...#84 from March, 1969 and #35 (#680 by legacy numbering, and a variant cover to boot) from November, 2021, just to show a little of the Fantastic Four and their most vile villains (including Doctor Doom, the Frightful Four and the Sub-Mariner), showing how timeless the Fantastic Four and Kirby are.
Known mostly as an inker (and quite the prolific inker), with some of his most famous work being on Detective Comics and Uncanny X-Men...there are a few examples of his art on his own...here two issues of Amazing Heroes, with the Metal Men (#10, April 1982) and X-Men (#54, September, 1984).
This teamwork shown through with the characters in the comic, as well as with the creation of the comics, so, with this little chapter of the Super-Blog Team Up, it s a look at this epic issue.
Flash forward to the now of the issue, where we take a look inside the JLA satellite with newest member, Firestorm, bored with monitor duty...
This chapter is drawn by Pat Broderick and Terry Austin, as Pat would soon be drawing Firestorm in the Fury of Firestorm title.
The Phantom Stranger broods about his decision, but at least is nice enough to secretly take the unconscious android to the JLA satellite, where he is found by Snapper and hooked up to a medical computer by Firestorm (both of whom wonder how Red Tornado got there...).
Zatanna is healed by the Amazon's with their Purple Healing Ray, with Zatanna and Hippolyta worrying about Wonder Woman's state of mind.
Atom heads back to the JLA satellite, where he and the other members of the JLA realize that the original members, not having their current memories of their teammates, have an unfair advantage in facing them. as the charter members are not held back by the bonds of friendship that have formed over the years of JLA membership..
...ending up at the original headquarters of the JLA, in great disrepair, where he and Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern wonder about their strange compulsion to get the meteors, the odd folks they faced, Wonder Woman's altered costume and why Martian Manhunter woke up not on Mars but another planet with his fellow Martians as refugees (all changes that had happened to them after they joined the JLA).
An angry Green Arrow fumes about being beat at the JLA satellite as Atom wonders what to do after the meteors are gathered, while Batman, rejoining his team at the original JLA HQ, relates his battle with a Green Arrow he doesn't recognize (as Green Arrow changed his costume while in the JLA) and the meteors begin to glow.
Hawkman found himself transported to Rann, where he was found by JLA ally Adam Strange and his wife Alanna, who contacted the JLA informing them that they were sending him back (due to rough feelings due to a recent war with Thanagar, the remnants of which were what kept Hawkman's wife, Hawkwoman away from this momentous meeting). Elongated Man stretched himself out to rescue Hawkman.
Meanwhile, at the Secret Sanctuary, the original members started to remember their lives as the meteors hatched the Appellaxians, who planned on continuing their battle to decide who would rule their planet (with consequences to Earth be damned). The original team wasn't strong enough to defeat the aliens.
In this issue, readers were given a basic rundown of the Justice League, its members and its history, saw the team act in a way they did many times in the past, and were even treated to incredible art (not only the wonderful George Perez, who did his last JLA interiors here) but of individual artists on each character by people who were associated with the characters they drew. If that isn't a foundation to build upon, then what is?
...and how they had built foundation related stories of their own.
Here are the other blogs to check out!
Between the Pages Blog - Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Star Trek
TEAL Productions/NewsPrint Commando - Witzend A Foundational Comic
*51 - My First Next Issue, Incredible Hulk #333
The Source Material Comics Podcast - “Traumatic Resonance - What I Learned from Deb Whitman”
DC Multiverse - What is a Penny Worth? Enough to Fund the Wayne Foundation
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...but, focusing here on two special issues, one where Spider-Man faces the Hulk, then, with a burst of gamma energy, Spider-Man becomes the Spider-Hulk, all in Web Of Spider-Man #69 and #70 (October and November, 1990).
As Bret drew the cover where Dr. Strange sent Hulk away, as well as a little snapshot of what Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers were doing in the 1980s, thought these were highlighting!
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...but here with a look at his covers to Venom: The Enemy Within, which features Eddie Brock and the symbiote facing Morbius the Living Vampire and the demonic Demogoblin.
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Here, with Avengers #221 (July, 1982)....spoilers...Hawkeye returns to the team after a bit of an absence, and She-Hulk joins the team as well (and, even more of these folks who really didn't fit with the Avengers would join over the next few decades...).
Avengers #223 (September, 1982) focused on Hawkeye and Ant-Man (though Scott Lang hadn't become a member, yet), as the duo faced off against the Taskmaster.
Incredible covers from an incredible artist!
The boy, Bullseye, became an orphan due to an Indian attack, and was raised by his grandfather, Deadeye Dick (who escaped with the boy). They were aided by a friendly Indian scout, Long Drink. Bullseye became the master of guns, horse riding and all sorts of throwing weapons. He wandered the west, as a western scout, righting wrongs as a hero, and even had an encounter with a pterodactyl...all where he never misses!
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