Martianinvader's Topic Full Of Weird Comic Book Covers (dial-ups warned)

[Peter Paltridge]

Participation is easy: just go to www.comics.org (http://www.comics.org/) and hunt around. Every day a bunch of new covers are uploaded, from all across time and publishers. It's pretty amusing stuff. Here's my batch for today: ARCHIE RIPOFFS!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/1908_4_012.jpg
You know why this is here? Doi, because HER NAME IS CHILI. The only female name better than that is "Lola Granola."

Archie ripoffs all have one thing in common: the central character's name has to be extremely bizarre.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/1897_4_006.jpg
It's time for Screaming with Binky!
Of interesting note is that many of these cover artists went on to draw for the actual Archie company.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12057_4_018.jpg
It's true--her name actually IS Angelpuss. He also has a friend not shown named "Jitterblik."
All that work is worth one nickel? Well, money went a lot farther in those days...I guess....

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12436_4_024.jpg http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12438_4_010.jpg
Go-Go and Animal? I gotta start writing these down.

Of course, nothing ever topped the original. Maybe because the names were mostly normal.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11940_4_0026.jpg
I said mostly.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/5128/oldcomic26tr.jpg
Almost human. Almost, but not quite.

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/8431/oldcomic66pn.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1260/oldcomic73ie.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/3171/oldcomic111rz.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/693/oldcomic168kx.jpg

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

The Lone Ranger with an ice cream cone on the cover is hilarious. "Kids like the Lone Ranger. Kids like ice cream. HEY! I got an IDEA!!!"

-- Ed/Ace

[MonkeyFunk]

Say, why's Batfink Rosie dressed like Odlaw?

[Stuckey]

Howdy,

The Lone Ranger with an ice cream cone on the cover is hilarious. "Kids like the Lone Ranger. Kids like ice cream. HEY! I got an IDEA!!!"

-- Ed/Ace

ahaha

Brillaint it is not.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Those comics are hilarious! I never knew there were THAT many Archie rip-offs!

And speaking of rip-offs, everyone remembers Richie Rich, right? Well what about his Marvel counterpart...Royal Roy?

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3043_2_001.jpg

My friend somehow had a Royal Roy when we were younger, and we read it and just laughed.


Say, why's Batfink Rosie dressed like Odlaw?
Wow, a Where's Waldo reference

[Peter Paltridge]

Heh, I was going to get around to Royal Roy eventually. I've seen ripoffs before, but that is cutting it as close as I've ever seen. The only reason Marvel wasn't sued, I'm assuming, is because Royal Roy never sold any copies.

Anyway, tonight's cover is...Irma! Irma is dumb! HOW dumb is Irma?
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/738_4_046.jpg

Preeeeeeeeetty dumb. Seriously, I've seen plenty of dense-headed characters and laughed at the greatest ones, but this moment here is beyond funny and ventures into just plain disturbing. Someone help her breathe!

[Peter Paltridge]

Today:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/949_4_042.jpg

If the mouse doesn't grab you, maybe the coupons will.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7818/oldcomic153go.jpghttp://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6613/oldcomic140dd.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

This time:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/85_4_0188.jpg

Charles Schulz had nothing to do with this comic book; it was produced by United Feature in the 50's and was a bunch of comic strip gags redrawn by different artists as comic stories. You can see one example in "The Art of Peanuts."

[90'sCartoonMan]

What's up with all those atomic animals?

And that Peanuts thing looks SO wrong!

Here's what may be my favorite funny cover of a comic book I own:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3864_4_034.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Heh, that's a good one. By John Romita, no less.

Today: No one will ever love her!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11475_4_0088.jpg
Hey, I'm not gonna argue.....historically, this is about as plain as a comic book woman ever looks, so by their standards, she couldn't get a date.

[MajorTom]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/628_2_011.jpg
Dennis the Menace Rip-Off.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/1914_2_001.jpg
Another One.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3187_2_1.jpg
Howard the Duck movie adaptation.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3017_2_001.jpg
Rainbow Bridge?

[90'sCartoonMan]

Wow, that poor woman. Call me a kook, but I always wanted to read some of the old romance stories.

And there are so many things wrong with that Peter The Little Pest cover.

[Peter Paltridge]

Today!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11199_4_064.jpg

What could I possibly add to this?

[Anthonynotes]

My two cents on all these covers:

- "Leave It To Binky" (and spinoff title shown above) was one of DC's main (if not *the* main) "Archie" ripoffs in the 50's and 60's. Don't think Binky's appeared in so much as reprints since the 80's though (since DC's all but disowned any of its characters that aren't superhero-related/Vertigo-related/something from Cartoon Network).

- "Chili" and the mention of Millie presumably refers to Marvel's long-running old title "Millie the Model", about, well, a model named Millie. Believe Millie still exists within the Marvel Universe but is retired/semi-retired (I last heard).

- I didn't know DC put out a Laurel and Hardy comic in the 70's (judging from the DC logo used on the cover)

- Atomic Rabbit/Mouse/Tree Sloth/whatever are 50's era characters (the "all things atomic powered" craze).

Guess I can throw in a cover or two later (about to leave for work right now)...

[Adam Tyner]

Don't think Binky's appeared in so much as reprints since the 80's thoughCompletely random, but Binky and company had a one-page appearance in Ambush Bug #3.

http://www.theartistschoice.com/scans/giffen/ambushbug3-03.jpg

[MonkeyFunk]

You know what this thread's lacking? Cornball horror comics!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/853/200/853_2_18.jpg

In case you can't read the text, they're saying "No, no, don't kill me! I don't want to die!"
"Butcher, you killed us with your beef, now you can hang with the rest of your poisoned meat!"

Thing that always gets me about some of these is that the cover pretty much gives away the entrie story. I can't really see a big twist coming after that moment.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/853/200/853_2_002.jpg

"The monster's ghost" and "vampire fangs of doom", huh? Think about thsoe titles for a second.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/853/200/853_2_012.jpg

"Just a few more shovels of dirt and we'll put Jack's skeleton back."
"Oh no! There's Jack behind you!"

I won't pretend to know what's going on here.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13120/200/13120_2_001.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/915/200/915_2_17.jpg

"It's the minotaur! The thing's not just a story - it lives!"

http://comics.org/graphics/covers/915/200/915_2_05.jpg

[Anthonynotes]

Completely random, but Binky and company had a one-page appearance in Ambush Bug #3.



Heh! Funny... guess should track that issue down.

Here's some covers:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/97/400/97_4_0000126.jpg

Yes, in November 1948, TV was still largely a novelty item---guess the current equivalent of that tale would be "Superman On Podcast"...

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/97/400/97_4_0000127.jpg

This was the next month's issue after the TV one above. Radio was the dominant medium in the late 40's, and "Truth or Consequences" was a highly popular radio game show (the guy Supes is getting sprayed by is the show's actual host---who IIRC went on to host the TV version of "T or C").

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2542/400/2542_4_03.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2542/400/2542_4_27.jpg

The above two Superboy comics came out in the early 80's, when they moved up Superboy's time-era to the 60's---hence the Beatles-esque rock group on the stage/bad teenage period slang, as well as the rewrite of the classic "Superman's Mission For Pres. Kennedy" into "SuperBOY's Mission For Pres. Kennedy"...

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/216/400/216_4_009.jpg

Yes, kids, you too can help the war effort by knocking out Hitler, Mussolini, and a tacky ethnic caricature of Hirohito(?) with baseballs! Oh, and buy war bonds, too...


http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/216/400/216_4_069.jpg

A 1954 "World's Finest" cover, from a few issues before they ended the seperate Batman and Superman features of the comic and combined the two heroes in the same adventure. And yes, I'm sure that *would* be the world's safest bank, indeed. :-)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/216/400/216_4_054.jpg

Yes, Bat-fanboys, Batman was obviously an arrogant jerk in the early 1950's, too... can't even be bothered to pedal his *own* flippin' bike and junk... must've been trying to defeat Schwinn with "enough time to prepare" or something. ;-)

-B.

[90'sCartoonMan]

"I've talked about Earth-Two myself, is that so wrong"?! That's HILARIOUS!

AngryTurnip, I think you've given me nightmares.

Those covers are funny, Brainatra, like that website that has all those old Superman covers where he's a jerk.

Here's what is probably the most brilliant crossover, if just for the cover:

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_cover/Archie_meets_Punisher.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Here's what is probably the most brilliant crossover, if just for the cover:

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/image_cover/Archie_meets_Punisher.jpg
My mom wouldn't let me buy that one. True :p

Anyway, here's today's pick!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/279_4_00655.jpg

If "Top Dog" had been a mule, he would have lasted longer.

[Anthonynotes]

My mom wouldn't let me buy that one. True :p

Anyway, here's today's pick!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/279_4_00655.jpg

If "Top Dog" had been a mule, he would have lasted longer.

Actually, this "Frances the Talking Mule" comic (from the 50's film series that "Mr. Ed" was apparently ripped off from) was a part of the long-running comic series, Dell's "Four Color Comics", which ran from the 40's through the early 60's, reaching way many issues. "Four Color" released weekly (IIRC) featured different licensed characters (Disney, Looney Tunes, western characters) and one-shot characters each week. Some characters only received a few issues of "Four Color" (guessing Francis was probably this case), while others got multiple appearances (like the Disney characters).

-B.

[Peter Paltridge]

Today:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/4038_4_5.jpg

....Plastic forks, I guess.

[Geezil]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3043_2_001.jpg


Heh, I was going to get around to Royal Roy eventually. I've seen ripoffs before, but that is cutting it as close as I've ever seen. The only reason Marvel wasn't sued, I'm assuming, is because Royal Roy never sold any copies.
Well, IIRC, the weakening beast that was Harvey Comics in the 1980s did deliver a cease-and-desist letter to Marvel, and so was able to live out its remaining days secure in the knowledge that there still would be just one RR on the block. The End.

[Peter Paltridge]

Tonight's pick will also have to suffice as tomorrow night's, as the boards will be down then....

K'A'A'A'A'ANGA!!!
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/621/400/621_4_11.jpg

[90'sCartoonMan]

What's so weird about Ka'a'nga aside from the name? You're losing steam, Martianinvader. I liked the mule, though. I bet he'd still be around if Dell didn't realize they'd make more money by selling computers.

Hey, here's a weird cover that just says it all:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3648_4_0054.jpg

[Anthonynotes]

What's so weird about Ka'a'nga aside from the name? You're losing steam, Martianinvader. I liked the mule, though. I bet he'd still be around if Dell didn't realize they'd make more money by selling computers.

Hey, here's a weird cover that just says it all:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3648_4_0054.jpg

Dell the comic company isn't the same company as Dell the computer people. :-)

-B.
Can imagine the Dell dude saying "Dude, you're getting a Four-Color Comic of Uncle Scrooge!"

[Peter Paltridge]

Today:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13298_4_038.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

This time: DESTINED FOR GREATNESS....

http://www.platypuscomix.net/history/funnyman.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

No comments on Funnyman? What's up with that?

Anyway, today we have to move on...to the FAT FURY!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/6099_4_1.jpg

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12404/200/12404_2_030.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/761/400/761_4_28.jpg

Isn't that Archie?

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


Isn't that Archie?
Oh, if only...:evil:

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

I have my doubts they could get away with a severed arm like that on a comic book cover--they can't do that NOW. But there it is in the 1940's....

[Anthonynotes]

I have my doubts they could get away with a severed arm like that on a comic book cover--they can't do that NOW. But there it is in the 1940's....

Well, the goriness was a big part of why congress and Wertham nailed EC Comics over (there's also a severed, dripping-blood head EC cover from the 50's that still gory even by today's standards...).


Re: the other comics:

No idea who the Kilroys were; more likely some now-forgotten 1940's movie serial or comedic radio show.

Funnyman was Siegel and Shuster's attempt at their own comic book after being fired/quitting the Superman comics in the late 1940's; Funnyman bombed, however. Siegel went back to writing for Superman in the late 50's/early 60's, and stayed on for a few years through teh 60's.

"Fat Fury" is the alternate superhero name for "Herbie", a humor character that appeared in 60's comics put out by ACG ("American Comics Group", another now-defunct company). IIRC, he gained a variety of superpowers when he licked a lollipop of some sort, but didn't get much respect from anyone (being short and obese); toward the end of his run, he became a superhero, and after ACG's death, had the rights to Herbie bought by someone else (where that cover above comes from), with sporadic apperances in the 90's.

Info on:
Herbie: http://www.toonopedia.com/herbie.htm
The Fat Fury: http://www.toonopedia.com/fatfury.htm
Funnyman: http://www.toonopedia.com/funnyman.htm

-B.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Dell the comic company isn't the same company as Dell the computer people. :-)
I know that, Brainatra, I was just being silly. Silly like this thread.

Funnyman's gotta be a great hero. RIP Archie.

Oh, and to go along with Fat Fury...

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13720_4_001.jpg

[Anthonynotes]

>>I know that, Brainatra, I was just being silly. Silly like this thread.

Oh... OK then. :-)

>>
Funnyman's gotta be a great hero. RIP Archie.

Oh, and to go along with Fat Fury...

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13720_4_001.jpg[/QUOTE]
<<

Yikes... uh, maybe it's like that dumb Penguin retcon about the Penguin being "an in shape and limber fighter"? :-)

-B.

[Zorak Masaki]

Here we go,,starting with some of the spire archie comics (you just knew SOMEONE would post them sooner or later):
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13764/200/13764_2_001.jpg
Why does the baby archie look more like mr weatherbee?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12545/200/12545_2_001.jpg
Remember kids, be good students and the teachers will immediately suspect you're up to something

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13261/400/13261_4_0001.jpg
Its not just a laugh out,,its a TV laugh out!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1564/200/1564_2_1.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1564/400/1564_4_2.jpg
The detective conan of the 60s!

[Peter Paltridge]

This time, Betty and Veronica provide concrete proof that Girls Are Evil.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12384_4_0001.jpg
This is actually the very first Betty and Veronica comic ever made. Their agenda was so loud, they actually recited THREE of these poems.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12384_4_0002.jpg
Shiver, listen to 'em scheme!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12384_4_0004.jpg

LOOK what they DO with their TIME! They're even into VOODOO here! RUN, Archie, RUN!!

[Anthonynotes]

Here we go,,starting with some of the spire archie comics (you just knew SOMEONE would post them sooner or later):
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13764/200/13764_2_001.jpg
Why does the baby archie look more like mr weatherbee?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12545/200/12545_2_001.jpg
Remember kids, be good students and the teachers will immediately suspect you're up to something

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13261/400/13261_4_0001.jpg
Its not just a laugh out,,its a TV laugh out!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1564/200/1564_2_1.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1564/400/1564_4_2.jpg
The detective conan of the 60s!

"Detective Conan"? I don't get it...

[dendawg]

"Detective Conan"? I don't get it...
That would be "Case Closed" on this side of the Pacific.:anime:

[Anthonynotes]

That would be "Case Closed" on this side of the Pacific.:anime:

Still don't get it... is it some anime/manga thing?

[MonkeyFunk]

Geeze, those Betty and Veronica ones are the freakiest ones in the topic. Look at their empty, soulless eyes in the third cover!

And their tiny, shrivelled hands in the first one!

Fair sends a shiver down me spine.


And yeah, Case Closed's an anime about a adult-turned-into-a-kid who solves crimes.

[Anthonynotes]

Geeze, those Betty and Veronica ones are the freakiest ones in the topic. Look at their empty, soulless eyes in the third cover!

And their tiny, shrivelled hands in the first one!

Fair sends a shiver down me spine.


And yeah, Case Closed's an anime about a adult-turned-into-a-kid who solves crimes.

Oh, I see. In "Little Archie"'s case, it was an actual long-running series of stories that was basicall Archie's version of Superboy---- the adventures of Archie and the gang as grade-schoolers (or "Little Archie" as everyone called him in the comic). The adventures tended to be more adventure-based than the regular Archie comics, thanks to its long running writer Bob Bolling (sp?)...

-B.

[Geezil]

Oh, I see. In "Little Archie"'s case, it was an actual long-running series of stories that was basicall Archie's version of Superboy---- the adventures of Archie and the gang as grade-schoolers (or "Little Archie" as everyone called him in the comic). The adventures tended to be more adventure-based than the regular Archie comics, thanks to its long running writer Bob Bolling (sp?)...

-B.
And speaking of the Bob Bolling "Little Archie" tales, can anybody recall whether "Mad Doctor Doom" :eek: (circa 1964-65) might have earned the Archie crew a visit from Marvel's legal eagles?

[90'sCartoonMan]

Yikes... uh, maybe it's like that dumb Penguin retcon about the Penguin being "an in shape and limber fighter"? :-)

-B.
I think Fat Ninja was mostly making fun of him. I remember a friend of mine having it in 6th grade. You know how ninjas do the thing wherre they hide behind a thin tree and vanish? Didn't work for this guy.

::looks at Betty and Veronica covers::
My God...that's...that's horrible! 10 cents? What year was that? Is that how they tried to attract girl readers?! Sheesh! I thought they actually liked Archie...wasn't Betty supposed to be the sweet one? I guess they only like messing with his mind, those witches are straight out of MacBeth!!! I wonder what the actual comic was like. I guess now we know how Archie ended up in that shallow grave.

[Anthonynotes]

I think Fat Ninja was mostly making fun of him. I remember a friend of mine having it in 6th grade. You know how ninjas do the thing wherre they hide behind a thin tree and vanish? Didn't work for this guy.

::looks at Betty and Veronica covers::
My God...that's...that's horrible! 10 cents? What year was that? Is that how they tried to attract girl readers?! Sheesh! I thought they actually liked Archie...wasn't Betty supposed to be the sweet one? I guess they only like messing with his mind, those witches are straight out of MacBeth!!! I wonder what the actual comic was like. I guess now we know how Archie ended up in that shallow grave.

Comics were priced 10 cents from the 1930's through about the early 60's, when companies raised them to 12 cents. Hence the classic book about comics "All In Color For a Dime".

Re: Mad Doctor Doom: I guess not---figure the "Mad" prefix might've thrown the lawyers off, though would guess they'd change his name if they ever made a "Little Archie" (*not* "The New Archies") TV cartoon.

Some covers:

The last issue of "Batman" and "Detective Comics" during the "Wacky space Aliens" era of the late 50's and early 60's, before the "New Look" Bats debuted in the respective titles' very next issues:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0326.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/141/400/141_4_0000163.jpg

IIRC, the Joker one's been reprinted in "The Greatest Joker stories Ever Told" TPB. Guess could imagine the Joker doing something like that still (he set up a fake town with his "populace"[henchmen] disguised in Joker-costumes, all to set up a kangaroo court "trial" for Bats)...

Choice covers from the "wacky space aliens" era:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0316.jpg

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0322.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Re: Mad Doctor Doom: I guess not---figure the "Mad" prefix might've thrown the lawyers off, though would guess they'd change his name if they ever made a "Little Archie" (*not* "The New Archies") TV cartoon.
Wrong, Brainatra....I have a Little Archie digest with a reprint of a "Dr. Doom" story in it, and he's never called "MAD Doctor Doom" in it. I wondered about that myself. (I also thought the story was rather scary as a kid--it's about Doom getting control of a giant flying metal eel and sending it after Archie to kill him. A lot of Bolling's work was darker than the Archie usual.)

Anyway.....wow, I can't believe it. Not only does the "Big Boy" restraunt icon have his own series....
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11780_4_222.jpg
...but that's issue #123! People were THAT interested in knowing what the statue did when their backs were turned?

[Anthonynotes]

Wrong, Brainatra....I have a Little Archie digest with a reprint of a "Dr. Doom" story in it, and he's never called "MAD Doctor Doom" in it. I wondered about that myself. (I also thought the story was rather scary as a kid--it's about Doom getting control of a giant flying metal eel and sending it after Archie to kill him. A lot of Bolling's work was darker than the Archie usual.)


I *did* say "I *guess* not"; maybe they changed his name later on to avoid Marvel's wrath? Granted, if that were the case, Marvel would also be going after "The Simpsons" (since Marvel had a character since the 60's called "The Radioactive Man", vs. the Simpsons superhero who has his own actual comics published from time to time...)(Shrug)




Anyway.....wow, I can't believe it. Not only does the "Big Boy" restraunt icon have his own series....
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11780_4_222.jpg
...but that's issue #123! People were THAT interested in knowing what the statue did when their backs were turned?Think the Simpsons made fun of this in a comic issue (involving the "Lard Lad" donut place's statue, in some story drawn by Scott Shaw!)

[Geezil]

Wrong, Brainatra....I have a Little Archie digest with a reprint of a "Dr. Doom" story in it, and he's never called "MAD Doctor Doom" in it. I wondered about that myself. (I also thought the story was rather scary as a kid--it's about Doom getting control of a giant flying metal eel and sending it after Archie to kill him. A lot of Bolling's work was darker than the Archie usual.)Then it's more than likely that the story in your digest was a one-off (or a "two-off"). I distinctly recall at least one or two others in which his first name had indeed become "Mad," which at least suggests the change was the result of a later inter-company intervention. (BTW, one of those was played more for whimsy, as it involved Little Archie making his escape from MDD's lockup thanks to a whole lot of cases of "Icky Slicky" hair tonic.)

As to how that digest reprint still slipped under the radar intact, maybe we can chalk that up to yet another "Little Archie Mystery."

[Geezil]

Here's a nice detailed link about the history of the Doc as well as Little Archie himself, for anyone not quite familiar. And it just happens to include the cover plus a synopsis of the very issue I referred to in post #49 above! :D

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2004-02-20

[Peter Paltridge]

In an amazing Oddball coincidence (and I’m sure it really was a coincidence, similar to the coincidental X-Men/Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing/Man-Thing parallels) Jack Kirby and Stan Lee’s “Doctor Doom” first appeared in the pages of Marvel Comics’ FANTASTIC FOUR No. 5 (July, 1962), and Bob Bolling’s “Mad Doctor Doom” first appeared Archie Comics’ THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE ARCHIE No. 24 (Fall, 1962) in the story “Robot Of Doom!” Although it’s difficult to ascertain which comic was actually written, drawn and published first, it seems that both comics appeared on newsstands at approximately the same time!

Well hey, there's your answer.

"Yipe! He's wiping out my icky sucky!" --Chester
o_O

Anyhow.....
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/4994/400/4994_4_001.jpg
I'm not showing this one directly because I have no clue if it's supposed to be obscene or not. I say I have no clue, even though I'm looking at it, because the characters are so lumpy I can't tell if something is a boob or a tarantula. Better to not risk it, right?

It's well-titled, too.

[Adam Tyner]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0322.jpg...and this would be the issue the avatar I've been using for the past few years is from... :)

[Anthonynotes]

...and this would be the issue the avatar I've been using for the past few years is from... :)

OK!

Wonder if Batman had "enough time to prepare" for *that* one... ;-p

-B.

[Peter Paltridge]

Today: this obviously isn't a comic book, but there's nothing wrong with going off the path every once in a while.....

It was among them anyway, and it just had to be brought to attention:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13317_4_001.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Today, it's GINGER! The SWEETHEART OF THE NATION!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/11755_4_003.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Today!.....

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/4973_4_0000088.jpg

Once again, you saw it here first.....hopefully.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Yeah, I can really see why Ginger is America's sweetheart :shrug:

And I think I saw that Superboy in stores, I dunno

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13078_4_074.jpg

Sorry about this, but it had to appear sometime.....

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

Speaks for itself:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/busted/images/050927/mancomics27.jpg (http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/busted/112784543833615.htm)

From Beau Smith, the Manliest Man in Comics, via his Busted Knuckles (http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/busted/112784543833615.htm)column. As if it could have come from anywhere else.

The little dancing squirrel in the foreground of the main image is what makes it really manly, isn't it?

-- Ed/Ace

[90'sCartoonMan]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13078_4_074.jpg

Sorry about this, but it had to appear sometime.....
No it didn't, Martianinvader, you're supposed to AVOID The Noid.

And Ace, I think it's those socks pulled all the way up that makes it manly.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/2204_4_12.jpg

John Byrne, ladies and gentlemen. I guess they all had to start somewhere.

He also drew the same cover twice, for two different issues!
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2204/400/2204_4_05.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2204/400/2204_4_11.jpg

[Spastic Minnow]

This one isn't at comics.org yet but everytime I see a discussion of bad covers I feel compelled to bring this one up.

http://www.comics24-7.co.uk/media/BATTA2.jpg

http://comics.toonzone.net/covers/2001-12/batman/batman-ankh2.jpg
The character is Khatera, only ever used in the Batman mini-series Batman: The Ankh.
Aside from her immortality, her breasts also apparently gained the ability to defy gravity (but not her hair)... I wonder if she could fly with them:D

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/7131_4_011.jpg

"WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY MOTHER?" has to be one of the best cover lines ever. I wish I were seeing it on a more serious cover, for an actual superhero....which would make it even better.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/13060_4_010.jpg

So.....McCarthy...what's up? No dirty spies at THIS company! Nope, we live to appease you....yep! Move along....

[Jack Frenzy]

In honor of his first TV appearance, Ladies and Gentlemen...

MONSIEUR MALLAH!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3353_4_034.jpg
(http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3353/400/3353_4_034.jpg)

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14576_4_001.jpg

So.....which one do you think is Ball?

[Peter Paltridge]

SPECIAL BONUS COVERS OF GRATUITOUS PRETTINESS!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3178_4_001.jpg

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3178_4_003.jpg

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3178_4_004.jpg

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3178_4_005.jpg
I don't know what "Dakota North" is (it's from 1986), but with covers like this, how could it lose? Remember that this is still the time of cheesy exposition-filled covers...things like this might be typical today, but not then.

[Peter Paltridge]

No one knows what Dakota North is?

Today: the fiercest cover EVER!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/344_4_047.jpg

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


I don't know what "Dakota North" is (it's from 1986), but with covers like this, how could it lose? Remember that this is still the time of cheesy exposition-filled covers...things like this might be typical today, but not then.
Well, apparently, it lost pretty big. Dakota North was a P.I. character created by a Martha Thomases (http://www.thrillingdetective.com/north.html) who got a 5-issue series before cancellation. Apparently, she's showed up periodically in other MU titles since then. The site I linked to states that she's more Charlie's Angels than Ms. Tree, but I bet she's just waiting for a Brian Michael Bendis to rediscover her and make her the new hotness centerpiece female character in the MU, just like BMB did with Jessica Jones and Spider-Woman.

Issue #4 is quite the excellent specimen of the female bondage cover, BTW.

-- Ed/Ace

[Silly McGooses]

Just popping in to say that you're missing the greatest treasure trove of hillarious covers of all time..:anime: The third one on page 1 is one of my personal favorites.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/supermanisadick/default.asp

[Peter Paltridge]

Just popping in to say that you're missing the greatest treasure trove of hillarious covers of all time..:anime: The third one on page 1 is one of my personal favorites.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/supermanisadick/default.asp
We know about that already; I think that was mentioned on the first page.

Anyway, on to today's cover pic:
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3406_4_003.jpg

I saw "Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandos" listed on a comic book order form in an issue made around the time this was, and I thought "did they actually come out with that or is that listing a mistake?" Because they sometimes mistakenly listed titles that were already canceled before they began. But no, there he is....Chuck Norris in all his radicalness.

[Silly McGooses]

?

I looked skimmed the thread to make sure I wasn't repeating becuase I hate when people do that. I don't see it.

[Spastic Minnow]

:)
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/3668_4_002.jpg

I remember that I loved this TV series when it was on. Don't remember the episodes too well anymore though. This must have been put out at some point at the beginning of the 2nd season, right before the show was cancelled. I'm pretty sure there were only two issues of the comic published, found a copy of #1 for 25 cents a few months ago.

[Silly McGooses]

I love the caption in the box. I like how Marvel didn't seem to mind self-mocking.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Dakota North seems like some kind of She Fury.

Chuck Norris...Sledge Hammer? Man, they give comics to anyone...

Oh, and while we're on the subject of weird Spider-Man guest spots:

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/4472_4_006.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12386_4_0029.jpgThere's nothing special about the main cover; this was obviously picked today for the inset drawing. :D

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/428_2_01.jpg

"Igor! You stitched the nose too high again!"

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5007/oldcomic348og.jpg

"Igor! Next time, keep your spandex fetish to yourself!"

And finally, to correct the topic's shameful lack of big eyes, here's an underground Margaret Keane tribute:

http://comics.org/graphics/covers/11316/200/11316_2_010.jpg

[Anthonynotes]

Today: old "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" comics!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1027/400/1027_4_053.jpg

The famed "Turtle Boy" Olsen story...

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1027/400/1027_4_079.jpg

Jimmy as the "red-headed Beatle of 1000 BC". :-)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1027/400/1027_4_118.jpg

"Hippie Olsen's Hate-In". Yep, those middle-aged writers at DC sure were in tune with the youth movement of the day. ;-)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1027/400/1027_4_162.jpg

A nice gag /take off on the old "Superman changes in a phone booth" bit.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1027/400/1027_4_163.jpg

The last issue of the series, just before it gets folded into "Superman Family" anthology...

[Peter Paltridge]

Today.....this is one of the smartest moves I've ever seen a villain make.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/1098_4_124.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

It's nice to see women getting work in the closed-minded postwar era, but not when the results are like this.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/424_4_21.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

Boy, do I ever have an entry today. Good. GRAVY.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14688_4_002.jpg

Comics.org just put up a bunch of old underground comic covers today and BOY ARE THEY UGGG-LEEEEE!

I don't know much about the underground movement, but gah, the way some of these characters are designed, they could crack mirrors! DON'T click that one. It's a duck, but it's the worst drawing of a duck you will ever see.
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/14690/400/14690_4_001.jpg

Don't click this one either. Picasso created women more realistic in his later life.
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/14683/400/14683_4_001.jpg

YIKES! Hippies thought this was attractive??
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/14679/400/14679_4_001.jpg

And this last one is a "serious" comic about a debate still raging today, but that doesn't make it any less ugly than the others. I think the artist was either drunk, high or both. Actually, that explains all of these, so I'm gonna go with that.
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/14689/400/14689_4_001.jpg

[Spastic Minnow]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/9794/400/9794_4_1953.09.jpg

Fartmen? ;)

(Swedish language title of The Phantom, "Fantomen" )

[Peter Paltridge]

Today: You've seen the Richie Rich ripoff on Page 1, now see the Casper ripoff on page 5!

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14116_4_041.jpg

Unless your screenname is MonkeyFunk, you agree that's one unpleasant-looking spectre.

[MonkeyFunk]

Aww, who would've thought a dead kid could be so adorable?

[Conan-san]

And now, a few sonic covers

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/11991/400/11991_4_001.jpg

I see the where the traditon of compltely screwing Mighty over in regards to his picking line in the Chaotix started.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/11991/400/11991_4_008.jpg

And people wonder why Toei was so brassed of in regards to Sailor Moon's US licence... -_-;;;

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12006/400/12006_4_0014.jpg

Tails had no luck geting the stage light in ether version of the comic...

[Spastic Minnow]

And now, a few sonic covers

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/11991/400/11991_4_001.jpg

http://www.nearlygood.com/smilies/hysterical435.gif
LOL

Battle over the flying phallus!

[Peter Paltridge]

It's the 1950's, and people like Superman, and they like Dennis the Menace....hey, why not......

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14847_4_003.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/488_4_0375.jpg

"Oh, it's just the Abominable Snowman. WHAT?? TINY?? AAAAAAAHHH!!!"
Yeah, I don't get it either.

[90'sCartoonMan]

Timmy The Timid Ghost? Sheesh...

That Treasure Chest cover is just...there's something I'm not getting.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jby0003l.jpg

Look closely at the signature. Yes - John Byrne, ladies and gentlemen!

Not THAT John Byrne, obviously. Just another clone from the bizarro universe of British comics, like black-hair Dennis the Menace.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://images.comicbookresources.com/oddball/threechipmunks1042-175.jpg

It's not right, I tell you, not right. Look at those empty eye sockets.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://images.comicbookresources.com/oddball/threechipmunks1042-175.jpg

It's not right, I tell you, not right. Look at those empty eye sockets.I don't see anything, MunkFunk.

Anyhow, today I present a few covers I SWEAR are from comics.org. I imagine they got a circulation of 5 copies or something.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14992_4_001.jpg

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/453_4_3.jpg

http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/14961_4_0101.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

How romantic is this one?
http://www.platypuscomix.net/tz/weirdcovers/12355_4_050.jpg

[Spastic Minnow]

http://images.comicbookresources.co...nks1042-175.jpg (http://images.comicbookresources.com/oddball/threechipmunks1042-175.jpg)

It's not right, I tell you, not right. Look at those empty eye sockets.I don't see anything, MunkFunk.

Yeah, CBR doesn't allow remote linking. Otherwise we wouldn't need comics.org, we could just take them all from the wondrous treasure trove of Scott Shaw's Oddball Comics column. I assume from the address Monkey Funk was trying to link to one of those. MonkeyFunk, Could you provide a link to to column?

Here's a link to one of my favorite Oddball comics. Be sure to read the comments, or at least the stuff about it being the most unintentionally gay comic ever produced, priceless pictures there.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2003-05-09

[Spastic Minnow]

Ah-Ha. I had tried to search CBR for which comic MonkeyFunk was trying to find but the search function wasn't working. It is now.

Here's the Oddball column
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2002-12-05

and from comics.org
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_01042.jpg

Yeah... keep them chipmunks away from me.

And as I look through the other Dell Four Color covers I wonder, could the Three Stooges really translate to comics?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_01043.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_01127.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_01187.jpg

[Anthonynotes]

More Four Color Fun!:

"Yogi Bear Visits the U.N.":
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_01349.jpg

What pic-a-nic-basket filching bears have to do with the United Nations, I have no idea. But nice photo-background cover....

Christmas comic:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_00666.jpg

Ah, such a nice, heartwarming Christmas related comic. Too bad about the, erm, issue number it has. ;-p

A Disney comic:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_00586.jpg

Geez, Grandma Duck sure looks like she's enjoying her food there. Guess the byproduct of having Gus Goose as a farmhand...

Felix the Cat:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/279/400/279_4_00119.jpg

Ah, ethnic stereotypes are so much fun... (pauses before flushing the comic-featuring-Blacks-that-looks-nothing-like-Brainatra down the toilet ;-p ).

Re: that fishing/tuna comic above: Was going to post something about blindly labelling something as "gay" *as* someone who's gay, but... yeah, I got a "something besides fishing's going on here" vibe myself. ;-)

-B.

[Adam Tyner]

I don't think I've seen this one posted yet:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/83644612238.69.GIF

[Peter Paltridge]

Oh, so THAT'S how!

Anyway....today's pick is:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15022/400/15022_4_002.jpg
Must have been a slow news night for Tom.

[Peter Paltridge]

Comics.org has been down for a while, but now it's back....and so's the topic!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12967/400/12967_4_001.jpg
And if you think THAT'S interesting.....

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13776/400/13776_4_001.jpg
Given that this is an Al Hartley comic from the Spire years, I doubt this is exaaaactly what it looks like it is.....which begs the question, why would you WANT it to look like that?

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/7882/400/7882_4_70.03.jpg
To connect better with Germans, Archie changed his name to make it sound more like the noise a cat makes when it coughs up a hairball.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/4215/400/4215_4_00000063.jpg
Boy, is THAT rude. It took over 60 years for Superman and Lois to finally marry; who does this jerk think he is? You'd also assume Lois would be used to this kind of thing by now, though. She actually looks surprised this is happening.

......So.....why hasn't Superman busted through the ropes yet, like he should obviously be capable of? Is he enjoying this? Eww....

[Anthonynotes]

To connect better with Germans, Archie changed his name to make it sound more like the noise a cat makes when it coughs up a hairball.


Heh...



Boy, is THAT rude. It took over 60 years for Superman and Lois to finally marry; who does this jerk think he is? You'd also assume Lois would be used to this kind of thing by now, though. She actually looks surprised this is happening.

......So.....why hasn't Superman busted through the ropes yet, like he should obviously be capable of? Is he enjoying this? Eww....

I recall reading that honeymoon storyline---really lame followup, since they didn't have any time to write a proper plot, since the "Lois and Clark" TV show producers and WB honchos insisted the comic wedding took place at the same time as the TV show's---despite a comic plot with the happy couple on the outs with each other running at the time. Thus, the story involved a lot of filler (including a nice Curt Swan piece), "flashbacks" (see: filler), and those emergency reserve comic stories they keep on hand in case an issue's late or delayed.

As for the power loss, see the lame storyline that preceded the wedding---on the heels of the "Final Night" plotline, Clark still hadn't got his powers back when he got hitched (which does keep with the wedding of the Earth-Two Superman I suppose, who also didn't have use of his powers when he married...). Thus, he spent the honeymoon plotline in the sitcom tradition of "tied to a kitchen chair by some common thug while pointless 'remember that time we...?' flashbacks kicked in."

-B.
"Now *that's* what I call a sticky situation!"

[Peter Paltridge]

What?? 60 years....and then a clip show?? No wonder Superman looks so angry. That's just terrible.
I've seen a lot of bad Superman covers, but I think that issue would be a good contender for Worst Superman Issue Ever based on its inside content. What a letdown. Wow.

Today's cover is so bad that it didn't need to speak a word. I laughed pretty hard at the image alone:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13884/400/13884_4_002.jpg
"GRR!"

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1367/400/1367_4_14.jpg

That's the oddest-looking monk I've ever seen.

[Peter Paltridge]

Was Kirby even alive at this point?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15157/400/15157_4_001.jpg
"VERSUS ONE THOUSAND SUPER VILLAINS!!" WHOA THAT'S ELECTRIC!!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15152/400/15152_4_002.jpg

This is just here because it has the title "TIPPER GORE'S COMICS AND STORIES."

[CartoonOverlord]

This time, Betty and Veronica provide concrete proof that Girls Are Evil.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12384/400/12384_4_0001.jpg
This is actually the very first Betty and Veronica comic ever made. Their agenda was so loud, they actually recited THREE of these poems.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12384/400/12384_4_0002.jpg
Shiver, listen to 'em scheme!

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/12384/400/12384_4_0004.jpg

LOOK what they DO with their TIME! They're even into VOODOO here! RUN, Archie, RUN!!Ugh, it's even more creepy with them speaking in verse. But I've got nothin'.

[Anthonynotes]

Ugh, it's even more creepy with them speaking in verse. But I've got nothin'.

Feh, the stuff they got away with before the Comic Code came along (since judging from the covers, those issues probably pre-date the Code)... ;-)

[Peter Paltridge]

Occasionally, I see covers so pretty and colorful and fantastic that I put them here anyway even though they're not funny. It's that time again....I guess Dakota North is over; here's my latest fascination:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_001.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_002.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_003.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_004.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_005.jpg
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13624/400/13624_4_006.jpg

I thought they looked so great, I attempted to make wallpaper out of my favorite two.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/images/wildgirl.jpg
Now every icon is impossible to see, but I could stare at that one where she turns into a butterfly all day.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15151/400/15151_4_002.jpg

If there is, that must be the ugly-ducking Fifth Turtle who was never invited to any parties.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15187/400/15187_4_001.jpg

MRS. Pruneface?? NOW you're in for it, Dick! You've got some explaining to do! And she carries a WHIP!

And I don't think Betty and Veronica need to try very hard to manipulate Archie.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/10447/400/10447_4_0134.jpg

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/15201/400/15201_4_004.jpg

You know you don't wanna mess with THESE outlaws....they're so bad, they wear LOUD UGLY CIRCUS CLOTHES! ALL DAY!

[90'sCartoonMan]

So, uh...is that Pruneface's wife or is it him in drag? I honestly can't tell.

[Spastic Minnow]

I actually have that issue of the Dick Tracy comic. I was getting a kick out of reading the daily strips at the time and thought I'd try the comic. Don't remember a thing about it though.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/5001/400/5001_4_004.jpg

I think Marvel took this franchise a little too seriously.

[MonkeyFunk]

Surprised no-one's posted this yet:

http://www.chick.com/tractimages68793/0074/0074_01.gif

[dendawg]

Surprised no-one's posted this yet:

http://www.chick.com/tractimages68793/0074/0074_01.gif
Hey, we're talking about comic books, not toilet paper!:p

[Peter Paltridge]

"The Death Cookie"? Never heard of it.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3127/400/3127_4_029.jpg

That has to be the ultimate irony--the moment you vow never to carry a weapon, about ten thousand people appear behind you with weapons of their own. Boy, what were the odds?

[Mr. Manager]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/5001/400/5001_4_004.jpg

I think Marvel took this franchise a little too seriously.
HA! Dramtic Cone-Clusion?! I never knew of a Coneheads comic book!

[Peter Paltridge]

Today:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3270/400/3270_4_1.jpg

Um.....what?

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3396/400/3396_4_00170.jpg

Ya gotta love how absolutely bored Superman looks here.

[MonkeyFunk]

Hey, I've got that issue!

[Peter Paltridge]

Hey, I've got that issue!If so, then what is going on in it? Is that Ricki Lake, or Katie Couric?

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


If so, then what is going on in it? Is that Ricki Lake, or Katie Couric?
Actually, it's Lois Lane. The issue is how Lois gets to follow Wonder Woman around for a day and find out what it's like to be the Amazon Princess, and also work out the issues she has with rumors between Superman and Wonder Woman. It was about the only issue in the entire Phil Jimenez run that I liked. If you're really curious about the contents, I think a search for Wonder Woman #170 on this forum will turn up the post I made on it in a different discussion.

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

AUGHH!! What happened to all my covers?? The site's still online....

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


AUGHH!! What happened to all my covers?? The site's still online....
It looks like they may have implemented outside link blocking. ComicBookResources.com does the same thing, although they put up a little CBR logo image instead of blocking the whole thing entirely. It's probably due to people "borrowing" their bandwidth to host images and linking them. I see blogs do it all the time. A few people doing it ain't so bad, but get enough of them and it adds up to real money really quickly.

If you're bent on getting 'em back, you can join one of those free image hosting services, like flickr, photobucket, or blogger.com's photo blog thing, and copy the images from comics.org to there. Or use your own webspace for it.

-- Ed/Ace

[DOOM2099]

This is an awesome free site. Best one I found.

www.100webspace.com (http://www.100webspace.com)

and you can hotlink to it.

[Peter Paltridge]

"DOOM", that webhost is really messed up. They ask for your address, fax number, just about everything, in order to activate an account. Then when you finally do, they don't even give you a username, making it so you can't even log in!
I'm glad I faked everything I put down.

Anyway, I'm tired of looking, so I finally just uploaded three to my own site's server. The main problem is that no one ELSE can do this, so I'd be the only one updating if I continued the topic. And THAT'S no fun, 'cause I'd get no responses. Do the rest of you have accounts somewhere that'll let you link images?

In the meantime, check out this pretty blatantly Sixties cover.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/firstkeiki/rockhappening.jpg
"OK, Fredric, you look positively PHOOMPEERED!"
"Gurks, Bunny! I've been FANTASTICATED!"
Know what? These people gave birth to us.

"We Luv you BEAGLES! Oh yes we do!" That sign holder is so stoned he couldn't even get the name of the band right.

[Peter Paltridge]

You don't wanna mess with THIS guy!
http://www.platypuscomix.net/firstkeiki/captaincanuck.jpg
"You'll say ZED on MY watch, American DIRTBAG!!"

http://www.platypuscomix.net/firstkeiki/deathbybunnies.jpg
This cover is part of a massive crossover wherein the DC Universe was overthrown by cute bunnies. Not really, but I WISH that was a storyline....seriously.

[Mad Monkey 7]

Quick, somebody find the cover to JLAPE Crossover!!:D

Update:

Found it,

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/5748/400/5748_4_03.jpg

Eat your heart out, King Kong!!! JLApe Assemble!!!

[Zorak Masaki]

You could simply post the link to the cover if comics.org wont allow remote linking.

[Mad Monkey 7]

New link for JLApe,



http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/5748/400/5748_4_03.jpg

P.S.

Saved By The Bell: The Comic Book.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=249225&zoom=4

Some how this is tied into Infinite Crisis. Look out, world here comes Ultra-Screech!!

[randomguy]

Here's one of my favorites, which comes courtesy of the BeaucoupKevin (http://www.beaucoupkevin.com/) blog:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/freemarketmarx/detective332-756948.jpg

Seriously... how the hell does that work?

[Anthonynotes]

Re: the Zatanna cover: Compared to Infinite Crisis crud, I *wished* it were a crossover idea. Wonder how Batman would handle the invasion of bunnies in Gotham City (BATMAN: "Alfred, rabbits can be *almost* as clever as *I* am... as I learned when I met that grey rabbit some time ago..." "EDITOR'S NOTE: See 'Superman/Bugs Bunny' for details!" ;-) ).

Re: the 60's cover: Hmm, would assume except for Sharklady (who's a Baby Boomer herself) and maybe one or two others, almost all of us on here presumably were given birth to by those that lived through the "flower power" era, including myself (though my parents weren't hippies).

Re: the Joker cover: Uh.... how he pulled it off? Erm... maybe the Joker had "enough time to prepare"? ;-p

[Somejerk]

Here's one of my favorites, which comes courtesy of the BeaucoupKevin (http://www.beaucoupkevin.com/) blog:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/freemarketmarx/detective332-756948.jpg

Seriously... how the hell does that work?
Joker is David Blaine's Teacher obviously, that or Hank Scropio "I didn't even give you my jacket"

[straw_hat]

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8751/1540040024lv.jpg

I really can't imagine these guys ever running out of ideas :rolleyes:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/9479/1974400451dq.jpg

Zoinks! That's either a surfing ghost or someone didn't tell warn Tarzan about surfing during an electrical storm

[Peter Paltridge]

Looks like you can link to comics.org again, sort of....you just can't post the pictures directly.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=263003&zoom=4
Finally, the GODZILLA VS. CHARLES BARKLEY COVER!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=246017&zoom=4
That's just odd.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=247190&zoom=4
A Ronald McDonald comic book. A very early one.....

[Zorak Masaki]

Re: that "Beagles" cover,,the name of the band in the comic probably was the "Beagles" so as to avoid copyright infringment (see also the transformers comic with "brick springsteen" and his hit single "born in America")

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=263987&zoom=4
That's an interesting one. (By the way, before you post, I KNOW it's based on a TV show.)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=263988&zoom=4
Oh my word. Is this actually the return of Spider-Ham??
.......And I thought Spider-Girl was about his daughter. They're clearly both in action in that drawing.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=256003&zoom=4

And Lobo wonders why people hate him. IT'S CAUSE YOU KILLED SANTA CLAUS, YOU %^$#%^!!!

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=260976&zoom=4
I've heard it said that the Mod Squad was a lame "establishment" attempt to identify with the younger generation of the 60's. Case in point: "groovey"??

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=221946&zoom=4
Ahaha! It's the cover for the "Betty Cooper, Betty Cooper" story where Veronica falls in love with a mannequin! I have a digest reprint of that somewhere, and I think it's proof that these guys have done everything. And when I say love, I mean she drags the mannequin everywhere and takes it out to dinner. They were serious for a few pages.

As for "Betty Cooper, Betty Cooper".....this was the result of some writer on the staff becoming a huge fan of the obscure TV series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." I think there are more episodes of the Archie ripoff than there are of the real thing.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=256532&zoom=4
"Approved by the Comics Code Authority" my foot.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=264081&zoom=4
Boy, HE looks fearsome. I wonder if he's related to the MXPX kid.

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=221946&zoom=4
Ahaha! It's the cover for the "Betty Cooper, Betty Cooper" story where Veronica falls in love with a mannequin! I have a digest reprint of that somewhere, and I think it's proof that these guys have done everything. And when I say love, I mean she drags the mannequin everywhere and takes it out to dinner. They were serious for a few pages.

As for "Betty Cooper, Betty Cooper".....this was the result of some writer on the staff becoming a huge fan of the obscure TV series "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." I think there are more episodes of the Archie ripoff than there are of the real thing.


Hmmm.. IMDB states "Mary Hartman" lasted two seasons, with 325 episodes made (IIRC it was a nightly soap opera-type show). It also featured a young Martin Mull (of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Teamo Supremo" fame): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074021/



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=256532&zoom=4
"Approved by the Comics Code Authority" my foot.


Yeesh... indeed.


A few with our favorite zillionaire, Uncle Scrooge:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14789&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=250170&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=250162&zoom=4

[MonkeyFunk]

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=234838&zoom=4 (http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13118/400/13118_4_002.jpg)
No wonder Western comics never really caught on.

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21719&zoom=4 (http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1877/400/1877_4_1.jpg)
...although they did come up with some interesting takes on the genre.

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6647&zoom=4 (http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/426/400/426_4_0503.jpg)
My, what a descriptive cover.

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=122899&zoom=2 (http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/9741/200/9741_2_047.jpg)
Aaaaaand that's enough for one day.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/13118/400/13118_4_002.jpg
No wonder Western comics never really caught on.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1877/400/1877_4_1.jpg
...allthough they did come up with some interesting takes on the genre.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/426/400/426_4_0503.jpg
My, what a descriptive cover.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/9741/200/9741_2_047.jpg
Aaaaaand that's enough for one day.Those don't work. You have to link to the "large" picture page, not the picture itself.

[MonkeyFunk]

Oops, edited.

[Anthonynotes]

Cover #1 (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=234838&zoom=4)
No wonder Western comics never really caught on.

Cover #2 (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21719&zoom=4)
...although they did come up with some interesting takes on the genre.

Cover #3 (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6647&zoom=4)
My, what a descriptive cover.

Cover #4 (http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=122899&zoom=2)
Aaaaaand that's enough for one day.


Actually, they still weren't fixed---but I fixed them in the above altered-quote section.

Actually, Western comics were one of the multiple genres that were popular in the 50's in the U.S., when they replaced during most of the decade the 40's superheroes, who'd waned in popularity; e.g., 1951's "All Star Comics" #57 was the last Golden Age appearance of the Justice Society, and their comic with #58 became "All Star Western". DC in particular churned out plenty of Western comics during the 50's and 60's (when Westerns in general were at their peak in popularity) that're technically part of their superhero continuity (as being set in the past of the DCU), including charcters like the Trigger Twins (a pair of twin gunslingers), Pow Wow Smith (according to Toonopedia, a Native American sheriff), Scalphunter (IIRC a Caucasian man raised by Native Americans), Bat Lash, and Jonah Hex, among multiple others. Marvel also made Western comics, including the Rawhide Kid (the guy they gave a controversial "makeover" a few years back...).

With the rise of the spandex set in the 60's and Westerns' decline in popularity by the 70's (Clint Eastwood's films aside), Western comics met their demise, with DC's Western characters reduced to only appearing nowadays in some time-travel story involving the JLA or somesuch (or Vertigo-type material)...

My contribution for today: "Little Archie", Archie Comics' series about Archie and friends when they were grade-schoolers (yeah, the kids/adults all called him "Little Archie" in the series... real life precedent: me and my siblings/parents used to call a cousin of mine "Little <his name here>", though in his case, he was named after his dad). The writer/artist (Bob Bolling (sp?)) put a big emphasis on adventure stories, which might explain the covers below:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230915&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230923&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230908&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230912&zoom=4

Note the younger versions of Archie's parents in the cover below, especially Dad Andrews, who's bald in Archie's "present" (despite something like only 6-8 years tops between Little Archie's era and teen-Archie's present, by my guess ;-p ):

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230934&zoom=4

Also note the first cover in the series---apparently just being "little" and "cute" didn't sell, hence the covers above ;-) :

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=212923&zoom=4

One last one---who says Archie can't be "realistic" (well, realistic *looking*):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17800&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

Love that third one. What IS going on there??

Anyway, check this out:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=264262&zoom=4
....Aren't those two kids related??

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=264260&zoom=4

Wow, two disturbing kid covers in a row.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=264922&zoom=4

Just in case anyone wanted to see the Sept. 11th issue of "Magic Pickle," there it is.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=265355&zoom=4

The best cover I've seen in a while.

[MonkeyFunk]

Ho ho ho, here are some festive offerings!

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=45308&zoom=4

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=249224&zoom=4

And it might just be me, but I find this one kind of creepy:
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170708&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

They just put up a bunch of "Archie's Weird Mysteries" covers. These two are my favorites:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=238207&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=238216&zoom=4

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


And it might just be me, but I find this one kind of creepy:
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170708&zoom=4
If you're curious about what was in that comic, Scott Shaw! just used it for today's Oddball Comics column (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2005-12-23).

64-pages of comic book fun for a quarter. Ah, those were the days. Too bad most of those pages probably really sucked :).

-- Ed/Ace

[MonkeyFunk]

Good lord, Captain Marvel had some of the worst bad guys ever:

http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5315&zoom=4
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4178&zoom=4
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4850&zoom=4
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4962&zoom=4
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5251&zoom=4
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=7604&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

Okay, now I just GOTTA find more Captain Marvel covers.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=210627&zoom=4
At first glance, there's nothing special about this, but the truth is, this was the very first comic book I ever read, at age 4. I was given a small stack of comics on Christmas Eve 1986, and read this one first--so this was exactly 19 years ago NOW. And comics.org put it up tonight as well, ironically.

And before anyone asks, I was a savant reader, I started at age 2...so, yes I DID really read the thing.

[Peter Paltridge]

The middle three covers are sure weird, but they're weirder than you realize:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=245504&zoom=4
This is an issue of the original Ninja Turtles comic book.

These are the next three issues in the series. (WHA???)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=245506&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=245507&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=245508&zoom=4

And finally, this is the issue after those, which once again looks completely normal:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=245509&zoom=4

Anyone know what exactly happened?

[MonkeyFunk]

*goes to official TMNT website*

Well, apparently, those ones formed a three-part series where the crew went for "madcap mayhem in the Hedden & McWeeney style." The synopses start here (http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/volume01/38/38.htm)

[Peter Paltridge]

I wonder when the TV series will get around to animating THOSE....

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=260126&zoom=4
Anyway, he looks pretty angry.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266092&zoom=4
And so does HE.
You know, this is the same title that Sesame Street used when it parodied Miami Vice, back when it was popular and I was the Sesame Street age. I don't know what their excuse is in 1997 (when this was made).

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=265973&zoom=4
How could any of the major publishers NOT take this idea?

[MonkeyFunk]

Hey, there was a British strip called Miami Mice, it was used to advertise cheese.

And yeah, it came out at around 97 too...

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=210198&zoom=4
Aww.....hey! WHEN was there a Rocko's Modern Life comic??

[TheMecca]

What the hell is this? "Milk and Cheese" is what the hell it is. (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266088&zoom=4)

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=42677&zoom=4
Now that's what you call atomic!

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266199&zoom=4
I was wondering when a superhero was gonna do that.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266523&zoom=4
This is a cover for Marvel's Power Ranger series; it took them until 1996 to make this. Did anyone see the same Disney Adventures blurb that I did in 1994? It said Gladstone Comics (yes, that Gladstone....the small, quiet, Barks-obsessed Gladstone) had landed the rights to Power Rangers and the first issues were going to appear that fall. As far as I know, that's the last anyone heard about that.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266768&zoom=4
Wish I knew what that is.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266738&zoom=4
Wow--the FIRST comic book created on computers! You can REALLY see the quality *snicker*

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266651&zoom=4
We need more Milk and Cheese....

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266523&zoom=4
This is a cover for Marvel's Power Ranger series; it took them until 1996 to make this. Did anyone see the same Disney Adventures blurb that I did in 1994? It said Gladstone Comics (yes, that Gladstone....the small, quiet, Barks-obsessed Gladstone) had landed the rights to Power Rangers and the first issues were going to appear that fall. As far as I know, that's the last anyone heard about that.

Well, the Power Rangers do seem to air exclusively on Disney's properties... thus, sure Gladstone (the Disney comics licensee) had and easy track to producing comics about the dopey Japanese-stock-footage fighting teens... ;-)



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266738&zoom=4
Wow--the FIRST comic book created on computers! You can REALLY see the quality *snicker*


Hey, don't knock it! It was created in 1985 using IIRC the "powerful" original-model Macintosh (128 kb of RAM and MacPaint rulez! :-) )

[Peter Paltridge]

Well, the Power Rangers do seem to air exclusively on Disney's properties... thus, sure Gladstone (the Disney comics licensee) had and easy track to producing comics about the dopey Japanese-stock-footage fighting teens... ;-)
That's only recently....all Saban properties had a contract with Fox until they were sold to Disney in the 21st century.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71202&zoom=4
I've always wondered what Death's head looked like.

[MonkeyFunk]

Some interesting examples from the UK:

http://www.britishcomics.com/merrymidgetfirstissue.jpg
Hmm. Not quite as catxhy as "Action Comics".

http://www.bookpalace.com/PicLibs/Commando/images/Commando0001.jpg
Yes, this is a soldier forcing a Nazi at gunpoint to give him a piggyback. What can I say that can possibly make it funnier?

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/UKGeneral/images/Hotspur.jpg
Those dashed foreigners and their cruel tortures!

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/UKGeneral/images/June.jpg
...I can't be the only one who finds this a little creepy.

http://wingedavenger.theavengers.tv/annuals/annuals_graphics/tvcom_ep67_1.gif
It's the crossover of the century!

But you know what? Over its run, this comic featured strips starring Laurel and Hardy, Charlie's Angels, the Dukes of Hazzard and Battle of the Planets. If I can find a cover with that lot rubbing shoulders with Popeye and Bugs Bunny, I'll die a happy man.

[Anthonynotes]

From the 40's, DC Comics' "Nero Fox", the "jive-jumping emperor of ancient Rome":

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=132911&zoom=4

Nero showed up again after the 40's in a "Capt. Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew" issue (a time-travel story).

Capt. Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew fun!:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=37275&zoom=4 ("Crisis on Earth-C")

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=36799&zoom=4 (more old DC funny animals---the three mice in the corner are DC's first version of the "Three Mouseketeers", from the 40's; the turtle in Jay Garrick's costume is the "Terrific Whatzit", DC's first funny-animal superhero---a guy with the powers of Jay Garrick [plus some degree of flight and super-strength thrown in])

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=36883&zoom=4 (Peter Porkchops---old DC funny-animal guy who became Pig-Iron)

The Dodo and the Frog:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71759&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71763&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71770&zoom=4

Small wonder the Frog became *this* guy years later (IIRC, to show up/get back at the Dodo):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=36325&zoom=4

[Anthonynotes]

What the subject line says.

A 1942 "ashcan" comic DC published to presumably lay claim to the trademark on the name "Superboy" (and not meant to be distributed otherwise, thus the Batman story shown as filler):
http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=11519

The 1949 comic where Smallville is first named:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=7528&zoom=4

Shades of, uh, "Infinite Crisis" crap! Sorta. Or just another one of those "hero rushing another hero improbably enough" covers:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=12690&zoom=4

Brandon Routh would make a perfect Mon-El, if he weren't playing Supes:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=28433&zoom=4

Another cover clearly showing that Batman was all light-hearted, angst-free and worthless as a character in the decades' worth of comics published before Miller and "Year One" came down the pike:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24862&zoom=4

More "light-hearted" 70's "fun" ;-) :
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=25343&zoom=4

Not read the story (or read it in awhile), but like the cover for the title alone:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=26615&zoom=4

A meeting with Aquaboy, the only other major hero that usually operated in Superboy's time:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=23958&zoom=4

Alas, poor Tyroc:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30489&zoom=4

Superboy now takes place in the sixties, since he's, like, now groovy and stuff:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=34191&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=29815&zoom=4
If Superman is running around naked somewhere now, I don't need to know which of the nine is responsible.

[Zorak Masaki]

Fun for the whole family!:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=259064&zoom=2

[Peter Paltridge]

Nancy ripoffs:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=211282&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=211276&zoom=4
That's certainly one of the stranger name ideas I've seen. Better keep this comic away from Gweneth Paltrow.

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


Nancy ripoffs:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=211282&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=211276&zoom=4
That's certainly one of the stranger name ideas I've seen. Better keep this comic away from Gweneth Paltrow.

As good a place as any to bring up Scott McCloud's rules for 5-card Nancy (http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/nancy/nancy.html).

Little Aspirin, though? What, she's gonna make your headache go away or something?

And, by the way, there's a long-awaited follow-up to your Dakota North post (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?p=1928296&highlight=dakota+north#post1928296), which went up in the Big Pile of Links on the This Week in Comics thread, but I'm not sure you read it regularly. Good ol' Dakota is coming back this summer (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57588).

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

And, by the way, there's a long-awaited follow-up to your Dakota North post (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?p=1928296&highlight=dakota+north#post1928296), which went up in the Big Pile of Links on the This Week in Comics thread, but I'm not sure you read it regularly. Good ol' Dakota is coming back this summer (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57588).

-- Ed/Ace
Hah, didn't see THAT coming! I miss her black leather jacket though.

From the post, it was gathered on this topic that Dakota North was kind of an over-the-top, Charlie's Angels-type deal. Things like that are more popular today than in 1986, so who knows.....this just MIGHT not miss this time....

Then again, listen to the author:


McCubbin told Newsarama: “The upshot is that there are murders, and Dakota is awesome and solves them. Oh, and um, I am drawing superheroes. No, seriously.

“Do you see why I am not a writer?

“As for what you can expect, hmm... well, awesomeness and special guest stars. A kickass redhead. High fashion and low behavior. Hot girls. Smart girls. Hot smart girls. You know, the usual.”

Is this Ashlee Simpson under a pseudonym, or what...??

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=227024&zoom=4
Harvey dares to get controversial! The first apperance of Hot Stuff. His opening tagline: "I'm Hot Stuff; who are you?" Must have been the line he used to pick up chicks.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=264447&zoom=4
Maybe Richie isn't that bad if he would order a robot dinosaur to attack the New Kids On The Block (seriously, see for yourself).

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

Just because I managed to score issues #1-30 of the original Giffen/DeMatteis run of Justice League:

Batman goes undercover disguised as...Bruce Wayne? (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=44862&zoom=4)

Well, that's one way to throw off suspicions of your secret identity...

Along the way, we follow as Scott Free/Mr. Miracle has been kidnapped by aliens (and his wife, Big Barda, is NOT HAPPY about it) and the running story of Col. Rumaan Havarti and his dictatorship of Bialya takes a rather unexpected turn.

Man, I can't believe it took me this long to get finally get past the first TPB and the Quarterly issues they put out...

-- Ed/Ace

[Anthonynotes]

More old-time comic fun:

Old-time radio fun:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4921&zoom=4

The Golden Age Mxyzptlk teams up with Lois Lane's niece in the Golden Age comics, mischevious Susie Tompkins:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5055&zoom=4

Cover-logic: "If they liked it once, they'll love it twice":
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=7245&zoom=4

Must be some *really* bad cooking:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6547&zoom=4

Superman's 1948 10th anniversary brought his first full-fledged origin retelling since his debut (including IIRC introducing kryptonite to the comics):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6816&zoom=4

The first time Supes meets anyone from Krypton (in 1950):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=8336&zoom=4

The "Thing From 40,000 A.D." (who apparently was an Earth-One character, since the Omega Men run into him decades later according to some website):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=11095&zoom=4

"Superman Land", a Man of Steel-themed amusement park near Metropolis (and presumably a parody of the then-just-opened Disneyland):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=12417&zoom=4

"Heat of his x-ray vision fun":
In the 50's, Superman's heat vision was originally the "heat of his x-ray vision"... heat vision became a seperate power in the early 60's. Wonder if these writers had ever been to a dentist/doctor or something (since x-rays don't generate heat and all), or how they even came up with such an idea... :-)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13446&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13762&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13724&zoom=4 (Ah, you think the heat of *your* x-ray vision is sooooo great, Krypto... :-) ).

[Peter Paltridge]

Must be some *really* bad cooking:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6547&zoom=4
Heh! Seriously, think about what it takes to do that. Those must be the hardest muffins in the history of time.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=214071&zoom=4
AAAAAAAGAH! WHAT IS IT?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30641&zoom=4
Oops. Shouldn't leave those things lying around, Supes.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=29721&zoom=4
If he's going to give up being Superman, and betray millions of people, maybe he should take the costume off...??

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=35543&zoom=4
Not only does this make no sense, but Superman almost looks happy.

[Anthonynotes]

Heh! Seriously, think about what it takes to do that. Those must be the hardest muffins in the history of time.


Indeed. That or "powdered kryptonite mixed in with the baking mix without anyone realizing it"... ;-)



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=29721&zoom=4
If he's going to give up being Superman, and betray millions of people, maybe he should take the costume off...??


Ah, a cover that's part of the classic 70's Superman storyline "Who took the Super out of Superman?", where Supes tries to live a week as Supes and a week as Clark Kent in order to decide which identity he should permanently stick with (he woke up one day to discover he was only superpowered while in costume, and not as Clark); the cover was part of some nightmare Supes had IIRC.



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=35543&zoom=4
Not only does this make no sense, but Superman almost looks happy.
[/quote]

Guess it's another of those early 80's "look how cool and high-tech computers are, kids!"-type scenes (complete with "high tech" pixellated screen images like those of dot-matrix-Lois and -Lana there). :-)

-B.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=214071&zoom=4


"Throbbing". Interesting.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273300&zoom=4
"Before They Were Comic Stars": Fone Bone in a B-movie! (B-comic...whatever)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=63798&zoom=4
Yeah.....kind of a bummer, isn't it....peace on Earth and all.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=65505&zoom=4
Okay, THIS one.....man, I haven't laughed so hard at a cover in a long time. You are really in for a treat with this....

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273300&zoom=4
"Before They Were Comic Stars": Fone Bone in a B-movie! (B-comic...whatever)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=63798&zoom=4
Yeah.....kind of a bummer, isn't it....peace on Earth and all.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=65505&zoom=4
Okay, THIS one.....man, I haven't laughed so hard at a cover in a long time. You are really in for a treat with this....

Aww, but the last cover's for a *good* story (the classic "Must There Be A Superman?" story from Elliot S. Maggin's run on Supes in the 70's). Not worthy of laughter... :-)

(IIRC, "Supacomic" is the title Supes' comics got released under in Australia in the 60's/70's...).

-B.

[Peter Paltridge]

If that's a GOOD story, then what happened in it?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273394&zoom=4
This is the lamest superhero ever.

"That's a pretty broad statement," you say....no, I'm pretty sure I'm right.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273459&zoom=4
Now this cover I like, though I have no idea what circumstances would create it. It's the Fleischer one! In 2006!

[Anthonynotes]

>>If that's a GOOD story, then what happened in it?


Superman, thanks to subtle prompting by the Guardians of the Universe, is made to wonder if he's being *too* involved in, and holding up the progress of, humans on Earth advancing on their own through his various actions. One of the first stories to question what role, and how much of a role, superheroes should play in their worlds...

>>http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273394&zoom=4
This is the lamest superhero ever.

And a Hoppy the Marvel Bunny ripoff to boot...


>>http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273459&zoom=4
Now this cover I like, though I have no idea what circumstances would create it. It's the Fleischer one! In 2006![/QUOTE]

Current issue, part of the current "infinite Crisis" crud; the life story of the Earth-Two/Golden Age Superman (who's reappeared in current comics) is apparently being retold from what I've heard.

For the record, I can only think of one place where the Daily Star building was drawn as it is on that cover, in the 1986 "Secret Origins" #1 issue that retold the Golden Age Supes' origin (as seen in Action Comics #1). I think that "Daily Star on a loop-sign around the building" looks kind of stupid---wonder how the people in the floors the loop goes around (whatever it is that the loop's attaced too) are supposed to see ou their windows?

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239183&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239188&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239149&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239150&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239128&zoom=4

:eek:

And you thought Betty and Veronica were evil......

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=239183&zoom=4


Gotta love her Exorcist head.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273860&zoom=4
At least it's honest.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273259&zoom=4
Is he supposed to be.....THAT one?

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273860&zoom=4
At least it's honest.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273259&zoom=4
Is he supposed to be.....THAT one?

I'm assuming "Groucho" as in "he's such a grouch", not the Marx brother. :-)

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1685&zoom=4

Nazis, guys getting gunned down...sure looks like "More Fun" all right. :-)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4444&zoom=4
Superboy's first cover appearance on a comic (though he debuted three issues earlier). Note he's selling (World War II) war bonds even though it seems (from the cover date) a bit late in the war (even factoring in the issue probably coming out several months in advance). Dover and Clover were two humorous characters (twin detectives) who also appeared in "More Fun".

Superboy's other More Fun covers:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4542&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=4653&zoom=4 (mmmm...pancakes.)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=203809&zoom=4 (when More Fun became an all-humor magazine, with Superboy, Green Arrow, and Aquaman moving over to "Adventure Comics" for a decades-long spell)

Superboy on Adventure Comics covers in the 40's:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5023&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5082&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5148&zoom=4 (so much for "not using your powers to win a contest" ;-) )
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5219&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5281&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5345&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5417&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5480&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5545&zoom=4 (see "not using your powers to win a contest" again, plus those poor bowling pins... ;-) )
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5776&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5962&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6033&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=6735&zoom=4 (yep, the first of a few stories of a teenaged Clark meeting Lois... though this story they were more grade-schoolers IIRC; read it in the black-and-white reprint included in "Superman From the 30's through the 70's" hardcover book, now long out of print)

[Peter Paltridge]

It's back, with a special.....STUPID TITLES EDITION!!!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=275946&zoom=4
Could you ask for a title more shameless than that?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266068&zoom=4
ROARRR!! You don't want to mess with HIM! Nor with "Moon-Boy"!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=275089&zoom=4
.....???

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170674&zoom=4
Dig this crazy comic!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274475&zoom=4
John Byrne, what the......

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274961&zoom=4
THIS is what happens when you push Wynonna too far!!!



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274483&zoom=4
In other news, here's the cover for a new comic book starring Yenny. She oughta fit into the comic book industry easier....she's only slightly less exaggerated than most superheroines.

[James]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274483&zoom=4
In other news, here's the cover for a new comic book starring Yenny. She oughta fit into the comic book industry easier....she's only slightly less exaggerated than most superheroines.

Good to see Alvarez has got some print from the character. Some may recall Yenny did a Toon Zone Drawing Board cartoon strip a while back. We'll have to see if we can find that again. Cool to see a net strip go to print!

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=275946&zoom=4
Could you ask for a title more shameless than that?

Ah, yes, the comic book from the company that's so moral, it had to edit out the boobies from the European graphic novel XIII while leaving every last bit of the raw, bloody, and frequent violence intact. How they manage to square that position with comics like Victoria's Secret Service and titles like this (http://www.aliasenterprises.com/musea.html) or this (http://www.aliasenterprises.com/judo.html) or this (http://www.aliasenterprises.com/isis.html) is utterly beyond me.

In any event, I may be able to outdo that title with The Outer Space Babes (http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=enlarge&issue=59403184104%201). Shameful confession time: I actually own a copy of OSB somewhere in my longboxes, but it had a different (and slightly less openly exploitive) cover.


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266068&zoom=4
ROARRR!! You don't want to mess with HIM! Nor with "Moon-Boy"!

Hey, don't be messing with Devil Dinosaur (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=32141&zoom=4). If nothing else, he's got quite the devoted following (http://www.toonopedia.com/devil_d.htm), and he also made for the second best of the "Marvel Monsters" comics (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=6599) that came out last Halloween-ish time.

Besides, he's a big red dinosaur that was created by Jack Kirby. Who eats monkeys head first (http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/100505/mm1two.html). Raaaarrrr, crunchy!!!! So no making fun of Devil Dinosaur. Them's fightin' words where I'm from! :p.


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274961&zoom=4
THIS is what happens when you push Wynonna too far!!!

I actually reviewed the Complete Wynonna Earp TPB (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=2044008&postcount=19) a while ago. This was the first of the Image-lite Joyce Chin issues, which weren't bad art-wise but weren't great.

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=174507&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=237988&zoom=4
That IS a better hairdo for Betty, but no one seems to notice her apparent skin condition......

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=216949&zoom=4
So Lobo changed his name to something more accurate....

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=237988&zoom=4
That IS a better hairdo for Betty, but no one seems to notice her apparent skin condition......


Or Archie's right eye.

[Anthonynotes]

The Jetsons go Alex Ross-like:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=213713&zoom=4

Whoa:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230308&zoom=4

Who, indeed:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=230306&zoom=4

Even a comic of the "Roman Holidays" (that "Flintstones in ancient Rome" show produced in the early 70's) got made (Though the two guys on the cover's names are Brutus the lion and Gus Holiday, not Cassius; IIRC, the Shakespeare line was "friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..."):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=244060&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=169416&zoom=4
None of this made any sense until I noticed the "Sid and Marty Krofft" name at the top....then it all did.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=276995&zoom=4
"I Heart Marvel"? "Squirrel Girl"?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=212919&zoom=4
If you need proof that Archie is crazy, here you go.

Here are a couple licensed comics you never knew were attempted:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273108&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=276425&zoom=4
Regarding "NBComics," I think this was the last year of NBC's Saturday Morning programming as well as the last year Harvey stayed in print. Did this comic drag them both down? (Not really, but the coincidence is interesting enough...)

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=169416&zoom=4
None of this made any sense until I noticed the "Sid and Marty Krofft" name at the top....then it all did.


"The Bugaloos" was one of the shows Krofft did in the early 70's (about, uh, a bunch of bug-like people... or *something*...).



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273108&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=276425&zoom=4
Regarding "NBComics," I think this was the last year of NBC's Saturday Morning programming as well as the last year Harvey stayed in print. Did this comic drag them both down? (Not really, but the coincidence is interesting enough...)


I remember the Married With Children comic---mostly for a cover that parodied the Fantastic Four (not shown on the comics.org website).

RE: NBC/Harvey: probably so that it was during NBC's last year, judging from the cover ("Wishkid" was Macaulay Culkin's cartoon series, and aired in the last year NBC aired original programming before switching to a Saturday "Today" show/all-live-action)...

[MonkeyFunk]

Time for an appearence from the man who's been conspicuously absent throughout this topic:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=89512&zoom=4

And here we have quite possibly the worst name a superhero could pick:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30131&zoom=4

Remember Little Aspirin? Well, apparently, names like that were in vogue at the time:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=227693&zoom=4

(thing I don't get though- if Iodine's little, then what does that make the boy next to her?)

And finally, if those weren't enough for you... here are two stupid names for the price of one!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=262134&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

And here we have quite possibly the worst name a superhero could pick:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=30131&zoom=4
I can't believe that is real! There's NO WAY such a thing could be sold without protest. He's got a pentagram and everything....


Remember Little Aspirin? Well, apparently, names like that were in vogue at the time:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=227693&zoom=4

(thing I don't get though- if Iodine's little, then what does that make the boy next to her?)
Little Iodine was the name of an old American comic strip, and that book is based on it. But "Asprin"...there's no excuse for that one.

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


I can't believe that is real! There's NO WAY such a thing could be sold without protest. He's got a pentagram and everything....

Nope, the Son of Satan is totally, 100% real (http://www.toonopedia.com/sonsatan.htm) and had a comic for all of 8 issues. The article I linked to chronicles his history, including the backpedaling Marvel did later by saying it wasn't THAT Satan, but another demon with the same name. It's worth noting that the early 70's produced a bumper crop of Satan-influenced imagery, from the heavy metal groups to The Exorcist to this comic book.

His sister Satana (http://www.toonopedia.com/satana.htm) popped up in the Witches mini-series a while ago with Marvel sorceresses Jennifer Kale (http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/kalejennifer.htm) and Topaz (http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/topazwitch.htm), playing the Angels to Dr. Strange's Charlie. It was an amusing idea, but from all accounts the comic book was terrible.

-- Ed/Ace

[Anthonynotes]

A groaner of a cover (the "Nice year to visit..." phrase on it is also the story's name):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22444&zoom=4

Awww, how cute:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22382&zoom=4

(Anecdote: Could've bought this issue---saw it in a pile of used magazines at the library in the late 90's for a quarter, but it looked a bit beat up for my tastes; later, I saw the exact same issue being sold at a nearby comic shop for about $15... heh.).

Another secret identity story (with a cutesy title):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22312&zoom=4

Another anniversary reprint edition ("pals and gals"? Wonder if Archie knew they were swiping their title...):

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=21921&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

Awww, how cute:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22382&zoom=4
Haha! Really...."Superbaby"? With tights and all? DC NEEDED a Crisis to wipe THIS garbage away....speaking of that, does anybody know if "Superbaby" appeared in that?

Remember the Married with Children comic? Check this out....
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=277216&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=277217&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278036&zoom=4
Don't let Kids WB see this---they might adapt this instead, and save licensing money. (It is true that WB owns DC, but nothing's cheaper than free, right?)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278035&zoom=4
How is this a "Silver-Age Classic"?

[Anthonynotes]

Haha! Really...."Superbaby"? With tights and all? DC NEEDED a Crisis to wipe THIS garbage away....speaking of that, does anybody know if "Superbaby" appeared in that?


Well, actually...

Pre-Crisis, preschool aged Clark starred in an occasional story about him using his powers in a humorous manner (not having full grasp over them yet), which were labelled "Superbaby" stories. However, he didn't have his costume or was called that within the stories themselves (IIRC); he just wore a playsuit/jumper.

And still not convinced we "needed" a Crisis, after seeing its aftermath, but that's a different thread (as if there's no shortage of garbage/embarrassing stories from the past 20 years)... ;-)



http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278035&zoom=4
How is this a "Silver-Age Classic"?

It's a reprint of an old story of the long running series "Sugar and Spike", created by the same guy who helped create the Justice Society. Sugar and Spike was about the adventures of a pair of toddlers who could talk to each other, but not to adults----the exact same premise as "Rugrats." The stories were published from the 50's through the 70's in the US, when their title got axed here---but the artist kept drawing new stories for overseas publication (That weren't published here) up through the early 90's (when he died). In the early 90's, DC put out some SIlver Age reprint issues called "Silver Age Classics", and they threw in one of these unpublished-in-the-US Sugar and Spike stories. The two toddlers show up in cameos occcasionally (IIRC, they appeared once in a Young Justice story as who someone was babysitting).

-B.

[Xurk]

Remember the Married with Children comic? Check this out....
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=277216&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=277217&zoom=4

Is that "The Dodge"? HA!

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=96204&zoom=4
Yesterday several Elektra covers were put up, each showing her wielding a different weapon. This one's my favorite.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=216403&zoom=4
This makes NO sense. Look at that character and her surrounding pals (which are described in detail if you can read that small). This came out in 1970 and looks almost exactly like The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. It's obvious that's what they wanted, but couldn't get. BUT........

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=206663&zoom=4
WHY exactly could they not get the license to that?? Gold Key published a TON of books based on H-B cartoons, some of which were even less popular than Penelope (see for yourself).

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=216404&zoom=4
Another Pauline cover. Ace, say "howdy" and explain this comic....it's a real stumper.

[MonkeyFunk]

From Toonopedia:


The situation was reminiscent of Gold Key Comics' Pauline Peril, who also had a supposed benefactor secretly trying to kill her, but that's how it is with Hanna-Barbera.

This implies that Pauline Peril came first (and it's plausible that HB could do the same basic thing unknowingly, since both are based on The Perils of Pauline serial), but this comic started in 1970, two years after Penelope got her show. So unless Pauline Peril had an earlier incarnation...

[Peter Paltridge]

Two of the best titles ever (and by that I'm referring to the names of the comics, not the comics themselves) (and by that I'm also being sarcastic).

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278253&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278254&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=251076&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278475&zoom=4
Did I just see that?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278454&zoom=4
Okay, now I KNOW I'm going crazy....

[Mattashell]

Saved By The Bell: The Comic Book.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=249225&zoom=4



The funniest thing about this cover is "COLLECTOR'S #1 ISSUE!" For people who collect things that will be totally worthless!


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v636/freemarketmarx/detective332-756948.jpg

Seriously... how the hell does that work?

Kids in the Hall fans know!

JOKER: New rule! from now on the inside of the cell is the outside, and the outside of the cell is the inside!

BATMAN: Let me out!


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=29815&zoom=4
If Superman is running around naked somewhere now, I don't need to know which of the nine is responsible.
It was Brainiac, he needed pants.




http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=65505&zoom=4
Okay, THIS one.....man, I haven't laughed so hard at a cover in a long time. You are really in for a treat with this....

It was bound to happen after all the incidents on the "Superman is a *bleep* sight.

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,

I believe I have found the Greatest Comic Book Cover Ever (http://www.heroicpub.com/flare/covers.php?pic=58). It has:

1. A pneumatic blonde
1a. in a leather swimsuit
2. About to be eaten by a T-Rex
3. With a shark
3a. that's being used as a club
4. To belt a gorilla
4a. who's in a space suit
5. And a giant robot in the background
6. With UFO's overhead and a rocket or a missile launching
7. All in front of a mushroom cloud in the jungle

...and, despite all that, it's a TRIBUTE COVER (http://www.oddballcomics.com/).

I've seen an occasional issue of Flare in my comic shop, but I think I may well have to buy this if I see it.

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

Howdy,

I believe I have found the Greatest Comic Book Cover Ever (http://www.heroicpub.com/flare/covers.php?pic=58). It has:

1. A pneumatic blonde
1a. in a leather swimsuit
2. About to be eaten by a T-Rex
3. With a shark
3a. that's being used as a club
4. To belt a gorilla
4a. who's in a space suit
5. And a giant robot in the background
6. With UFO's overhead and a rocket or a missile launching
7. All in front of a mushroom cloud in the jungle

...and, despite all that, it's a TRIBUTE COVER (http://www.oddballcomics.com/).

I've seen an occasional issue of Flare in my comic shop, but I think I may well have to buy this if I see it.

-- Ed/Ace

Ace, you're my hero.

It's a tribute to....a website??

[Anthonynotes]

Ace, you're my hero.

It's a tribute to....a website??

Assume it's a tribute to Silver Age comic book covers, which often featured one (or more) of the elements shown on the homage cover...

[rggkjg1]

some of you may be oblivious to the uproar there has been to daniel craig being cast as the next james bond. a majority in part due to his hair color. i present the very first "james blonde"

http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=17555

if only dc did comic adaptations of goldfinger and thunderball. :(

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


It's a tribute to....a website??

As of now, at least, Oddball Comics is showing a cover by Scott! Shaw that contains all of the same elements slightly reshuffled. And apparently, it's not a tribute; the credits on the Heroic Publishing website (http://www.heroicpub.com/previews/fl33.php) say that the cover was designed by Shaw, and that "everything you see on this cover actually happens in the story."

-- Ed/Ace

[Peter Paltridge]

Ah, okay. It said "After Shaw!" and I never knew what that meant on comic covers before. So "after" means someone else designed the cover and the artist who signed the cover only drew it?

[Peter Paltridge]

Some comics try to look horribly ferocious, but the truth is, they're really hurting inside.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278644&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278650&zoom=4

So let's bring the subject to romance. This cover is noneventful, but it has one of the best nonsequitur titles ever: "Lust of the Nazi Weasel Women."
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278663&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170614&zoom=4
Hah! Wow!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170642&zoom=4
Not ANOTHER Archie ripoff! In this one, though, the Reggie placeholder is going to fail. The ends of his circle aren't going to meet, and they'll be past that area in a millisecond.

[MonkeyFunk]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=170642&zoom=4
Not ANOTHER Archie ripoff! In this one, though, the Reggie placeholder is going to fail. The ends of his circle aren't going to meet, and they'll be past that area in a millisecond.

What I don't get is why he took the time to carve his signature.

[Peter Paltridge]

They made a Prison Break comic! ......Sixty years ago!
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288924&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288925&zoom=4

WOW! WHAT A MAGAZINE!
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=247559&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=247560&zoom=4

Finally: not weird, just interesting: Li'l Storm. That's a cool idea...
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288920&zoom=4

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


They made a Prison Break comic! ......Sixty years ago!
(S N I P )
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288925&zoom=4

What state do I need to go to so I can get sent to a prison with such curvy prison guards in it?

And, once I got sent there, why would I ever want to break out? :D

-- Ed/Ace

[Agent S7]

Finally: not weird, just interesting: Li'l Storm. That's a cool idea...
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288920&zoom=4

I'll confess that I've been lurking around this thread...but nothing has urged me to post until this!

This comic looks great! Does anyone know if it's in TPB?



They made a Prison Break comic! ......Sixty years ago!
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288924&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=288925&zoom=4



You know, I've never seen Prison Break. I think what you just showed me will motivate me to, though! :D

~s7

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


This comic looks great! Does anyone know if it's in TPB?

It's a digest-sized comic (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785118195/ref=sr_11_1/102-7108432-7361738?%5Fencoding=UTF8), not a full-sized trade paperback, but yeah it's been collected.

-- Ed/Ace

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=75585&zoom=2

Was this posted yet? :sweat:

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=75585&zoom=2

Was this posted yet? :sweat:
No, and I have that issue of Alf, as well as every other.....that comic was great.

[Peter Paltridge]

I haven't a clue what this is or how it's related to Spider-Man, but these covers look....familiar somehow.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273854&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273857&zoom=4

And if you think THAT'S bad.....
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=273856&zoom=4

[Anthonynotes]

Superboy oddities:

A TV set in Superboy's time, despite this comic being published in the 1950's, and thus Superboy's era at the time would've been, um, before the 1950's, before the general public had TVs for the first time...uh, yeah:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13214&zoom=4

Reaffirming the oddity of the above, this cover (the "time-scope" looking all the way into the far-off year of 1960):
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16332&zoom=4

Show-off!:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=5417&zoom=4

Robin (via time-travel) meets Superboy (the obscured text of Superboy's was: "why are you smashing my prize trophy, the cosmic clock?!"): http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14680&zoom=4

Bruce meets Superboy "for the first time" (and another time-scope viewing into the far-off future year of 1960): http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=15781&zoom=4

Superboy meets young Oliver Queen (before he became Green Arrow), who IIRC was a poor archerer: http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=14940&zoom=4

"World's Finest Comics" #271, which was Roy Thomas' attempt to reconcile the various different "first meetings" of Superman and Batman (and the "first meetings" shown above---mostly by having Clark and Bruce's time-scope-viewing memories erased/suppressed after the above stories were over ;-) ): http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=35633&zoom=4

[Peter Paltridge]

Bruce meets Superboy "for the first time" (and another time-scope viewing into the far-off future year of 1960): http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=15781&zoom=4
That's one of the most infamous covers on Superdickery, since it was pointed out that Superman could have told Bruce that his parents were going to die and then prevented it from happening.

[Zorak Masaki]

That's one of the most infamous covers on Superdickery, since it was pointed out that Superman could have told Bruce that his parents were going to die and then prevented it from happening.

Actually, Bruce looked more like a teenager on that cover, and his parents died when he was younger (though i cant see bruce wayne, at any point in his life, saying "golly!")

[Peter Paltridge]

She's Hip! She's Mod! She's Boss! She's BUNNY!
http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?seriesid=10226

Earlier in the thread, I showed a Bunny spinoff cover called "Rock Happening" that packed such a concentrated mass of hippie language that it was incomprehensible. You'll see similar things here.

I wasn't around in this era, but I'm pretty sure Bunny was a failed attempt by squares in suits to cross the generation gap and understand those crazy teenage freaks. Even I know nobody said "Boss" by 1968.

And the puns....oh, the PUNS! It's a Harvey production even though it tries its hardest to hide that.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=97332&zoom=4
The strangest one. Bunny says "zoovy" instead of "groovy" because....I guess she's so boss, she had to improve on the word. And yes, that actually says "Read this book if you enjoy bubbling your boop."

[Anthonynotes]

Actually, Bruce looked more like a teenager on that cover, and his parents died when he was younger (though i cant see bruce wayne, at any point in his life, saying "golly!")

Well, it *was* a early 60's-written comic.... ;-)

That said, Zorak's right---Bruce's parents pre-Crisis died when he was 8, so they were already dead at the time this story took place; "World's Finest" #271 stated that Bruce had actually accompanied his *guardians* (his uncle, Philip Wayne, the man who raised Bruce pre-Crisis, and presumably either a wife of his or his housekeeper, Mrs. Chilton...) to Smallville in this story, not his actual parents.

Even if they were his actual parents, I think Superboy just looked in on a moment of their adult lives (switching identities), and might not've left the time-viewer on long enough (however long that'd take) to hear of Bruce's parents' deaths...at any rate, this is the story where Superboy first gets wind of said deaths (which I'm sure would please the Superdickery crowd):

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24862&zoom=4

In the above story, Superboy learns of the Waynes' deaths from some old newspaper headline, and winds up visiting Gotham City, where he runs into Bruce (in Bat-training, and not in a "golly" mood), who's trying out a possible superhero identity of "The Executioner." Think this one got mostly ignored in pre-Crisis continuity after it was published (for whatever reason), and wasn't included in the "World's Finest" #271 Superman-Batman meeting reconciliations...

At any rate, it was also revealed in WF #271 that (to prevent the usual wacky time-travel paradox hijinks), Superboy and Bruce Wayne had their knowledge of their future (including each other's identities) erased soon after the time-scope story above (that and Superboy's time-scope didn't appear after the Silver Age IIRC, save for maybe the story that introduced Terra-Man). One further meeting after the Executioner story is a 1980 tale with the two meeting up in college (they went to seperate schools, but both schools' teams were playing a baseball game against each other), but no secret identity aspects were touched on; after this, comes chronologically IIRC the Superman-Batman tale in "Superman" #76 where they meet on a cruise ship (reprinted a gazillion times) and learn (once and for all) each others' identities.

-B.
Who isn't a huge Superdickery fan :-)

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=290770&zoom=4
Spidey's most useless battle. He shouldn't have bothered to try. Ignorance is immortal!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31234&zoom=4
Another "seriously?" one...

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=290781&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278454&zoom=4
These are from 1943. Archie was but one year old, maybe less, and his company was still selling superhero titles. They tried combining them once Archie started catching on....but in bizarre ways. Why is he a football and a fish? These drawings are just eerie....

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=290770&zoom=4
Spidey's most useless battle. He shouldn't have bothered to try. Ignorance is immortal!

Luckily for us, Awesome Andy (the blockhead in the cover getting a face full of web) has become a much, much cooler character in the pages of Dan Slott's She-Hulk.


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31234&zoom=4
Another "seriously?" one...

Hey, it's Edgar Rice Burroughs. He gets a lot of slack for crazy stuff like White Apes of Mars with 4 arms.

-- Ed/Ace

[Agent S7]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=290781&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278454&zoom=4
These are from 1943. Archie was but one year old, maybe less, and his company was still selling superhero titles. They tried combining them once Archie started catching on....but in bizarre ways. Why is he a football and a fish? These drawings are just eerie....

"Action Detective Comics". Bloody hilarious. :D

~s7

[Anthonynotes]

"Action Detective Comics". Bloody hilarious. :D

~s7

Moreso considering "Action Detective Adventure" (what the circle said) is the names of three seperate titles Archie Comics' competition, DC Comics, had ("Action Comics", "Detective Comics", "Adventure Comics"). ;-)

[Agent S7]

Moreso considering "Action Detective Adventure" (what the circle said) is the names of three seperate titles Archie Comics' competition, DC Comics, had ("Action Comics", "Detective Comics", "Adventure Comics"). ;-)

Actually, that was exactly what I was refferring to. :sweat: (Minus the Adventure Comics one.)

~s7

[Anthonynotes]

This JLA-JSA-Legion of Super-heroes teamup story's included in the copy of "Crisis on Multiple Earths" volume 4 I just bought:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=31609&zoom=4

Keep having run through my head that old song with the lyrics "will it go 'round in circles" in it.... :-)

-B.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291661&zoom=4
You're looking at Joker's 9/11 cover. Wasn't there even a LITTLE controversy over that?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291335&zoom=4
Archie made his super-duper retirement-age celebration free for everyone. And surprise of surprises, he remembered to invite That Wilkin Boy...but not Li'l Jinx, Super Duck, The Shield, Pat the Brat, Pipsqueak, Myron Pepperdinkle, or Sassy Thrasher. Like you can even call it a "bash" without Sassy.

I have no idea who that Asian girl is, or most of the people in the back of the row.

[Anthonynotes]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291661&zoom=4
You're looking at Joker's 9/11 cover. Wasn't there even a LITTLE controversy over that?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291335&zoom=4
Archie made his super-duper retirement-age celebration free for everyone. And surprise of surprises, he remembered to invite That Wilkin Boy...but not Li'l Jinx, Super Duck, The Shield, Pat the Brat, Pipsqueak, Myron Pepperdinkle, or Sassy Thrasher. Like you can even call it a "bash" without Sassy.

I have no idea who that Asian girl is, or most of the people in the back of the row.

Some of the people in the back row, if memory serves include:
- Cheryl Blossom (the red-headed girl in the center), the woman who came between Veronica and Betty to compete for Archie in some storyline from a few years back called "Love Showdown".

- THe guy with the bow tie is Pop Tate (the owner of the Chock'lit Shop)

- The two Black people are Chuck Clayton and his girlfriend Nancy; Chuck was introduced in the early 70's IIRC, and whose main schtick is being interested in cartooning (recall a story from a few years ago where he drew the main cast members as Powerpuff Girls-parody characters).

- The people on the right I'm guessing are probably members of "The Veronicas", IIRC Veronica's own rock group (as a counterpart to the Archies), introduced very recently (in the past year or two)...

-B.
Who has this free comic issue

[Zorak Masaki]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=96443&zoom=4
(In reference to the top story): So she's Brazilian? (JLU ref)

http://www.comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=1037
Its the Captain America series Marvel retconned out of existence!

[Peter Paltridge]

Whoever they are, they aren't The Veronicas--the cover below is the first appearance of them. The Veronicas appear to be an actual girl band Archie Comics is endorsing and promoting.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291272&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=213516&zoom=4
And speaking of Veronica, this has always been one of my favorite covers from the stack I owned (now gone). It took her long enough to think of that.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=105988&zoom=4
THIS issue, I still have. It was a contest among the Archie staff split between four different groups of writers. There was a form where you could vote for your favorite story out of the four, and the winning group would get an all-expenses paid trip to Club Med.

The first entry was impressive--normally, a story involving a giant gourd and an Elvis statue made of lard would get my vote--but the second blew everything else away. Archie's family got into a minor car accident on the road, and the family that took the hit turned out to be the Simpsons (their faces just barely obscured enough to escape a lawsuit). The cops arrive, and they're two of the teenagers from 90210. They're taken to court, and you see Dustin Hoffman as Rain Man there, going "Four minutes to Wapner." Then more and more licensed characters show up, again just barely drawn differently enough to avoid infringement.....and to top all, the artists even ran a separate comic on the top and bottom of the pages; something simple about a couple of mice. There's no doubt in my mind Group #2 won this contest.

Because the last two groups' entries were horrible. The "supernatural turkey" was the ghost of one Jughead ate last Thanksgiving, and he had to exorcise it from his house with the help of some fat medium named "Madame Nose Hare." Wretched.

Then the last one was barely an effort at all; it was an average Christmas story, with one difference: a surprise ending where Archie and the gang found a BABY under the Christmas tree, for some reason. This was referencing the fact that the editors were thinking about giving a member of the gang a baby brother or sister, but this introduction wasn't canon--months later, Jughead's mom had the baby and it was through natural processes, not Santa Claus.

[Peter Paltridge]

More Archie covers that make you go "........."
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=237986&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=105971&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=277083&zoom=4
"Walrus Island"?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=105974&zoom=4
That's not a zinger, that's a fact. What's her point?

Is THIS Archie? Not quite...it's a ripoff from 1954 where the teenager is instead named after pond scum.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274613&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274615&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=117844&zoom=4
The cartoon just got a lot more interesting, THAT'S what's going on. I wish that were an actual episode....

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=171549&zoom=4
And this is just here because in this type of comic you normally don't see a mysterious machine called "The Flying Thingie."

[MonkeyFunk]

Is THIS Archie? Not quite...it's a ripoff from 1954 where the teenager is instead named after pond scum.
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274613&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274615&zoom=4

Fitting, considering the repulsive fungal growth protruding from his head.

[Anthonynotes]

DC's put out plenty of Archie knockoffs over the years...

"Swing with Scooter": About some swinging-sixties-rock star; published in the late 60's:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=22153&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=115956&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=115946&zoom=4

"Buzzy": A more direct Archie knockoff, IIRC; published in the 40's and 50's:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71617&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71616&zoom=4 (Weirdly drawn cover---guess he's supposed to be getting shocked by the TV...or, um, *something*....)
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71610&zoom=4

"Leave it to Binky": Another one published in the late 40's and 50's:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=74979&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=74976&zoom=4

And its late 60's incarnation, just plain "Binky":
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71555&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71545&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=71546&zoom=4

None of the above have probably been published by (or even so much as referred to by) DC since the 80's (as reprints)...

-B.

[MonkeyFunk]

Today - Green Lantern!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16968&zoom=4
I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that GL has the coolest powers ever.

Sucks for that yellow weakness, though. His is the only comic where a bad guy could come up with a plan like this:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17130&zoom=4

And his ever awesome powers are prone to misuse:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16320&zoom=4
Not a good idea.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18264&zoom=4
Told ya so.

Which would explain why he's so willing to give them up:

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17431&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16811&zoom=4

But without them, how could he tackle this formiddable rogues' gallery?

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17923&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=17861&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=15709&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=19210&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=19274&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24276&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=18593&zoom=4
So yeah. I want one.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=19075&zoom=4
Sucks for you.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24544&zoom=4
That's got to be false advertising.

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=231894&zoom=4
They misspelled "Doctor."

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=278397&zoom=4
Phoenix in French!

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=208585&zoom=4
"One will die! But who? And for how long?" That is perfect.

I also saw a cover that depicted zombies breaking into a nursery and eating babies. Really--nothing was held back, everything you could imagine was drawn. Naturally, I can't link that one....

[Peter Paltridge]

"Huh?" covers:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=291041&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=266086&zoom=4
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=297052&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=274582&zoom=4
Before the Comics Code Authority, so it's anyone's guess what goes on in there...

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=297027&zoom=4
This is a Spanish comic....why is Paul Dini's name on it? (I know it's probably a mere foreword, but still....)

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=52050&zoom=4
I've seen many a vandalized logo (see the classic Dark Phoenix cover in a prior post) but never one busted this badly. They oughta make Eddie Brock pay for it.

This is part of a series of Wolverine/Venom pair-up covers. What were they doing together?

[Ed Liu]

Howdy,


http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=297027&zoom=4
This is a Spanish comic....why is Paul Dini's name on it? (I know it's probably a mere foreword, but still....)
It's a Spanish (EDIT: Actually, it's Italian) translation of the American trade paperback collecting the first Middleman mini-series from Viper Comics. Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a writer for Lost, which is probably how Paul Dini got tagged to write the introduction.

I liked the first series (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=2016145&postcount=16), and thought the second was even better (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=2102074&postcount=7).

-- Ed

[Peter Paltridge]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=294728&zoom=4
You might be asking, "What is that Ninja Turtle doing there with all those unknown characters? Was that unauthorized?"
That's what I thought too until I looked at the signature date--1987. TMNT would begin as a TV series that fall, and with about five episodes shown only on weekends.

Hmm. Maybe that issue's worth something.

Earlier on the site I saw a cheesy cover for a cheap Xeroxed comic with many badly drawn characters from various artists on it...and one of the artists was Jeff Smith, so Fone and Phoney were on that cover, looking very out of place. I never linked to that one, though.

Not weird enough for you? Try this:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=64315&zoom=4
There, satisfied?

[Ickis]

Earlier on the site I saw a cheesy cover for a cheap Xeroxed comic with many badly drawn characters from various artists on it...and one of the artists was Jeff Smith, so Fone and Phoney were on that cover, looking very out of place. I never linked to that one, though. Please show a pic! Or tell us the name. I must have know it! http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=9927 Why does Cerebus have the top of of a baby's milk bottle on his head?

[Zorak Masaki]

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=294728&zoom=4
You might be asking, "What is that Ninja Turtle doing there with all those unknown characters? Was that unauthorized?"
That's what I thought too until I looked at the signature date--1987. TMNT would begin as a TV series that fall, and with about five episodes shown only on weekends.



Forget that,,i want to know what the spirit is doing on the cover, and why he's drawn so weirdly.