And now, a thing the Spectre doesn’t say often enough nowadays.
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from More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940) by Jerry Siegel & Bernard Baily
Before…
what they wanted to see***:
images from 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-18 (July 1973)
* “Cake shows some light crumbling at the edges. Kept in smoke-free home. Certificate of Cake-thenticity included. Numbered #1221/8500.”
** Turns out “focussed” is an accepted, but little-used (at least in the U.S.) spelling of the word. Maybe I can get a Fake AP entry out of this.
*** Yes, yes, they actually haven’t learned this yet. Case in point.
**** So Superman actually drew a little picture of himself succumbing to Kryptonite. That’s…a bit peculiar.
I refrained from making the Def Leppard joke.
So I was looking through some of Bob Rozakis’s “Answer Man” columns, which ran through DC’s comic books in the ’70s and a wee bit into the ’80s, and this particular question caught my eye:
Well, eventually both things come to pass…there have been several Human Target comics in the years since, and there have been not one, but two TV series. I was amused that the answer to this specific question was so exactly negated.
Some other Answer Man questions and responses I came across:
The joke here is too easy:
Frankly, I’m not even sure this question needed to be asked. It’s all right there, man:
(In case you were wondering.)
I didn’t even remember this, but of course Mark Waid didn’t forget…that man forgets nothing:
I will die if they bring it back 1) in current continuity (“Hey, technically I’m not flying across the country…I’m cruising comfortably“), or 2) it pops up on Smallville, where it would probably just be a Ford Festiva painted red ‘n’ blue:
And then there’s this:
“You’ve menaced the world with your secular humanism for the last time, Luthor!”
The limited palette was an interesting artistic choice.
Was the overwhelming use of brown somehow a comment on the drab existence of Beetle Bailey’s army camp life? A representation of the filth in which he was wallowing while cleaning the trashcans, leaving only the clean green caps upon his and Sarge’s heads? Perhaps it should be noted that the “clean” trashcans appear to be a lighter shade of brown than the dirty one Beetle is currently scrubbing. And why is the only use of red on top of one of the scrubbing brushes? A subtle symbol of past acts of violence perpetrated upon Beetle by Sarge?
…Or maybe this poor kid just had three crayons.
image from Beetle Bailey #106 (July 1974)
“The many heads awe me not…”
These Joe Gill & Sam Glanzman 1960s Hercules comics are something else. I’m not overly familiar with this comic, aside from repeatedly seeing its covers at the shop, but it looks like the series is mostly played straight, with the very occasional bit of seemingly uncharacteristic dialogue:
Though, to be fair, I’d probably exclaim…well, okay, apparently calmly proclaim…”oh golly” under those circumstances, too.
The…shall we say, informal presentation of the sound effects are kind of charming:
I like how the sound effects just sort of fill up all their allotted space in that first panel, there.
Man, now that’s action:
“Zillcch” is a terrible representation of the sound that is made when a sword is plunged into a giant crab by a demigod. And I should know. Okay, how ‘about “THUNK–thwiSSSSSHHH” — hitting the shell, then piercing it and sliding in, you see.
Also, never forget the hydra. I realize a giant monster with multiple heads would be pretty easy to forget, but c’mon, focus here, people.
from Hercules #10 (1978) by Joe Gill & Sam Glanzman – reprinted from Hercules #10 (1968)
Panel-palooza!
Barry (The Flash) Allen speaks inappropriately to a young comics fan:
…the Thing faces off against a space goalie (named, yes, “GAARD”):
…Peter David sneaks a dirty joke into a Popeye comic, that naughty man:
…and, once again, another moment with Cap and the Falcon:
