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(Digital comic books) Batman: Batskiboat Plastic Model Kit
Batman: Batskiboat Plastic Model Kit
Batman: Batskiboat Plastic Model Kit
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Ramance Is In The Flash Of A Sword 2
Ramance Is In The Flash Of A Sword 2
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The Soviet Superman is never meant to be evil just overprotective and stifling. Unfortunately the author chose to absolve the alternate Superman of most of his crimes by blaming them on outside manipulations reducing the impact of the story. I also have t
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This is Chris Harding’s new irregularly-updated web strip, and was suggested to this site by Wes Hargis. Thanks, Wes.
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(Comic book store software) Vintage Classic Scifi Horror Posters Printing Plate Ink
Vintage Classic Scifi Horror Posters Printing Plate Ink
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As Clark Kent is showing Kara the outside world Wonder Woman, Harbinger and Artemis ambush them. They insist of taking Kara to Themyscira home of the Amazons for training because Harbinger had a vague vision that bad things would happen due to Kara bein
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers
 Buster Crabbe stars as Flash Gordon in this classic 1930s serial presented for the first time on DVD. Humanity is doomed to destruction! A distant planet has broken its orbit and is headed straight toward the Earth. While Dr. Hans Zarkov works feverishly to finish a rocketship of his own design, int… |
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Power Rangers (comic books in the classroom) Dino Thunder: White Thunder Volume 3
Power Rangers Dino Thunder: White Thunder Volume 3
Power Rangers Dino Thunder: White Thunder Volume 3
Nothing is what it seems as Dino eggs bring out a risky kind of Zord-play. A brand new alarm surfaces when Mesagog and henchwoman, Elsa, hatch a plan to stop the Rangers. The wily White Ranger is born from their blunder, and the Power Rangers have no idea who he is! As Dr. O is about to reveal White… |
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Newcomer Churilla Teams with Steve Niles for “Scratch and Suck”
CBR News spoke with artist Brian Churilla about how he became attached to The Nocturnal Adventures of Scratch and Suck, a Steve Niles-penned horror spoof appearing now in “MySpace Dark Horse Presents.”
Permanent Damage
Is it wrong to want to write super heroes? That’s the question one indie creator asks Steven and he tells you why it is wrong — and why it isn’t. Plus, more Sparky Watts and much more in this week’s PERMANENT DAMAGE.
It’s this sort of superficial investigation that dooms “Red Son” to superficial stabs at political comment, and third rate reimaginings of history that are, frankly, tiresome.
Pipeline
Augie is excited about a new digital comic book organizing program, has mixed feelings on Greg Rucka’s new novel, and likes the latest Steve Niles series, though he has questions on its format. All this and more in this week’s PIPELINE!
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(List of comic book superheroes) Adventures Of Robin Hood: Vol 4 Classi
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Batman & Mr Freeze: Sub Zero
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The build up to the identity of Lois’ shooter is much more interesting than the actual reveal, but in the end, the identity of Ruin will shock you. and that’s really what this book is all about.
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Witch Hunter Robin: Vol 1 Arrival
Witch Hunter Robin: Vol 1 Arrival
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Comic Books portray our fears, our desires and ethos.
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Why people are reviewing this item as Superman: The Journey and Superman: Sacrifice, I have no idea, but Superman: Ruin Revealed is a good read, and worth reviewing in its own right as well.
In “Superman: Secret Identity,” writer Kurt Busiek and artist Stuart Immonen provide yet another variation on the theme. Busiek took his inspiration from “DC Comics Presents” #87, written by Elliot S. Maggin and pencilled by Curt Swan, which was rele
Flash Annual #10
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The thrilling conclusion. What does life have in store for Zoe?
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(Comic book worth) Lying In The Gutters
Lying In The Gutters
What’s the future look like for Catwoman? Rich may have an idea. Plus, a report from the convention held in Birmingham, a possible collection to come for “Major Bummer,” a punk-era John Constantine series resurfaces and much more in this week’s LiTG!
DC Direct: Superman & Batman Deluxe Bookends
DC Direct: Superman & Batman Deluxe Bookends
 In this stunning new set of bookends the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight join forces to destroy their longtime enemies Bizarro and Man-Bat! This dramatic limited-edition, cold-cast porcelain bookends set includes a full-color Certificate of Authenticity. Each side measures approximately 8.25-inches… |
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Oh please. The Soviet Union that Superman serves here is the sort of cookie cutter comic book autocracy one might have expected in a 1950s comic and bears no resemblance to the murderous regime that truly was an “evil empire.” At one point, Stalin under
Comic Books portray our fears, our desires and ethos.
What’s next? Superman happen to be Gay?! And Jimmy Olsen is Clark Kent’s boyfriend! Might as well revise Supes into SUPERGAY then. Sheeez !
Permanent Damage
This week: The current state of comics news, a worldbreaking blast of the past, Warners vs. Women, what’s happening in the war on terror, Microsoft embraces piracy and much more.
Oddball Comics: Four Color (I Aim At The Stars) No. 1148
Despite its title, Dell’s I AIM AT THE STARS is not a comic about a top paparazzi! Instead, read the life story of Dr. Wernher von Braun, the man who entered the USA into the Cold War’s Space Race, in this adaptation of a biographic feature film - starring an actor who would someday be much better-known as one of James Bond’s most fiendish foes! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this week’s Oddball Comic aims to please!
So what’s so odd about this extremely rare Dell film adaptation? Well, this military story spans World War II and the “Cold War” between America and Russia, yet doesn’t feature a single battle scene, swastika or mention of Nazis or Communists!
Dr. Wernher von Braun (3/23/12 - 6/16/77) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology during and after World War II. Originally creating Germany’s deadly V-2 rockets, which devastated London during WWII, he eventually entered the United States though the then-secret “Operation Paperclip”. There, he not only became a citizen, but worked on America’s ICBM program and served as director of NASA. Dr. von Braun is generally regarded as the father of the United States’ space program.
The film I AIM AT THE STARS was a somewhat fictionalized account of von Braun’s youth, wartime experiences and rise to front-page prominence during the “Space Race” between America and Russia in the late 1950s and 1960s..
I AIM AT THE STARS (1960) was a Columbia Picture and a Morningside Production, produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Jay Dratler based on a story by George Froeschel, U. Wolder and H. W. John. It starred Curt Jurgens as Dr. Wernher von Braun and Victoria Shaw as Elizabeth Beyer, with Gia Scala, Herbert Lom and James Daly.
Comic books fans probably best know actor/director/journalist Curt Jurgens for his portrayal of James Bond’s foe, shipping magnate Karl Stromberg, in 1977’s THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. But interestingly, the career of the Munich, Germany-born Jurgens (12/12/12 - 6/18/82) echoed that of Dr. Wernher von Braun, being one of the first German-born actors to achieve Hollywood stardom the post-WWII western world. First appearing in German films in 1935, Jurgens was deported to a Hungarian concentration camp by the Nazis in 1944, declared “unreliable” by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. After the war, he returned to acting and directing, and in 1955’s THE DEVIL’S GENERAL, Jurgens portrayed a German WWII hero who renounces the Nazi creed, thereby attracting international attention to his performance. Other notable films that Jurgens appeared in include THE ENEMY BELOW (1957, in his first American production), AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956), LORD JIM (1965), THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU (1968), BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1969) and THE MEPHISTO WALTZ (1971), in addition to many others.
This 32-page adaptation of I AIM AT THE STARS was drawn by cartoonist Jack Sparling. It begins in 1925 Berlin, as young Wernher von Braun and his chubby friend Mischke visit a local planetarium:
PLANETARIUM LECTURER:
And someday mankind will reach out to these unknown planets, stars - these unknown worlds! For whatever man dares to dream, he will accomplish!MISCHKE:
Wernher, let’s go! You’ll catch a cold way out there in deep space without a sweater on!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
All right, Mischke, I - I’m coming! You’ll see, Mischke, someday man WILL get to the stars!MISCHKE:
You and your stars! If you want to get there, you’d better start growing tail-feathers!
As they leave the planetarium, Wernher and Mischke spot a poster for the Berlin Avus Speedway that advertises the “speed trial of Fritz von Opel’s rocket-powered automobile”, a concept that excites Wernher so much that he can’t even sleep that night — only daydream. (That is, if it’s possible to daydream at nighttime) The fact that his mother nags Wernher about his math class grades doesn’t particularly help things, either! The following day, at the speedway, Mischke introduces eager Wernher to his friend Anton Reger, who works at the Opel auto factory. When Wernher bombards Anton with questions about the operation of his rocker-powered racecar, von Opel recommends that Wernher read a book by Professor Hermann Oberth called ROCKET TO THE PLANETS. Soon, obsessed with his dreams of space travel, Wernher experiments with model rocketry; in the process, he winds up crashing a rocket into the neighbor’s greenhouse, earning his father’s ire:
MR. VON BRAUN:
Wernher, thanks to your experiments, I’ll have to pay for Becker’s greenhouse! What good are those rockets of yours, anyway?WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Father, what good is a newborn baby? You can’t tell until it grows up, can you?MR. VON BRAUN:
A good question! But anyhow, I insist that if a von Braun shoots off a rocket, it should go where it’s supposed to!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’ll try to remember that, sir!
Soon, Wernher receives his own copy of ROCKET TO THE PLANETS in the mail, he’s frustrated to discover that much of its contents are “a lot of mathematics and equations”. He decides to ask the aid of his school’s new math professor, never realizing that the new instructor is Dr. Hermann Oberth himself:
DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Young man, I’ve checked your record! A boy who fails in Latin and math couldn’t hope to understand this book!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Then I’ll study harder until I pass!DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Tell me why all this means so much to you, my boy!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Because rockets are important, sir! Someday they’ll take mankind to the stars! And someday they’ll build a statue to the man who wrote this book!DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
The man who wrote this book - most people call him a crack-pot! A mad scientist!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Professor Oberth is a great man! A genius! How can they say such a thing?DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Calm yourself, my boy. If I don’t mind those names, why should you? All right, Wernher, I’ll help you with your math! And just between us - I hated Latin, too!
As the years pass, Wernher becomes Dr. Oberth’s assistant. One evening, they prepare a rocket motor demonstration for the Rocket Society. While Dr. Oberth, Mischke, Anton Reger and their gorgeous friend Elizabeth huddle behind a wooden shield, Werner insists on risking his neck by their rocket full of liquid oxygen and igniting its motor by hand. The launch proceeds perfectly! Soon, Dr. Oberth introduces Mischke to Captain Dornberger, a German army official who offers to underwrite their further experimentation by providing “unlimited material, laboratory facilities and test equipment”. But as time passes, and Wernher von Braun continues his rocket experiments under Army auspices, the world outside is plunged into the chaos of World War II. But Wernher’s activities have not gone unnoticed outside of Germany. In the offices of British Intelligence, a Major Drummond expresses his suspicions regarding Germany’s “Peenemunde” area:
MAJOR TOFTOY DRUMMOND:
All our information says that enormous quantities of building materials are being poured into that sector! We’ve had persistent reports from Dutch, Danish ad Polish sources that the Germans are building a secret weapon there! I’ll order special photo reconnaissance missions at once, Major! We’ll photograph the Peenemunde area regularly!
Meanwhile, “at that very moment”, Wernher narrowly avoids getting blown out of the sky while flying a small plane to observe his rocket post-launch behavior up close and personal. Later that afternoon, Anton is putting romantic pressure on Elizabeth — who’s now Wernher’s personal secretary - but she’s not particularly receptive to his overtures:
ANTON REGER:
Elizabeth, ever since I got you hat job as Wernher’s secretary, you have almost no time for me at all? May I see you tonight?ELIZABETH BEYER:
You know I’m just as fond of you as ever, Anton! But - well, I just can’t see you tonight!
That night, after screening film footage of their latest rocket model, Wernher locks horns with a German army engineer named Neumann:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
The vapor trail shows a structural failure in the control vanes!A failure due to the poor quality of steel in the vane!NEUMANN:
We wouldn’t have so much difficulty getting the proper materials if we had closer contact with the S.S. and the heads of the Party!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Look, Neumann, I’m a SCIENTIST! I couldn’t care less about Hitler and that Party stuff!NEUMANN:
It’s your attitude toward the people in power that keeps us from getting better materials and more money, von Braun!COLONEL DORNBERGER:
Wernher, this is the third year of the war! The High Command isn’t interested in your dreams of space flight! All they want is a rocket that can reach London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Colonel Dornberger, a rocket that can reach the stars can also be aimed at London - if they insist!COLONEL DORNBERGER (whispering):
Let’s build that rocket before Himmler and the S.S. move in on us! They’ve already planted Neumann here! He’d love to have your job!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN (whispering):
I know! If he wasn’t such a good engineer, I could really dislike him!
That weekend, Wernher returns home to help celebrate his mother’s birthday. There, he’s greeted by Maria, his lovely sweetheart, but they’re interrupted by a man named Weber, who badgers the young scientist about joining the “:Party”. (It’s interesting to note that, in this post-WWII Dell comic book movie adaptation, the word “Nazi” nor the image of a swastika are ever used even once!), But soon, Wernher and Maria are out in the garden, where she accepts his proposal of marriage. Later, after the party, Wernher’s mother inquires:
MRS. VON BRAUN:
Wernher, I heard Weber speaking o you! What are you going to do about joining he Party?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I don’t have much choice, Mother! Not if I want to stay at Peenemunde!MRS. VON BRAUN:
Long ago they said that witches made a pact with the Devil so they could fly their broomsticks!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
MY broomsticks fly without the Devil’s help! But if they didn’t I’d be willing to sign up with him!
In the weeks that follow, Himmler and his S.S. - particularly in the form of General Kulp - increase their pressure on Wernher von Braun. With each unsuccessful launch, Wernher’s efforts are dismissed as being mere “fireworks” by Kulp. One day, Dr. von Braun and his staff are issued an ultimatum from the High Command: “Unless there will be a successful launching within thirty days, Peenemunde will be closed!” With the pressure on them, the scientist and his staff work harder than ever, night and day. One afternoon, Anton Reger could swear that he sees his beloved Elizabeth using a lipstick-case-camera to photograph the plans for Wernher’s new rocket design!
ANTON REGER (thinking):
Strange! What’s Elizabeth doing at that drawing board?
But Wernher’s work proceeds, and soon, his latest rocket model proves to be a success, exceeding its maximum altitude and delivering a “hit with the force of 50 locomotives at full speed”. But summoned to a meeting with Himmler, Wernher refuses to cooperate with his Nazi (oops!) bosses:
REICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
My congratulations, von Braun! You will want mass-production for your rockets, no doubt! For best results, I suggest you join my PERSONAL STAFF!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’d like to think about it, Reich-Fuhrer HimmlerREICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
Hesitating, von Braun? Under the S.S., you’d be free of army stupidity and red tape!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I already AM! Colonel Dornberger is an excellent superior! It was HIGH LEEL indifference that caused our difficulties!REICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
Better think about it, Doctor! The S.S. runs Germany now - and what the S.S. wants, the S.S. gets!
Sure enough, the following day, Wernher von Braun finds himself under government arrest on charges of treason! Soon, he’s being interrogated by his old “pal”, General Kulp:
GENERAL KULP:
You should have been working on military weaponsyet you were wasting your time planning spaceships like this!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
But scientists MUST plan for the future, General Kulp! Or we’d all still be riding in oxcarts!
For his refusal to cooperate with the Nazi regime, Dr. Wernher von Braun is imprisoned. Fortunately, Colonel Dornberger pulls some behind-the-scenes strings to get his scientist friend released from incarceration:
COLONEL DORNBERGER (talking on the telephone):
I will talk plainly, my Fuhrer! The V-2 may be our last chance for victory! If you want that rocket, you need von Braun to build it!
Returning to Peenemunde, Wernher is soon overseeing production on the V-2 rockets, but confides to his fiance Maria that he has misgivings he’d prefer to ignore:
MARIA:
This rocket weapon of yours, how can you be sure it wouldn’t hit a children’s hospital when you fire it?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Maria, we’re fighting a WAR! Women and children are being killed on BOTH SIDES! We CAN’T let ourselves think about it!
Meanwhile, Wernher’s V-2 rockets are reducing London into rubble. One rocket lands near the British Intelligence office:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
That was close! That V-2 is quite a firecracker! I’d like to lay hands on the guy who thought of it!MAJOR TAGGART:
Don’t worry, Toftoy! We’re planning our own fireworks for those V-2 geniuses!
A week later, Elizabeth receives a mysterious phone message containing a signal for her to leave the V-2 factory before British bombers attack Peenemunde, flattening the rocket base. Wernher and Anton manage to survive, aiding the wounded however they can. Meanwhile, from a caf at the edge of town, Elizabeth beholds the awful destruction and - spy or not - she’s compelled to re-enter the base to help her co-workers. By the next morning, the death toll has reached over seven hundred people. In the middle of the ruins left by the bombings, Anton Reger confronts Elizabeth about her loyalties; she admits she’s been working for “the enemy”; she hates the Nazis (oops!) after the S.S. mistakenly murdered her husband in cold blood. Anton is tempted to turn her in, but since he still loves her, he can’t bring himself to do it. Meanwhile, as Germany’s defenses begin to crumble, the U. S. Army prepares to sweep into Peenemunde and grab all of their equipment before the Russians get it. They even have plans for the scientists who developed the V-2 rocket, whether or not they’re considered to be war criminals. Unaware of these plans, Wernher gathers his staff and makes a startling decision:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
If we remain here, we’ll be grabbed by the Russians! If we head south, the Americans will capture us! Let’s face it! Within a week we’ll all be prisoners! So I suggest we head south toward the American line!
Wernher’s staff agrees with his decision to surrender - all but Anton Reger:
ANTON REGER:
You can’t do this, Wernher! It’s treason!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Reger, we can’t throw away all our years of work advancing rocket technology! We’ve got to make our knowledge available for others - and complete the job we started!ANTON REGER:
I’m sorry! I can’t follow your smooth reasoning! I’m a German! I stay here!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Then, good-bye, Anton!
Soon, Wernher’s convoy of scientists are headed south, arriving at American headquarters to surrender - but they receive a very cold welcome:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Von Braun, you developed the V-2 that killed thousands of innocent people! Don’t you consider yourself a war criminal?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
In a war, everyone wants his country to win! War itself is a crime - and we are all war criminals!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
If all you Germans had stood up together, you could have stopped Hitler and all his butchery!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
You never lived under a dictatorship, Major! Every man distrusts his neighbor and fears for his own life! In that respect I am guilty of being human!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
You are guilty of putting an infernal weapon into the hands of the most evil government in the world! For that you will be TRIED and HUNG!
Fortunately, Wernher is made an alternate offer:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
Doctor, we recognize your achievements! If you want to go to the United States to continue your research, we have the resources!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’m happy to agree, sir! That’s why I surrendered! But I can’t make rockets by myself!COLONEL TOFTOY:
We have other volunteers, Doctor! You’ll all be sent to America on probation! You’ll have to face a lot of criticism!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
We didn’t expect to be received with open arms!
Wernher learns that this deal was based on the recommendation of one of an undercover U. S. agent, who’s waiting in the next room to identify him. After he’s gone, Wernher’s the topic of a heated conversation:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Colonel, you don’t mean they’re not even going to put him ON TRIAL?COLONEL TOFTOY:
Bill, we’ve been friends for a long time! Try not to take this as something personal!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Listen! One of his V-2’s killed my wife and child in London! It’s downright immoral to use him! He’s our enemy!COLONEL TOFTOY:
Yet, when a man is as brilliant as von Braun, I guess he has a special kind of value of his own!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Colonel, as a newspaper man before the war I fought the von Brauns of this world - and I can’t stop fighting them now!
Next door, Wernher discovers that the “enemy agent” who’s saved him is none other than Elizabeth Beyer! As she checks off a list - which includes Dr. Hermann Oberth - she tearfully realizes that Anton Reger isn’t among them. Soon, plans are set in motion to relocate the scientist-prisoners:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
All right, Taggart, here are the orders to ship von Braun and his group to the White Sands proving grounds by plane!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I was going to suggest passage on a leaky boat, sir!
Accompanied by Taggart and Elizabeth, the captives arrive at White Sands and resume their rocket research. But first, Wernher’s former secretary attempts to clear the air between them:
ELIZABETH BEYER:
Gentlemen, we’re going to work together, so let us speak of the past and get it over with! It will be easier if we can be friends!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
We’re not blaming you, Elizabeth! The stupidity of war is not your fault or ours! You did what you felt you had to do!
Under the resentful observation of Major Taggart, Wernher and his transplanted staff soon make some significant advances with their rocketry development. But no matter what he achieves, Wernher is unable to impress Taggart of his sincerity:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Staying late again, Doctor? I suppose you’re working overtime to earn your citizenship!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Taggart, I can’t help how you feel about me, but I was brought here to build rockets, and that’s what I’m doing!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I hope that someday one of your rockets blows up and that you’re as close to it as my wife and kid were in London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’m sorry about that, Taggart, but I’m not responsible for what happened!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Then who was responsible? Hitler? Himmler? Everyone but you, eh?ELIZABETH BEYER:
Bill! You’ve got to stop this!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
These scientists! They hold the whole world in their hands, but men and women mean nothing to them! They have no loyalty to anything but their own research!ELIZABETH BEYER:
Bill, you just can’t go on living with this hatred!
But as the months pass, the general attitude toward the German scientists finally softens and their status legalized, which eventually leads to citizenship. Maria joins Wernher at White Sands, where he unsuccessfully asks for funding to build “the world’s first satellite orbiting the Earth”. In June, 1950, the Korean War necessitates that Wernher’s group transfers to a new army installation at Redstone Arsenal. Soon, Major Taggart pays a visit to Wernher and his new bride Maria:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Your traveling orders, von Braun! Not long ago you made rockets to fire at us! Now you’ll be building rockets to fire at our enemy!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Do you prefer that I sit back and do nothing, and allow American to lose?MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
How would that affect you, Doctor? You’d be right there working for the Russians!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
If you feel that way, why are you wearing that uniform?MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I won’t be wearing it after today! I’ve got a job as a TV news commentator! But you’ll be hearing from me! I’ll be making it hot for you!MARIA VON BRAUN:
Taggart is right, Wernher! You’ll be making rockets for war again! You could REFUSE! Others have!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Can’t you see? I must stay with my work! I can’t fall behind! Progress, research, knowledge are MY LIFE!
As Wernher’s work proceeds, he and his staff are commended for their design of the Redstone missile. But Taggart now uses his nationally televised forum to criticize Dr. von Braun’s goals:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Taxpayers must demand that their hard-earned dollars be spent for more hospitals, schools and higher salaries for teachers, rather than on a wasteful rocket program!
When the Korean War is over, the government cuts the funding for Wernher’s space research. In response, he accepts an invitation to appear on live television in a debate with William Taggart regarding the worth of the exploration of outer space:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Rocket experiments mean war! We must solve human problems before we think of conquering space!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Our future lies in space! The country with the first satellite will capture the world’s imagination!EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Von Braun talks of pure science, but he is the man responsible for the bombing of London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Man must learn to live with atomic power and rockets, or he will perish!
When the Army missile program gets a new chief, General Medaris, they petition the Pentagon to participate in an attempt to collect and analyze samples of the upper atmosphere with a satellite. Things look good for Wernher and his staff, but they’re crushed when the Navy gets the gig instead. Taggart shows up to gloat over his old enemy’s defeat, but Elizabeth convinces him to instead offer his sympathies to Dr. von Braun, who reacts badly to Taggart’s obvious insincerity. In October, 1957, Wernher - and the entire United States - receives an even more bitter blow as Russia launches the first artificial satellite into orbit around the Earth! But a third stroke of bad luck turns out to be in Wernher von Braun’s favor when the Navy’s Vanguard missile - the one to be used in the space mission that they lost out on - explodes on the launch pad. Frustrated and embarrassed, the Pentagon turns to Wernher for help, asking him to initiate a crash program to enter the “space race” between America and Russia. At Redstone, Wernher and his crew work on a new satellite-carrying rocket, the JUPITER-C, which is launched into space on January 31st, 1958. The three-stage rocket blasts off and its operation performs flawlessly - with the exception of a six-minute lag — as it settles its satellite into orbit. Even Bill Taggart is impressed:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Well, you did it! You know, von Braun, I’ve almost grown to like you!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I could say the same about you, Taggart, except that one never really likes one’s conscience!
Then Taggart gestures toward his heart:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
But I’ll never really understand what have you scientists got in here - in the place of human values?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Concern for the future, perhaps! The universe is waiting for us - and we must explore it! That’s what makes us men - not vegetables!EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Good-bye, von Braun, and good luck with the universe!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Thank you, Taggart! I’ll need it!
This film adaptation ends on an optimistic note, with a panel of Dr. Wernher von Braun observing another rocket launch:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN (thinking):
Well, we’re catching up at last! The great powers must ultimately be equal in space! It is this balance of power which will secure peace and allow mankind to reach the stars!
Also included in this issue of FOUR COLOR (I AIM AT THE STARS) are the following stories and features:
- An untitled, black-and-white, inside-front-cover introductory page, featuring still production photos from the feature film, I AIM AT THE STARS.
- “The Rocket In History”, a black-and-white, inside-back-cover educational strip drawn by Jack Sparling.
- “Types Of Rocket Propulsion”, an educational back-cover feature.
ODDBALL Factoid - Actor Curt Jurgens’ career had an unlikely comic book connection; he starred in 1973’s THE VAULT OF TERROR, an anthology film adaptation of stories originally published in EC’s notorious horror comics!
Bonus ODDBALL Factoid - I AIM AT THE STARS producer Charles H. Schneer also produced many of the classic sci-fi and fantasy films of Ray Harryhausen!
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Despite its title, Dell’s I AIM AT THE STARS is not a comic about a top paparazzi! Instead, read the life story of Dr. Wernher von Braun, the man who entered the USA into the Cold War’s Space Race, in this adaptation of a biographic feature film - starring an actor who would someday be much better-known as one of James Bond’s most fiendish foes! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this week’s Oddball Comic aims to please!
So what’s so odd about this extremely rare Dell film adaptation? Well, this military story spans World War II and the “Cold War” between America and Russia, yet doesn’t feature a single battle scene, swastika or mention of Nazis or Communists!
Dr. Wernher von Braun (3/23/12 - 6/16/77) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology during and after World War II. Originally creating Germany’s deadly V-2 rockets, which devastated London during WWII, he eventually entered the United States though the then-secret “Operation Paperclip”. There, he not only became a citizen, but worked on America’s ICBM program and served as director of NASA. Dr. von Braun is generally regarded as the father of the United States’ space program.
The film I AIM AT THE STARS was a somewhat fictionalized account of von Braun’s youth, wartime experiences and rise to front-page prominence during the “Space Race” between America and Russia in the late 1950s and 1960s..
I AIM AT THE STARS (1960) was a Columbia Picture and a Morningside Production, produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Jay Dratler based on a story by George Froeschel, U. Wolder and H. W. John. It starred Curt Jurgens as Dr. Wernher von Braun and Victoria Shaw as Elizabeth Beyer, with Gia Scala, Herbert Lom and James Daly.
Comic books fans probably best know actor/director/journalist Curt Jurgens for his portrayal of James Bond’s foe, shipping magnate Karl Stromberg, in 1977’s THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. But interestingly, the career of the Munich, Germany-born Jurgens (12/12/12 - 6/18/82) echoed that of Dr. Wernher von Braun, being one of the first German-born actors to achieve Hollywood stardom the post-WWII western world. First appearing in German films in 1935, Jurgens was deported to a Hungarian concentration camp by the Nazis in 1944, declared “unreliable” by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. After the war, he returned to acting and directing, and in 1955’s THE DEVIL’S GENERAL, Jurgens portrayed a German WWII hero who renounces the Nazi creed, thereby attracting international attention to his performance. Other notable films that Jurgens appeared in include THE ENEMY BELOW (1957, in his first American production), AND GOD CREATED WOMAN (1956), LORD JIM (1965), THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU (1968), BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1969) and THE MEPHISTO WALTZ (1971), in addition to many others.
This 32-page adaptation of I AIM AT THE STARS was drawn by cartoonist Jack Sparling. It begins in 1925 Berlin, as young Wernher von Braun and his chubby friend Mischke visit a local planetarium:
PLANETARIUM LECTURER:
And someday mankind will reach out to these unknown planets, stars - these unknown worlds! For whatever man dares to dream, he will accomplish!MISCHKE:
Wernher, let’s go! You’ll catch a cold way out there in deep space without a sweater on!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
All right, Mischke, I - I’m coming! You’ll see, Mischke, someday man WILL get to the stars!MISCHKE:
You and your stars! If you want to get there, you’d better start growing tail-feathers!
As they leave the planetarium, Wernher and Mischke spot a poster for the Berlin Avus Speedway that advertises the “speed trial of Fritz von Opel’s rocket-powered automobile”, a concept that excites Wernher so much that he can’t even sleep that night — only daydream. (That is, if it’s possible to daydream at nighttime) The fact that his mother nags Wernher about his math class grades doesn’t particularly help things, either! The following day, at the speedway, Mischke introduces eager Wernher to his friend Anton Reger, who works at the Opel auto factory. When Wernher bombards Anton with questions about the operation of his rocker-powered racecar, von Opel recommends that Wernher read a book by Professor Hermann Oberth called ROCKET TO THE PLANETS. Soon, obsessed with his dreams of space travel, Wernher experiments with model rocketry; in the process, he winds up crashing a rocket into the neighbor’s greenhouse, earning his father’s ire:
MR. VON BRAUN:
Wernher, thanks to your experiments, I’ll have to pay for Becker’s greenhouse! What good are those rockets of yours, anyway?WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Father, what good is a newborn baby? You can’t tell until it grows up, can you?MR. VON BRAUN:
A good question! But anyhow, I insist that if a von Braun shoots off a rocket, it should go where it’s supposed to!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’ll try to remember that, sir!
Soon, Wernher receives his own copy of ROCKET TO THE PLANETS in the mail, he’s frustrated to discover that much of its contents are “a lot of mathematics and equations”. He decides to ask the aid of his school’s new math professor, never realizing that the new instructor is Dr. Hermann Oberth himself:
DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Young man, I’ve checked your record! A boy who fails in Latin and math couldn’t hope to understand this book!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Then I’ll study harder until I pass!DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Tell me why all this means so much to you, my boy!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Because rockets are important, sir! Someday they’ll take mankind to the stars! And someday they’ll build a statue to the man who wrote this book!DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
The man who wrote this book - most people call him a crack-pot! A mad scientist!WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Professor Oberth is a great man! A genius! How can they say such a thing?DR. HERMANN OBERTH:
Calm yourself, my boy. If I don’t mind those names, why should you? All right, Wernher, I’ll help you with your math! And just between us - I hated Latin, too!
As the years pass, Wernher becomes Dr. Oberth’s assistant. One evening, they prepare a rocket motor demonstration for the Rocket Society. While Dr. Oberth, Mischke, Anton Reger and their gorgeous friend Elizabeth huddle behind a wooden shield, Werner insists on risking his neck by their rocket full of liquid oxygen and igniting its motor by hand. The launch proceeds perfectly! Soon, Dr. Oberth introduces Mischke to Captain Dornberger, a German army official who offers to underwrite their further experimentation by providing “unlimited material, laboratory facilities and test equipment”. But as time passes, and Wernher von Braun continues his rocket experiments under Army auspices, the world outside is plunged into the chaos of World War II. But Wernher’s activities have not gone unnoticed outside of Germany. In the offices of British Intelligence, a Major Drummond expresses his suspicions regarding Germany’s “Peenemunde” area:
MAJOR TOFTOY DRUMMOND:
All our information says that enormous quantities of building materials are being poured into that sector! We’ve had persistent reports from Dutch, Danish ad Polish sources that the Germans are building a secret weapon there! I’ll order special photo reconnaissance missions at once, Major! We’ll photograph the Peenemunde area regularly!
Meanwhile, “at that very moment”, Wernher narrowly avoids getting blown out of the sky while flying a small plane to observe his rocket post-launch behavior up close and personal. Later that afternoon, Anton is putting romantic pressure on Elizabeth — who’s now Wernher’s personal secretary - but she’s not particularly receptive to his overtures:
ANTON REGER:
Elizabeth, ever since I got you hat job as Wernher’s secretary, you have almost no time for me at all? May I see you tonight?ELIZABETH BEYER:
You know I’m just as fond of you as ever, Anton! But - well, I just can’t see you tonight!
That night, after screening film footage of their latest rocket model, Wernher locks horns with a German army engineer named Neumann:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
The vapor trail shows a structural failure in the control vanes!A failure due to the poor quality of steel in the vane!NEUMANN:
We wouldn’t have so much difficulty getting the proper materials if we had closer contact with the S.S. and the heads of the Party!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Look, Neumann, I’m a SCIENTIST! I couldn’t care less about Hitler and that Party stuff!NEUMANN:
It’s your attitude toward the people in power that keeps us from getting better materials and more money, von Braun!COLONEL DORNBERGER:
Wernher, this is the third year of the war! The High Command isn’t interested in your dreams of space flight! All they want is a rocket that can reach London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Colonel Dornberger, a rocket that can reach the stars can also be aimed at London - if they insist!COLONEL DORNBERGER (whispering):
Let’s build that rocket before Himmler and the S.S. move in on us! They’ve already planted Neumann here! He’d love to have your job!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN (whispering):
I know! If he wasn’t such a good engineer, I could really dislike him!
That weekend, Wernher returns home to help celebrate his mother’s birthday. There, he’s greeted by Maria, his lovely sweetheart, but they’re interrupted by a man named Weber, who badgers the young scientist about joining the “:Party”. (It’s interesting to note that, in this post-WWII Dell comic book movie adaptation, the word “Nazi” nor the image of a swastika are ever used even once!), But soon, Wernher and Maria are out in the garden, where she accepts his proposal of marriage. Later, after the party, Wernher’s mother inquires:
MRS. VON BRAUN:
Wernher, I heard Weber speaking o you! What are you going to do about joining he Party?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I don’t have much choice, Mother! Not if I want to stay at Peenemunde!MRS. VON BRAUN:
Long ago they said that witches made a pact with the Devil so they could fly their broomsticks!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
MY broomsticks fly without the Devil’s help! But if they didn’t I’d be willing to sign up with him!
In the weeks that follow, Himmler and his S.S. - particularly in the form of General Kulp - increase their pressure on Wernher von Braun. With each unsuccessful launch, Wernher’s efforts are dismissed as being mere “fireworks” by Kulp. One day, Dr. von Braun and his staff are issued an ultimatum from the High Command: “Unless there will be a successful launching within thirty days, Peenemunde will be closed!” With the pressure on them, the scientist and his staff work harder than ever, night and day. One afternoon, Anton Reger could swear that he sees his beloved Elizabeth using a lipstick-case-camera to photograph the plans for Wernher’s new rocket design!
ANTON REGER (thinking):
Strange! What’s Elizabeth doing at that drawing board?
But Wernher’s work proceeds, and soon, his latest rocket model proves to be a success, exceeding its maximum altitude and delivering a “hit with the force of 50 locomotives at full speed”. But summoned to a meeting with Himmler, Wernher refuses to cooperate with his Nazi (oops!) bosses:
REICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
My congratulations, von Braun! You will want mass-production for your rockets, no doubt! For best results, I suggest you join my PERSONAL STAFF!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’d like to think about it, Reich-Fuhrer HimmlerREICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
Hesitating, von Braun? Under the S.S., you’d be free of army stupidity and red tape!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I already AM! Colonel Dornberger is an excellent superior! It was HIGH LEEL indifference that caused our difficulties!REICH-FUHRER HEINRICH HIMMLER:
Better think about it, Doctor! The S.S. runs Germany now - and what the S.S. wants, the S.S. gets!
Sure enough, the following day, Wernher von Braun finds himself under government arrest on charges of treason! Soon, he’s being interrogated by his old “pal”, General Kulp:
GENERAL KULP:
You should have been working on military weaponsyet you were wasting your time planning spaceships like this!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
But scientists MUST plan for the future, General Kulp! Or we’d all still be riding in oxcarts!
For his refusal to cooperate with the Nazi regime, Dr. Wernher von Braun is imprisoned. Fortunately, Colonel Dornberger pulls some behind-the-scenes strings to get his scientist friend released from incarceration:
COLONEL DORNBERGER (talking on the telephone):
I will talk plainly, my Fuhrer! The V-2 may be our last chance for victory! If you want that rocket, you need von Braun to build it!
Returning to Peenemunde, Wernher is soon overseeing production on the V-2 rockets, but confides to his fiance Maria that he has misgivings he’d prefer to ignore:
MARIA:
This rocket weapon of yours, how can you be sure it wouldn’t hit a children’s hospital when you fire it?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Maria, we’re fighting a WAR! Women and children are being killed on BOTH SIDES! We CAN’T let ourselves think about it!
Meanwhile, Wernher’s V-2 rockets are reducing London into rubble. One rocket lands near the British Intelligence office:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
That was close! That V-2 is quite a firecracker! I’d like to lay hands on the guy who thought of it!MAJOR TAGGART:
Don’t worry, Toftoy! We’re planning our own fireworks for those V-2 geniuses!
A week later, Elizabeth receives a mysterious phone message containing a signal for her to leave the V-2 factory before British bombers attack Peenemunde, flattening the rocket base. Wernher and Anton manage to survive, aiding the wounded however they can. Meanwhile, from a caf at the edge of town, Elizabeth beholds the awful destruction and - spy or not - she’s compelled to re-enter the base to help her co-workers. By the next morning, the death toll has reached over seven hundred people. In the middle of the ruins left by the bombings, Anton Reger confronts Elizabeth about her loyalties; she admits she’s been working for “the enemy”; she hates the Nazis (oops!) after the S.S. mistakenly murdered her husband in cold blood. Anton is tempted to turn her in, but since he still loves her, he can’t bring himself to do it. Meanwhile, as Germany’s defenses begin to crumble, the U. S. Army prepares to sweep into Peenemunde and grab all of their equipment before the Russians get it. They even have plans for the scientists who developed the V-2 rocket, whether or not they’re considered to be war criminals. Unaware of these plans, Wernher gathers his staff and makes a startling decision:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
If we remain here, we’ll be grabbed by the Russians! If we head south, the Americans will capture us! Let’s face it! Within a week we’ll all be prisoners! So I suggest we head south toward the American line!
Wernher’s staff agrees with his decision to surrender - all but Anton Reger:
ANTON REGER:
You can’t do this, Wernher! It’s treason!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Reger, we can’t throw away all our years of work advancing rocket technology! We’ve got to make our knowledge available for others - and complete the job we started!ANTON REGER:
I’m sorry! I can’t follow your smooth reasoning! I’m a German! I stay here!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Then, good-bye, Anton!
Soon, Wernher’s convoy of scientists are headed south, arriving at American headquarters to surrender - but they receive a very cold welcome:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Von Braun, you developed the V-2 that killed thousands of innocent people! Don’t you consider yourself a war criminal?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
In a war, everyone wants his country to win! War itself is a crime - and we are all war criminals!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
If all you Germans had stood up together, you could have stopped Hitler and all his butchery!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
You never lived under a dictatorship, Major! Every man distrusts his neighbor and fears for his own life! In that respect I am guilty of being human!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
You are guilty of putting an infernal weapon into the hands of the most evil government in the world! For that you will be TRIED and HUNG!
Fortunately, Wernher is made an alternate offer:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
Doctor, we recognize your achievements! If you want to go to the United States to continue your research, we have the resources!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’m happy to agree, sir! That’s why I surrendered! But I can’t make rockets by myself!COLONEL TOFTOY:
We have other volunteers, Doctor! You’ll all be sent to America on probation! You’ll have to face a lot of criticism!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
We didn’t expect to be received with open arms!
Wernher learns that this deal was based on the recommendation of one of an undercover U. S. agent, who’s waiting in the next room to identify him. After he’s gone, Wernher’s the topic of a heated conversation:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Colonel, you don’t mean they’re not even going to put him ON TRIAL?COLONEL TOFTOY:
Bill, we’ve been friends for a long time! Try not to take this as something personal!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Listen! One of his V-2’s killed my wife and child in London! It’s downright immoral to use him! He’s our enemy!COLONEL TOFTOY:
Yet, when a man is as brilliant as von Braun, I guess he has a special kind of value of his own!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Colonel, as a newspaper man before the war I fought the von Brauns of this world - and I can’t stop fighting them now!
Next door, Wernher discovers that the “enemy agent” who’s saved him is none other than Elizabeth Beyer! As she checks off a list - which includes Dr. Hermann Oberth - she tearfully realizes that Anton Reger isn’t among them. Soon, plans are set in motion to relocate the scientist-prisoners:
COLONEL TOFTOY:
All right, Taggart, here are the orders to ship von Braun and his group to the White Sands proving grounds by plane!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I was going to suggest passage on a leaky boat, sir!
Accompanied by Taggart and Elizabeth, the captives arrive at White Sands and resume their rocket research. But first, Wernher’s former secretary attempts to clear the air between them:
ELIZABETH BEYER:
Gentlemen, we’re going to work together, so let us speak of the past and get it over with! It will be easier if we can be friends!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
We’re not blaming you, Elizabeth! The stupidity of war is not your fault or ours! You did what you felt you had to do!
Under the resentful observation of Major Taggart, Wernher and his transplanted staff soon make some significant advances with their rocketry development. But no matter what he achieves, Wernher is unable to impress Taggart of his sincerity:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Staying late again, Doctor? I suppose you’re working overtime to earn your citizenship!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Taggart, I can’t help how you feel about me, but I was brought here to build rockets, and that’s what I’m doing!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I hope that someday one of your rockets blows up and that you’re as close to it as my wife and kid were in London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I’m sorry about that, Taggart, but I’m not responsible for what happened!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Then who was responsible? Hitler? Himmler? Everyone but you, eh?ELIZABETH BEYER:
Bill! You’ve got to stop this!MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
These scientists! They hold the whole world in their hands, but men and women mean nothing to them! They have no loyalty to anything but their own research!ELIZABETH BEYER:
Bill, you just can’t go on living with this hatred!
But as the months pass, the general attitude toward the German scientists finally softens and their status legalized, which eventually leads to citizenship. Maria joins Wernher at White Sands, where he unsuccessfully asks for funding to build “the world’s first satellite orbiting the Earth”. In June, 1950, the Korean War necessitates that Wernher’s group transfers to a new army installation at Redstone Arsenal. Soon, Major Taggart pays a visit to Wernher and his new bride Maria:
MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Your traveling orders, von Braun! Not long ago you made rockets to fire at us! Now you’ll be building rockets to fire at our enemy!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Do you prefer that I sit back and do nothing, and allow American to lose?MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
How would that affect you, Doctor? You’d be right there working for the Russians!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
If you feel that way, why are you wearing that uniform?MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
I won’t be wearing it after today! I’ve got a job as a TV news commentator! But you’ll be hearing from me! I’ll be making it hot for you!MARIA VON BRAUN:
Taggart is right, Wernher! You’ll be making rockets for war again! You could REFUSE! Others have!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Can’t you see? I must stay with my work! I can’t fall behind! Progress, research, knowledge are MY LIFE!
As Wernher’s work proceeds, he and his staff are commended for their design of the Redstone missile. But Taggart now uses his nationally televised forum to criticize Dr. von Braun’s goals:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Taxpayers must demand that their hard-earned dollars be spent for more hospitals, schools and higher salaries for teachers, rather than on a wasteful rocket program!
When the Korean War is over, the government cuts the funding for Wernher’s space research. In response, he accepts an invitation to appear on live television in a debate with William Taggart regarding the worth of the exploration of outer space:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Rocket experiments mean war! We must solve human problems before we think of conquering space!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Our future lies in space! The country with the first satellite will capture the world’s imagination!EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Von Braun talks of pure science, but he is the man responsible for the bombing of London!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Man must learn to live with atomic power and rockets, or he will perish!
When the Army missile program gets a new chief, General Medaris, they petition the Pentagon to participate in an attempt to collect and analyze samples of the upper atmosphere with a satellite. Things look good for Wernher and his staff, but they’re crushed when the Navy gets the gig instead. Taggart shows up to gloat over his old enemy’s defeat, but Elizabeth convinces him to instead offer his sympathies to Dr. von Braun, who reacts badly to Taggart’s obvious insincerity. In October, 1957, Wernher - and the entire United States - receives an even more bitter blow as Russia launches the first artificial satellite into orbit around the Earth! But a third stroke of bad luck turns out to be in Wernher von Braun’s favor when the Navy’s Vanguard missile - the one to be used in the space mission that they lost out on - explodes on the launch pad. Frustrated and embarrassed, the Pentagon turns to Wernher for help, asking him to initiate a crash program to enter the “space race” between America and Russia. At Redstone, Wernher and his crew work on a new satellite-carrying rocket, the JUPITER-C, which is launched into space on January 31st, 1958. The three-stage rocket blasts off and its operation performs flawlessly - with the exception of a six-minute lag — as it settles its satellite into orbit. Even Bill Taggart is impressed:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Well, you did it! You know, von Braun, I’ve almost grown to like you!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
I could say the same about you, Taggart, except that one never really likes one’s conscience!
Then Taggart gestures toward his heart:
EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
But I’ll never really understand what have you scientists got in here - in the place of human values?DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Concern for the future, perhaps! The universe is waiting for us - and we must explore it! That’s what makes us men - not vegetables!EX-MAJOR WILLIAM TAGGART:
Good-bye, von Braun, and good luck with the universe!DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN:
Thank you, Taggart! I’ll need it!
This film adaptation ends on an optimistic note, with a panel of Dr. Wernher von Braun observing another rocket launch:
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN (thinking):
Well, we’re catching up at last! The great powers must ultimately be equal in space! It is this balance of power which will secure peace and allow mankind to reach the stars!
Also included in this issue of FOUR COLOR (I AIM AT THE STARS) are the following stories and features:
- An untitled, black-and-white, inside-front-cover introductory page, featuring still production photos from the feature film, I AIM AT THE STARS.
- “The Rocket In History”, a black-and-white, inside-back-cover educational strip drawn by Jack Sparling.
- “Types Of Rocket Propulsion”, an educational back-cover feature.
ODDBALL Factoid - Actor Curt Jurgens’ career had an unlikely comic book connection; he starred in 1973’s THE VAULT OF TERROR, an anthology film adaptation of stories originally published in EC’s notorious horror comics!
Bonus ODDBALL Factoid - I AIM AT THE STARS producer Charles H. Schneer also produced many of the classic sci-fi and fantasy films of Ray Harryhausen!
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Oddball Comics: Popeye And Communication And Media Careers E-3
In all of comicdom, there’s probably nobody who routinely butchers the English language more than Popeye The Sailor! So just what is the salty-mouthed seafarer think he’s doing by dispensing information and advice on how to earn a lotta spinach in jobs in the communications industry? Has Popeye taken so many hits to the head that he’s forgotten that “I yam what I yam”? Find out in POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS, an Oddball educational giveaway comic that’s guaranteed to blow you down!
Popeye The Sailor — the creation of cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar (1894 - 1938) - was introduced in the King Features syndicated newspaper comic strip, THIMBLE THEATRE on January 17, 1929 (nearly ten years into the strip’s run). The strip - created at the urging of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst — originally concerned itself with the exploits of two adventurers, Castor Oyl and his pal Ham Gravy. Popeye was introduced (as a non-recurring character) when the duo required nautical transportation to a casino located on remote Dice Island, where they planned to strike it rich with their magical Whiffle Hen named Bernice. Segar - whose signature included a cartoon of a cigar butt - discovered that he enjoyed writing and drawing the pugnacious sailor, so much so that he extended his presence in THIMBLE THEATRE. According to COMICS BETWEEN THE PANELS, a verbal history of comics by Steve Duin and Mike Richardson, Segar once expressed that “Popeye is much more than a goofy comic character to me. He represents all my emotions, and he is an outlet for them. I’d like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgment and size hold me back.” Soon after his introduction, the squinty-orbed seaman became THIMBLE THEATRE’s star character. Although scrawny overall and without a tooth in his head, the squinty-eyed seafarer had muscular forearms the size of hams, possessed amazing strength and was nearly indestructible. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Popeye’s super-abilities were originally attributed to contact with the Whiffle Hen, but was eventually linked to the sailor man’s intake of spinach. (In the 1930s, Popeye’s dependence on the leafy legume supposedly increased spinach consumption by 33%!) In addition to his emaciated girlfriend, Olive Oyl (Castor’s sister and originally, Ham Gravy’s girlfriend) THIMBLE THEATER’s cast eventually grew to include such classic characters as hamburger-thieving J. Wellington Wimpy, Eugene the Jeep (from the 5th Dimension), Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye’s long-lost father), the sinister Sea Hag, the brutal thugs Bluto and Brutus, enigmatic Alice The Goon, demented inventor O.G. Wotasnozzle and many others. When Segar died tragically young (from leukemia), THIMBLE THEATRE - known now in many newspapers simply as “Popeye” - carried on under Charles H. “Doc” Winner and later by Segar’s former assistants, Bela Zaboly and Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf. Before Sagendorf took over production of the comic strip entirely in 1958, he wrote and drew dozens of memorable POPEYE comic books, variously published by Dell, Gold Key, King and Charlton, among others. When the POPEYE strip was re-launched in the mid-1980s, it was written and drawn by former underground cartoonist Bobby London; his version of the sailor man combined Segar’s classic approach with a distinctive contemporary flavor. Unfortunately, syndicate politics ended Bobby’s outstanding run on POPEYE far too prematurely. Since then, chameleon-like “ghost” cartoonist Hy Eisman has been grinding out new Sunday strips for King Features, which currently reprints old POPEYE dailies by Sagendorf.
The Fleischer Studio first animated Popeye in a tryout guest appearance in the 1933 cartoon short BETTY BOOP MEETS POPEYE THE SAILOR. (Other King Features comic strip characters to receive this treatment were Otto Soglo’s “Little King” and Carl Anderson’s “Henry”.) The animated Popeye met with such interest that the Fleischer brothers, Max and Dave, starred him in the first of hundreds of his own theatrical cartoon shorts, I YAM WHAT I YAM, later that year. The Fleischer also produced three memorable (and rather experimental) “Popeye” featurettes, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS SINDBAD THE SAILOR, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES and POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALADDIN AND HIS MAGIC LAMP. Studio Renamed Famous Studios when Paramount Pictures bought them in 1942, the cartoon studio continued to produce new theatrical “Popeye” cartoons through 1957. In the early 1960s, a batch of new low budget “Popeye” cartoons was made in “limited animation” for television by a number of studios. A bizarre animated “special” titled POPEYE AND THE MAN WHO HATED LAUGHTER - featuring dozens of other King Features characters — was produced by Hal (MILTON THE MONSTER) Seegar (no relation) for ABC’s SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE. Hanna-Barbera also made new “Popeye” TV cartoons in the 1970s and 1980s, including the notorious POPEYE AND SON, featuring the adventures of the offspring of a now-married Popeye and Olive. 1980 saw POPEYE as a live-action feature film, written by cartoonist (and former assistant to Will Eisner on THE SPIRIT) Jules Feiffer, directed by Robert Altman, with music by Harry Nilsson and starring Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelly Duval as Olive Oyl, Paul Smith as Bluto, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy and Paul Dooley as J. Wellington Wimpy, In recent years, Popeye has appeared in video games, on slot machines and in a CG made-for-television special.
POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS was one of fifteen specially-produced educational “custom comics” in the CAREER EDUCATIONAL SERIES, prepared, packaged and printed by Charlton Comics and published by King Features and sold directly to school systems. Titles in this series included:
E-1: POPEYE AND HEALTH CAREERS
E-2: POPEYE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAREERS
E-3: POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS
E-4: POPEYE AND TRANSPORTATION CAREERS
E-5: POPEYE AND CONSTRUCTION CAREERS
E-6: POPEYE AND CONSUMER AND HOMEMAKING CAREERS
E-7: POPEYE AND MANUFACTURING CAREERS
E-8: POPEYE AND HOSPITALITY AND RECREATION CAREERS
E-9: POPEYE AND MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION CAREERS
E-10: POPEYE AND BUSINESS AND OFFICE CAREERS
E-11: POPEYE AND PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS
E-12: POPEYE AND PERSONAL SERVICE CAREERS
E-13: POPEYE AND MARINE SCIENCE CAREERS
E-14: POPEYE AND FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CAREERS
E-15: POPEYE AND AGRI-BUSINESS AND NATURAL RESOURCES CAREERS
Exactly why anyone at the King Features Syndicate thought that Popeye was the ideal character to extol the virtues of such inappropriate careers (with the exception of POPEYE AND MARINE SCIENCE CAREERS) is anyone’s guess. But when you consider that the “real” Popeye seems unable to replicate the English language with any sort of proper grammar or “pronunskiashun”, it’s especially ironic (and Oddball) to have the sailor-man hosting his own comic on COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS
POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS’ untitled, 31-page cover-story was written by Joe Gill and drawn by Ray Dirgo. It begins on its inside-front-cover, as Popeye launches into an exhaustively long-winded introduction - in perfect English, no less - to Swee’pea:
POPEYE:
In this country, we get more information than any other people on Earth, Swee’pea, and I am going to explain to you how we get our information. We can talk to people almost anywhere in the world with this telephone, Swee’pea. Communications help to bring people of the world closer together and increase our understanding of people of other nations. We can find what’s happening all over the world from the MEDIAthe word they use for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, tapes and records. Besides the news, Swee’pea, television and radio provide information and entertainment for millions! The entertainment field, of course, is another field with many careers to choose from. More than TWO MILLION PEOPLE work in communications and media, Swee’pea, and many more will be employed in television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the telephone industry in the future. No matter what jobs thee people do, they will all play a part in bringing information to people and helping everyone to communicate with one another. There are many different jobs for men and women, young and old, and anyone can find a job if he is interested and shows he has the ability.SWEE’PEA:
What will I have to know to get one of these jobs, Popeye?POPEYE:
That depends on the kind of job that you want and the type that will make you happy, Swee’pea.
Then Popeye takes Swee’pea into the city, showing him examples of the three largest groups of jobs in communications: print, broadcast and telephone/telegraph. (It’s interesting to note that this comic was published long before the concept of the Internet!) Then the squinty-eyed swab takes his adopted son into an office building marked “NBS Television”, where newscast is in progress. While showing Swee’pea around the place, he addresses the reader with some surprisingly blunt information:
POPEYE:
There are NO SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS for television and radio announcers. TV and radio announcers don’t have to be college graduates, but the companies prefer them. They also want men and women who look nice and have clear, pleasing voices.
After a rather jarring scene-shift to a battlefield - demonstrating that radio and TV announcers “have to get out where the news is being made” - Popeye lays some more drier-than-dry information on Swee’pea about the requirements of working as a broadcast technician. Then, Popeye and Swee’pea move on to the offices of the CITY TIMES newspaper, outside of which, Popeye is “mowed down” by an over-enthusiastic journalist. Strolling around the newsroom, Popeye explains the duties of the City Editor and the Sports Editor. Then he delivers an extraordinarily lengthy bit of dialog - by necessity, hand-lettered at a very small size — all within a single word balloon:
POPEYE:
As you see, newspaper editors are well informed, and can put thoughts into words. Some newspaper only hire men and women to be editors who have a college education and some insist on a degree in journalism, but there are other newspaper jobs for those who have not gone to college. Newspapers also need printing press operators, artists of all kinds, photographers, delivery men and may more. How would you like to be a copy boy, Swee’pea?
(Hmmm, looks to me like this is an example of some last-minute editing. Popeye had better watch out; with any more of these extra-verbose word balloons, he might develop a hunchback!) After visiting the CITY TIMES’ nutty-looking Society Editor, staff photographer J. Wellington Wimpy runs by. Popeye assumes he’s on the trail of a big story, but typically, Wimpy’s on a coffee break and running off to order a dozen hamburgers from a nearby diner. Then Popeye visits a fashion photographer (who’s shooting a session with Olive Oyl), the wilderness (where he’s chased by a camera-shy bear), an art gallery (where fine artwork is being photographed) and a room marked “Top Secret” (where a suspicious-looking guy is taking photos of classified material with a very tiny camera!) Following a long screed on the requirements for becoming a photographer, Popeye visits a photoengraving company, an art school and a commercial art studio. After posing for a life-drawing class and annoying one of the art school’s instructors, a towering stack of magazines topple over on Popeye while he delivers a message about the life of a commercial artist:
POPEYE:
SOMETHING NEW IS HAPPENING EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY. PEOPLE WORKING IN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA HELP TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS! THEY LOVE THEIR WORK LIKE I LOVE SPINACH!
Geez, calm down, ya swab! Next, Popeye pays a visit to a factory to see how a newspaper is printed. (One of these panels has been very poorly printed - with smudged and bleeding black ink that makes it difficult to read its hand-lettered copy — which is rather ironic, considering that this comic was actually printed on Charlton’s privately-owned printing presses!) As Swee’pea re-joins him, Popeye tells him about potential careers in the telephone business. Visiting the offices of a phone company, we see Olive Oyl working as a phone operator, one of over 400,000 of them in the country:
POPEYE:
Nearly all telephone operators are girls, Swee’pea, but there are a few men too.
Then the old salt takes Swee’pea to a privately-run office building and introduces the human tadpole to women who works as a receptionist and phone switchboard operator, one of whom has skin the color of a ripe lemon. (I guess she’s supposed to be Asian; either that, or it’s just another example of Charlton’s hit-or-miss printing.) This sequence ends with Popeye sleeping on a park bench located outside the phone company’s headquarters!
POPEYE:
One of the drawbacks to being a telephone operator is you may have to work nights sometimes and you may have to work on week-ends or holidays.
Later, we catch up with Popeye at the local airport, where he takes us inside the control tower to watch various air traffic ground controllers doing their job. One of ‘em, apparently another lemon-skinned Asian, receives a comedic electrical shock while tightening a loose wire in his instrument console. Then, after a mind-numbing page on the legal requirements needed to work in airline radio-operator jobs, Popeye finally gets to do what he does best. (No, he doesn’t beat the snot out of a bully.) He rows a dinghy out to an offshore ship to visit its Morse code operator. Then he visits a train yard, where he watches a train dispatcher use the telegraph to do his job. Apparently, Popeye’s so immersed in his mission to teach Swee’pea about jobs in the communication and media that he forgets that he’s standing on the train tracks - it takes a warning cry from Swee’pea to alert him to an oncoming train - and he leaps to safety at the last second! Finally, Popeye takes a look at the job of phone company linemen, “some of the most important communications workers”. In the middle of a blinding snowstorm - one so thick that cartoonist Ray Dirgo is able to get away with leaving one panel blank - we’re shown a phone company’s cable splicer working in a canvas shelter high above the ground. In a rare bit of humor, Popeye wryly comments:
POPEYE:
They told him he’d get plenty of fresh air on this job!
Later, back at home, while Popeye reads the newspaper, Swee’pea reads a POPEYE comic book, considering his options regarding a future career in communications and media. But when he’s interrupted to answer the ringing telephone, he’s amused to realize it’s a wrong number - the caller’s speaking Chinese!
Also included in this issue of POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS are the following features:
- “Can You Answer These?”, a quiz regarding the contents of this educational comic book.
- “Hey, Kids - Discussion Questions!”, an inside-back-cover list of questions to consider and discuss with classmates.
- A back-cover “Popeye” gag cartoon/pin-up, drawn by George Wildman, of the sailor-man working as a lineman for the phone company (!?!) while dealing with an over-aggressively territorial woodpecker.
ODDBALL Factoid - Cover-cartoonist George Wildman has not only written and drawn the comic book adventures of Popeye The Sailor. He’s also worked on such characters as Mickey Mouse, the Ghostbusters, the Snorks, the Jetsons, Alf, Nancy and Sluggo, Curious George, Tiny Toons, Casper The Friendly Ghost and Clifford The Big Red Dog!
Bonus ODDBALL Factoid - ODDBALL Factoid - POPEYE AND COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA CAREERS’ incredibly prolific writer Joe Gill was responsible for countless scripts for Charlton, including ones for such Oddball series as KONGA, GORGO and REPTILICUS!
Double-Bonus ODDBALL Factoid — Statues of Popeye The Sailor have been erected in Elzie Segar’s home town of Chester, Illinois and in “the spinach capital of the world”, Crystal City, Texas!
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As the final part of Greg Rucka’s Ruin trilogy which started with Unconventional Warfare and continued in That Healing Touch , Ruin Revealed brings the story full circle as Lois sets out to determine the identity of her shooter and Superman weeds throug
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Now You’re Playing With Power! The most recognizable and unforgettable characters in the video game world have teamed up to bring you the Nintendo Collector’s Edition of the world’s most popular board game, MONOPOLY. No controllers are necessary this time as you join forces with Mario, Luigi, Link, Zelda, Kirby and others on a quest to defeat your opponents and own it all. This edition comes complete with 6 collectible pewter tokens featuring Mario’s Cap, Link’s Iron Boots, Donkey Kong’s Barrel, Hylian Shield, Koopa Shell and NES Controller. Rules include a 60 minute speed play option for a shorter game with the same amount of fun. Now you can buy, sell and trade your favorite Nintendo characters for a whole new game-playing experience. From everyone’s favorite red-capped plumber to barrel-tossing Donkey Kong, they’re all up for grabs in this exciting fun-filled adventure. For 2 to 6 players. Ages 8 and up.
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Superman: End of the Century TPB
Superman: End of the Century TPB
 Lex Luthor faces his greatest challenge as his buildings are going up in flames and the mysterious, and possibly immortal, Contessa del Portenza returns for her child. A murderer is raging through Metropolis who’s very presence drains Superman of his power. Is there a connection? Can Superman and Lo… |
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This series’ redemption comes from Leinil Francis Yu’s excellent artwork. It’s strong and colorful, but rarely is it bright. It fits the story perfectly. For this reason I would recommend this comic. I found it interesting to see a writer attempt a
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Superman: Secret Identity #3 (of 4) (lantern comic book prices)
Superman: Secret Identity #3 (of 4)
Superman: Secret Identity #3 (of 4)
 You’re young, arriving in the big city from Kansas, and you have aspirations of becoming a writer. Your last name is Kent, and your parents have made the mistake of naming you Clark. Now your life is filled with unwelcome references to that other Clark Kent… the one who can outrun bullets and bend… |
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He’s Clark Kent. That’s what his parents named him. Growing up, the other kids made fun of him. He’s heard every possible joke that can be imagined about having the same name as the comic book character Superman; but he’s never considered them funn
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(Simpsons comic books) Superman: Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB
Superman: Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB
Superman: Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB
 Presenting an exciting new way to experience the rich history of the Man of Steel in an affordable trade paperback collection of every Superman adventure, in color, in chronological order! Superman Chronicles Vol. 1 reprints the earliest stories of the world’s first super-hero! These historic tales … |
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There is another Superman movie coming out this year, but we have known for a long time from all of the comic books, television series, and movies that this is an archetypal character. Whether we are talking about one of the Elsewhere comic books where t
This was a shame. I think supergirl is a cool character and can be done well, but this just makes clear that DC has no idea what to do with her. There is no characterization, no back up characters and the story can only loosely be called a “story.” The
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Slam From The Street: The Ultimate Streetball Collection
Slam From The Street: The Ultimate Streetball Collection
 Slam From The Street: The Ultimate Streetball Collection is simply the best dribbles, dunks and dimes to come off the playground. These DVDs put you right on the court with the world’s best streetballers working the blacktop! Featuring Robin Kennedy (aka-Syk Wit It), Larry Williams (aka-Bone Collect… |
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Batman: Glow In The Dark Logo T-Shirt (XXL) (r crumb comic books)
Batman: Glow In The Dark Logo T-Shirt (XXL)
Batman: Glow In The Dark Logo T-Shirt (XXL)
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Batman: Contagion TPB
 Plague in the streets! A city in the throes of chaos! Gotham’s wealthiest citizens locked in a luxury ghetto, willing to pay any price for a cure. A band of heroes desperate for a solution. A Mysterious and lethal virus is unleashed on the unknowing inhabitants of Gotham City, causing excruciating p… |
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One main concern I have is that readers really need to have a strong background in DC history to fully “get” what is going on with the story.
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Flashbacks show us a young Clark befriending Lex, but we see nothing more than that. The rest of the graphic novel is set in the present, where Clark searches for his place in the world while battling the evil Lex Luthor. Much is left out that could hav
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(Comic book image) The guide starts with a humble and heartfelt introduction by the director Bryan Singer. After that you’re taken on a brief journey into the comic book history of the character for those of you not fully aware of the character’s origin outside of the o
The guide starts with a humble and heartfelt introduction by the director Bryan Singer. After that you’re taken on a brief journey into the comic book history of the character for those of you not fully aware of the character’s origin outside of the o
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Batman in the Sixties TPB
 The sixties… a decade of social unrest, rock music, flower power — and the Caped Crusader! It was a decade in which Batman achieved an unparalleled level success in comics and on television. In comics, it was also a period of rapid transition, which saw Batman grow from camp icon to shadowy figur… |
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Jimmy Olsen. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m tired of the “gosh oh golly, gee willikers, ain’t ever gonna grow up” wide eyed, juvenile Jimmy Olsen in the Superman books. I was hoping Byrne would give the kid some respect and have the common sen
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In the preface, the hyperbolic Tom DeSanto wildly trumpets “Red Son” as a devastating critique of American foreign policy, not the cookie cutter “feel good propaganda” that might have been expected. Instead, he hints darkly at surrendering freedom in
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Unspeakable
 Dennis Hopper and Pavan Grover “turn in powerful performances” (”Film Flash Radio”) in this taut, suspenseful and disturbing psychological thriller. Filmed in a real prison, and starring Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), Lance Henriksen (Alien vs. Predator) and Jeff Fahey (The Lawnmower Man), Unspeaka… |
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Superman: Combat T-Shirt (XXL)
Superman: Combat T-Shirt (XXL)
 The Man of Steel takes on a heavy-hitter on the new Superman: Combat T-Shirt. Features the art of Jim Lee screenprinted in full-color onthe front of a black 100% cotton shirt. My money’s on Sperman to come out on top!… |
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The art may take some comic fans a while to get used to. Everyone looks huge and bulky. But the action is intense throughout.
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Batman vs. Dracula
Gotham City is terrorized not only by recent escapees Joker and Penguin, but by the original creature of the night, Dracula! Can Batman stop the ruthless vampire before he turns everyone in the city, including The Caped Crusader, Joker and Penguin, into his mindless minions?… |
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Cartoon (the trib comic book) Riots in Bangladesh Friday
Cartoon Riots in Bangladesh Friday
Bangladeshi police used batons to break up a 2000-person public protest in the city of Dhaka Friday, a demonstration related to the Arifur Rahman cartoon featuring the named Muhammed being used for a cat. Rahman remains in jail after being put there by authorities citing both the offense and Bangladeshi law that allows people to be jailed if they put society into disarray. Protesters and others angered at the cartoon are calling for the arrest of the editor and publisher, as well as the closure of the publication.
Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Jennifer de Guzman follows up on the “Diamond to require bar codes” story, including a much-traveled link to a copy of the letter Diamond sent out to their vendors. So it looks like small press publishers will have a further, required investment. Whether this is enough to break them? I don’t think it will be, and more importantly, I don’t think it should be. Johanna Draper Carlson has a round-up of links concerning the economic travails of comics folk, which may put some of this in context. While I’m not driven to passion by the specific issue here, it does provide a jumping off point into a world of comics direct market dysfunction, from the notion that small publishers be given unfettered access to the marketplace to the idea that Diamond as a (not technically a) monopoly owes the industry a lax policy when it comes to small press efforts all the way up to the fact that these ideas are conceptualized in raw number forms in part because no one would trust Diamond, with their track record, to make non-insane judgments on potential vendors based on quality.
* Louis Delas of Casterman notes that any decision about their edition of Tintin Au Congo, under fire by some groups because of the depiction of Africans more in line with cartoon depictions of that time rather than reality then or now, has to be worked out with the Herge estate instead of just a summary decision by the publisher. He also notes that it’s a traditional strong-seller in the series, leading sales last year with 40,000 units moved.
* I hadn’t known of this Jason project, but then again, I suppose the English-language publication of his works is still a book or two behind European versions.
* This is the week where the character of Lisa Moore passes away in Funky Winkerbean after a long bout with cancer, which will trigger a narrative shift in the soap opera/character-based comedy ten years into the future. The gruesome nature of the storyline has revived an ancient comics conceptual chestnut whether or not comic strips like Tom Batiuk’s should be allowed reflect real life on occasion or should make their primary concern escapism from such matters. Here’s one editorial in the “what the hell are you thinking with this storyline?” vein. Here’s one in the “good for you, Mr. Batiuk” vein. My paper doesn’t carry Funky Winkerbean, so I’ll be following the storyline through the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
* Barry Windsor-Smith gives one of his projects new life on-line. Even if this were the worst strip in the universe, it would be kind of cool just for someone of BWS’s generation taking full advantage of Internet-driven publishing possibilities in this manner.
* I like looking at Kevin Huizenga work close-up like this.
* I’m not going to pretend I’ve heard of Fangoria Comics, let alone kept track of their woes in negotiating the comics market since a 2006 launch announcement, but apparently they’ve shut down.
* A few of the better over-the-weekend interviews: Xavier Guilbert talks with Junko Mizuno for du9, Andrew Farago chats up Manga: The Complete Guide author Jason Thompson for TCJ.com and Dan Kois at New York checks in with Adrian Tomine.
* You’re still following Mr. Wonderful, right?
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Batman: Animated Series Vol 1-3
Batman: Animated Series Vol 1-3
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I dearly loved Dan Jurgens’ run on the “Superman” comic books he wrote and drew some of my favorite Superman stories of all time, not the least of which was the infamous “Death of Superman” storyline. This is not that storyline, however it’s a
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Ultraman Tiga Vol. 1 TPB - nick & dent
Ultraman Tiga Vol. 1 TPB - nick & dent
 Hailed as a cultural icon in Hong Kong and Japan, on par with our own Superman or Batman, Ultraman has punched, kicked, and karate-chopped his way into the hearts of fans internationally for nearly four decades. Known and loved the world over, the monster-smashing sci-fi superstar comes to Dark Hor… |
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(Book comic movie upcoming) I dearly loved Dan Jurgens’ run on the “Superman” comic books he wrote and drew some of my favorite Superman stories of all time, not the least of which was the infamous “Death of Superman” storyline. This is not that storyline, however it’s a
I dearly loved Dan Jurgens’ run on the “Superman” comic books he wrote and drew some of my favorite Superman stories of all time, not the least of which was the infamous “Death of Superman” storyline. This is not that storyline, however it’s a
Pot’s Greatest Hits
The grass really IS greener on this hilarious CD full of the best pot humor from today’s top comedians including: Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Jimmy, Craig Shoemaker, Matt Kirsch, Lowell Sanders, Ron Shock, Brian Posehn, Ngaio Bealum, Arj Barker, Franklyn Ajaye, Jake Iannarino, Todd Glass, Lee Allan, Paul Gilmartin, Jason Gillearn. The CD includes award-winning original song by Rich Hardesty. Voted “Country Song of the Year” at The Marijuana Music Awards in Nimba, Australia 2005.
Plus A Bonus DVD! Included with the audio CD of stand-up comedy is a free DVD. Filmed the same evening as the Pot’s Greatest Hits live show, it features backstage interviews, hilarious personal stories and bonus material from several of the performing comedians.
CD - Approx. 80 Minutes
DVD - Approx. 20 Minutes
Atists:
Various Artists
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Flash Gordon: Peril From Planet Mongo
Flash Gordon: Peril From Planet Mongo
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Superman - White Accent Wallpaper
Genuine licensed merchandise. Washable and removable. Create that unique accent for your room in minutes! This amazing mural is made with superior prepasted material, a revolutionary fiber that is stronger, easier to install and remove than any other wallpaper. Just roll it out and apply to wall. It does not shrink and therefore does not create any unsightly seams. Later when you want to remove it, simply pick the corners and pull off the wall. It comes off in seconds and in full strips!
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Superman: Justice Symbol Logo T-Shirt (XL)
Superman: Justice Symbol Logo T-Shirt (XL)
 Inspired by the Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Doug Braithwaite series from DC Comics, the new Superman Justice T-Shirt has arrived! Features a larger-version of the classic symbol screenprinted in color on the front of a much-requested, royal blue 100% cotton shirt. The Man of Steel is back in a big wa… |
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Batman Japanese Import Wave 3 - Batman Action Figure Gotham’s Guardian Against Crime
Batman Japanese Import Wave 3 - Batman Action Figure Gotham’s Guardian Against Crime
 Manufactured by Japanese toy manufacturer Yamato exclusively for the Japanese toy market, these limited-edition Batman figures are available outside of Asia only under special arrangement with DC Direct! The BATMAN IMPORT COLLECTOR ACTION FIGURE includes a stone dungeon-like diorama base measuring 8… |
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City of Villains Collector’s Edition (DVD-ROM)
City Of Villains is massively multiplayer gaming where players take on the role of a super-powered villain. Go on personalized missions for revenge or conquest — or band together with your friends and become the menace that plagues Paragon City. Work your way up the ladder of a villain organization to gain super powers, then enter Paragon City and begin a reign of terror. Just be ready to deal with Paragon City’s heroes and authorities. Do this successfully, and you’ll create your own organization and erect a secret base. But stay vigilant - your activities will attract more, and more powerful, heroes.Special Collector’s Edition features:
* 14-day free trials of City of Heroes & Lineage II
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Pot’s Greatest (amazing spiderman comic books) Hits
Pot’s Greatest Hits
The grass really IS greener on this hilarious CD full of the best pot humor from today’s top comedians including: Doug Benson, Patton Oswalt, Jimmy, Craig Shoemaker, Matt Kirsch, Lowell Sanders, Ron Shock, Brian Posehn, Ngaio Bealum, Arj Barker, Franklyn Ajaye, Jake Iannarino, Todd Glass, Lee Allan, Paul Gilmartin, Jason Gillearn. The CD includes award-winning original song by Rich Hardesty. Voted “Country Song of the Year” at The Marijuana Music Awards in Nimba, Australia 2005.
Plus A Bonus DVD! Included with the audio CD of stand-up comedy is a free DVD. Filmed the same evening as the Pot’s Greatest Hits live show, it features backstage interviews, hilarious personal stories and bonus material from several of the performing comedians.
CD - Approx. 80 Minutes
DVD - Approx. 20 Minutes
Atists:
Various Artists
Audio CD:
Company:Allumination
(2005-08-23)
List Price:$14.98
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Used Price:$4.11
Superman - White Accent Wallpaper
Genuine licensed merchandise. Washable and removable. Create that unique accent for your room in minutes! This amazing mural is made with superior prepasted material, a revolutionary fiber that is stronger, easier to install and remove than any other wallpaper. Just roll it out and apply to wall. It does not shrink and therefore does not create any unsightly seams. Later when you want to remove it, simply pick the corners and pull off the wall. It comes off in seconds and in full strips!
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Pattern: Superman - White,The world’s easiest wallpaper. Made in USA.,Uses superior revolutionary technology for easy installation and remova,Can be hand trimmed for custom appearance,33′ X 20.5″ (56 sq. ft.) wall art mural in 1 or more panels. Includes complete install instructions.
Company:YRK
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DC Archives - Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 2 HC
DC Archives - Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 2 HC
 Ever want to know what adventures the Dynamic Duo had in the past but can’t afford the steep price tag of the older issues? Well that’s no problem with the Dark Knight Archives volume 2. In it, their adventures are retold, reprinting Batman issues #5-8. All evil-doers need to beware the long-reachin… |
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He’s Clark Kent. That’s what his parents named him. Growing up, the other kids made fun of him. He’s heard every possible joke that can be imagined about having the same name as the comic book character Superman; but he’s never considered them funn
City of Villains Collector’s Edition (DVD-ROM)
City Of Villains is massively multiplayer gaming where players take on the role of a super-powered villain. Go on personalized missions for revenge or conquest — or band together with your friends and become the menace that plagues Paragon City. Work your way up the ladder of a villain organization to gain super powers, then enter Paragon City and begin a reign of terror. Just be ready to deal with Paragon City’s heroes and authorities. Do this successfully, and you’ll create your own organization and erect a secret base. But stay vigilant - your activities will attract more, and more powerful, heroes.Special Collector’s Edition features:
* 14-day free trials of City of Heroes & Lineage II
* Web of Arachnos - NOVEL flyer from CDS Books
* City of Heroes/City of Villains HeroClix Game Map
* 30 days free game play
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I have to wonder if there’s any writer besides Alan Moore capable of writing a truly great Superman story. (comic book or comic book or comic book)
I have to wonder if there’s any writer besides Alan Moore capable of writing a truly great Superman story.
And Clark. Making him a big high school jock was such a big mistake. They did it right in the sappy, teen drama series, Smallville, by Clark’s parent’s forbidding him to play any sports and so he was refused of ever being a popular athlete and school he
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Superman T-Shirt: I Love Metropolis Ringer (L)
Superman T-Shirt: I Love Metropolis Ringer (L)
 Share your passion for the home of The Man of Steel on the new ‘I Love Metropolis’ T-Shirt. Features a simple black and red imprint on the front of a white and red 100% cotton ringer tee. As modeled by Kara in Superman/Batman/Supergirl a subtle tribute to Metropolis!… |
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Adventures Of Robin Hood Vol 12
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To really understand this book, you have to keep in mind these stories were written at a time when the government didn’t regulate what chemicals went into drinking water, pregnant women were encouraged to smoke, and doctors regularly prescribed cocaine a (comic books bombay)
To really understand this book, you have to keep in mind these stories were written at a time when the government didn’t regulate what chemicals went into drinking water, pregnant women were encouraged to smoke, and doctors regularly prescribed cocaine a
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I do have one minor complaints though. It is very strongly bound to Superman continuity even if an alternatre version and a lot of non fans might have trouble following the story because many characters basically have cameos. This is due to the fact t
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Batman: Knightfall Vol. 3 TPB - Knightsend
Batman: Knightfall Vol. 3 TPB - Knightsend
 Bane did a number on Batman, broke him, body and soul. Azrael then took up the mantle of Batman. Now it’s time for Bruce Wayne to redeem himself and reclaim the identity of Dark Knight Detective…. |
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 A few friends drop by in support of the new corporate marque on the new DC Comics Logo II T-Shirt. Features the new DC Comics Logo flanked by great new Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman illustrations by Jim Lee. Screenprinted in color on the front of a white 100% cotton shirt the DC logo has never l… |
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New Regency to Produce “Virulents,” Based on Virgin Graphic Novel (comic book movies)
New Regency to Produce “Virulents,” Based on Virgin Graphic Novel
NEW REGENCY TO PRODUCE VIRULENTS A THRILLER FEATURE FILM MINED FROM INDIAN MYTHOLOGY - NEW FILM BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED VIRGIN COMICS GRAPHIC NOVEL
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Fun read. Intelligent read. Satisfying read. In other words, a very worthwhile take on the Superman character that might make you think, but, more importantly, will keep you entertained.
Batman: Secret Files Series 2 Unmasked!: Clark Kent/Superman Action Figure
Batman: Secret Files Series 2 Unmasked!: Clark Kent/Superman Action Figure
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DC Comics Announces Release Date for “Heroes” Graphic Novel
DC COMICS ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR GRAPHIC NOVEL BASED ON NBCS EMMY AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED HIT SERIES HEROES
Batman: Stance - Jim Lee T-Shirt (M)
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It is said that people generally prefer familliarity over change, but this is not the very case for this revision of a classic hero created way back in the 1930’s which pioneered the comic book superhero genre, but rather this only show that there is ind
Permanent Damage
This week Steven take a double meaning blast to comics past, dissects the decline and failure of critical hit THE HIGHWAYMEN while mapping out the stumbling blocks of any new comics project, answers reader mail, delves into CMX and more!
FIRST LOOK: Two-Fisted “Iron Fist” Preview!
Courtesy of Marvel Comics, CBR News brings you a first look at images from “The Immortal Iron First” #9 and “The Immortal Iron Fist Annual” #1, both shipping to stores next week.
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CR Sunday Interview: Steven Weissman
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As we talk about in the following interview, like most everyone else I came to Steve Weissman a bit late, near the tail end of the early, idiosyncratic work that now collected makes up the bulk of the new collection Mean. He was one of those cartoonists you had to read to truly appreciate, despite his having a lovely and eye-catch design sense and style. An under-appreciated writer, he’s one of the few cartoonists I know of where other cartoonists will quote random turns of phrase for no particular reason. His idiosyncratic character types, from Li’l Bloody to Sweet Chubby Cheeks, are so perfectly realized you almost feel like they’re ideas you came up with first but never found the time to put to paper. Weissman has quietly become one of Fantagraphics’ most dependable cartoonists, and as he’s an unfailingly polite and entertaining guy as well, the cartoonist has also become one of that company’s best ambassadors. I could talk to Steve Weissman once a week, although I get the sense he’d find talking about himself every seven days to be something of a chore.
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TOM SPURGEON: Steve, I don’t know that much about you, other than I’m pretty sure you live somewhere between Seattle and Tijuana and I believe you have a family. Do you have a day job? How much time are you able to give to your comics?
STEVEN WEISSMAN: You seem to know me pretty well. Ribs Weissman: unemployed drifter who may or may not have a family stashed somewhere. Does he even draw comics anymore? The ones in Mean look pretty old
SPURGEON: One of the things that Jaime mentions in his introduction that I think was true for a lot of people that got into your stuff early on is that you just sort of showed up. How did you end up getting into comics all those years ago? You hit the ground running.
WEISSMAN: Thank you. Isn’t Jaime Hernandez wonderful?
SPURGEON: Can you talk about how your art style developed? You have a unique approach that is reminiscent of kids comics without being entirely like them. Are there influences — Hal Roach, maybe? How did you settle on that kind of comic as opposed to all the other kinds you could have done?
WEISSMAN: Do you remember “Super Deforming?” Before I saw my first example, in 1992, I really thought “cute” stuff was fake and gross. But this Super Deformed Ultraman, it was so well designed, so well thought out, I began to think about “cute” all the time. What makes a drawing cute? When is it too cute? Why should I hate an unsuccessful attempt at “cute” so much more than an unsuccessful attempt at objectivity? I liked how “Super Deforming” simultaneously mocked and embraced cuteness. It was, somehow, different than “Muppet Babies.” So, I wanted to draw something “cute.”
Of course, I knew that drawing a decent Charlie Brown or Broom Hilda was much harder than most people think. Up to this point, though, I didn’t figure it was worth the effort. Since I’d recently been to art-school, I assumed I could get a handle on “cuteness” pretty easily. That it was still so difficult for me to create an honestly cute piece of art, without resorting to cheap tricks like “mugging” or “sincere eyes,”* was completely humiliating and led me to a renewed appreciation for my childhood idol Charles Schulz. This was a pretty big deal.
And, yes, I absolutely adore Hal Roach’s Our Gang shorts. The same goes for Shirley Temple movies, Abbott and Costello, and so much of the TV I grew up watching on Sunday mornings.
*I hated how cute art relied on BIG EYES so much that I made it a rule early on to always make my characters squint.
SPURGEON: Your cast of characters are famously classic archetypes. You’ve probably done this before, so I apologize, but can you describe you come up with the exact models used? For instance, did you characters come out of drawing, or did you sit down and think of various concepts and how you could execute them?
WEISSMAN: This goes back to my excitement about the “Super Deforming” process. Li’l Bloody (little buddy) would have been my first attempt; a deformation of a “Baron Blood” knock-off I used to draw in sketchbooks shared with my teenaged hoodlum friends. I got such a kick out of him right away, I set about creating a “supporting cast.” Using a “Frankenstein’s Monster” as a best friend for “Dracula” was an obvious choice (as was a “Zombie” sidekick/brother).
From there, though, I let my mind wander. Western heroes like “The Lone Ranger” for the Li’l Tin-Stars (Little Twin Stars), Greek mythology for Kid Medusa (Chrysaor) and, of course, old comic-book ads (X-Ray Spence). I recall trying out “mummies” and werewolves in my sketchbooks, but they were pretty lame so I didn’t force it (I did give the kids a dead dog, though, with Elzie Crisler Segar).
“Sweet” Chubby Cheeks (or “Sweet Chubby” Cheeks) worked as a Jekyll/Hyde character, as well as an illustration of the kind of “aw” cutesy that I didn’t like. Have you seen the later “Our Gang” comedies, with George McFarland continuing to play “Spanky” when he was 12 yrs. old? I wanted Chubby to be like that. Adults would think he was still cute, but other kids would know better. That idea wore me out for some reason, but once I started modeling him on Joe Cobb, “Sweet” Chubby quickly became my favorite character in the series.
Shaver = Casper.
SPURGEON: One of the things that marked your early comics was a really smart use of color, sometimes just one or two on a page. How was it that you were one of the only alternative cartoonists to be working in color back then? That doesn’t seem typical. What were you trying to accomplish with using these really simplified color choice?
WEISSMAN: I’d done some printmaking in school, and had a friend who knew a lot about offset, so I was learning about mechanical color separation. Plus, I’d seen a few contemporary cartoonists, like Dan Clowes or Mike Allred, who had done good two-color work (which, of course, is cheaper to produce than four-color).
I don’t know why it would seem atypical, but I wanted to make books that would pop off the shelf. Color seemed like a smart way to do that.
SPURGEON: How do you feel in general about seeing your early work again? Were you happy with the way it looked? Is there an area that looking back you’re happiest that you’ve improved in?
WEISSMAN: I think the comics in Mean are pretty hilarious. They’re funny looking, the stories are all over the map, I don’t know.
I can admit that, say five years ago, I wouldn’t have seen this as a worthwhile project. This was work I had been pushing away from, you know, artistically. Now, I’m pushing off from the comics I was doing in 2002, 2003, and I think I can be more objective about these older stories. Does that make sense?
SPURGEON: Sure.
WEISSMAN: Also, I’m sure there will be readers who prefer this early work to anything I’ve produced since.
SPURGEON: Did becoming a father change the way you approached doing comics with kids in them?
WEISSMAN: It must have, but I’m not sure how.
SPURGEON: Your stories have a really unique pacing to them, Steve, in that unlike many comics I can never tell if I’m one page or 100 pages away from the story ending. They sort of unfold on their own time. How do you create your narratives? Do you script out, do you break things down visually first, how do you make a story out of your initial idea?
WEISSMAN: Thank you very much for noticing this. The middle of a story is my favorite part; where I can’t see the beginning and I don’t know how it’s going to turn out. I enjoy that feeling of being totally immersed, I believe it makes art more lifelike.
As for my writing process, it varies. Some stories can take years of just daydreaming to work out, while others seem to just flow from one exchange or scene or stunt to being a finished comic. I think the ones that take the longest to write may be those based more closely on my own experiences (”Elzie Crisler, Lost Dog” or “The Neighborhood Champs,” both from Mean). I’ve never really thought of that before.
SPURGEON: One thing that struck me about reading your stories again is that they’re stories of unsupervised children, and you really don’t have that anymore. Was the sense of just sort of bouncing around and getting into trouble or hatching plots something that you could relate to out of your childhood?
WEISSMAN: Yes, it is, but are you saying that children don’t go unsupervised anymore or that they no longer do in my comics?
SPURGEON: The first one.
WEISSMAN: I don’t think either one is true.
SPURGEON: Who do you find funny or particularly worth reading when it comes to comics?
WEISSMAN: I have to say, the most widely read comic in our house lately is called Dr. Slump.
And, of course, all the fantastic work my brilliant friends are doing.
SPURGEON: Another thing that’s striking about your work back then is how ambitious you were in terms of page design: you have pages with odd panels, pages with big panels, pages with tiny panels, pages dominated by text… Was that on purpose, were you trying to work with different approaches or is that something that just grows organically out of what you want to do on the comics page?
WEISSMAN: It’s both, of course. Although I prefer to rely on my instincts when it comes to technique or composition, I am sure I was trying harder to remain conscious of them at the time.
SPURGEON: Can you talk about how you approached the cover to Mean? I really like it, and think in general your books display an elegant sense of style. How important are those kinds of presentation and style issues to you when it comes to putting these books out?
WEISSMAN: My talents as a designer are pretty limited. I’ve been aware of this for a long old time, and have always consulted friends and worked up very simple cover designs for my books.
Nowadays, I get to work with Jacob Covey, who can make more complex ideas work so that Chewing Gum In Church and Mean are much more attractive packages than my previous efforts.
Of course, most everybody knows that Jacob and I stole the cover design for Mean from Angry Youth Comix.
SPURGEON: Do you already have a next project in mind, Steve?
WEISSMAN: CHOCOLATE CHEEKS.
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* cover to the new book
* stand-alone illustration
* Sweet Chubby Cheeks
* page from Mean
* another stand-alone page
* a piece of Brandt’s comics art
* from the work in progress, Chocolate Cheeks
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Mean, Steven Weissman, Fantagraphics, soft cover, 120 pages, 156097866X, September 2007, $16.95
After reading the affordable DEATH OF SUPERMAN trade, I can say that I’m not very impressed with it. The story, from Dan Jurgens, Louise Simonson, and others, is a simple affair: an unknown threat emerges from an unknown location with an unknown agenda
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Happy 69th Birthday, Jean-Claude Mezieres!
FfF Results Post #92 — IndyHeroes
Five For Friday #92 Results
On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to name “Five Superheroes You Like, a) Created After 1950, b) Not Published By DC or Marvel or Image.” Here are the results.
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Tom Spurgeon
1. E-Man
2. S*perm*n
3. Zot!
4. The Badger
5. Death Ray
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Charles Brownstein
1) Megaton Man
Don Simpson’s megalout is loaded with fun satirical commentary on both comics history and the Reagan 80s in which it first appeared. It’s a shame this book is largely out of print.
2) Death Ray
Sorry to do a repeat, but as an avid smoker, how can I not love a character whose powers come from nicotine?
3) The One
This early revisionist superhero was a wonderful apotheosis of burnt out hippy idealism, ascending 80s commercialism, and the budding wholesale sportfucking that the superhero genre was about to engage in after losing its innocence in the 70s.
4) Wonder Warthog
I have no idea if this holds up, but I sure loved it when I was in college. Shelton’s drawings are always a pleasure and the sheer absurdity of this character,in its visual design and in its cultural and comic art historical contexts are so retarded that they’re endearing.
5) The Roach
Maybe the most “Inside Baseball” character in comics history. Sim’s permutations on the Roach — Moon Roach, Wolverroach, Spider-Roach, normalroach, Swoon, et al. are simultaneously a fun commentary on the excesses of the Direct Market’s content from 1977 - 1997 (which I consider to be the entirety of that business cycle) and, unfortunately, the biggest stumbling block towards a casual reader of the modern era engaging fully with Cerebus in its prime. Still, if you get it, the in-jokes are still entertaining.
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Chris Duffy
1. Flaming Carrot
2. Superfrankenstein
3. Nexus
4. Hellboy
5. Fatman the Human Flying Saucer
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Dave Knott
1) Nexus
Does this even count? It’s really more of a space opera in superhero trappings. Doesn’t matter. I had to put a Steve Rude comic in here.
2) Hellboy
See above. In this case, its more of a monster-fighting adventure dressed up as superhero comics, but you gotta give Mike Mignola his props.
3) The Question
Steve Ditko’s greatest non-Marvel work. Currently owed by DC, of course, but so is E-Man from your list, so we’ll let it slide.
4) Marvel-man / Miracle-man
Yes, this started out as an outright clone of Captain Marvel in the early 50’s, but as (re-)interpreted by Moore, Gaiman, & Co. in the ’80s, it outgrew it’s origins and became a modern-day classic.
5) Grendel
The best anti-hero of the last quarter-century
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Marc Arsenault
1. Captain Spazz
Bobby Weiss & Sam Henderson (went to school with the artist)
2. Captain Canuck
the George Freeman issues (I actually read this as a kid!)
3. Mighty Samson
Gold Key (he’s a super strong mutant, so he counts!) (I also actually read this as a kid!)
4. Captain Atom
(Joe Gill & Steve Ditko) (kid… read… also)
5. Magnus Fucking Robot Fighter!
(Steve Bissette got me hooked on this)
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Isaac Cates
1. Concrete
2. The Death Ray
3. Convenient Boy and the Power of 6
4. Ace Face, the Mod with the Metal Arms
5. Billy Dogma
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Todd Strending
1. Mr. A.
2. The American
3. Zot!, too
4. Ropeman from The Mighty Heroes
5. The Cougar
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Mike Sterling
1. Nexus
2. Don Rosa’s Captain Kentucky
3. Megaton Man
4. Flaming Carrot
5. Zot!
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Patrick Watson
1. Nexus
2. Usagi Yojimbo
3. Concrete
4. Hellboy
5. The David Yurkovich-verse
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Cliff Biggers
1. Noman
2. Herbie
3. Magnus, Robot Fighter
4. Dynamo
5. E-Man
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Don MacPherson
1) Prime (now owned by Marvel by originally published by Malibu Comics)
2) Quantum & Woody
3) Hellboy
4) Captain Canuck
5) The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt
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Russ Maheras
Dynamo
Capt. Atom
The Question
Magnus
Rocketeer
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Johnny Bacardi
1. The Rocketeer (Pacific, Eclipse, god knows who else)
2. The Scorpion (Atlas) (I guess he qualifies as a superhero…)
3. Magnus, Robot Fighter (Gold Key)
4. Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom (Gold Key)
5. Why, Hellboy! (Dark Horse)
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Scott Cederlund
1) Grendel
2) Zot!
3) Grimjack
4) Nexus
5) Vanth Dreadstar (hey, he had a superhero costume for a short bit)
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Matthewwave
1. Concrete! (he’s a hero to me!)
2. Frank the Unicorn! (ditto!)
3. Jetcat!
4. Orange Lightning!
5. Bighead!
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Jeff Shinn
1.Nexus/Rude &Baron
2.Madman/Allred
3.Mage/Wagner
4.Powers/Bendis&Oeming
5.Badger/Butler, Reinhold & Baron
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Sean T. Collins
1. The Death Ray
2. Hellboy
3. David Dunn (from Unbreakable)
4. Luna Moth
5. Bighead
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Mark Parsons
1) Promethea
2) Hellboy
3) Grimjack
4) Zot!
5) Nexus
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Gil Roth
1. Acid Archie
C’mon, an acid house robot?
2. Megaton Man
the first indy I ever read, it had a Doonesbury joke that I didn’t understand
3. Miracle Man
the second indy I ever read; it was much better than the first one
4. Zenith
I’ve always been a sucker for mix-n-match cultural refs; sue me
5. Rogan Gosh
I couldn’t think of anything else, except for Tank Girl
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DC Direct: Batman 400% Kubrick (long form comic books)
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DC Direct: Batman 400% Kubrick
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In the preface, the hyperbolic Tom DeSanto wildly trumpets “Red Son” as a devastating critique of American foreign policy, not the cookie cutter “feel good propaganda” that might have been expected. Instead, he hints darkly at surrendering freedom in
All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder #4
All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder #4
 Written by Frank Miller Art and cover by Jim Lee & Scott Williams ALL STAR excitement abounds as Frank Miller Jim Lee & Scott Williams continue their adventurous retelling of the partnership between the Dark Knight and the Boy Wonder! And when some Black Canary gets added to the mix you can … |
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Batman The Animated Series: Vol 1
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Batman Begins: Tribal Fire Movie Logo Shirt (L)
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“Action Comics” #858 and “Batman” #670 get Variant Covers
DC Comics has added special variant covers editions to two key titles for October: ACTION COMICS #858 and BATMAN #670!
Oddball Comics: Picture Progress Vol. 1, No. 7
From the same fine folks who brought you the original CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED comes PICTURE PROGRESS, an educational funnybook that explains and explores “The Four Seasons” - and which cover-stars a tree! Thrill to the renewal of life that comes with Spring! Squeal with the pleasures of Summer! Gasp at the transforming colors of Fall! Delight at the chilly wonderment of Winter! Yep, this comic is so gosh-darn normal, it’s positively Oddball!
PICTURE PROGRESS was an educational giveaway comic that was distributed through various school systems, both public and private. Here’s a complete list of the themes for each issue of PICTURE PROGRESS published between January, 1954 and October, 1955:
Vol. 1, No. 5: “News In Review”
Vol. 1, No. 6: “The Birth Of America”
Vol. 1, No. 7: “The Four Seasons”
Vol. 1, No. 8: “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Vol. 1, No. 9: “The Hawaiian Islands”
Vol. 2, No. 1: “The Story Of Flight”
Vol. 2, No. 2: “Vote For Crazy River (The Meaning Of Elections)”
Vol. 2, No. 3: “Louis Pasteur”
Vol. 2, No. 4: “The Star Spangled Banner”
Vol. 2, No. 5: “News In Review”
Vol. 2, No. 6: “Alaska: The Great Land”
Vol. 2, No. 7: “Life In The Circus”
Vol. 2, No. 8: “The Time Of The Cave Man”
Vol. 2, No. 9: “Summer Fun”
Vol. 3, No. 1: “The Man Who Discovered America”
Vol. 3, No. 2: “The Lewis & Clark Expedition”
It’s interesting to note that, despite its rather inventive, four-way cover design, the artwork in this issue of PICTURE PROGRESS is about as blandly institutional as humanly possible, without a single word balloon or specific character. This may be due to its educational nature, but more likely, was intended to distance itself from newsstand “funnybooks” that, in 1954, were then-currently the target of psychologist Dr. Frederic (SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT) Wertham’s demonizing of comic books in general.
The title of this 24-page (plus covers) giveaway comic’s cover-story is “The Four Seasons”. It opens with this intro:
INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE CAPTION:
All living things - human beings, animals, plants and insects - change with the changing seasons. Have you ever wondered why we have seasons?
Then, with a series of diagrams of the relative positions of Earth and sun, the cause of the four seasons is explained:
NARRATIVE CAPTION:
The seasons are caused by the way the sun shines upon the earth. The earth spins around on a make-believe line we call the axis. See how the earth leans over to one side. It takes one full day (24 hours) for the earth to spin all the way around on its axis. The sun can only shine on half the earth at one time. That is shy we have day while the other half of the earth is having night. As the earth is spinning on its axis, it is also moving all the way around the sun. It takes a whole year (365 days) to make this trip. As the earth moves around the sun, the sun shines upon it in different ways during the year. This is what causes us to have seasons. Summer is hot because we have the heat and light of the sun directly over us. It gets cooler in the autumn because our part of the earth is moving away from the direct sunlight. Winter is the coldest part of the year. That is when our part of the earth is furthest from the direct heat of the sun. In the spring, the weather gets warmer because we have moved back toward the direct sunshine. Now let us see what happens on our part of the earth during the four seasons.
The second chapter of this issue of PICTURE PROGRESS is titled “Spring Begins March 20″. We’re shown how the snow and ice melts and the ground defrosts and softens, “making it ready for nature to awaken”. As sap flows within trees and plants, blossoms begin to appear, attracting bees from their honeycomb. The bees bring back nectar to their queen, who then lays approximately 4,000 eggs, one of which will someday become the new queen. We see how beavers build dams on water-swollen rivers, and a mother chipmunk digs a series of interconnected warrens and tunnels. A pair of robins, having migrated back from a winter spent in the South, builds their next in a tree. After the mama bird lays her eggs, she and the father bird takes turns sitting on the eggs and foraging for food until their babies hatch. With the weather turning warmer, farmers plant seeds that will become their crops. Elsewhere, on a pond’s surface, a bullfrog suns himself and hunts for tiny fish, while a mother frog lays her eggs at the pond’s muddy bottom. Soon, her eggs will hatch into tadpoles. In the world of humans, life’s activities accelerate as well:
NARRATIVE CAPTION:
We have seen the beginning of spring in the country. But spring also comes to the city. The stores have new spring clothes. The baseball season starts in Washington, D.C. The President of the United States usually throws out the first ball. As the days get warmer and longer, children play outside until evening. Son the school children will begin their summer vacation.
The third chapter, “Summer Begins June 21″, starts with a montage of summertime activities — including what looks like scowling gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson spending a day at the beach! Meanwhile, the clutch of eggs of those robins that we met earlier have finally hatched, and their baby chicks have grown to an age when “summer school” is necessary to teach them to fly and dig for worms. Elsewhere, a hungry bear raids the bees’ honeycomb. By night, beavers train their young to gnaw down trees, while chipmunk babies evade a weasel by hiding in their underground next. In the nearby pond, the tadpoles have matured into full-grown frogs. The queen bee and her subjects abandon their honeycomb, leaving it to their industrious offspring. The next chapter, “Autumn Begins August 23″, opens with this update on farm life:
NARRATIVE CAPTION:
Our part of the earth is now leaning away from the sun. Both man and animal store food and patch up their homes for the coming winter. The farmer harvests his crops. The housewife cans food for the winter. Storm windows go up. Children go back to school.
Meanwhile, the beavers and the chipmunks prepare for winter, gathering stores of wood and nuts in their respective hiding-holes. Many birds prepare to migrate south, leaving their summer homes, although sparrows, crows and hawks remain in their nests for the rest of autumn and winter.
NARRATIVE CAPTION:
The cooler weather comes. The leaves on the trees turn red, brown and gold. They begin to fall off. Then, one windy night, the trees stand bare.
Field mice move into abandoned nests, while the bees gather together inside their honeycomb to avoid freezing to death. The chipmunks and the beavers hunker down in their nests until spring. The frogs hibernate in the mud at the bottom of their pond to keep warm beneath the frozen ice. Rabbits fur changes color to white, protective coloration to allow them to hide from their predators. The rising winds are filled with millions of seeds, destined to sprout in the spring. As “Winter Begins December 22″, this comic’s fifth and final chapter, opens, nearly all of the animals we’ve seen earlier are in hiding or in hibernation, emerging from their homes only when it’s necessary to gather food. A white rabbit is nearly killed by a hungry fox, but it manages to scamper back into its underground warren. Meanwhile, civilization adjusts to the harsher conditions:
NARRATIVE CAPTION:
Winter comes to the city, covering the gray buildings and the bare trees with a frosty, fairyland cloak. The park lakes freeze and become a winter playground. Night comes early. The street lights throw shadows on the empty sidewalks, while the people stay in their warm homes and wait for spring to come.
Also included in this issue of PICTURE PROGRESS are these features:
- An untitled, black-and-white inside-front-cover activity page, challenging the reader to unscramble the letters of the names of six flowers and six birds.
- “Picture Progress Quiz”, six illustrated questions relating to the contents of this comic.
- “Things To Do”, a black-and-white, inside-back-cover activity page, with a project “for boys” (a baseball diamond game) and one “for girls” (homemade sewing cards).
- “Do You Know That”, a back-cover feature with such educational tidbits as “The sun always shines directly on the equator, which is at the middle of the earth. That is why it is always summertime at the equator”, “It would take an airplane flying at 150 miles an hour nearly 71 years to go from the earth to the sun”, “Winter is an old German word meaning ‘time of water.’ This is because of all of the snow and rain that fall during this time of year”, and “Many, many years ago, men would look up at the stars and know when the seasons were going to change”.
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: Shooter Talks Legion of Superheroes
Jim Shooter boards Supergirl and Legion of Superheroes as the books new writer just in time for the team to celebrate its 50th anniversary, more than 30 years after his last run on the title.
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For what’s widely regarded as a superheroes-only show, web-based cartoonists are starting to turn up at Wizard World Chicago. Todd spoke to a number in attendance at this year’s show to see how Web comics creators are faring financially. Plus the latest chapter in Zuda Comics confusion.
Superman: Metropolis #9 (of 12)
Superman: Metropolis #9 (of 12)
 The Creeper and Jimmy Olsen try to stop the carnage as Metropolis is plunged into a power failure! The city has turned against the Tech, and heroes are racing to the disaster to help. But what happened to Killgrave, the new master of Metropolis Tech?… |
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Del Rey to Publish Novel “Heroes: Saving Charlie”
Official Press Release
NEW YORK — September 18, 2007 — Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced plans to publish a novel based on NBC’s Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Heroes. HEROES: SAVING CHARLIE (Del Rey Hardcover; $23.95; on sale December 26, 2007) by Aury Wallington will be an original novel based on the characters Hiro Nakamura (Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated Masi Oka) and Charlie (Jayma Mays), created by executive producer/creator Tim Kring. It is developed through a licensing agreement with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group.
“One of the more memorable relationships in Season One was Hiro’s first love, the waitress Charlie. We were as smitten as Hiro by that story and seized the chance to tell the full adventure of Hiro’s six months in the past. Aury Wallington was hand picked by the writers of the show for her brilliant voice for these characters. The novel is a welcome addition to the Heroes family,” said Tim Kring, creator-executive producer, “Heroes.”
The novelwritten with the full cooperation and consultation of the show’s creatorswill tell the story of Japanese office worker Hiro, who, through the use of his ability to pierce the space-time continuum and manipulate time, bravely catapults himself into the past to save Charlie, a small-town Texas waitress with an extraordinary memory, from being brutally murdered by super-powered serial killer Sylar (Zachary Quinto). While fans of the television series were given only a brief glimpse into Hiro and Charlie’s relationship as it grew into love over six time-changing months, but their history is told here with the depth and insight that only a novel will allow.
Del Rey celebrated the announcement of its Heroes book at the 2007 San Diego International Comic-Con by asking fans to help make 1,000 cranes at their booth by the end of the show. Interest was high and the goal of 1,000 was surpassed.
Season 2 of Heroes launches September 24, 2007 on NBC.
ABOUT THE SHOW
From creator/writer Tim Kring (NBC’s “Crossing Jordan”) comes the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated “Heroes,” an epic drama that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. In its first season, “Heroes” has been honored with a People’s Choice Award, an AFI Award, a Multicultural Prism Award and this year’s TV Land Future Classic Award, as well as nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, NAACP Image Awards, WGA Awards and Satellite Awards.
The cast includes a genetics professor (Sendhil Ramamurthy, Blind Guy Driving) in India who is led by his father’s disappearance to uncover a secret theory that there are people with super powers living among us. Also featured are a young dreamer (Milo Ventimiglia, Gilmore Girls) who tries to convince his politician brother (Adrian Pasdar, Judging Amy) that he can fly. A high school cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere, Ice Princess) learns that she is totally indestructible while trying to relate to her father (Jack Coleman, Dynasty) who has a keen interest in people with special abilities. A Las Vegas single mother (Ali Larter, Final Destination) struggles to make ends meet to support her young son (Noah Gray-Cabey, My Wife & Kids) and discovers that her mirror image has a secret. In addition, a fugitive from justice (Leonard Roberts, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) continues to baffle authorities. A gifted artist (Santiago Cabrera, Empire), whose drug addiction is destroying his life and relationship with his girlfriend (Tawny Cypress, Third Watch), and whose paintings, done specifically for the show by comic book artist Tim Sale, open a visual gateway to a possible dark future. A down-on-his-luck Los Angeles beat cop (Greg Grunberg, Alias) can hear people’s thoughts, which puts him on the trail of an elusive serial killer. In Japan, a young man (Masi Oka, NBC’s Scrubs) develops a way to stop time through sheer will power.
Joining Kring as executive producer are Dennis Hammer (NBC’s Crossing Jordan), Allan Arkush (NBC’s Crossing Jordan) and Greg Beeman (Smallville). The drama is produced by Universal Media Studios in association with Tailwind Productions.
About the Author
Aury Wallington has written for the television shows Sex and the City and Veronica Mars. She is the author of the novel Pop!, which was named one of the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age.” Aury lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Tuesday. Visit her website at www.aurywallington.com.
About Del Rey
Del Rey, founded in 1977 under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey, is an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group. Del Rey publishes the best of modern fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history. In 2004 it expanded by launching Del Rey Manga, which has grown to be a major force in the U.S. graphic-novel field.
About Universal Studios Consumer Products Group
Universal Studios Consumer Products Group is responsible for global licensing and retail strategies as well as building brand recognition of the extensive catalogue of NBC Universal properties. Universal Studios Consumer Products Group is a unit of NBC Universal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBC Universal is 80%-owned by General Electric, with 20% owned by Vivendi.
Batman: Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB
 Presenting an exciting new way to experience the rich history of the Dark Knight in an affordable trade paperback collection of every Batman adventure, in color, in chronological order! BATMAN CHRONICLES VOL. 1 reprints Batman stories from the earliest adventures of the Dark Knight. This and future … |
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This story proves that Superman has a great deal of humanity, more than most other superheroes out there. It’s always a good thing to see heroes fail, because it’s their reaction that defines who they really are.
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I would like to make a note about the previous review which said that there should be more characters in this collection, other than Jimmy Olsen. There WILL be a lot more Lois Lane in the next one because what DC is doing in the Superman Family Showcase
Batman Animated: Series 1 Action Figure - Razor Whip Batman
Batman Animated: Series 1 Action Figure - Razor Whip Batman
 This exciting new line features figures based on characters from the new Batman animated series. The Razor Whip Batman figure stands approximately 5 1/2-inches-tall and comes with Razor Whip and Buzzsaw accessories. Recommended for ages 4 and up…. |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum - Living Hell TPB
Batman: Arkham Asylum - Living Hell TPB
 A dark and chilling prison drama, Arkham Asylum: Living Hell exposes the true depravity and lunacy of Batman’s greatest foes and the notorious sanitarium that they call home. Looking to escape a long prison term for embezzlement, the finance world’s "Great White Shark," Warren Whit… |
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Adventures Of Robin Hood Vol 10
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Despite the tweaking to Superman’s origin which he establishes as occurring today, rather than in the 1930’s or 1950’s, the author really doesn’t break any new ground. Luthor’s scheme, if you can call it that, is so over the top that it reminds me of
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Driven with the vital need for boosting up their matters of economy, DC Comics with its ever competitive spirit against its archnemesis/rival major comic book company MARVEL Comics pitted to kill the primary major Comic Book hero of comicdom to help them
Spiderman Laser Cut Sculpture 92mm Fan Grill
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40 Years of the X-Men Collector’s Edition Win/Mac DVD
With 40 Years Of X-Men DVD, you’ve got a full collection of every X-Men story published in the last four decades. Almost 500 issues of the classic X-Men comics are reproduced here, from the very first issue in 1963 to August 2005 — all in full color, from cover to cover. Explore a world where a small group of people are born with genes that give them super-powers. These “mutants” are hated and feared by humanity at large, and the X-Men come together to protect both mutants and human from prejudice and evil mutants alike. You’ll get to follow their incredible adventures as they span four amazing decades.
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Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg veered from the futuristic sci-fi flirtations of A.I. and Minority Report with this brisk, stylish period take on the career of teen con-man extraordinaire Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his dogged G-man pursuer/de facto extended family member Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks). As always, the director’s musical collaborator is John Williams, and the scoring legend uses the occasion of their 20th collaboration as a rewarding musical journey back to the days when he was known as Johnny Williams, ambitious young pianist for Henry Mancini on such early jazz scores as Peter Gunn. Informed by a half-century of subsequent achievement, Williams’s return to the jazz idiom of his youth yields a smart, nervous score that evokes more than mere nostalgia. But with Dan Higgins’s moody sax often leading the way, the veteran composer’s work here seems more evocative reinvention than revisitation, yet another tribute to his uncanny ability to make any idiom his own. A handful of pop standards (including Sinatra’s “Come Fly with Me,” Getz and Gilberto’s “Girl from Ipanema,” “The Christmas Song” by Nat “King” Cole) deftly color both period and plot, but, as always, it’s Williams who provides Spielberg’s masterful imagery with its musical life’s blood. –Jerry McCulley
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(Comic books we) Superman: Secret Identity TPB
Superman: Secret Identity TPB
 What’s in a name? Everything, if you share it with the Man of Steel! SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY is a 208-page trade paperback collecting the critically lauded 4-issue Prestige Format miniseries written by Kurt Busiek ( JLA/AVENGERS, ASTRO CIT Y) with stellar art by Stuart Immonen ( SUPERMAN: END OF T… |
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Amazing Spider-Man Complete Comic Book Collection Win/Mac
Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Collection brings together four decades of adventures with one of the world’s most famous heroes! Revisit and relive every Amazing Spider-Man comic book ever printed covering over 43 years. Including the mind-blowing 12 Milestones of Amazing Spider-Man spanning March 1963 through June 2006. A total of over 575 complete comic books including Annuals, all articles, Spider-Web column pages, Bullpen Bulletins, Pinups and every single advertisement.
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This is a very deep story that cuts to the core of Superman in a way that canonized stories cannot. Essentially Superman becomes a metaphor for an all intrusive government. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purcha
Flash Annual #4
 Warehouse Find — We don’t normally offer less-than-mint-condition books for sale, but with the continued demand for back issues, we’ve decided to add our Warehouse backstock to our website. The majority of our comics are in mint condition, but there are some with minor dings. We will accept no retu… |
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Giant Microbes, Pimple
Need the flu? How about the Black Death? Mononucleosis? Now you can collect a dozen of the most adorable viruses, bacteria, mites, worms and calamities nature ever unleashed. Disturbingly cuddly, Giant microbes are great teaching aids or just friendly plush companions for those trying to get past their Bacillophobia. Each comes with an image of its not-so-cute real-life counterpart and quick facts about the microbe. Measures between 5″ to 7″. Antibiotics not required, thank goodness.
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DC Archives - Batman: World’s Finest Vol. 1 HC
DC Archives - Batman: World’s Finest Vol. 1 HC
 The first seventeen solo adventures of Batman (and Robin) from World’s Finest Comics - most of them unseen for over 60 years with only two ever reprinted since they originally appeared - are collected here! This book collects World’s Best Comics #1 and World’s Finest Comics #s 2-16…. |
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500 Comic Book Villains TPB
 Here come the heels and hoodlums! Compiled by comic book historian Mike Conroy, this chronicle of fictional wickedness features extensive information on Batman’s Joker, Dick Tracy’s Flattop, Flash Gordon’s Ming the Merciless, Spider-Man’s Green Goblin, and hundreds more villains that comics, fantasy… |
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On top of all this, the writing is melodramatic enough to make Jeph Loeb wince. It opens, for instance, on a six to eight page flashback of Ruin’s previous attacks played on tape , with a monologue from Lois explaining the rationale behind Ruin’s strat
The Soviet Superman is never meant to be evil just overprotective and stifling. Unfortunately the author chose to absolve the alternate Superman of most of his crimes by blaming them on outside manipulations reducing the impact of the story. I also have t
Jakks Pacific Toymax Batman Tv Game
From the dark alleys and grim side streets of Gotham City comes The Batman TV Games. Play as the Dark Knight using all of your gadgets, vehicles and night-crawling abilities in 25 harrowing episodes to save Gotham City. Requires 4 “AA” batteries (not included).
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Superman DC Comics Silver Flake - 4 Pc Floor Mats Set
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Smallville: The Complete Second Season
Smallville: The Complete Second Season
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I have been reading comics for almost 20 years now, and Superman stands as the one I like the most ok, it is old fashioned, he can be pretty boring, but what can I say, he was the first and still the best .
Meteor Man
 Robert Townsend (Hollywood Shuffle) leads an all-star cast including Marla Gibbs, Eddie Griffin, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones and Bill Cosby in this laugh-out-loud, feel-good comic fantasy about a reluctant superhero on a crusade to save his neighborhood. Move over, Superman! Spineless Jeffe… |
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As the final part of Greg Rucka’s Ruin trilogy which started with Unconventional Warfare and continued in That Healing Touch , Ruin Revealed brings the story full circle as Lois sets out to determine the identity of her shooter and Superman weeds throug
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(The strangers and comic books) Various Friday News Story Updates
Various Friday News Story Updates
* Reporters Sans Frontieres continues to monitor political reaction to the Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda running the Lars Vilks cartoon of Muhammed with the body of a dog. Pakistan followed Iran in summoning a Swedish diplomat to receive their official protest, while the Organization of the Islamic Conference called for the cartoonist and editor to be punished.
* The banned Opus story heads into its second of two weekends where one eighth of the strip’s client base decided not to run a pair of cartoons having a go at Islamic themes and humor. Editorials like these I think show just how confused the issues have become, and how easily they’re manipulated to make a weak political point about biased media or to assert the general superiority of a certain culture. I mean, after you’ve vomited the notion up on the table that something about the confused reaction to the 2006 Danish Cartoons Controversy somehow means that nobody should ever do cartoons about Christians, either, do you go anywhere with that, or are you just making a strident point for the sake of making a strident point?
* The Chicago Reader follows up on some of their media beat coverage of the story with a full profile of Scott Nychay, the cartoonist whose paper entered him in contests and used the results for publicity after laying off the cartoonist.
The CR Misinformation Department
* When I wrote that Mark Evanier’s sure to be excellent, forthcoming biography on Jack Kirby, Kirby: King of Comics was such a major event as to make it the only book of its type this Fall worth considering, I clearly was harboring some sort of odd resentment against Charles Schulz biographer David Michaelis, whose equally anticipated Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography will also debut in the weeks ahead. Peanuts guru Nat Gertler has an early review. One thing I want to see is if Schulz’s marital drama will be the centerpiece of how the book is presented through the press, and if so, how that notion will be tied back into his work or the progression of his career. Or if it will be.
* a couple of people wrote in to tell me to hold my horses when it comes to suggesting that DC delaying a bunch of Showcase editions featuring work from the company’s more eclectic portions of its catalog reflects a winnowing of that reprint line in a way that would favor their bigger licenses. Turns out that the material in question are later books where different rights situations apply, and DC needs extra time to clear the rights before they can publish that material. Although there’s a truism applicable to comics that says a book that doesn’t get published still has a chance of not being published, the explanation sounds fair to me and I look forward to more of the odder Showcase books hitting the stands at a later date.
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Shaenon Garrity draws a line between cartoonist Edward Gorey and one of his favorite shows, and receives bonus points for not going with a Gashlycrumb Tinies set-up. As a bonus, Garrity reprints an article about what might be Gorey’s first TV obsession. Gorey would later be quoted enthusing on behalf of some odd shows, enough of them that we made fun of it at The Comics Journal.
DC Direct: Superman Cover To Cover Superman #24 Statue
DC Direct: Superman Cover To Cover Superman #24 Statue
 The second in a series of affordably priced statues based on a classic Superman cover! The Man of Steel stands tall in this patriotic statue, ready to protect the citizens of Metropolis. This limited edition, hand-painted cold-cast porcelain statue measures approximately 8 and 1/2-inches tall and is… |
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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
 Africa’s the place and Ace is on the case, setting out to rescue an animal he loathes: a bat! Jim Carrey (Batman Forever) returns as Ace, the alligator-wrasslin’, elephant-calling, monkeyshining, loogie-launching, burning coals-crossing, disguise-mastering pet detective. If you’re ready to laugh … |
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The book is really 3 4 stories in one; it is back from a time when a comic took more than 5 minutes to read. It will take you sometime to get through this, and in this case that’s a good thing.
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Batman: Microman - (comic book stores in chicago) Batman Figure
Batman: Microman - Batman Figure
Batman: Microman - Batman Figure
 DC Direct continues its exclusive Japanese imports with the BATMAN MICROMAN figures from Japanese toy giant Takara! The Full Action Body 4-inch figures features 25 points of articulation and seven accessory ports, and is packaged in its authentic Japanese packaging (4C blister). Ball joints and 180 … |
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Dickies Basic Student Backpack - 59 Colors Available
Dickies Basic Student Backpack - Features: The basic backpack with generous covered zipper opening at top of bag, front zip shut pocket, and top handle/locker loop. Depth: 12 in; Width: 5 in; Height: 16 in; Weight: 0.9 lbs; Volume: 880 ci
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I have to wonder if there’s any writer besides Alan Moore capable of writing a truly great Superman story.
There are few characters in literature more quintessentially American than Superman and few more difficult to write. Just compare the number of five star Batman stories with the number for Superman. The problem is trying to come up with a compelling story
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Justice League Unlimited - Season Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)
In the final 13 episodes of Justice League Unlimited, Grodd recruits Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Bizarro, Giganta, and hordes of other villains to form the Legion of Doom, leading to numerous action-packed episodes of villains fighting the superheroes of the expanded JLU. The core members of the original series–Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, Flash, and Green Lantern–are supplemented by such heroes as Green Arrow, Black Canary, Supergirl, Red Tornado, and Mister Terrific. But even waves of super-beings would be a bore if the stories weren’t compelling and well-thought-out, and dashed with humor. It’s the respect for the viewer’s intelligence that elevates JLU beyond a kids’ series to arguably the best animated-superhero show ever.
During the season, Hawkgirl meets Katar Hol, Hawkman, who claims that he and Hawkgirl are the resurrection of centuries-ago lovers, which throws a wrench into her developing relationship with Green Lantern (”Shadow of the Hawk,” “Ancient History”). Flash fights a rogue’s gallery of his arch enemies alongside Batman and Orion (”Flash and Substance”), Luthor switches brains with the Flash in “The Great Brain Robbery” (inside joke: Michael Rosenbaum is the voice of Flash, but plays Lex Luthor in the series Smallville) , and Luthor’s and Grodd’s struggle for dominance of the Legion of Doom comes to a head in the final two-parter, which leads to an unlikely partnership against the ultimate supervillain. The series also dips into other characters and realms of DC comic-book lore, such as the Legion of Super-Heroes (”Far from Home”), Deadman (”Dead Reckoning”), the Seven Soldiers of Victory (”Patriot Act”), Birds of Prey (”Grudge Match”), and Mike Grell’s Warlord (”Chaos at the Earth’s Core”). In the bonus features, the series creators discuss JLU’s ongoing Cadmus story line, there’s a music-only track of the series’ final episode, and the creators do a 30-minute on-screen commentary talking about three late-season episodes. –David Horiuchi
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Teen Titans Deluxe Party Kit
Make your party a true adventure with the Teen Titans Deluxe Party Kit. The Teen Titans Deluxe Party Kit for 8 guests includes:
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- (1) 54″ x 102″ Teen Titans Plastic Tablecover
- (18) 12″ Latex Balloons - 6 each; Regal Purple, Deep Jade and Sun Yellow*
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- (3) 81′ Crepe Streamers - 1 each; Royal Purple, Holiday Green, Buttercup Yellow*
- (3) 75′ Curling Ribbons - 1 each; Purple, Emerald, Yellow*
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(Comic book appraisal) Flash Gordon/ One Step Beyond
Flash Gordon/ One Step Beyond
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Warlord #1
 Prepare for the triumphant return of one of the greatest and longest-running sword-and-sorcery characters of all time in a new series written by Bruce Jones ( Vigilante, Year One: Batman/Scarecrow ) with stunning visuals by Bart Sears! Return with Travis Morgan to the amazing continent of Skartaris … |
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This TPB features Lex Luthor as bad as he can be, a cast of great guest stars, funny moments, and some series beat downs and battle scenes.
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(Fred ray superman comic books) Jeph Loeb includes a huge cast of characters heroes and villains alike. One especially impressive battle takes place between Shazaam/Hawkman and Superman/Batman. The arc ends with Lex suiting up in his body armor to help in the battle against his arch e
Jeph Loeb includes a huge cast of characters heroes and villains alike. One especially impressive battle takes place between Shazaam/Hawkman and Superman/Batman. The arc ends with Lex suiting up in his body armor to help in the battle against his arch e
Superman Batman #26 (Superboy & Robin Cover)
Superman Batman #26 (Superboy & Robin Cover)
 Written by Sam Loeb with Jeph Loeb, Allan Heinberg, Joss Whedon, Joe Kelly, Brad Meltzer, Mark Verheiden, Brian K. Vaughan, Geoff Johns, Joe Casey and Paul Levitz. Art by John Cassaday, Joe Madureira, Jeff Matsuda, Ian Churchill, Ed McGuinness, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Tim Sale, Arthur Adams, Joyce Chi… |
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Son of Superman TPB
 His mother’s about to have a nervous breakdown. His father just came back from the dead. High-tech terrorists want him to be their leader. The Justice League wishes he’d never been born. …And it isn’t even lunchtime yet. This Elseworlds graphic novel is written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischma… |
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Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups Vol. (ebay comic books store) 1 TPB
Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups Vol. 1 TPB
Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups Vol. 1 TPB
 In these eight stories from the pinnacle of the Silver Age of DC Comics, thrill to the exploits of Green Lantern, Flash, Dr. Fate, Hourman, Black Canary and Starman as they oppose the Shade, Captain Cold, Solomon Grundy, and more! This volume collects THE FLASH #123, 129, 137, 151; GREEN LANTERN #40… |
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Batman and Me: The Saga Continues HC
Batman and Me: The Saga Continues HC
 Bob Kane, the creator of Batman , tells the full story of one of the 20th century’s most enduring myths: the secret inspiration for Batman, and creation of Joker and Two-Face. Plus three complete Batman stories from 1940; rare drawings, photographs and memorabilia; and a detailed look at making the … |
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Star Wars: Crimson Empire TPB - nick & dent
Star Wars: Crimson Empire TPB - nick & dent
 Kir Kanos is the last surviving member of the elite Imperial Guard. He’s on the run — and the Empire will stop at nothing to destroy him! It’s the combined might of the Empire against a single man. Crimson Empire combines the dynamic artistic talents of comics superstars Paul Gulacy (Batman vs. Pr… |
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Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (their old comic books)
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
 Unmasking the Phantasm is just one of the twists in Batman: Mask of Phantasm, "one of the most imaginative films of the past year" (Chuck Rich, Westwood One). Only here will you discover all-new revelations about Batman’s past, his archrival the Joker and the most grueling battle o… |
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Superman Vol. 2 #207
 Superman’s battle "For Tomorrow" marches on! In issue #206, Big Blue came face-to-face with a seemingly unstoppable foe backed by a ruthless dictator. While Superman has vowed not to take sides in a civil unrest, he finally must decide on whether he maintains his neutrality or take… |
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And some readers are bothered by Loeb’s shifting between Batman’s and Superman’s perspectives throughout a given scene or page with the use of captions.
One main concern I have is that readers really need to have a strong background in DC history to fully “get” what is going on with the story.
Superman: The Wrath Of Gog TPB
Superman: The Wrath Of Gog TPB
 It’s relentless action for the Man of Steel as he faces a horde of enemies from Darkseid to Weapons Master. Will he have enough strength in the end to face the villainous Gog? This book collects: ACTION COMICS #814-819, plus backups from #812-813…. |
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Comic Book Publishing Follies (program to make a comic book)
Comic Book Publishing Follies
Todd Allen sits down with outgoing Broken Frontier journalist and web comics creator T Campbell to discuss the business of online comics creation and journalism.
GREAT! Okay, I’ve been waiting for the Showcase Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane.BUT why together??? I love both series but the two together? This has got to be the worst that DC can do to these wonderful series!What happened to the Perry White book anyhow? LOL
Heroes, Wolverine, Green Hornet, Stardust: July 20th Comic Reel Wrap
Brit Reid’s funnier than you expected, it’s all magic from Neil Gaiman, a “Smallville” scoop, “Heroes” news and a word from Harvey Dent.
The Comic Book is one of America’s unsung contribution to culture.
Pipeline
Augie takes a look at on-line comic retailers to see who’s stocking his favorite book of the moment, only to discover some distressing trends. Plus, yet another Asterix review and a spin through the “Previews” catalog.
The Golden Age Is Back in “The Next Issue Project”
This December, Image will launch an anthology featuring A-List talent reimagining some of the Golden Age’s greatest (and in some cases worst) characters now in the public domain. Erik Larsen tells the story.
This statement by Superman pretty much sums up the relationship between Superman and Lex Luthor except that in a weird twist the God is the hero and the man the villain. Red Son’ turns the dynamic 180 degrees into its more natural state. Baby Kal L lands
Showcase Presents: Superman Family TPB Vol. 1
Showcase Presents: Superman Family TPB Vol. 1
 The super-affordable Showcase collections continue with a volume spotlighting Superman’s girlfriend Lois Lane and pal Jimmy Olsen, collecting the first 22 issues of Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen and Lois’s first solo outing from Showcase #9!… |
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This TPB features Lex Luthor as bad as he can be, a cast of great guest stars, funny moments, and some series beat downs and battle scenes.
Superman, Supergirl and Batman T-Shirt (L)
Superman, Supergirl and Batman T-Shirt (L)
 Supergirl takes center stage on the new Supergirl, Batman & Superman T-Shirt. Features the art of Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines screenprinted in full color on the front of a black 100% cotton shirt. Two guys and a Supergirl…has a nice ring to it!!… |
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Warlord #1
Prepare for the triumphant return of one of the greatest and longest-running sword-and-sorcery characters of all time in a new series written by Bruce Jones ( Vigilante, Year One: Batman/Scarecrow ) with stunning visuals by Bart Sears! Return with Travis Morgan to the amazing continent of Skartaris … |
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I do fondly remember the great quality infested peak of DC Comics back in the seventies as a kid, which somehow did still continued around in the eighties somewhat, giving their own brand of a distinct mark which perhaps are not found in the more commerci
Batman: Secret Files Series 2 Unmasked!: J’onn J’onzz/Martian Manhunter Action Figure
Batman: Secret Files Series 2 Unmasked!: J’onn J’onzz/Martian Manhunter Action Figure
 One of the few survivors of the Martian race and an invaluable resource to the JLA, Martian Manhunter transforms to uncover his Martian appearance as J’onn J’onzz . This figure features multiple points of articulation, an alternate head and a display base. Packaged in a 4-color blister…. |
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Adventures Of Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy/The Penguin
Adventures Of Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy/The Penguin
 Adventures of Batman & Robin - Poison Ivy: A grade school teacher takes a night job working for a rough nightclub owner. Beneath his tough exterior, though, her new boss is kind and very protective of her. Adventures of Batman & Robin - The Penguin: Penguin, ever crafty, takes on Batman in a… |
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The Comic Book is one of America’s unsung contribution to culture.
BBC Profiles “Angry Men,” Now Jailed
Although many might object to the characterization of the four men sentenced to jail in Britain yesterday for actions taken during protests in February 2006 triggered by the Danish Cartoons Controversy as “Angry Young Men,” this BBC News piece about the four men is probably the most significant feature to arise since the news of the sentencing came out yesterday. For one thing, I didn’t know there was a 60-person protest of the sentencing until reading the article. With the recent flash of terrorist activity in that country, and a general intolerance for the more out-there excesses of free speech in many European nations, it’s hard to imagine there being much sympathy for anyone choosing to explore some of the potentially unfortunate elements of this case’s outcome.
The premise of this story is that Superman lands in Russia during the height of the Cold War. Most writers would’ve gone for an easy “Superman as a bad guy” story. Instead, we get a mature and refreshing take on the Man of Steel that surprisingly cha
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Happy 55th Birthday, Bob Burden!
Cheng Shifa, 1921-2007
Chinese painter Cheng Shifa, an esteemed artist in his country and internationally who spent a period of his life working in comics and continued to produce work published that way even after his more formal arts career took off, died Tuesday in Shanghai. He was 86. Shifa was considered a master of traditional arts, including landscapes, calligraphy and later in his life well-regarded portraits of working class existence.
After studying at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Art in the late 1930s with the support of relatives (his father having died when the artist was nine), Shifa began painting as a young man. He turned an eye towards comics in 1949 and fostered a relationship with the Chinese publisher Shanghai Art Publishing Agency in 1952. His series included Rulin Waishi (with Wu Jingzi), La Foret des Lettres, Peau Peinte, Kon Yiji, Cent Huit Tableaux d’apres la Veridique Histoire d’Ah (maybe his most famous work, published in 1963), Zhaoshutun and Nannuono, Ebing and Sangluo and Tenace jusqu’a la Victoire. The first book on that list won a prize at the Leipzig International Book Exhibition in 1959.
It looks like that Shifa’s role may have been more that of an illustrator of stories rather than a cartoonist or even comics artist in the sense that we think of such things; I’m not completely able to tell, and it’s not like a precise definition makes his artistic achievement any less than what it is. He is described in the Shanghai Daily piece as an “old kid” with a humble demeanor. He is survived by two sons.
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Series 1 Action Figure - Metallo
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Series 1 Action Figure - Metallo
 Comics’ most iconic characters join forces in this fantastic tale which pits the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight against a top-secret team backed by Lex Luthor! Can our heroes take down a team composed of such powerhouses as Captain Marvel, Hawkman, Power Girl, and Black Lightning? You better belie… |
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(Nick com comic books) As the final part of Greg Rucka’s Ruin trilogy which started with Unconventional Warfare and continued in That Healing Touch , Ruin Revealed brings the story full circle as Lois sets out to determine the identity of her shooter and Superman weeds throug
As the final part of Greg Rucka’s Ruin trilogy which started with Unconventional Warfare and continued in That Healing Touch , Ruin Revealed brings the story full circle as Lois sets out to determine the identity of her shooter and Superman weeds throug
First Thought Of The Day
I always think it’s nice of them in those Harry Potter movies when they say that Cedric Diggory was killed by Lord Voldemort, when he was actually killed by Timothy Spall’s goofy character.
Also: God, could I please have a dollar for every “the boy who lived/the boy who died” turn of phrase we read/see/hear in the next two weeks, twice that for a headline? Thanks. You’re aces.
Batman: Featuring Two-Face and The Riddler TPB
Batman: Featuring Two-Face and The Riddler TPB
 Assembled in this volume are some of the finest stories featuring Two-Face and The Riddler, two of Batman’s greatest and most bizarre foes. From their first appearances in the 1940s to more recent epics, these two villains have been featured in some of the best-remembered stories in the Batman mytho… |
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KISS Volume 1: Rediscovery TPB
KISS Volume 1: Rediscovery TPB
 Rock & Roll’s most outrageous icons return, bigger, badder, louder, and more powerful than ever before. KISS is back in comics. One of the comic industry’s hottest young writers, Joe Casey ( Superman, Wildcats, X-Men ), takes the KISS comics phenomenon in a bold new direction. In the years f… |
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Superman: Classic Silver Age Action Figure Series 1 - Superman Robot
Superman: Classic Silver Age Action Figure Series 1 - Superman Robot
 Created to help Superman protect his secret identity the classic Superman Robot is ready for any task! This action figure features multiple points of articulation and a display base. Also includes a bonus Beppo the Super-Monkey figure! Packaged in a four-color blister…. |
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CR Week In Review
The top comics-related news stories from July 7 to July 13, 2007:
1. Stan Lee Media sues Stan Lee.
2. Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Marlette dies in an auto accident at age 57.
3. Cold Cut is apparently for sale.
Winner Of The Week
Slave Fetishists
Loser Of The Week
Stan Lee; the Stan Lee Media case against Stan doesn’t seem as ridiculous as their $5 Billion suit against Marvel.
Quote Of The Week
“He is given an amazing wheelchair.” — Odd line of description from the Stan Lee Media case against Stan Lee.
this week’s imagery comes from pioneering comic book house Centaur Publications
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Batman Adventures Vol. 2 (how to make comic books) TPB: Shadows & Masks
Batman Adventures Vol. 2 TPB: Shadows & Masks
Batman Adventures Vol. 2 TPB: Shadows & Masks
 The animated adventures of the Dark Knight Detective make up the newest addition to DC’s line of digest-sized collections! A deadly new gang is threatening Gotham City, and it’s up to the Dark Knight Detective to take it down–from the inside! Follow his undercover mission through these riveting sto… |
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Oh please. The Soviet Union that Superman serves here is the sort of cookie cutter comic book autocracy one might have expected in a 1950s comic and bears no resemblance to the murderous regime that truly was an “evil empire.” At one point, Stalin under
Batman: No Man’s Land Vol. 5 TPB
Batman: No Man’s Land Vol. 5 TPB
 In the last days of No Man’s Land… Gotham’s deadliest villain returns with a vengeance! As the United States government moves towards a resolution to end the controversial policy of sealing off the post-Cataclysm Gotham City from the rest of the world, a new threat arises for those trapped within…. |
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Adventures Of Robin Hood: Vol 2
Adventures Of Robin Hood: Vol 2
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The Comic Book is one of America’s unsung contribution to culture.
Happy 37th Birthday, Kelly Sue DeConnick!
Comic Books portray our fears, our desires and ethos.
I do fondly remember the great quality infested peak of DC Comics back in the seventies as a kid, which somehow did still continued around in the eighties somewhat, giving their own brand of a distinct mark which perhaps are not found in the more commerci
First Thought Of The Day
I always think it’s nice of them in those Harry Potter movies when they say that Cedric Diggory was killed by Lord Voldemort, when he was actually killed by Timothy Spall’s goofy character.
Also: God, could I please have a dollar for every “the boy who lived/the boy who died” turn of phrase we read/see/hear in the next two weeks, twice that for a headline? Thanks. You’re aces.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Comic Books portray our fears, our desir…. (rare dime comic books)
Comic Books portray our fears, our desires and ethos.
The Baby Doll
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Marvel Heroes Scene Kit
Use this Wall Decorating Kit to transform any room into a metropolitan backdrop! The Marvel Heroes Scene Kit includes:
- (1) Package of 2 City Scape Room Rolls (1 for the bottom and 1 for the top of the scene) that each measure approximately 48″ wide x 23′ long (121.9cm x 7.01m); put both rolls together to create a cityscape theme.
- (1) Marvel Heroes Happy Birthday Scene Setters Add-On that contains 2 halves that make 1 decoration; each half measures approximately 33.5″ x 65″ (85.1cm x 165.1cm)
- (1) Spiderman & Wolverine Scene Setters Add-On that contains 1 Spiderman Add-On and 1 Wolverine Add-On; each measures 33.5″ wide x 50″ tall (85.1 x 127cm)
Please Note: Add-On Wall Decorations contain an assortment of items that are printed on 1 or more plastic sheets and may need to be cut out separately.
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- Finish off your scene with any or all Scene Setters Wall Decorations
- Decorations can be hung with adhesive or pins (not included)
Keep your decorations secure with Sticky Tack (sold separately).
Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. and are used with permission. Copyright 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Scene Setters? by amscan
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Batman: Hush by Jim Lee T-Shirt (S)
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Hey bub, I go where I wanna go, and Get outta my way, are all things you’ll be able to say just like Wolverine when your wielding a Silver X-Claw. We don’t recommend you take on a pack of Sentinels with the Silver X-Claws, but do recommend showing them off to your friends. Constructed from stainless steel and sharpened to a razor sharp edge, handle wrapped in black leather for comfort. No knuckle guard has been added for hand protection, so caution is always advised. Sold individually with one plaque each.
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 Written by Geoff Johns & Kurt Busiek Art by Pete Woods Cover by Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson Part 6 of the 8-part ‘Up Up and Away!’ While Superman goes all-out to clean up the plague of villains overrunning Metropolis Lex Luthor finally strikes with a devastating attack that could literally … |
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Stainless Steel Silver X Claw w/ Stand
Hey bub, I go where I wanna go, and Get outta my way, are all things you’ll be able to say just like Wolverine when your wielding a Silver X-Claw. We don’t recommend you take on a pack of Sentinels with the Silver X-Claws, but do recommend showing them off to your friends. Constructed from stainless steel and sharpened to a razor sharp edge, handle wrapped in black leather for comfort. No knuckle guard has been added for hand protection, so caution is always advised. Sold individually with one plaque each.
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Measurements: Each Blade Measures 11 inches long,Constructed From Stainless Steel,Comfortable Leather Wrapped Handle,Includes Wooden Display Plaque,Great Cosplay Costume Addition
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Dickies Basic Student Backpack - 59 Colors Available
Dickies Basic Student Backpack - Features: The basic backpack with generous covered zipper opening at top of bag, front zip shut pocket, and top handle/locker loop. Depth: 12 in; Width: 5 in; Height: 16 in; Weight: 0.9 lbs; Volume: 880 ci
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Superman Vol. 5 TPB: President Lex
Superman Vol. 5 TPB: President Lex
 Lex Luthor was the most powerful man in Metropolis, the companies in his conglomerate dominating travel, media, and technology. His fame soared after he helped to rebuild the earthquake-damaged Gotham City. Where does he go from here? Why, the White House, naturally! And of course, besides bringing … |
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This is still the Superman we know, more or less. A good man with amazing powers trying to make the world a better place, struggling to make sense of his role in the larger scheme. It’s very good. Very, very good.
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Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006
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Batman: Anarky TPB
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Marvel Heroes Scene Kit
Use this Wall Decorating Kit to transform any room into a metropolitan backdrop! The Marvel Heroes Scene Kit includes:
- (1) Package of 2 City Scape Room Rolls (1 for the bottom and 1 for the top of the scene) that each measure approximately 48″ wide x 23′ long (121.9cm x 7.01m); put both rolls together to create a cityscape theme.
- (1) Marvel Heroes Happy Birthday Scene Setters Add-On that contains 2 halves that make 1 decoration; each half measures approximately 33.5″ x 65″ (85.1cm x 165.1cm)
- (1) Spiderman & Wolverine Scene Setters Add-On that contains 1 Spiderman Add-On and 1 Wolverine Add-On; each measures 33.5″ wide x 50″ tall (85.1 x 127cm)
Please Note: Add-On Wall Decorations contain an assortment of items that are printed on 1 or more plastic sheets and may need to be cut out separately.
- Choose your space
- Install Room Rolls
- Finish off your scene with any or all Scene Setters Wall Decorations
- Decorations can be hung with adhesive or pins (not included)
Keep your decorations secure with Sticky Tack (sold separately).
Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc. and are used with permission. Copyright 2007 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Scene Setters? by amscan
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The Soviet Superman is never meant to be evil just overprotective and stifling. Unfortunately the author chose to absolve the alternate Superman of most of his crimes by blaming them on outside manipulations reducing the impact of the story. I also have t
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Superman: Combat T-Shirt (XXL)
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Oddball Comics: Popeye And Communication And Media Careers E-3
In all of comicdom, there’s probably nobody who routinely butchers the English language more than Popeye The Sailor! So just what is the salty-mouthed seafarer think he’s doing by dispensing information and advice on how to earn a lotta spinach in jobs in the communications industry? Has Popeye taken so many hits to the head that he’s forgotten that “I yam what I yam”? Find out in POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS, an Oddball educational giveaway comic that’s guaranteed to blow you down!
Popeye The Sailor — the creation of cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar (1894 - 1938) - was introduced in the King Features syndicated newspaper comic strip, THIMBLE THEATRE on January 17, 1929 (nearly ten years into the strip’s run). The strip - created at the urging of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst — originally concerned itself with the exploits of two adventurers, Castor Oyl and his pal Ham Gravy. Popeye was introduced (as a non-recurring character) when the duo required nautical transportation to a casino located on remote Dice Island, where they planned to strike it rich with their magical Whiffle Hen named Bernice. Segar - whose signature included a cartoon of a cigar butt - discovered that he enjoyed writing and drawing the pugnacious sailor, so much so that he extended his presence in THIMBLE THEATRE. According to COMICS BETWEEN THE PANELS, a verbal history of comics by Steve Duin and Mike Richardson, Segar once expressed that “Popeye is much more than a goofy comic character to me. He represents all my emotions, and he is an outlet for them. I’d like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgment and size hold me back.” Soon after his introduction, the squinty-orbed seaman became THIMBLE THEATRE’s star character. Although scrawny overall and without a tooth in his head, the squinty-eyed seafarer had muscular forearms the size of hams, possessed amazing strength and was nearly indestructible. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Popeye’s super-abilities were originally attributed to contact with the Whiffle Hen, but was eventually linked to the sailor man’s intake of spinach. (In the 1930s, Popeye’s dependence on the leafy legume supposedly increased spinach consumption by 33%!) In addition to his emaciated girlfriend, Olive Oyl (Castor’s sister and originally, Ham Gravy’s girlfriend) THIMBLE THEATER’s cast eventually grew to include such classic characters as hamburger-thieving J. Wellington Wimpy, Eugene the Jeep (from the 5th Dimension), Poopdeck Pappy (Popeye’s long-lost father), the sinister Sea Hag, the brutal thugs Bluto and Brutus, enigmatic Alice The Goon, demented inventor O.G. Wotasnozzle and many others. When Segar died tragically young (from leukemia), THIMBLE THEATRE - known now in many newspapers simply as “Popeye” - carried on under Charles H. “Doc” Winner and later by Segar’s former assistants, Bela Zaboly and Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf. Before Sagendorf took over production of the comic strip entirely in 1958, he wrote and drew dozens of memorable POPEYE comic books, variously published by Dell, Gold Key, King and Charlton, among others. When the POPEYE strip was re-launched in the mid-1980s, it was written and drawn by former underground cartoonist Bobby London; his version of the sailor man combined Segar’s classic approach with a distinctive contemporary flavor. Unfortunately, syndicate politics ended Bobby’s outstanding run on POPEYE far too prematurely. Since then, chameleon-like “ghost” cartoonist Hy Eisman has been grinding out new Sunday strips for King Features, which currently reprints old POPEYE dailies by Sagendorf.
The Fleischer Studio first animated Popeye in a tryout guest appearance in the 1933 cartoon short BETTY BOOP MEETS POPEYE THE SAILOR. (Other King Features comic strip characters to receive this treatment were Otto Soglo’s “Little King” and Carl Anderson’s “Henry”.) The animated Popeye met with such interest that the Fleischer brothers, Max and Dave, starred him in the first of hundreds of his own theatrical cartoon shorts, I YAM WHAT I YAM, later that year. The Fleischer also produced three memorable (and rather experimental) “Popeye” featurettes, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS SINDBAD THE SAILOR, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES and POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALADDIN AND HIS MAGIC LAMP. Studio Renamed Famous Studios when Paramount Pictures bought them in 1942, the cartoon studio continued to produce new theatrical “Popeye” cartoons through 1957. In the early 1960s, a batch of new low budget “Popeye” cartoons was made in “limited animation” for television by a number of studios. A bizarre animated “special” titled POPEYE AND THE MAN WHO HATED LAUGHTER - featuring dozens of other King Features characters — was produced by Hal (MILTON THE MONSTER) Seegar (no relation) for ABC’s SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE. Hanna-Barbera also made new “Popeye” TV cartoons in the 1970s and 1980s, including the notorious POPEYE AND SON, featuring the adventures of the offspring of a now-married Popeye and Olive. 1980 saw POPEYE as a live-action feature film, written by cartoonist (and former assistant to Will Eisner on THE SPIRIT) Jules Feiffer, directed by Robert Altman, with music by Harry Nilsson and starring Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelly Duval as Olive Oyl, Paul Smith as Bluto, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy and Paul Dooley as J. Wellington Wimpy, In recent years, Popeye has appeared in video games, on slot machines and in a CG made-for-television special.
POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS was one of fifteen specially-produced educational “custom comics” in the CAREER EDUCATIONAL SERIES, prepared, packaged and printed by Charlton Comics and published by King Features and sold directly to school systems. Titles in this series included:
E-1: POPEYE AND HEALTH CAREERS
E-2: POPEYE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAREERS
E-3: POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS
E-4: POPEYE AND TRANSPORTATION CAREERS
E-5: POPEYE AND CONSTRUCTION CAREERS
E-6: POPEYE AND CONSUMER AND HOMEMAKING CAREERS
E-7: POPEYE AND MANUFACTURING CAREERS
E-8: POPEYE AND HOSPITALITY AND RECREATION CAREERS
E-9: POPEYE AND MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION CAREERS
E-10: POPEYE AND BUSINESS AND OFFICE CAREERS
E-11: POPEYE AND PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS
E-12: POPEYE AND PERSONAL SERVICE CAREERS
E-13: POPEYE AND MARINE SCIENCE CAREERS
E-14: POPEYE AND FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES CAREERS
E-15: POPEYE AND AGRI-BUSINESS AND NATURAL RESOURCES CAREERS
Exactly why anyone at the King Features Syndicate thought that Popeye was the ideal character to extol the virtues of such inappropriate careers (with the exception of POPEYE AND MARINE SCIENCE CAREERS) is anyone’s guess. But when you consider that the “real” Popeye seems unable to replicate the English language with any sort of proper grammar or “pronunskiashun”, it’s especially ironic (and Oddball) to have the sailor-man hosting his own comic on COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS
POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS’ untitled, 31-page cover-story was written by Joe Gill and drawn by Ray Dirgo. It begins on its inside-front-cover, as Popeye launches into an exhaustively long-winded introduction - in perfect English, no less - to Swee’pea:
POPEYE:
In this country, we get more information than any other people on Earth, Swee’pea, and I am going to explain to you how we get our information. We can talk to people almost anywhere in the world with this telephone, Swee’pea. Communications help to bring people of the world closer together and increase our understanding of people of other nations. We can find what’s happening all over the world from the MEDIAthe word they use for television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, tapes and records. Besides the news, Swee’pea, television and radio provide information and entertainment for millions! The entertainment field, of course, is another field with many careers to choose from. More than TWO MILLION PEOPLE work in communications and media, Swee’pea, and many more will be employed in television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the telephone industry in the future. No matter what jobs thee people do, they will all play a part in bringing information to people and helping everyone to communicate with one another. There are many different jobs for men and women, young and old, and anyone can find a job if he is interested and shows he has the ability.SWEE’PEA:
What will I have to know to get one of these jobs, Popeye?POPEYE:
That depends on the kind of job that you want and the type that will make you happy, Swee’pea.
Then Popeye takes Swee’pea into the city, showing him examples of the three largest groups of jobs in communications: print, broadcast and telephone/telegraph. (It’s interesting to note that this comic was published long before the concept of the Internet!) Then the squinty-eyed swab takes his adopted son into an office building marked “NBS Television”, where newscast is in progress. While showing Swee’pea around the place, he addresses the reader with some surprisingly blunt information:
POPEYE:
There are NO SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS for television and radio announcers. TV and radio announcers don’t have to be college graduates, but the companies prefer them. They also want men and women who look nice and have clear, pleasing voices.
After a rather jarring scene-shift to a battlefield - demonstrating that radio and TV announcers “have to get out where the news is being made” - Popeye lays some more drier-than-dry information on Swee’pea about the requirements of working as a broadcast technician. Then, Popeye and Swee’pea move on to the offices of the CITY TIMES newspaper, outside of which, Popeye is “mowed down” by an over-enthusiastic journalist. Strolling around the newsroom, Popeye explains the duties of the City Editor and the Sports Editor. Then he delivers an extraordinarily lengthy bit of dialog - by necessity, hand-lettered at a very small size — all within a single word balloon:
POPEYE:
As you see, newspaper editors are well informed, and can put thoughts into words. Some newspaper only hire men and women to be editors who have a college education and some insist on a degree in journalism, but there are other newspaper jobs for those who have not gone to college. Newspapers also need printing press operators, artists of all kinds, photographers, delivery men and may more. How would you like to be a copy boy, Swee’pea?
(Hmmm, looks to me like this is an example of some last-minute editing. Popeye had better watch out; with any more of these extra-verbose word balloons, he might develop a hunchback!) After visiting the CITY TIMES’ nutty-looking Society Editor, staff photographer J. Wellington Wimpy runs by. Popeye assumes he’s on the trail of a big story, but typically, Wimpy’s on a coffee break and running off to order a dozen hamburgers from a nearby diner. Then Popeye visits a fashion photographer (who’s shooting a session with Olive Oyl), the wilderness (where he’s chased by a camera-shy bear), an art gallery (where fine artwork is being photographed) and a room marked “Top Secret” (where a suspicious-looking guy is taking photos of classified material with a very tiny camera!) Following a long screed on the requirements for becoming a photographer, Popeye visits a photoengraving company, an art school and a commercial art studio. After posing for a life-drawing class and annoying one of the art school’s instructors, a towering stack of magazines topple over on Popeye while he delivers a message about the life of a commercial artist:
POPEYE:
SOMETHING NEW IS HAPPENING EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY. PEOPLE WORKING IN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA HELP TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS! THEY LOVE THEIR WORK LIKE I LOVE SPINACH!
Geez, calm down, ya swab! Next, Popeye pays a visit to a factory to see how a newspaper is printed. (One of these panels has been very poorly printed - with smudged and bleeding black ink that makes it difficult to read its hand-lettered copy — which is rather ironic, considering that this comic was actually printed on Charlton’s privately-owned printing presses!) As Swee’pea re-joins him, Popeye tells him about potential careers in the telephone business. Visiting the offices of a phone company, we see Olive Oyl working as a phone operator, one of over 400,000 of them in the country:
POPEYE:
Nearly all telephone operators are girls, Swee’pea, but there are a few men too.
Then the old salt takes Swee’pea to a privately-run office building and introduces the human tadpole to women who works as a receptionist and phone switchboard operator, one of whom has skin the color of a ripe lemon. (I guess she’s supposed to be Asian; either that, or it’s just another example of Charlton’s hit-or-miss printing.) This sequence ends with Popeye sleeping on a park bench located outside the phone company’s headquarters!
POPEYE:
One of the drawbacks to being a telephone operator is you may have to work nights sometimes and you may have to work on week-ends or holidays.
Later, we catch up with Popeye at the local airport, where he takes us inside the control tower to watch various air traffic ground controllers doing their job. One of ‘em, apparently another lemon-skinned Asian, receives a comedic electrical shock while tightening a loose wire in his instrument console. Then, after a mind-numbing page on the legal requirements needed to work in airline radio-operator jobs, Popeye finally gets to do what he does best. (No, he doesn’t beat the snot out of a bully.) He rows a dinghy out to an offshore ship to visit its Morse code operator. Then he visits a train yard, where he watches a train dispatcher use the telegraph to do his job. Apparently, Popeye’s so immersed in his mission to teach Swee’pea about jobs in the communication and media that he forgets that he’s standing on the train tracks - it takes a warning cry from Swee’pea to alert him to an oncoming train - and he leaps to safety at the last second! Finally, Popeye takes a look at the job of phone company linemen, “some of the most important communications workers”. In the middle of a blinding snowstorm - one so thick that cartoonist Ray Dirgo is able to get away with leaving one panel blank - we’re shown a phone company’s cable splicer working in a canvas shelter high above the ground. In a rare bit of humor, Popeye wryly comments:
POPEYE:
They told him he’d get plenty of fresh air on this job!
Later, back at home, while Popeye reads the newspaper, Swee’pea reads a POPEYE comic book, considering his options regarding a future career in communications and media. But when he’s interrupted to answer the ringing telephone, he’s amused to realize it’s a wrong number - the caller’s speaking Chinese!
Also included in this issue of POPEYE AND COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA CAREERS are the following features:
- “Can You Answer These?”, a quiz regarding the contents of this educational comic book.
- “Hey, Kids - Discussion Questions!”, an inside-back-cover list of questions to consider and discuss with classmates.
- A back-cover “Popeye” gag cartoon/pin-up, drawn by George Wildman, of the sailor-man working as a lineman for the phone company (!?!) while dealing with an over-aggressively territorial woodpecker.
ODDBALL Factoid - Cover-cartoonist George Wildman has not only written and drawn the comic book adventures of Popeye The Sailor. He’s also worked on such characters as Mickey Mouse, the Ghostbusters, the Snorks, the Jetsons, Alf, Nancy and Sluggo, Curious George, Tiny Toons, Casper The Friendly Ghost and Clifford The Big Red Dog!
Bonus ODDBALL Factoid - ODDBALL Factoid - POPEYE AND COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA CAREERS’ incredibly prolific writer Joe Gill was responsible for countless scripts for Charlton, including ones for such Oddball series as KONGA, GORGO and REPTILICUS!
Double-Bonus ODDBALL Factoid — Statues of Popeye The Sailor have been erected in Elzie Segar’s home town of Chester, Illinois and in “the spinach capital of the world”, Crystal City, Texas!
Mac Raboy’s Flash Gordon Volume 1 TPB
Mac Raboy’s Flash Gordon Volume 1 TPB
 Dark Horse is proud to present this collection of Mac Raboy’s run on Flash Gordon . Continuing Dark Horse Comics’ tradition of fine reprint books, this tome is the first ever collection of Flash Gordon work by Raboy. Beginning his comics career in 1940, after taking government-funded drawing classe… |
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Batman #653
 Written by James Robinson Art by Don Kramer & Michael Bair Cover by Simone Bianchi The Penguin takes center stage in Part 6 of ‘Face the Face’ the 8-part story crossing over with DETECTIVE COMICS! But can the Penguin survive Harvey Dent’s new brand of justice? Only Batman and Jason Bard can unco… |
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How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
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And for some reason Clark seemed like a robot. A machine programmed by John Byrne. It’s most likely beause of his awful dialogue and how everything was cliche.
Batman: Urban Legend - Jim Lee T-Shirt (XXL)
Batman: Urban Legend - Jim Lee T-Shirt (XXL)
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Adventures Of Robin Hood Vol 13
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The Baby Doll
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Company:Newbury Comics Records
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He would count as a repaint, but the Batman? NO WAY.
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Hey bub, I go where I wanna go, and Get outta my way, are all things you’ll be able to say just like Wolverine when your wielding a Silver X-Claw. We don’t recommend you take on a pack of Sentinels with the Silver X-Claws, but do recommend showing them off to your friends. Constructed from stainless steel and sharpened to a razor sharp edge, handle wrapped in black leather for comfort. No knuckle guard has been added for hand protection, so caution is always advised. Sold individually with one plaque each.
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(Batman comic book cover) But above all, for me, this is what Superman is all about. Forget Kal El, for me he will allways be Clark Kent and that says a lot. He is a real good guy, who has these amazing powers and decide to sacrifice himself, his personal life, to do good. He has
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Flash Gordon: Peril From Planet Mongo
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Jumpin’ Jack Flash
 A computer operator (Goldberg) at a bank is plunged into an exciting world of international intrigue, danger and romance when her terminal gets an S.O.S. from "Jumpin’ Jack Flash," a British spy stranded in Eastern Europe. She is soon matching wits with the deadliest members of the… |
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GREAT! Okay, I’ve been waiting for the Showcase Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane.BUT why together??? I love both series but the two together? This has got to be the worst that DC can do to these wonderful series!What happened to the Perry White book anyhow? LOL
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Here’s another studio shoots turned into a photoshop composition, the theme on this one was the comic character "Witchblade", the model is my cousin Priscilia, the city under is Papeete (Tahiti), the gargoyles were shots at Paris ( Sacr-coeur)
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Witch Hunter Robin: Vol 1 Arrival
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Batman: Urban Legend - Jim Lee T-Shirt (XXL)
Batman: Urban Legend - Jim Lee T-Shirt (XXL)
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What’s next? Superman happen to be Gay?! And Jimmy Olsen is Clark Kent’s boyfriend! Might as well revise Supes into SUPERGAY then. Sheeez !
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It’s this sort of superficial investigation that dooms “Red Son” to superficial stabs at political comment, and third rate reimaginings of history that are, frankly, tiresome.
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