Showing posts with label DC Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC Comics. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2025

Russkie-Smashers SENSATION COMICS "Dr Pat--Flight Surgeon!"

She cures the sick, catches criminals...
...and defeats Communists!
Is there nothing Dr Pat Windsor can't do...while looking really kool doing it?
Though Wonder Woman was the cover-featured heroine of Sensation Comics...
...it's obvious Dr Pat is the real "Wonder Woman' of the book, as this never-reprinted story from #100 (1950) by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Frank Giacoia proves!
She outsmarts a high-ranking Communist officer and shoots down a fighter, while handling her flight surgeon duties!
BTW, the XB-49 "Flying Wing" was a real (albeit experimental) bomber tested during the late 1940s-early 1950s!
It's best-known to the public as the bomber seen in the 1953 movie War of the Worlds delivering an A-Bomb against the Martians!
(Actual flight footage of the ship, not a miniature, was used.)
Who says comics ain't educational?

Monday, December 23, 2024

Holiday Heroes DCU INFINITE HOLIDAY SPECIAL "Yes, Tyrone, There IS a Santa Claus"

Our Final Holiday Heroes Returns Us to the DC Multiverse...
...in an official (but never-reprinted) ElseWorlds tale of a pair of heroes with an unexpected punchline!
Yeah, definitely an ElseWorlds story!
Written by Kelly Puckett and illustrated by Pete Woods, the final story in the holiday anthology DCU Infinite Holiday Special (2007) is really fan wish-fulfillment!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We'll be Back on January 6, 2025 with More Russkie-Smashing Fun!

Monday, January 22, 2024

Russkie-Smashers BLACKHAWK "Threat from the Abyss!"

For a bunch of aviators...
...Blackhawk and his team spend a lot of time underwater, as this adventure from their first DC issue demonstrates!
In fact, all three of the stories in this issue, DC's Blackhawk #108 (1957), feature aquatic, not aerial, action!
DC didn't miss a month when it bought the rights to Blackhawk from Quality Comics, which was closing their business.
Quality's final issue, #107, was published in December, 1956!
DC's premiere issue, #108 rolled off the presses one month later, January, 1957!
Quality had several completed and almost-completed stories ready to go, and DC used them in this issue to meet the already-established deadline with the printer!
Trivia: those "inventory" tales were the last ones featuring the Blackhawks singing triumphantly at the end of the story!
DC dropped that, along with almost all Communist-clobbering plotlines until the final issue of the original run, as we showed HERE, HERE, and HERE!

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Monday, December 25, 2023

Sunday, October 29, 2023

CountDown to Halloween 2023 Rutland Halloween Parade Comic Book Tales CheckList

Here's a list of stories we've thus far presented...in chronological order...
1970
(The first Rutland Parade story in any comic!)
Marvel's Avengers #83
Come On In...the Revolution's Fine!
Part 2
We haven't run the 1971 tale from DC...yet!

1972

There are actually four comics set in Rutland, more than any other single year!
One of the Marvel stories is a standalone, not linked to the other three.
We haven't run that one...yet!
The other three (two Marvel and one DC, are linked, Rashamon-style, showing the same events from different viewpoints, and featuring different characters...though the characters don't realize it!
Marvel's Amazing Adventures (The Beast) #16
...and the Juggernaut Will Get You...If You Don't Watch Out!
Part 1
Part 2
DC's Justice League of America #104
A Stranger Walks Among Us!
Part 1
Part 2
Marvel's Mighty Thor #207
FireSword!
Prologue
Part 1
Part 2

1974

Marvel's Avengers #119
Night of the Collector!
Part 2

1975

Gold Key's Occult Files of Doctor Spektor #18
Masque Macabre
Prologue
Part 1
Part 2
There were two separate DC Parade tales in 1976...which we haven't run...yet!

1977

DC Super-Stars (Phantom Stranger & Deadman)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

After 1977, there are only occasional stories set in Rutland, none of which we've run...yet!
Bonus:
Introduction to the Rutland Parade in Comics!
The Real-Life Rutland Halloween Parade!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Countdown to Halloween 2023 DC SUPER-STARS "Phantom Stranger & Deadman in 'Chapter 3' " Plus "Story Behind the Story"

We Have Witnessed...

Cover art by Jim Aparo
...The Phantom Stranger, Deadman, and Doctor 13 all journeyed to Rutland, Vermont on Halloween and battled mystic menaces...but the threat isn't over...yet!
Bonus: here's a kool behind-the-scenes feature about the story you just read...

Be Here as Rutland Faces Yet More Halloween Horror...this time from one of the Marvel Multiverse's Non-Magical Menaces!

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