Baseball is back!
What better way to celebrate than with a couple of comic books.
What do comics have to do with baseball?
Well, here's a few Strange Sports Stories involving baseball from a five issue run in Brave and the Bold, just before the title moved from super-hero premieres to super-hero team-ups.
Challenge Of The Headless Baseball Team
Here, in
Brave and the Bold #45 (December-January, 1962/1963) by
Gardner Fox,
Carmine Infantino and
Joe Giella, you have an odd case, where the uniforms were strong enough to play without the players!
It was invading aliens from another dimension that fielded a team to go against Lefty Clark and the Jets.
Gorilla Wonders Of The Diamond
It was a different type of game in
Brave and the Bold #49 (August-September, 1963) by
Gardner Fox,
Carmine Infantino and
Joe Giella (with a cover by
Infantino/
Anderson), where scientist John Emerson finds a way to evolve apes up the evolutionary ladder, but they have designs on more than winning baseball games.
John Emerson has to stop the apes from reducing humans to mindless beasts.
The best part of these stories, is that they were also collected in two issues of
DC Special (
#7 and
#9, both with covers by
Murphy Anderson) in 1970. But, don't you wonder, who would have won...the uniforms or the gorillas if they had played each other?
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