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  • "Great" Bronze Age Characters: DC

    From The Wizard@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 19 00:44:52 2018
    Green Arrow did indeed have an Earth-Two counterpart, but just a dopplegange like that of Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, and Speedy! Aquaman's Earth-Two counterpart was retroactively created because he was created in
    1941 (same day as was Green Arrow). However Aquaman never inter-mixed with other super heroes, where as Green Arrow was a member of the 7 Soldiers of Victory, and Superman made an appearance in one of GA's solo stories! Personally I would've explained that Aquaman was the first Earth-One super
    hero beginning in 1941, and then meet that Silver Age heroes in 1960. As
    for aging of the character, marine animals usually have greater longivities than humand kind (like about 100 - 120 years) so Arthur Curry would've lived longer do to his marine heritage!

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  • From The Wizard@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 19 00:27:40 2018
    You're probably thinking of Stalker, The Man with a Stolen Soul! This is another character that I would love to see an adaptation as a Film! Its
    ashame that his series was killed off with the fourth issue due to the DC Implossion! Would've been nice if DC would've did more with this character after they were bought out by Warner Brothers!

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  • From Kevrob@21:1/5 to George Grattan on Wed Sep 19 06:42:08 2018
    On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 7:21:03 PM UTC-4, George Grattan wrote:
    RacerX wrote:

    No one's mentioned Simonson's Manhunter yet??? Sheesh....

    I know, I know. The fact that I left him off my initial list of 50
    almost kills the fun of this for me, too. :-)

    But I did mention him subsequently, and he would have to be a special
    entry, anyway, due to having been created in the Golden Age. But I think
    he deserves a mention on any eventual list.


    Goodwin & Simonson's Manhunter! Mustn't forget the late,
    great Archie Goodwin, who thunk up the idea of putting the
    brightly garbed adventurer in the back pages of DETECTIVE.
    It was easy to talk the editor into it. That was Archie, too.

    The 70s Manhunter in `TEC was, once he teamed up with JLA-member
    "The Batman," a heretofore unseen Earth-One Paul Kirk, so, isn't
    he as much a "new character" as Barry (Flash) Allen or Hal (Green
    Lantern) Jordan were in the mid-late 50s? The addition of the
    healing factor, before Wolverine (but after Captain America in
    Ted White's prose paperback novel, "The Great Gold Steal,")
    makes MH-II superpowered in a way the original never was.
    Other E-2 )or wherever) to E-1 (or Earth-B) transplants, such as
    The Spectre, Greg (The Vigilante) Sanders, Ted (Wildcat) Grant,
    Plastic Man, etc.

    https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-171/2/

    And folks, The Phantom Stranger debuted in his own magazine in
    1952! That's pre-code,

    https://www.comics.org/issue/9822/cover/4/

    PS was revived with an appearance in SHOWCASE #80, with a cool
    Adams cover....

    https://www.comics.org/issue/22510/cover/4/ Feb `69, released
    at the end of 1968. The follow-on series didn't have new
    stories until the 4th issue.

    https://www.comics.org/issue/23082/cover/4/

    I would still peg the PS revival as a Bronze Age phenomenon,
    as much as the return of spookiness to THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY
    and the other Code-friendly horror anthologies - the
    "mystery comics," as they were known - was.

    One of the FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL one-shots, featuring the
    Kirby-created Mark Shaw version of MANHUNTER had a
    delayed effect, when Steve Engelhart re-introduced him
    into his JLA stories, and tied the Manhunter cult into
    the Green Lantern mythos. A one-shot revival on the order
    of the JSA counterparts of the 50s and 60s morphed into
    a major group of villains.

    BTW, I LOVED Ditko's shade, and just as I critique the O'Neil-
    written stories starring his Question-impostor, I see the
    Milligan Shade as a totally different character.


    The Parasite first appeared in ACTION COMICS V1 #340, in 1966.

    https://www.comics.org/issue/20227/cover/4/

    The 70s also had DC publishing prominent licensed properties,
    such as Captain Marvel and Family in SHAZAM! and the Edgar
    Rice Burroughs characters: Tarzan, Korak, John Carter of Mars,
    etc.

    Let's not forget the mighty Isis!

    Kevin R

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  • From Kevrob@21:1/5 to George Grattan on Wed Sep 19 08:47:10 2018
    On Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 10:02:52 PM UTC-4, George Grattan wrote:


    I suppose there's an argument to be made, though, for doing so, and for calling Deadman the first DC Bronze Age character--making him the
    watershed point?

    Boston Brand first plummetted into view in the Oct, 1967 issue
    of STRANGE ADVENTURES, #205:

    https://www.comics.org/issue/21336/cover/4/

    That's only 4 issues after Animal Man was on the cover.

    Deadman's run in SA ended with #216, which hit the comics
    racks before the end of 1968.

    https://www.comics.org/issue/22449/cover/4/

    #217 gives us an all-reprint book, featuring Adam Strange,
    gone from MYSTERY IN SPACE for over 3 years. MIS went
    into limbo for 14 years in 1966. A hallmark of the
    Silver/Bronze Age transition is the ending of long-running
    titles or featured strips, that are replaced by ones with
    new themes and genres. The Silver Age doesn't necessarily
    end at the same time in each comic. What's the first "Bronze
    Age" issue of JLA? Is it #66, in 1968, when Gardner fox stops
    writing it and Denny O'Neil and other, younger writers take over?
    Or is it #183, when George Perez replaces a recently deceased
    Dick Dillin, in 1980? Plainly, the line is somewhere in-between,
    but it might be more a continuum than a line. I'd vote that the
    League was eased into a Bronze reformat over D O'N's two-year
    stint on the book. See:

    http://sequart.org/magazine/15592/on-denny-oneil-and-dick-dillins-justice-league-of-america/

    Deadman's original corpus was buried before the Bronze Age got started.
    He shows up as a frequent guest star or backup feature, but never the
    star of the show. He's late Silver Age.

    Kevin R

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  • From Wouter Valentijn@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 19 19:51:30 2018
    Op 19-9-2018 om 15:42 schreef Kevrob:
    On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 7:21:03 PM UTC-4, George Grattan wrote:
    RacerX wrote:


    <snip>



    The Parasite first appeared in ACTION COMICS V1 #340, in 1966.

    https://www.comics.org/issue/20227/cover/4/

    Thought up by Jim Shooter afaik?


    The 70s also had DC publishing prominent licensed properties,
    such as Captain Marvel and Family in SHAZAM! and the Edgar
    Rice Burroughs characters: Tarzan, Korak, John Carter of Mars,
    etc.

    Good times. :-)
    The way Dejah Thoris was drawn. Perfection.

    BTW, I had the Marvel version.


    Let's not forget the mighty Isis!

    Kevin R




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