SPIDER-MAN, STORM AND POWER MAN "vs SmokeScreen" Part 2: Where's There's Smoke...

We have Already Seen...

Luke Cage is mentoring a teen track team of kids representing every district in NYC.

He confides to photographer Peter Parker, who's covering the team for a human interest story, that one of them, Bret Jackson, isn't performing up to his previous levels.

But why?

As Spider-Man, Peter recruits the X-Men's Storm to trail a couple of suspicious fellows who are supplying cigarettes to Bret and other kids!

Though Ororo eludes detection by flying after the creeps, she's caught when entering their headquarters...

Now that the story's concluded, the comic presents the reader with a quandry...

What would you do, True Believer?

If you're still undecided, perhaps this back cover by John Romita Sr, will sway you...

And, as a final treat, here's the inside front cover with some background about the three heroes...

Penciled by Herb Trimpe and inked by Joe Giella, Marvel's Spider-Man, Storm and Power Man (1982) was commissioned by the American Cancer Society to discourage 'tween and teen smoking.

Oddly, the writer is unknown, but is suspected to be an ACS staffer.
Now here's where it gets wild...
Years later, the American Cancer Society reprinted the comic.
But, within a couple of months, it commissioned Marvel to re-do it...using the exact same script!

See the Result...

Tomorrow!

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SPIDER-MAN, STORM AND POWER MAN "vs SmokeScreen" Part 1

Here's a hard-to-find educational giveaway comic that was both reprinted several year later...

...then re-presented that same year!
(We'll go into that tomorrow...)

Between chapters is "Window Shopping Fun"...

The Story Concludes...

TOMORROW!

Penciled by Herb Trimpe and inked by Joe Giella, Marvel's Spider-Man, Storm and Power Man (1982) was commissioned by the American Cancer Society to discourage 'tween and teen smoking.

Oddly, the writer is unknown, but is suspected to be an ACS staffer.

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CoronaVirus Comics GREEN LANTERN "Disease!!"

During World War II, one of the most pressing homefront problems...

...was shortages of desperately-needed materials, including medical supplies!

Co-creators Bill Finger (writer) and Mart Nodell (illustrator) incorporate enough plot twists in this tale from DC's Green Lantern #1 (1941) to fill several stories by other creatives!

Unlike, say, the Green Hornet (who was considered a criminal by both the cops and the underworld) the Green Lantern was a hero...but one who didn't mind "bending" the law in a good cause!

One can only imagine what today's lawyers would do in response to his actions...

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CoronaVirus Comics SUPERMAN "The Last Days of Superman!"

Our recent blogathon featured a never-reprinted 1968 mini-series based on....

...the-often reprinted 1962 book-length tale shown above, which was based on the following never-reprinted post-Golden Age story from DC's Superman #66 (1950)!

BTW, in pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths canon, stories published before 1956 were considered to be tales of Earth-Two versions of Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman/etc!

You'd think a story this momentous would rate the cover, right?

Nope!

The cover's totally-unrelated to any story in the comic, although it was seasonally-appropriate since the issue came out late summer-early autumn, during baseball season!

Illustrated by Al Plastino and Stan Kaye, and scripted by...someone (we don't know who), this was a reworking of an Adventures of Superman radio show storyline, though we haven't tracked down which specific one it was.

Trivia: All three versions indicate they are "real" (Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Story!) and were all part of "official" continuity for the Earth-One and Earth-Two Supermen!

Why do three variations on the same story?

DC's editors believed the comics audience changed every few years as kids supposedly-outgrew reading them, so a story could be reworked six-seven years after initial publication and appear "fresh and original" to the "new" fans!

Lord knows what they'd think of today's comics fans and collectors, some of whom are senior citizens!

And no, I'm not telling you how old I am...

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