Our contribution to the Annual Countdown to Halloween blogathon features Rutland, Vermont...a town where, for decades, the Halloween parade featured participants dressed as superheroes!
But, beginning in 1970, comic books began a Halloween tradition of their characters visiting the town to battle various threats both super-scientific and supernatural!
First came Marvel's Mighty Avengers...
...followed in 1971 by DC's The Batman and Robin, the Teen Wonder...
...as well as Marvel's Defenders...
...in unrelated stories, though all the characters were at the same parade!
Then, in 1972, three comic writers, Len Wein, Steve Englehart, and Gerry Conway did a three-title crossover featuring characters in a Rashamon-like story involving characters telling the same events at the Rutland Halloween Parade from different points of view!Now here's the kool part...the books were from different comics companies, but they all told the same story with overlapping characters, as well as the writers themselves, appearing in all three books!
Though it doesn't matter what order you read them in, we're re-presenting them in this order...
Marvel's Amazing Adventures #16, featuring the X-Men's own blue-furred Beast on October 4th-5th!
DC's Justice League of America #103 on October 11th-12th!
Marvel's Mighty Thor #207 on October 18th-19th!
Plus a surprise on October 25th-26th!
You're not going to miss history in the making as we show this almost 50-year old crossover between DC and Marvel which has never been presented as one complete package...are you?
Start Reading...
NOW!!!
Start Reading...
NOW!!!
