..covers featuring the Spectre!
Spectre #8 and #9 (January-February and March-April, 1969)
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A blog about comic books, and enjoying the stories, characters and creators of them...and occasionally subjects that relate to comic books as well.
..covers featuring the Spectre!
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Here, with covers by Al Feldstein, are the three EC annuals for Tales Of Terror...and, horror of horrors, each issue could be different, as they just contained bound volumes of 4 unsold EC issues from 1951, 1952 and 1953!
Adam Warlock was a character that started as "Him" in the Fantastic Four and Thor, finding his way to his own series, with adventures on a Counter-Earth...at least for a bit. Then, Jim Starlin worked on Warlock in Strange Tales and soon a revival series, making Warlock a little more cosmic, introducing allies such as Pip the Troll and Gamora, as well as facing foes like the Magus, Thanos, the In-Betweener, the Gardner, the Stranger...and cancellation. This epic wrapped up (after a detour to Marvel Team-Up) in Avengers Annual and Marvel Two-In-One Annual in the 1970s.
In the 1980s, Marvel, cashing in on the high quality Baxter reprints, reprinted this saga, but with the wraparound covers. as seen below!
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But, he was due for a revival in a big way, and here is a look at two of the issues that established the new normal (if Joker could ever be considered normal) for the Clown Prince Of Crime well until the Crisis On Infinite Earths...
Also important here, is that the Joker establishes that he enjoys his battles with the Batman...
Still, as always, the two spar and there's a twist at the end.