BLACK ADAM RETURNS Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...Black Adam has been resurrected by Captain Marvel's arch-enemy, Dr Sivana!
Unable to defeat the Big Red Cheese, Adam follows Sivana's suggestion to slay Shazam and deprive Cap of his power source...not realizing that it would probably also result in losing his own powers!

Note: this was years before the movie Superman II and Superman's "amnesia kiss" which made Lois Lane forget that the Man of Steel and Clark Kent were one and the same!

Black Adam would return several more times to battle Captain Marvel...and Superman, as well, before 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths would end the DC multiverse and reboot literally everything!

But that's a story for another time!

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BLACK ADAM RETURNS Part 1

Though Black Adam died at the end of his lone Golden Age appearance as shown HERE...

...as they say on Monty Python's Flying Circus; "He got better!"

Note: this story was created during the run of the 1970s SHAZAM! TV series, and the comic adapted elements of the show, inserting Billy Batson's already-existing Uncle Dudley into the safari-jacketed and mustachioed Mentor role, and utilizing the "Eterni-phone" (which usually connected directly to the gods whose initials made up "Shazam") to contact the old wizard!

To be concluded

TOMORROW!

Writer (and associate editor) E Nelson Bridwell was a serious "continuity cop" as this explanation of how the Egyptian gods (with a bit of logic-stretching) filled out the "SHAZAM" anagram shows!

Plus, artist Kurt Schaffenberger hard worked on the original Fawcett run of the "Marvel Family" when he entered the comics business back in the 1950s!

But this story from DC's SHAZAM! #28 (1976) shows him at his artistic peak two decades later!

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He's Coming...

...to theaters this Friday!

But, before that, we're doing a special four-day presentation of his origin (and only Golden Age appearance)...and his Bronze Age revival!
Be Here Tomorrow!!!
(because you really don't want to piss him off!)

After You Go See THE BATMAN...

...you might want to check out these rarely-seen, amazingly-kool earlier versions of the Caped Crusader...

Batman vs 3 Villains of Doom!

...plus numerous other never-reprinted tales...
The Batman Meets The Shadow!

The Batman Meets The Shadow...Again!

Batman Meets Jerry Lewis!

Batman Returns to Being The Batman!

(Technically, this has been reprinted...but only in black-and-white!)

Heroic Halloween in Rutland MIGHTY THOR "Firesword!" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Norse God of Thunder, Mighty Thor, Lady Sif, and Hildegarde had pursued the Absorbing Man to Rutland, Vermont, where the Son of Odin defeated him, only to discover the villain was merely bait, manipulated by the guy shown on the kool Gil Kane/Joe Sinnott cover above!
Now, forsooth, the mayhem shalt begin!

Poor Glynis Wein (dressed as Supergirl) can't catch a break!
First, magician Felix Faust conjures up a demon who possesses her (while giving her the powers of Supergirl) and forces her to battle the Justice League (as seen HERE)!
Now Loki enchants her, and most of the Rutland Parade goers/participants!

We saw weakened evil mage Felix Faust steal comics writer Steve Englehart's muffler-free car at the end of the Justice League tale HERE!

So a DC bad guy is responsible for a Marvel bad guy hurtling to his doom!

(Spoiler: Loki survives, eventually gets his sight back, and causes the Avengers/Defenders War, which results in another Halloween trip by the Mighty Avengers to Rutland the next year!

We're saving that one for Halloween 2022!)
Written by Gerry Conway, penciled by John Buscema, inked by Vince Colletta, with caricatures of all real-life comics pros and fans penciled by Marie Severin.

BTW: Thor eventually saves Lady Sif!

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A Rutland Parade SuperHero Special!

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Heroic Halloween in Rutland MIGHTY THOR "Firesword!" Part 1

Let's Begin the Final Chapter of the "Rutland Trilogy"...right at the Parade!

Note the presence of our four comic creatives, writers Steve Englehart (balding blonde), Gerry Conway (long brown hair), Len Wein (curly hair and goatee) and colorist Glynis Wein (do we have to tell you, the only woman in the group?).
Also note the real Justice League on the float directly behind the "Avengers'" float!

Steve's noisy car will play a pivotal role at the climax of this tale, as it did in the previous one.
And Parade organizer/comics uber-fan Tom Fagan is back in his NightHawk costume!

We see Loki back in disguise after revealing himself to The Absorbing Man at the end of our previous post!

"Who ever heard of Power Girl anyway?"

Well, nobody, since DC's Power Girl (the Supergirl of Earth-Two) wouldn't debut until four years later!

(BTW, she was co-created by Gerry Conway!)

Glynis is costumed as Supergirl, though they couldn't call her that in a Marvel book!

When she disappears, she'll be possessed by a demon and do battle with the Justice League!

Love him or loathe him, you gotta admit the trickster god knows how to make an entrance!

But, to find out what happens next, you'll have to be back...

TOMORROW!

BTW, the Absorbing Man, like most villains, survived this setback and is still creating havoc throughout the Marvel Universe!

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