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Commander Benson's News posts – June 2009 Archive (3)
Deck Log Entry # 86 Cap's Kooky Quartet (Part 2): Dysfunctional, Thy Name is "Avengers"
In the span of twenty pages, Stan Lee had almost totally repopulated the Avengers Mansion. Iron Man, Thor, Giant-Man and the Wasp were gone, leaving Captain America in charge of three former rogues who had been inducted as Avengers with less effort than it had taken me to scrounge up two Ovaltine seals and a dime to join Captain Midnight’s Secret Squadron.
As discussed last time, filling up the cast with…
Added by Commander Benson on June 27, 2009 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments
Deck Log Entry # 85 Cap's Kooky Quartet (Part 1): A New Broom
One afternoon in 1961, Marvel Comics publisher Martin Goodman was playing golf with a DC executive, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld. Liebowitz or Donenfeld was bragging about the success of DC’s new title Justice League of America, a book about a team of super-heroes. As soon as he got back to the office, Goodman ordered his… Continue
Added by Commander Benson on June 21, 2009 at 1:00pm — 8 Comments
Deck Log Entry # 84 Great Ex-Spec-tations
But why the Spectre? DC had floated a few concepts for an Earth-Two series past the readers. The Doctor Fate-Hourman team in Showcase. The Starman-Black Canary team-up in The… Continue
Added by Commander Benson on June 4, 2009 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments
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