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Dec 5 09 11:39 PM
Golden Age
KOBE27 wrote: DC has ALWAYS had much more (much, much more) diversity in terms of different genres than Marvel. Choose ANY decade and you'll see. Anyway, I agree with all the people who say SUPERMAN FAMILY was not that great, but even amid all that Schaffenberg crap there were some jewels. For instance, #194 with a Nightwing & Flamebird story by Marshall Rogers himself:
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deejayway wrote: Doomed, doomed....we're all doomed.
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Dec 6 09 2:13 PM
Bronze Age
deejayway wrote: So who are these Nightwing and Flambird characters. I keep hearing about them in relation to Superman and they even seem to be back.. This isn't Dick Grayson is it?
I'm particularly interested in work by the likes of Jeff Jones
Joe Orlando
More Jeff Jones
Some DeZuñiga inside art:
And just for laughs, some Kirby
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Dec 6 09 3:07 PM
I guess it will end with me on the steps of the opera grasping a pile of bullet riddled comics to my chest, wailing in dispair.
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Dec 7 09 5:43 AM
KOBE27 wrote:Nope. Originally, before the COIE, Nightwing & Flamebird were none other than Superman & Jimmy Olsen respectively....The CURRENT duo of Nightwing & Flamebird running around the James Robinson Superman books are two different persons. (If you're not reading them, I would be spoiling it for you) Did you ever try DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE or its sister title SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE? Both featured "novel-length" stories of Gothic terror, and had lovely painted covers by the likes of your homeboy Jeff Jones (ideally suited to the subject)...the first page, featuring the host Chastity (which would come back one day in Robinson's Starman series) were usually by Kaluta or Wrightson, so that was okay. SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE was more about the occult. Like DARK MANSION, the best stories were the ones by Tony DeZuñiga. I only knew him from those Savage Sword of Conan B&W tales, so this was a real eye-opener for me. His pages were moody and atmospheric. And just for laughs, some Kirby
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Dec 7 09 5:46 AM
Did Jones do any other WW covers?
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Dec 19 09 6:33 AM
Good pick-up, Deej. Are old American comics easy to find in the Netherlands, or that corner of Europe? World's Finest Comics is probably my favorite Dollar Comic just ahead of Batman Family and Adventure Comics. There is some good stuff in Superman Family, but too much sub-par art for my liking.
Dec 19 09 7:24 AM
Yeah, original US comics are pretty easy to pick up, especially in the Netherlands, where they only produce a handful of Dutch translations. Most major cities have a least one outlet for the original US editions and Amsterdam has 4 or 5. There are also plenty of outlets in Germany for the originals but they're somewhat scarcer in e.g. France and Spain, where they translate a lot into their own languages.
It wasn't always so, however. When I first moved to Europe in the 70s, the only English-language editions of American comics, which were available on the news-stands were Batman and Superman. They weren't my cup of tea back then because I was a devout Marvelite. I almost went cold turky for something like 18 months, only sustained by my collection of back-issues until I found a store in Aachen (Germany), which had a small selection of US comics. I used to make a monthly 30-km trek across the border from Maastricht (the Netherlands) to Aachen on a rattling moped to pick up my regular fix; seven Marvel titles; FF, Avengers, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Ironman and MoKF. I was so starved for comics, that sometimes I couldn't wait and made the trip a week earlier, in the vain hope that the new comics would've arrived. Ah, the crazy lil' things we do for love...
So far I have been delightfully surprised by the contents of the World's Finest Dollar Comics, much better than the Detective Comics Dollar Comics I have, and they're pretty good.
Apparently Don Newton was producing quite a bit of work at the time; an issue of Batman a month + Shazam and sundry other jobs. Not only great but prolific too.
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