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Edge & Christian posted:

It's not really that early, it looks like it's from Penthouse Comix, which came out in the mid 1990s. I don't know what exactly was going on with them, but they had Keith Giffen and Adam Hughes and Kevin Maguire and all these other talented people doing really uninspired softcore porno comics.
Reportedly they were paying crazy money, so of course it didn't last long.

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JohnThermos posted:

Who wrote that? I mean, I have my suspicions but I need them confirmed for me.

Why, do you suspect Roy & Dann Thomas have an odd marriage?

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JunkSorcerer posted:

There's something about completely out-of-context comic book panels that is just inherantly funny; I've been noticing that a lot recently.

Er, yeah. Welcome to BSS, you should probably check out the old funny panel threads as well.

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It's on the last page.

Edge & Christian posted:

It's not really that early, it looks like it's from Penthouse Comix, which came out in the mid 1990s. I don't know what exactly was going on with them, but they had Keith Giffen and Adam Hughes and Kevin Maguire and all these other talented people doing really uninspired softcore porno comics.

Amazing Dough posted:

Could be. Isn't that Hericane from the "Young Captain Adventure" strip in Penthouse Comix? He illustrated most if not all of those, I think.
But good luck getting a psycho feminist to read Penthouse Comix.

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gothfae posted:

Fortunatly the act of tearing the tape from my lips only made them more red and rosy and so succulent, even slightly puffy, increasing my allure as I battle for Justice in this man's world.

Maybe John Byrne is right and all reboots should go back to the original intent of a character's creator.

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Even Grant would have to shake his head at that and say "Man I know I've written some crazy things but that right there is just messed up"

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CapnAndy posted:

Here's what I'm wondering -- and I mean, I'm really wondering this, like I'd like a history lesson if anyone knows the answer. Why the gently caress did DC keep publishing this book? If I'm a DC executive in the 60s thinking about what characters to revamp and which ones to leave in the dustbin of history, BSDM Monthly is way at the bottom of my "revamp" list.

Well don't forget, for a long time the arrangment with Marston/the Marston estate was that DC (well, All American/National Comics) only retained ownership of the character as long as they published a Wonder Woman comic every month, which is why it kept coming even though its sales were dismally low for a long, long time. That's no longer the case (they own WW free and clear now), but it explains why the comic was never cancelled.

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Ununnilium posted:

Because it kept selling.
I answered this question already in the thread, and this is incorrect. It didn't stop publishing for entirely different reasons, because its sales actually sucked for a long long time.

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Ununnilium posted:

But then, if the sales were so terrible, why did they even care about keeping the rights to the character?

DC is not in the habit of letting characters they own get away from them, and because then, as now, a lot of the value in owning those characters can come from exploitation in other media and in licensing.

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Ununnilium posted:

But would it really have been worth publishing a monthly comic that sold terribly just to hang on to a character who - at the time - wasn't being used in other media?

Evidently, since that's what they decided to do.

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Hermey Elf, D.D.S posted:

I think it was JLA back then. :patriot:

No, that panel's from JLI. Rocket Red didn't join until it was JLI, and Beetle was never in the old JLA.

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TheSpookyDanger posted:

One was a black girl of no relation (goes by pulsar now i think)

Monica Rambeau is in Nextwave now.

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Ninja Gamer posted:

On a rest room wall:

Just Imagine Stan Lee's WAITING FOR GODOT

Radish posted:

I want to know the context that makes that make sense.

It's Japanese.

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Not a funny panel so much as a funny story--the 'secret origin' of the Legends Of The Superheroes specials from which my avatar is derived:
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_02_09.html#012903

quote:

One day, [Joe] Barbera was in a network meeting proposing idea after idea for specials, tossing out jokes and concepts and ideas with machine-gun precision. Finally, as the hour grew late, the network guy said, "Okay, we'll buy two hours," and Barbera quickly left. That's how you sell. When they say yes, you get the hell out before they have time to think it over and take it back. So J.B. got the hell out and an hour or two later, the guys from the network called over to H-B and said, "Uh, this is embarrassing and we are going to honor the commitment — but there were so many ideas flying around that room. Just what was it we agreed to buy?" And of course, the punch line was that Barbera wasn't sure, either.

A reader of this site named Joe Wilson, who I assume is not the one wed to Valerie Plame, wrote to ask if I knew what the two shows were that resulted from that pitch session. I do. They were two live-action super-hero comedy specials that ran on NBC in 1979. They were done while I was working for the studio but I had nothing to do with them except that Mr. B., aware that I knew a little about the comics, occasionally stopped me in the hall to say, "Wait'll you see the costumes." I did glimpse the gent in the Hawkman suit one day as he posed for photos in the parking lot and it was pretty darn impressive, at least in person.

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Well, there's never been an official release but I'm sure you could probably find the rest floating around online somewhere, at least on youtube or one of its many competitors.

Also:

Note too that the leash will kill Krypto, not just confine him. Good thinking there, Superboy!

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McGravin posted:


vvv But still, how did Superboy get the leash on him?
I assume it was a hoax, or a dream, or an imaginary story, or an impostor posing as Superboy, or Red K made him hate Krypto and also made him temporarily immune to Green K, or something equally implausible. With DC in the 50s (especially in the Superman franchise), logic wasn't an issue.

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The Legion is pretty gay.

"Dude, what happened to the reacharound I was promised?"


Broadway tunes was the first clue.

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Maybe it's Mr. Mind.

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In ths thread I continue working my way through old Legion comics.


That guy in the last panel is Paul Levitz.

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He'd make a better Black Lightning. He was even in Luthor's cabinet!

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"Plus I can pee standing up. Oh snap, sorry."

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Ain't nothin' hardly funny 'bout an improvised explosive device.

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http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=945

Dinosaur Comics is awesome.

alt-text: "if you don't rescue me then i'm gonna get cheesed off, okay?"

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The common element of deviantart: horrible ideas.