Comic Book Legends Revealed
Comic Book Legends Revealed #378
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-seventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn how close Bill Finger came to receiving credit for the Tim Burton Batman film! Plus, was Warren Ellis’ City of Silence originally intended for Marvel Comics? And what is the deal with Douglock and Cyberlock?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #377
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-seventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, did DC Comics temporarily cancel Detective Comics in the late 1970s? Did Batman nearly crossover with Jon Sable during the 1980s? Finally, marvel at the bizarre tale of Batman writer Bill Finger’s granddaughter.
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #376
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, did William Marston give Wonder Woman a lie-detecting lasso of truth? Plus, what comic book did Warren Ellis turn his non-Comics Code approved Satana script into? And what comic book did Ivan Velez Jr. have to remove parodies of Archie Comics from?
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WARNING: AS THE NON-COMICS CODE APPROVED THING MIGHT SUGGEST, THERE ARE SOME PAGES HERE THAT ARE QUITE GRAPHIC. BE FOREWARNED!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #375
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, did DC Comics do an anti-drug storyline in a 1990s Batman comic at the behest of the government? Plus, a Marvel comic in the 1990s killed by the Comics Code! Also, an interesting “crossover” in DC Comics where Supergirl hears other books in the New 52!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #374
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-fourth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, was Rorschach originally going to appear in DC’s Countdown: Arena mini-series? Plus, discover one of the most mind-blowingly complicated easter eggs you’ll see from the pages of Superman! Finally, did a cartoonist coin the term “McCarthyism”?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #373
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventy-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, did Superman first fly by ACCIDENT? Also, how did Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes inadvertently inspire a classic Spider-Man story? Finally, which Titan was ORIGINALLY going to die in Infinite Crisis #4?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #372
Welcome to the three hundred and seventy-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, speaking of Before Watchmen, check out the tale of Dave Gibbons’ days as a costumed superhero during the 1970s, well before Watchmen. Also, did William Marston have Wonder Woman begin to exclaim “Sufferin’ Sappho!” as a protest of Frederic Wertham? Finally, how close were we to seeing Jim Starlin take on the OTHER Captain Marvel?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #371
Welcome to the three hundred and seventy-first in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn whether Marvel actually had a ban on the words “hell” and “damn” in the early 1990s. Plus, did Ray Bradbury really write the classic EC Comic story “Judgment Day”? And was Larry Hama really THAT nice to G.I. Joe fans during the 1980s?!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #370
Welcome to the three hundredth and seventieth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn whether Black Cat was nearly killed early on in her comic career…by J. Jonah Jameson!? Plus, a decade before he co-created Asterix, see Uderzo draw…Captain Marvel Jr.?! In Belgium?! Finally, the story of how Dave Sim nearly worked on a Fables comic story.
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #369
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. I believe this is almost exactly the seven-year anniversary of the column (June 3, 2005 to now, June 1, 2012). Nuts. Anyhow, this week is a theme week. Talking animal comics!! Discover the possible comic origin of Donald Duck! Find out where Bucky O’Hare almost debuted! And finally, marvel at how Marvel nearly had a Spider-Ham comic book….by Dave Sim!!!!!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #368
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, an unexpected theme developed. Comics that are so bad that they’re good! This week, learn of how Evel Knievel inadvertently led to one of the oddest (yet awesomest) Marvel Comics of the late 1970s/early 1980s. Also, an amazing tale of how the first issue of that title was made! Plus, did the Thing show up before Fantastic Four #1?!?!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #367
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-seventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, learn of the production of Julius Caesar with costumes designed by Jack Kirby, discover the Spider-Man “wardrobe malfunction” that got Marvel Comics in a bit of jam and find out just how much involvement Hasbro had in Larry Hama’s writing style on G.I. Joe.
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #366
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week is a special All-G.I. Joe legends edition! Was Ghost Rider a member of G.I. Joe?! Was longtime G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama’s band the real life “Cold Slither?” And was there an issue of G.I. Joe written and drawn over a DECADE before it saw print?
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #365
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-fifth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, in honor of the opening of the Avengers this weekend, it is an ALL-AVENGERS EDITION! Discover the Avengers issue that was edited at the last minute because of a possibly ribald sequence in the original story, learn whether Stan Lee wrote the Captain America theme song and marvel at how the Comics Code changed Captain America’s origin!
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Comic Book Legends Revealed #364
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-fourth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, learn whether Luke Cage was nearly an Avenger almost 15 years before he actually joined the team, find out if Jemm was originally not the Son of Saturn but the Son of a much closer planet and discover the real life war hero who was fighting in a war and appearing in a comic strip at the same time!
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