Something a little different this time around...as the Super-Blog Team-Up gave total freedom to us with just four rather generic categories, and a pick from each one of us...and never was there a more difficult assignment...doing what I think as opposed to just facts or neat things encountered on the way...
...still, here...we...go!
Classic Pick: One covered before, but worth some love here...
Justice League Of America #144 (July, 1977), story by
Steve Englehart, art by
Dick Dillin and
Frank McLaughlin. An early attempt at "retroactive continuity", putting all the characters in action just before the introduction of the JLA....and keeping to the period it was set in. The basis for
Darwyn Cooke's
New Frontier, and truly a classic!
Read more about it here!
Dollar Bin Classic: To be fair, not quite a dollar bin book now, but it was for a long time...the 1970s revival of the Challengers of the Unknown in
Super-Team Family #8 (December-January, 1976/1977), with a cover by
Rich Buckler and
Jack Abel, and interiors by
Steve Skeates,
James Sherman and
Jack Abel...my introduction to the Challengers of the Unknown (Pilot Ace Morgan, Boxer Rocky Davis, scientist Prof Haley and acrobat Red Ryan, along with finally in a costume and counted as a member June Robbins), the team was assigned by President Ford to find Henry Kissinger in the Bermuda Triangle. There, they find a Tribunal from people from many different times...and dinosaurs!
Comics from a bygone era (and this site should have more Challengers love!).
Collectors Key: This was a hard one to narrow down, and this week its
DC Comics Presents #26 (October, 1980). Not for the Superman/Green Lantern team up, or the Whatever Happened To Sargon? (though loved them both), but for the introduction of
Marv Wolfman and
George Perez's New Teen Titans. Raven shows up and gives Robin a dream introduction to his future team (including Cyborg, Starfire and Changeling), and comics were changed forever!
Nice thing is, I've covered this before too, and you can look around for a facsimile edition of this issue as well (plus the Titans story has been reprinted many times....)
Personal Fave New Title: This was probably the hardest of all...for a minute. To be honest, many things have been considered, but I went with a whole line...DC Finest. Collections of large amounts of DC Comics, ranging from Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League of America, Titans and more, a fledgling line of novel sized reprints that give you roughly 20 to 30 issues of the title character, and what a ride these books are. Two favorites (so far): the Western volume, The Hangman Never Loses, featuring stories from
All-Star Western #2-8,
#10 and
#11,
Super DC Giant #15,
Weird Western Tales #12-17 and
Tomahawk #130-140, with the Outlaw, El Diablo, Hawk Son of Tomahawk, Firehair and Jonah Hex; and Aquaman volume, the King Of Atlantis, featuring small stories from
Adventure Comics #229-280 and
#282,
Action Comics #272,
Detective Comics #293-300,
World's Finest Comics #125,
Showcase #30-33,
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #12 and
Aquaman #1-3, which has the debuts of the Topo, the Human Flying Fish and Aqualad!
But, enough of what I think...look below for what the rest of the SBTU has to offer:
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