Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II

Husband of the Splendid Wife, walking companion of Eyebrow Girl the Hound Supreme, escaped teacher, irredeemable amateur. Has written for Q, Newstatesman.com, The Bluffer's Guide, Sequart, Sequential, CBR, FPI ....

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Four panels from 1988′s Invasion!: World Without Heroes by Keith Giffen, Bill Mantlo, Bart Sears, Joe Rubinstein, Tom Christopher, Gene D’Angelo, Gaspar Saladino et al.

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Four panels from the Wonder Woman feature in 1942′s Sensation Comics #1 by William Marston & Harry Peter.

“CATCH!”

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Four panels from 1982′s The Brave & The Bold #182, in which the Earth-1 Batman travelled to Earth-2 & encountered his deceased counterpart’s traumatised supporting cast, by Alan Brennert, Jim Aparo, Carl Gafford & Dick Giordano.

“Thank you ... for making me remember!”

My favourite comic of all time. By far. It has all the grand, and often wonderfully daft, conceits of the superhero genre, but that’s all used to deliver a surprisingly humane tale of despair and healing.  After all this time, the way in which Brennert & Aparo play out those themes of ageing, loss & acceptance still moves me. Indeed, the older I get, the more the comic seems to have to say. Which is a rare thing, to say the least. 

Plus, you know, it’s got a giant robot dinosaur too ...

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Four panels from 1976′s Superman #300 by Cary Bates, Elliot S! Maggin, Curt Swan, Bob Oksner, et al.

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Four panels from the Hawkman chapter in the Justice Society of America story in 1942′s All-Star Comics #11, by Gardner Fox & Sheldon Moldoff et al.

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Fourpanels from 1973′s Sword of Sorcery #5 by Denny O’Neil, from Fritz Leiber’s original prose, Walt Simonson, Al Milgrom & Ben Oda.

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Four panels from Costa Del Blood from Judge Dredd Annual 1989 by John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Esquerra & Tom Frame.

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Four panels from 2019's Sharkey The Bounty Hunter #3 by Mark Millar, Simone Bianchi, Simone Peruzzi & Peter Doherty.

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Four panels from 1997′s JLA #13 by Grant Morrison, Howard Porter, John Dell, Pat Garrahy & Ken Lopez.

“Darkseid is.”

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Four panels from 2015′s Star Wars #1 by Jason Aaron, John Cassasay, Laura Martin & Chris Eliopoulos.

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Four panels from 2008′s The Boys: Good For The Soul by Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, Matt Jacobs, Simon Bowland & Tony Aviña.

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Four panels from 1966′s Thunder Agents #5 by Bill Pearson, Tim Battersby, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood, Dan Adkins, Joe Coleman et al. 

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Four panels from the episode of Dan Dare - Operation Saturn in 7/5/1954′s Eagle, with art by Frank Hampson’s studio & Desmond Walduck and story, perhaps, by Basil Dawson.

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Four panels from 2015′s Convergence - Shazam #1-2 by Jeff Parker, Evan 'Doc' Shaner, Jordie Bellaire & Saida Temofonte.

“The name’s Tawny. And I’m doing the talking here!”

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Four panels from 1981's Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #1 by Jack Kirby, Mike Royer & Steve Oliff.

"It's sudden death time again!"

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Four panels from 1999′s Batman/Hellboy/Starman Book One by James Robinson, Mike Mignola, Willie Schubert & Matt Hollingsworth.

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Four panels from 2012′s Fatale: Death Chases Me, by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips & Dave Stewart.