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From Pop Art Panels to Record Breaking Blockbusters: The History of Comic Book Movie Adaptations

From a lazy, lasagna-loving cat to a brooding bat-themed vigilante, comic books have been one of the oldest sources of entertainment out the

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Ultimates is the Best Comic on the Market

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Dick Grayson – 80 years of hairstyles

Welcome to my ongoing TED talk about Dick Grayson. This week I’ll be talking about hairstyles. Just because fashion in hairstyles is kind of fun. 

The general hairstyle during the 1940s was short on the sides and back, longer on the top. One common variant was to have the top hair section parted on one side and combed over and slightly back to create a wave. (Wavy hair was in fashion in the 1940s.)

Dick did start with hair like that; longer on top and short side and back. In the very first panels, the top hair falls over his forehead. But he has been adventurous enogh to try out different fashions over the years to come. 

The original Dick Grayson hairdo – short sides, longer on the top.

Detective Comics # 38. By Bill Finger, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson (1940).

As Robin. Top hair combed back, curls over the forehead. 

When he becomes Robin, the top hair is combed back; a cowlick makes part of the front hair fall in two curls over his forehead.

Detective Comics # 38. By Bill Finger, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson (1940).

Silver Age/New Look. Parted on the side. 

His hairstyle will look the same for more than two decades. With the Silver age/New Look in Batman (1964), Dick’s hair is more likely to be visibly parted on the side, and sometimes a curl will fall down over the forehead.

Detective Comics # 327. By John Broome, art Carmine Infantino and Jie Giella (1964).

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Can we also give George Perez a special award, not only for giving Dick that thick lush head of perfectly 80’s hair, but also adding that one lock of hair which kept falling across his forehead at every opportunity. It made him just that ittle extra bit human, and you just wanted to brush it out of his eyes… well, I did at any rate.

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"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

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Excuse the sound of my eyes rolling back so far into my head they're starting to do somersaults Action Comics #133

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This story has a scientist use a time machine to bring Helen of Troy forward from Ancient Greece, as his contribution to the Metropolis Centennial Fair (Which would mean Metropolis was founded in 1849). Through a series of super-shenanigans involving space travel and volcanos, Superman exposes "Helen" and the scientist as frauds.

Which should have been obvious to everyone, since Ancient Greece wasn't exactly known for its surplus of miniskirted redheads.

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The story literally ends with Clark telling Lois that as far as he's concerned, SHE is the most perfect woman who has ever lived. And excuse me while my heart melts into my shoes.

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W H O L E S O M E

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People were a lot dumber in the 40s.

Flash Comics #13

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This is clearly the greatest comics dialogue ever written okay :D

Also if anyone ever tries to steal a priceless necklace from me I’m totally going to respond with “Nerts to that racket”

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I think the Creep has a good point in that last panel. Being shot is unlikeable.

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It was helpful of this detective to announce he’s a detective as well in case we weren’t sure :D

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She thought he was kidding when he was strangling her?

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Humour is subjective after all…

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This is from a Johnny Thunder backup story, and in-context, the characters are actors on stage. Which you’d  think explains the really hammy, obvious dialogue. It does not.

This does not begin to relate the madness of the actual story, in which Johnny accidentally uses his magic powers to cause a thief to be split in two down the middle, recombined, and then fly away. The criminal’s buddies come after him as revenge for making their “brother” promise to be good, and it’s just lunacy.

seriously, what is this dialogue? I kind of need a Johnny Thunder radio play or something. Get someone who can do that old-fashioned fast-talking.

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The golden age of comics is a window into a beautiful world of absolute fuckin lunacy :D

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Big , if true.

Own this BCV Original.

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B.P.R.D. Omnibus (2022)

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Original Art - Superman Hand Colored Illustration (1985)

"The Secret Origin Of Superman"

Art by Wayne Boring

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Mystery Comics #1_August 1944_Alex Schomburg cover art

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Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #68 - “Thankful” (2023)

written by CRC Payne art by Toby Fan, Geoniya Acuna, & Lan Ma

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Goddess of Truth

Max Raynor

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Jimmy’s mad with power!

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Jimmy: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring. No one listens to you!

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"Diana's time here is growing short, and there is still so much to do. And, frankly, I have begun to despair. The Amazon Princess is the closest thing I will ever know to a Goddess; the woman Diana is the closest thing I will ever have to a true friend. God, how I'm going to miss her."

Wonder Woman (1987)

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DC Spotlight #1 (1985) cover art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez