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Fan of Bronze: You Learn Something NEW Every Day!

I'm starting this thread for the little things that I've discovered while re-reading my old books. This will probably be trivia of the most trivial nature but it is what it is! 

Today I picked out TWO things from Detective Comics #446 (Ap'75):

1) In th

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Was BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE ever meant to be an Elseworlds?

Over on the Back Issue Facebook group, there is some contention that Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's groundbreaking and influential Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) was originally intended to be an early Elseworlds story with no consequences in the reg

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TEEN TITANS (1976-79)

After being cancelled in 1972, the Teen Titans made a couple of appearances in Brave & Bold as its members went their separate ways. However during the 52 and 100 Pagers, several of their stories were reprinted, most with that gorgeous Nick Cardy art

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Fan of Bronze: "Wait 'Til They Get a Load of Me!"---The Corruption of the JOKER!

The Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime, the Grinning Ghoul, the Harlequin of Hate has been the Batman's inescapable nemesis since 1940. Despite his infamy, he is one of DC's most recognizable and profitable characters starring or co-starring in four ma

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Fan of Bronze: Kamandi Without the King

Of all of JACK KIRBY's 70s DC work, the book that lasted the longest was Kamandi the Last Boy On Earth which lasted fifty-nine issues but not with the King at the end. #33 (S'75) was the last issue that was written, drawn and edited by Kirby, #37 (Ja

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Fan of Bronze: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS--Walking Through, Looking Sad

I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.

In 1985, DC put out Crisis On Infinite Earths (COIE), a maxi-series designed to deconstruct and reassemble their super-hero properties so new readers could more easily understand what was goi

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Fan of Bronze: One REALLY Sexist Comic!

When Brave and the Bold #166 (S'80) came out, it was one of my regular DC books and it featured Batman teaming with his JLA teammate, the Black Canary. Now the Blonde Bombshell never came out well in her B&B appearances but even my fifteen year old s

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Fan of Bronze: That Forsaken Son of Satan

He was a character who shouldn't have gotten off the drawing board. After the success of GHOST RIDER, a man cursed by Satan, the next step was to feature the offspring of the Devil. He could have only been created in the 1970s with Marvel's more lax

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Fan of Bronze: The Short Saga of Black Goliath

I don't know if the readers demanded it but they got it anyway. In the 1970s, Marvel and DC put out a lot of titles, trying to see what would sell. Many weren't around for long like Man-Bat (two issues) and a few lasted out of the decade like The War

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Fan of Bronze: Superman Meets....Funnyman???

After World War II, Superman creators JERRY SEIGEL & JOE SHUSTER left DC/National and rejoined their original editor Vin Sullivan at his Magazine Enterprises company. In January 1948, they published Funnyman #1 about the adventures of comedian Larry

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Fan of Bronze: The Thing Replaced By...Power Man?!? Sweet Christmas!

Sweet Christmas, indeed, as I got this for Christmas in December 1975 when I was 10!

The previous issues of Fantastic Four, #166-167 (Ja-F'76), had the THING revert back to his human form of Ben Grimm, due to being exposed to the Hulk's gamma ray emi

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Fan of Bronze: The Tyroc Trilogy

If one were to peruse through DC's Silver Age comics, you would have found a dearth of African-American characters while Marvel had the Black Panther, Gabe Jones, Joe Robertson, Bill Foster and in the early 70s, Luke Cage, Hero For Hire/Power Man. DC

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Fan of Bronze: The Elongated Man Joins the JLA

I've been picking up the later Showcase Presents Justice League of America volumes that pick up where the Justice League Archives leave off. That saves me the trouble of pulling out those now forty year old books while letting me relive those halcyon

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Fan-of-Bronze: Captain Comet and the JLA

CAPTAIN COMET is an anomaly among super-heroes, being neither a Golden Age character nor a Silver Age character. He debuted in Strange Adventures #9 (Ju'51) and ended his run in #49 (O'54). While he had some reprints in the late 60s/early 70s, the Sh

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Supergirl: Why WASN"T She in the JLA?

My latest JLA/JSA team-up entry featured JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #231-232 (O-N'84) which guest-starred SUPERGIRL in the second of her two major JLA appearances. She previously was in JLA #132 (Jl'76) and #134 (S'76). It's hard not to notice that ne

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Fan of Bronze: Superman & Wonder Woman....AGAIN!

There has been much media buzz about this:

But before there was Lois Lane # 93 (Jl'69), Lois Lane #136 (F'74) AND Action Comics #600 (My'88). The forgotten story though seems to be

And that's what I'm going to talk about!

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My Favorite 100 Page Super-Spectaculars!

Now I realize that I have several irons in the fire, so to speak with my Fan of Bronze and Silver Sightings threads, but I'm either 1) nostalgic or 2) depressed so I'll be commenting on these DC 100 Pagers that I loved as a youth and still love today

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Fan of Bronze: Kirby's Fourth World Goes Brave AND Bold!

With all this talk about Kirby's DC contributions and with Mister Miracle appearing in January's All-New Batman: The Brave & the Bold, it got me reminiscing about their real first team-up.

Brave and the Bold #112 (My'74) was the first time one of Ki

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Fan of Bronze: The 80s JLA/JSA Team-Ups

There are also discussions about the 60s JLA/JSA team-ups and the 70s JLA/JSA team-ups so feel free to read, comment or add on to those as well!

 

JUSTICE LEAGUE # 183-185 (O-D'80): Where Have All The New Gods Gone?/ Apokolips Now!/Darkseid Rising!

B

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Fan of Bronze: The Forgotten Green Goblin

With all the talk about the Green Goblin in Kirk G's thread here and the impressive new Hobgoblin in Amazing Spider-Man, I thought that I would bring up my second major encounter with Spidey's Emerald Enemy. As we all should know, the first Green Gob

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