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Jordi Bernet at third clue! The father was Miquel Bernet ("Jorge"), he's Spanish and the series he took from Alex Toth is Torpedo 1936

The issue after each issue pictured was not fully completed by the respective creative teams that had been on each series since each #1.

What an awkward sentence construction.

For the cover homage, there is Deadpool #51:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=89610&zoom=4

That's the only one I remember now.

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

superman is officially the most generous man in comicdom - a one-of-a kind watch for his pal jimmy, alien ice for the billionaire bat who has everything...

oh, and - oracle was a freakin' LIBRARIAN. if she doesn't beat batman at scrabble she should be ashamed of herself!

There's also Blue Devil #14
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=40172&zoom=4

Another homage is Detective Comics 554

A homage to Detective 38 I remember is Kobalt #4 (DC/Milestone Sep 1994).

The first Detective 38 homage that comes to mind for me is Blue Devil #14 from 1985. Holy crap, that was twenty-two years ago. Now I feel old. Thanks.

I had no idea librarians were exceptional spellers.

Maybe if the contest were who can organize the Dewey Decimal system I'd side with Babs, but somehow, I'd take the Bat in just about everything.

I mean, Barbara would just go "Oh boy, a fun game of Scrabble with the boys!" Batman would study the dictionary the night before.

Quick side note: How come Bart Allen isn't considrerd one of the smartest people in the DCU? Sure, he's only been alive for. what, 9 years (how many times has he been aged?), but the sheer prospect of reading at super speed and being able to keep all the knowledgee would make me put him right up there with anyone else.

Bart's never been just "aged"--he's lived through the time he spent, in one form or another. (He spent his formative years in a high-speed VR simulator that was able to keep up with his super-speedy perceptions, so to him it was like he lived in real time, and the time he spent in the Speed Force during Infinite Crisis, he lived through.)

And yes, librarians do tend to be exceptional spellers, because they tend to be voracious readers, and reading a lot helps your spelling. But I agree that Batman would win, because he's so hyper-competitive. Any guy who spends his free time thinking up ways to sneak up on Superman is a man who doesn't like losing.

Batman was expelled from the Scrabble tournament for continually trying add the letters BAT to words like Computer, Plane and Shark Repellant.

Babs beats Bruce at Scrabble, hands-down. She's established as *literally* having the rare ability of "photographic memory" (which, btw, is probably rare enough in real life that it'd be considered "metahuman" in the DCU.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_memory

Bruce has a highly *trained* memory, and could probably beat lots of people at Scrabble... just not Babs.

The issue after each issue pictured was not fully completed by the respective creative teams that had been on each series since each #1.

Unfortunately Erik Larsen wasn't on the first 6 issues of Doom Patrol.

My guess is real-time comics. Erik Larsen (the artist of the Doom Patrol issue) does Savage Dragon which runs in real time. Grant Morrison (writer and guest star of the Animal Man issue) works on 52 which runs in real time. I've no idea about the Firestorm comic, but that's still my guess!

As for the cover homage, how about Detective Comics 554?
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=40453&zoom=2

Yes, Babs is the better speller, but Batman is a master strategist, so he would make a plan to take up the valuable pieces of land on the scabble board. He'd triple word score the hell out of her.

Good point Chris. Can't forget about the triple word score.

Also, I in no way meant that Babs is a poor speller, I just think that "She's a librarian, so she must be the superior speller" is faulty logic.

And clearly, I would lose in a scrabble game to either of them, since I can't even spell "scabble".

Writers, then. Last issue completed solo by the writer of the respective volumes to that point.

Writers, then. Last issue completed solo by the writer of the respective volumes to that point.

Sorry - Paul Kupperberg went to issue 18

And Conway stayed on for a bit after that issue, too.

Wasn't he still writing it at #50?

The cover to Doom Patrol #42 featured the Sensational Character-Find of 1991, Flex Mentallo. That's an homage to the wording, if not the layout.

A couple Detective #38 homages that I don't think have been mentioned yet...

In The Bizarro World collection, there is the story with Batman and Monkey, the Monkey Wonder where there's a panel homage.

Also, in an episode of Teen Titans, Beast Boy wears Robin's outfit and jumps thru a hoop that Starfire is holding, with text above saying Beast Bpy is the sensational character find of 1965.

Image of that here: http://www.titanstower.com/assets/animated/episodes/quest/detective38comp.jpg

Cover Connection: Appearances by comic book creators within the book. Sorry, I have nothing else.

I think each of those covers featured a character who got killed in Suicide Squad.

Kupperberg may have stayed on Doom Patrol for a little longer, but the next issue had a back-up story, making it (I assume) the first issue in the run that featured a story that he solely write. And I have no idea if Conway ended up finishing out the run, but the next issue (possibly a fill-in) had a different scripter, according to GCD.

Unfortunately, checking more closely, it looks like there had been some issues scripted by another writer a few issues earlier in the run, leaving me to distill my answer to the (wholly accurate!): The issue following each of those pictured contains a story scripted by someone other than the person who scripted issue #1 of the same volume and most of the intervening issues, including the issues pictured.

But I'm gathering that is not the answer you were seeking!

Earlier in the run of Firestorm, that is. I didn't make that clear.

One more cover homage for Detective #38: Superman Adventures #38 by Manley.

All three covers feature characters who got killed in Suicide Squad? (Mindboggler and Grant Morrison I know for sure, and I think that the scrap-metal guy in the UPC box on the Doom Patrol issue also counts.)

Of course Batman would win at Scrabble. He cheats.

My wife's a librarian, and I beat her at Scrabble on a regular basis. Batman would cheat.

The Doom Patroller killed in Suicide Squad is Karma, the punk fella on that cover. He died int he same issue as Grant "The Writer" Morrison.

Cover Homage:

Flash Comics #92 is techically a homage to that Batman cover, if only for the drum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bcgolden.PNG

The Cover Theme Game:

The writers of all three of these books have all at one time written Justice League of America. Paul Kupperberg wrote various stories throughout the books incarnations, Grant Morrison wrote the Big 7 revival in the 90s, and Gerry Conway wrote Satellite League books.

Perhaps a better question would be who wins in a game of Risk: Batman or Lex Luthor? Since they would presumably both cheat, who would cheat better?

also for the cover homage:

Detective Comics # 554:

http://www.canarynoir.com/pix/tec554.jpg

or how bout "The Justice League Hereby Elects...":
http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/images/G/GN1268.jpg

here's one that I came about by acident. Im not sure what it is, but I'll put it here:

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/335/tec38parody.gif

those good enough

Batman would win, of course, by punching his opponent in the face.

ONE PUNCH!

ONE PUNCH!

Grant Morrison got killed in Suicide Squad?

That's awesome. I want to be eaten alive by Doop.

With regard to Flash #92, Detective #554, and the "Hereby Elects" cover: Rather than an homage to Detective #38, it might be more accurate to say that they use the same cover motif, in this case the "breaking through a hoop" motif. In my opinion, an homage usually has amore specific resemblance to its source.

But I would consider Detective #554 to be an homage to Flash #92, since the characters' poses are very similar.

Damn - I just noticed that at least three of us have said Detective 554 - and I wasn't the first.

Grant Morrison was killed while a member of Suicide Squad, which is not exactly the same as being IN Suicide Squad.

It happened in the Eclipso comic, long after Suicide Squad left us.

Morrison died in Suicide Squad #58, not in Eclipso, when he suffered an attack of writer's block just as one of Circe's werebeasts attacked him.

A guess -- all three issues feature characters who were either dead or presumed dead making a return?

Oh, and I'd just like it on record that Jimmy Olsen is awesome, and I'd love to write a comic of him. Cub reporter hustling for a scoop, busting crime, clever, good-hearted, a master of disguise (something the writers didn't always handle well, but I'd make use of it if I was writing the character), and when he does get in over his head?

Zeee, zeee, zeeeeee...Superman, baby.

That's a great comic. (I'll be talking about it later in the 'Storytelling Engines' series, natch.)

SO basically Detective 554--while similar to Detective 38 is more a homage to Flash Comics #92...

And did I read unfortunately Erik Larsen did not draw the first 8 issues of Doom PAtrol?
That should be unfrotunately he started drawing Doom Patrol...

"Morrison died in Suicide Squad #58, not in Eclipso, when he suffered an attack of writer’s block just as one of Circe’s werebeasts attacked him."

It can't be too hard to type up "I get away fine", can it?

Cover theme:

My guess is that all covers feature characters that later evolved... Lodestone from the Doom Patrol was changed into something "extra-human" by Grant Morrison. Animal Man became some sort of "Animal God" thing after Jamie Delano left the book and Firestorm became a fire elemental and left Earth.

Second guess is characters who've left Earth: Buddy, Firestorm and former cosmonaut Valentina Vostok as Negative Woman...

Third guess: Once-dead partners (and worse)

Arani Caulder thought her husband, The Chief was dead, Ellen Baker was buried and in the ground and Professor Stein was shuffled off the mortal coil for a long time as well. Of course, all three were later brought back to life. And now Celsius is "probably" dead, Ronnie Raymond is dead and dead again (maybe) and I've lost count as to how many times Buddy Baker has died... 4?

Took me for-freaking-ever to find this cover homage, but I knew it was in the back of my brain somewhere. Of course, I was looking at the wrong movie...