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I Love Ya But You’re Strange Archive
This is a collection of all the past I Love Ya But You’re Strange installments! I Love Ya But You’re Strange is about looking at instances in comic book history where somewhat strange occurrences took place. The slightly odd stuff like, say, Luke Cage telling Doctor Doom “Where’s my money, honey” after Doctor Doom stiffs him on a gig. Stuff that is not BAD, per se, but it’s still odd, hence “I love ya, but you’re strange.”
1. A 1965 issue of Journey Into Mystery where Thor gets caught up in the Vietnam War.
2. An issue of Spidey Super-Stories where Spider-Man has to face Thanos…in the Thanos-copter!?!?!
5. Superman uses an amnesiac to teach Lois Lane a lesson
6. Barry Allen uses Mirror Master’s tools to mess with Iris West’s mind.
7. Luke Cage stars in a really offbeat take on A Christmas Carol. REALLY offbeat.
8. Superman and Jimmy Olsen encounter a world based on horror movies
9. Batman and Robin…mummy crime fighters!
10. Luke Cage travels to Latveria to collect $200 that Doctor Doom owes him.
12. Some guy is really, really obsessed with gorillas and their dark, dark souls.
13. Wasp and She-Hulk assign their fellow Avengers points for “hunkiness”
15. Superman pretends to murder a guy to get Lois to marry some other fellow
16. Aquaman helps Aqualad cheat on a test
17. Evil Girl Legionnaire Dance Party (as they celebrate getting rid of their male counterparts)
18. Man plays poker with letters as the stakes. But what’s the deal with the letters?!?!
20. Batman gets a new partner – Owlman (who is just Dick Grayson artificially aged)
21. A man gets a killer robot and learns a lesson about love
22. Aquaman fights a giant killer bunny rabbit!
23. Batman Jones makes his glorious debut!
24. Human Torch gains super-strength from his flames (of COURSE)!
25. The Legion of Super-Heroes lets the pet of one of its member pick their next leader.
26. Country folk mistake Jimmy Olsen for Superman since Jimmy is wearing Superman’s costume
27. Wonder Woman gets dumped by a hideous monster (that does not nearly describe how weird the story is)
28. A hilariously awful mystery involving the “LL” characters in Superman’s life.
29. Robert Kanigher personally fires the supporting cast of Wonder Woman
30. Gargantus is defeated by mankind’s best friend…faulty science!
31. Superman and Supergirl’s disturbing “play-acting”
32. Griping confuses alien invaders!
33. Ace the Bat-Hound narrates a story.
35. The worst “shock” ending ever?
36. That time Supergirl and Wonder Woman gave up being superheroes because it is too “manly”
37. Hey Kids, Look! In This Issue, Captain America Gives a Lesson On Superhero Ethics! Fun!
38. That Time Thor Nuked China
39. That Time Batgirl and Wonder Woman Fought Over Batman’s Love
40. That Time Supergirl’s “Man of Her Dreams” Turned Out to be a Woman
41. That Time Supergirl Made Out With Her Horse
42. That Time Punisher Was a Black Guy
43. That Time Lois Lane ALSO Made Out With Supergirl’s Horse
44. That Time Doctor Doom Tried to Force Himself on a Latverian Peasant Girl
45. Fun With Literary Classics
46. That Time Batman Fought…Thor?!!?
47. That Time Jann Wenner Interviewed Daredevil
48. That Time Batman Transformed into Bat-Baby
49. That Time Wonder Woman Worked at Taco Bell
50. That Time Spider-Man Killed Mary Jane With His Radioactive Sperm
52. The Avengers Visit Letterman!
54. Jarvis’ Bizarre Fascination with Jack Russell, Werewolf by Night
56. Time Traveling Theodore Roosevelt Versus Time Traveling Hitler!
57. That Time Angel Turned Evil Because of Radiation and Then Beat Iron Man Up
58. That Time a Bird Nearly Exposed Wonder Woman’s Secret Identity
59. What if Charlie Brown Turned Into a Giant Cockroach?
60. Erotica, Williams-Sonoma Style
61. The Justice League Goes to French Class
62. That Time the Husband of Wonder Woman’s Exact Double Handcuffed Her to a Table
63. That Time Superman Dressed as Giant Bird to Protect His Secret Identity
64. Meet Batman’s Moron College Friends
65. Lois Lane’s Jekyll and Hyde Moment
66. Other Vehicles Talk Smack to Wonder Woman’s Robot Plane
67. Justice League…Antarctica?!?
68. I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Spider-Man’s Parents Turned Out to Be Robots
69. That Time Herbie Made Jackie Kennedy Swoon
70. Ice Maiden’s Strange Sexual Journey
71. That Time Sgt. Rock’s Gun Narrated a Story
72. The Teen Titans Go to Hippieville, U.S.A.
73. That Time Cap Was Obsessed With Nick Fury “Wanting” Him!
74. Milk and Cheese Celebrate Their Anniversary
75. That Time Lois Lane Planned to Beat Up Wonder Woman to Woo Superman
76. Batman and Catwoman in a Battle of Bad Puns
77. DC Superheroes Know Surprisingly Little About AIDS
78. Fin Fang Foom Put You In His Pants
79. Aunt May…Herald of Galactus?!
80. That Time Jimmy Olsen Spanked Superman
81. “Yeah, Sure, You Can Be Batman for a Night”
82. That Time Gen13 Met Betty, Veronica, Wolverine, Shi, Archie, Katchoo, Hellboy, Madman…
83. Howard the Duck and Machine Man Come to OUR World
84. Is that Lois Lane or a Little Girl? I Can’t Tell the Difference!
85. Batman and Plastic Man Have a Buttlegging Christmas!
86. Chuck Norris #1, the Greatest Comic Book Steve Ditko Ever Drew?
87. Spider-Man’s Greatest Ally, Razorback!
88. That Time Superboy’s Robot Teacher Got Him Laid
89. The Metal Men Answer Their Critics
90. Silver Age Lois Lane Meets a Man Who Somehow Has More Issues Than Silver Age Lois Lane
91. The Strange Greatness of Willworld!
92. The X-Men and the Case of the Exploding Communion Wafers
93. That Time Superman Gained the Ability to Shoot Mini-Supermen Out of His Hands
94. Obnoxio the Clown Versus the X-Men
95. Women in Charge? Talk About a Mystery in Space!
96. How Did It Take Until 1992 For Kid ‘n’ Play To Get Their Own Comic Book Series?
97. That Time ALF Crossed Over With Marvel’s Summer Crossover
98. That Time Dave Gibbons Drew Doctor Manhattan in a Zapping Contest With Electro
99. The Sensational Character Find of 1993 – The Battling Bantam!
100. That Time Evil Baby Lois Lane Tried to Force Baby Superman to Marry Her
23 Comments
CRG
August 7, 2011 at 4:20 pm
You should talk to Scott Shaw.
Clayton Emery
August 8, 2011 at 7:26 am
I’m glad these are loving tributes. Nothing I hate more than when modern readers read Silver Age stuff and go, “This is soooo stupid!” They were disposable entertainment for 8-12 year olds. And compared to what was on television…
Nate
August 22, 2011 at 7:25 am
I read the Luke Cage issues back when they came out. As a 9-year-old, $200 seemed like a lot of money, so why not go chase it down? These days it sounds like a lot less money, so the story seems a lot more bizarre…
Philip A Moore
August 28, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I like these selections but miss the story line that even twenty years later read as the most bizarre story ever told by anyone that was Animal Man coma kid story were he wakes up from a coma in another in an alternate reality with uges to do minimalistic things the first cliff hanger was Animal Man eating the throat of policeman’s horse it also had him regurgitate his breakfast all over his family it was story directly after Morrison’s run . which was strange but this still was the most bizarre story ever told I would love to see DC reprint it .
mckracken
September 5, 2011 at 1:23 am
best column ever!
Most people forget how many wonderful stories from the Silver Age are out there!
And that they can compete with anything Moore or Morrison has done!
Now could you do the same with the Golden Age?
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ma-nuh ma-nuh
January 14, 2012 at 9:14 am
no mention of the Punisher becomes a black guy storyline
Layla Miller
January 14, 2012 at 9:41 am
I was expecting to see The Invisibles or other weird Morrison madness on this list!
Ken Leonard
January 14, 2012 at 11:23 am
How about the Avengers’ appearance on David Letterman?
Ken
January 30, 2012 at 6:55 am
Thor nuked China is advertised .. however not linked ..
Travis Pelkie
April 15, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Man oh man, I read T’s comments here, forgetting who wrote the WW at Taco Bell stuff for a minute, and my heart stopped briefly. “T is praising Jeph Loeb? Is it still April 1? Are the Mayans right that the earth is ending? What?” Then I remembered that Wm Messner-Loebs wrote the WW stuff, and then all was right in my world again. Whew!!
blackphoenix
April 22, 2012 at 4:44 am
God I love this archive.
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Wilder Chairs
May 7, 2012 at 7:10 am
The newest articles aren’t showing up on this list
blackphoenix
September 2, 2012 at 4:17 am
There needs to be a book made out of this.
MikeK
September 4, 2012 at 7:03 am
1. Spider-man drives a Spider-Moblie (dune buggy). What the? Good thing that is buried in the ocean somewhere.
2. Norman Osborne knocking up Gwen Stacy. And she gave birth to twins! Worst storyline ever!
MikeK
September 4, 2012 at 7:05 am
The time that Wonder Woman fought a giant egg (Egg Fu?)
Zor-El of Argo
October 13, 2012 at 1:30 pm
How about the time time pregnant Lois died from internal bleeding as a result of being kicked by the super-baby she was carrying? It was in one of the Superman annuals from the Armageddon 2000 crossover event.
Jon
November 17, 2012 at 10:26 am
Shall we understand that all comments regarding linking from the front page to an index page instead of the article itself will be deleted on sight? Because there were quite a few last time I visited this page.
Travis Pelkie
November 18, 2012 at 4:09 am
Well, it seems like some comments got deleted, because my comment up above is talking about a T comment that isn’t there. I’m not crazy, I swear!
Brian Cronin
November 18, 2012 at 4:28 am
You’re mistaken. It was a different archive comments section that a couple of folks were making said comments. They’re all still there.
norman728
January 3, 2013 at 6:02 am
I think the strangest spider-man story was him lost in suburbia chasing a criminal and with no tall buildings couldn’t web swing and was relegated to finding alternate means of moving across town being harrased all the way.