 118, 127: Ah, Wildcat. The Poster Boy for Earth-B. Haney handled all of Ted Grant’s appearances in B&B. Why Wildcat showed up so often when he had not even a backup feature running anywhere during the B&B era has puzzled many. To quote Jack C. Harris in the B&B Mailbag letter column from issue 126:
“We must answer [t]his question by repeating our method of choosing heroes for the Batman to meet: First, we look at super-doers who are doing well on their own. We study past sales reports to see whom the majority of readers preferred paired in the past. And we do read readers’ requests! Reason number two becomes evident in the next issue when that past-favorite Wildcat joins the Batman…”
Joker: issues 111, 118, 129, 130, 191: As repeatedly noted in prior posts, I am certain that the Joker’s surprise appearance as Batman’s co-star in 111 must have sold through the roof, leading DC to rush out a Joker solo comic and to repeatedly bring him back as a cover-billed co-star. I distinctly remember my shocked thrill at seeing Batman’s most notorious enemy on the logo, and loving the heck out of the story which, yes, did force Batman into a temporary partnership with the Clown Prince of Crime. The repeat appearances had diminishing returns, but I can’t blame them for trying!
Atom: issues 77, 115, 129, 130, 152: The highlight of the Atom’s quintet of appearances is unquestionably issue 115, “The Corpse That Wouldn’t Die”, in which a brain-dead Batman’s body is guided by the Atom, running improbably through his gray matter to control him in order to capture the men who’ve killed him, before he formally expires. Likely inspired by the 1949 film D.O.A., in which a poisoned man attempts to avenge himself before the poison completes its deadly purpose.
Batman of Earth-2 is a special case. Although he only had one appearance as a co-star with the Earth-1 Batman, he was the cover-billed “Batman” leading the team-ups with Catwoman, Blackhawk, the Unknown Soldier, and the final Sgt. Rock team-up, which took place during World War II. (The first Sgt. Rock team-up also took place partly in WWII, and partly in the current day Gotham, implying that this was the Earth-1 Batman--with the yellow oval chest insignia. One of Bob Haney’s well-known disregards for reasonable continuity, establishing that Bruce Wayne had been operating as Batman for nearly a quarter century!)
There were a couple of cases where B&B featured a whopping five cover-billed characters, including Batman:
The “4 Famous Co-Stars” logo first appeared on the milestone issue 100, referring to guests Robin, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Black Canary.
It reappeared on the second issue of a two parter in issues 129-130, in reference to Green Arrow, Atom, Two-Face, and Joker, but both issues featured all four guests.
And now an embarrassing admission:
I missed one. Dang it, the challenge is not over! There’s one more team-up partner, in plain sight, that I somehow continued to overlook across years of scouring B&B.
My current challenge in the weekly Classic Cover Contest is interrupted until I can complete this one!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 14, 2020 9:12:58 GMT -5
MWGallaher, politicking at the polls is unlawful, otherwise I'd be posting this last bit of info in the current contest so that the vote would go your way and your burden lifted from your shoulders. I may do some checking to see if I can figure out whom you missed, but it will probably be more fun to wait and be surprised! Good luck!
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 15, 2020 10:18:40 GMT -5
The Final (?) Week: Icctrombone wants to see covers introducing a new member to the team. I was upset to realize yesterday that, in fact, Batgirl was a co-star in a Batman team-up, in Brave & Bold #78, with her logo right there on the cover: "Batman and Wonder Woman Guest-Starring Batgirl". To my relief today, the topic was one for which I could immediately use a Batgirl cover, thanks to my policy of allowing repeat appearances of Batman and Robin in my selections:  I've talked about Batgirl a few times in this thread, under the mistaken premise that she was only a potential co-star, not an actual one. She was third-billed, in the first B&B "three star" issue:  I’m at a loss for how I could repeatedly overlook this, except that I have paid less attention to the earlier team-up issues, and looking through thumbnails, Batgirl’s logo is nondescript and fades easily into the background, while her image in the cover illustration is tiny. In this instance, it would be very wrong to assume that the lower-tier “guest-starring” designation implied a minor role for Barbara Gordon. As a counterpart to Wonder Woman in this ridiculous story (in which both women are publicly feuding for the love of the Caped Crusader!), Batgirl’s on-panel presence and engagement in the plot is so balanced with Wonder Woman’s that it seems mathematically contrived! There remains Hourman, the one cover-billed reprint character that I didn't find a chance to use, as well as one "guest of honor" character that I haven't mentioned, so, who knows, maybe there will be one or two more entries to be added in future weeks. Next time, though, it'll be time to look at the guest-stars who appeared in six Brave and Bold team-ups with Batman! |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 15, 2020 17:06:36 GMT -5
Six-shooters: The three guest stars who racked up six turns teaming with Batman were all comrades of his from the Justice League of America. These would be the “super-doers who are doing well on their own” that Jack C. Harris referred to in the letter column quote. The safe choices, the familiar faces, the ones who could be introduced in a single panel or even a caption. Flash got the guest-star slot in issues 67, 81, 99, 125, 151, and 194, and had three additional non-Batman team-ups for nine total team-ups during B&B’s run. Even counting those non-Batman team-ups, it doesn’t quite put him on the top of the heap, but puts him at first runner-up. Notable Flash appearances: Issue 81 is the only time that Neal Adams was inked by Vince Colletta. Adams and company elected to add additional inks to the completed pages, to bring the art more in line with his own aesthetic than Colletta’s, but the trained eye can spot plenty of Vince’s ink lines remaining in the work, particularly in backgrounds and incidental characters. Issue 99, drawn by Bob Brown and inked by Nick Cardy, played to the supernatural/monster vibe that was selling so well in the early 70’s that it influenced almost all of DC’s superhero comics at one point or another. Bob Haney ignores the past depictions of young Bruce Wayne at his parents’ graves and instead established that they were cremated, with Bruce retaining an urn of their mingled remains. (A few issues later, the letter column defended this by noting that many people are both cremated and memorialized with cemetery headstones.) Turns out the Waynes have been trapped in a supernatural limbo, and only Batman and Flash’s intervention allowed them to finally move on to their final reward. Batman straight up encounters his parents’ ghosts! Issue 151 (boy, Flash *just* misses the milestone issues twice in a row!) features a cover, a flipped portion of which was curiously used as the basis for a poster DC released in 1978:  Aparo did a fine enough job on the character, but he’s not the guy I’d expect to see on Flash merchandise. Green Lantern was cover-billed as the co-star in issues 59, 100, 134, 155, and 174. But “Wait!”, you may say, “That’s only five!” Your math is correct, but if you crack open issue 173, the first part of a two-parter, you’ll find that despite the Guardians of the Universe getting the slot on the cover logo, inside, the issue’s guest is declared to be Green Lantern. True, the Guardian involved in this story plays a bigger part for most of the issue, but Green Lantern’s the formal guest-star according to the introductory splash. Maybe DC wanted to establish a trademark for the Guardians. Maybe they just wanted the 2-parter to appear to have more variety. Maybe they thought it was a more honest representation of the contents. Notable Green Lantern Appearances: Green Lantern had the honor of being the first to team with Batman in B&B #59 (drawn by Ramona Fradon!), back when the concept was to have no single recurring character in the team-ups. He was also among the “Four Famous Co-Stars” of issue 100. Wonder Woman’s team-ups appeared in issues 78, 87 (as Diana Prince), 105 (as Diana Prince), 131, 140, and 158 (she also teamed with Supergirl in the much-derided-among-fandom issue 63). Notable Wonder Woman Appearances: Issue 78 was the first “3-way”, co-starring Batgirl, as described above. Issue 87 was written and drawn by Mike Sekowsky, who was behind the “new look”, non-powered Wonder Woman around this time, putting the issue neatly into compatibility with Diana’s ongoing solo series. In 105, by Haney and Aparo, we find out that the still-wonderful, still-womanly but then non-powered Diana Prince has an “Amazon Guardian Angel”! Issue 158 provides a scene that inspired a counterpart in the film Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, earning Aparo an unexpected screen credit.
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