DC Who's Who

Pages from the 1990-1992 DC Who's Who binders. This is what I do when I'm bored. All entries archived here.

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Who’s Who entry for Captain Marvel (SHAZAM), art by Kurt Schaffenberger, 1985.

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Bill Sienkiewicz 1985-1987: Selections from Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe

Marvel’s 80s-era Handbooks really rocked my world. Mark Gruenwald, Eliot R. Brown and company really brought something wonderfully nerdtastic to the world of comics. And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, DC must have though so too. While I have a distinct preference of Marvel’s Handbooks over DC’s Who’s Who, one area where DCs offerings surpassed the Handbooks is the treatment of the art for the characters. Every character go his or her own logo and the 1-color background art provided a great way to put the character in context.

Shown above are all of Sienkiewicz’s contributions to the series and — appropriately enough — they are brimming with character.

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"His upbringing gave him a strong intuitive sense of right and wrong and an unwavering commitment to those values, even if he sometimes finds himself at a loss to explain them intellectually."

Info here.

Text: Tom & Mary Bierbaum/art: Chris Sprouse & Al Gordon/colors: Tom McCraw

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Kent Shakespeare 4 Eva

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"I was born Irwin Schwab. Abandoned by my parents as a tiny tot, I was raised by an Admiral solid-state television set. It taught me how to relax. In other cultures this was known as brain death, but for me it was only the beginning."

Test: Robert Loren Fleming/art: Keith Giffen & Al Gordon/colors: Anhtony Tollin

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"White Dragon has a 'Heart of Fire'..."

Really?

Info here.

Text: John Ostrander/art: Jan Duursema/colors: Sam Parsons

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I remember seeing the Shield from the Impact line, but did you ever post the Black Hood?

Unfortunately I only had one of the Impact! Who's Who issue so I don't have Black Hood's entry. 

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"You are Stuart Moseley and you live for these nights. You live to do battle with that desperate element that would victimize the weak and helpless of Delta City. When you pull on those enchanted orange and yellow colors of the Heckler, the strains and frustrations of your everyday life fade like a fat umpire on hot Astroturf."

Info here.

Text: Tom & Mary Bierbaum/art: Keith Giffen/colors: Tom McCraw

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"...she was seduced by the ease of using computers to access other people's systems - and secrets. Eventually, Lani began using the information gleaned from these others to build a criminal career as an extortionist and blackmailer."

Info here.

Text: Robert Greenberger/art: Greg Guler/colors: Anthony Tollin

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"When they first came to this world, the intentions of Silver Sorceress and Blue Jay were the nobelest possible: to prevent what happened to their world - preventing nuclear arms from giving one person or group of persons the power to destroy everyone and everything. And in our blind allegiance to our death toys rather than to life, we made them villains."

Info here.

Text: Kevin Dooley/art: Bart Sears & Terry Austin/colors: Tom McCraw

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"The true identities and backgrounds of the trio of criminals known as the Untouchables remain mysteries."

Info here.

Text: Peter Sanderson/art: Brian Stelfreeze/colors: Tom McCraw

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"Most of the Legionnaires are mysterious youthful versions of older counterparts from a Legion of Super-Heroes that operates outside Earth's solar system...."

Info here.

Text: Tom & Mary Bierbaum/art: Chris Sprouse & Karl Story/colors: Tom McCraw

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"Zinda Blake was determined to become the first woman member of the famed Blackhawks."

Full-size image here.

Art by Brian Bolland

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"A race of conquerors, the Dominators adhere to a rigid caste system, position in which is designated by the size of the desk each Dominator wears on his forehead." 

Info here.

Text: Mark Waid/art: Chris Sprouse & Al Gordon/colors: Tom McCraw

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As I promised/threatened last night, I threw a bunch of books (and a few video games) up on the electronicbay. Go get some nice stuff for yourself so I have room (and cash) to get myself more stuff.

Stuff!

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Reblogged from my other Tumblr, I'm selling a bunch of comics and some videogames over on the eBay. Check it out if you're interested. 

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"The female Oans grew dissatisfied with the amount of time and energy their male counterparts were investing in their project. Unlike the males, who relied almost exclusively on their psionic powers and became physically frail, the females of the species turned their efforts toward maintaining physical perfection."

Info here.

Text: Mark Waid/art: David A. Williams & Karl Story/colors: Tom McCraw

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"Not only does the Turtle possess no inherent super-powers, but he is a mediocre hand-to-hand combatant."

Info here.

Text: Mark Waid/art: Mike Parobeck & Jose Marzan, Jr./colors: Tom McCraw

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"Blockbuster has incredible bulk..."

Info here.

Text: Robert Greenberger/art: Tom Lyle & Doug Hazelwood/colors: Tom McCraw