Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #6!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:45:04 +0000

I really liked that timesplit/Dominus storyline.

By: Captain Zorikh

Captain Zorikh — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:19:30 +0000

And oh, yeah, Marvel had come out with their Captain AMrvel in 1967, years before DC acquired the Fawcett character, but right after Myron Fass had shut down his short-lived Captain Marvel” title. In the Marvel Masterworks edition, Roy Thomas says publisher MArtin Goodman thought that Marvel Comics ought to have its own Captain Marvel, and told Stan Lee to create one.

By: Captain Zorikh

Captain Zorikh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:01:04 +0000

It’s amazing how much misinformation there is out there about the DC Comics’ relationship with Captain MArvel. I don’t think Fawcett sold All their other characters to Charlton, otherwise how would DC have been able to use them in the JLA/JSA crossover issue in the 1970′s which brought back Spy Smasher, Mr. Scarlet, Ibis, etc? Or did they have to make a deal with Charlton for those characters, since Charlton was still going strong at that time?

I do know that Charlton did print some already-drawn Hoppy the Marvel Bunny stories, although they changed some details and called in “Happy, the Magic Bunny.”

Carmine Infantino, publisher of DC at the time, tells me that it was his idea, in 1972, to bring back The Big Red Cheese, just ’cause he wanted to, called up Fawcett, and they said to make them an offer. He thinks they were just happy to get rid of him. The purchjase of the rights of the character did happen later, after he was gone from the company.

Captain Zorikh
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By: Superecwfan1

Superecwfan1 — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:09:19 +0000

Now that Superman/Jewish controversy was a funny story. They didn’t wanna offend but here they cleary did . Why even do a story set in that era if it caused that much worry anyhow ?

I read an old…old…old interview ( Wizard maybe ) where Mark Bagley stated he got his start in New Universe. I don’t think he ever told how. Maybe Marvel should do more tryout books since that one seemingly delieverd 2 to 3 stars to the industry.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:04:26 +0000

Actually, it was the Dominus storyline right after Superman lost the ‘Electric Superman’ powers that the rumour refers to. Dominus was a cosmic being that split the timeline into 4 distinct ones that Superman had to live through to see some purpose through for Dominus. Time & Time Again was a far different (and better) tale where a fight with a Linear Man sent Superman hurtling through time. One of his stops, coincidentally enough, was in WW II where he saved a Jewish convoy from death at the hands of the Nazis, led by an immortal named Mr. Z, who would plague Superman in his home era of the 1990′s.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:22:18 +0000

Yeah, the Time and Time Again storyline was a different time travel storyline. It was in the Superman titles of (VERY late 1990, but mainly) 1991. It was a really good crossover, I thought.

By: DiRT

DiRT — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:14:22 +0000

Uh… Ben? “Time and Time Again” came out around 1993/1994.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:38:31 +0000

“In 1998, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Supermanâ€™s first appearance, the Superman titles tried an interesting idea.

Each title would depict Superman in a different â€œera.â€”

THAT was the basis of the “Time and Time Again” storyline? Boy, that was subtle.