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iamrmanBatman #255.
Famous athlete Anthony Lupus promises to make a charitable donation, but only if Batman will accept it in person.
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Batman #251
Apr. 30th, 2022 02:30 pmcyberghostface
"It’s this kind of terrible re-introduction to the Joker where he kills off all his henchmen. And of course, that’s how the Joker film ('The Dark Knight') was. Right at the beginning he kills off all his henchmen. I talked to the writer of the film and he said, 'Neal, a lot of people are going to tell you that we borrowed from ‘The Killing Joke.’ Bullshit. We borrowed from this.' This is the matrix of that film." -- Neal Adams
In honor of Neal Adams who passed away, here is one of his most iconic comics (and covers). It's also significant in that Adams along with Denny O'Neill had brought back the Joker after a lengthy absence and revitalized the character as Batman's archnemesis.
(On a related note it was also Neal Adams, per the book 'The Batman Files', who decided that the Joker was gay. While DC has yet to make this official canon it's still an element of the character that has long since persisted with different writers.)
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Batman Vs. Ra's Al Ghul #6 (of 6)
May. 22nd, 2021 06:18 pmsuperboyprime
"Why is he such a great villain? You can't really see through that smoke to what he's doing. And maybe what he's doing is good." - Neal Adams
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Batman Vs. Ra's Al Ghul #5
May. 12th, 2021 08:37 pmsuperboyprime
"Even though Batman is faced with this relative army of bad guys, you can't just go out and make it your goal to kill them. Ra's al Ghul is saying no, that to help the city you have to kill them. Batman is like you in that he believes in justice without murdering the criminal if you can avoid it. But some of us think it's okay to have a Ra's al Ghul, but the higher form of morality is to say no, Batman is right. You have to find another way to do this that doesn't hurt people. We're looking for a deeper story, something worthy of Batman." - Neal Adams
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Batman Vs. Ra's Al Ghul #4
May. 4th, 2021 12:04 amsuperboyprime
'I went to Julie Schwartz and told him we have to find Batman a Moriarty. Just like Sherlock Holmes has a Moriarty, without Moriarty there is no Sherlock Holmes. You need somebody equal to Batman to be his mortal enemy, be sophisticated, do things nobody else would do, before you bring back the clowns or else we would lose Batman again. Julie and Denny agreed, and Julie came in the following Monday and pointed at me and said, "Ra's al Ghul."' - Neal Adams
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Batman Vs. Ra's Al Ghul #2
Apr. 24th, 2021 02:05 amsuperboyprime
"I don't know what kind of fellow you are exactly, but I have a fairly high forehead, and I know that people with high foreheads will always complain about their forehead. You could say that it shows intelligence, but in fact it does set you apart to a certain extent. So I thought a high forehead and a receding hairline... when viewed realistically in the world, if you look at famous people down through history, high forehead is a distinguishing trademark. So why not have a guy with a high forehead and in fact combs his hair back from his forehead to accentuate it? - Neal Adams on designing Ra's Al Ghul
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Batman Vs. Ra's Al Ghul #1
Apr. 19th, 2021 11:12 pmsuperboyprime
"Well, if you've been paying attention to what I've been doing, you saw that I did a thing called Batman Odyssey, where I took a whole lot of pieces of Batman's life and gathered them together and swept them out of the driveway and put them in a little pile and told a story. It was 13 chapters, and it seemed like I was alluding to stuff. That story continues to my Deadman series that came out fairly recently with six issues where he pretty much yells at everybody. You learn a few new things about Deadman in there, and there's some enmity between Deadman and his parents, and they have something to do with Ra's al Ghul. He doesn't get to track down his brother and sisters, but now he must go to the greatest detective in the world. And I think we know who that is." - Neal Adams
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Some upcoming variants for Joker #1
Feb. 18th, 2021 01:45 pmcyberghostface
Joker's getting his own ongoing and DC is going all out with tons of variant covers. Here are a few that stuck out to me.
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Batman #234
Jun. 13th, 2020 04:30 pmcyberghostface
In honor of the late Dennis O'Neil, here is his famous Batman #234 which reintroduced Two-Face after a lengthy absence.
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When the time came, as it inevitably did (and faster than you'd think. The vote to kill Jason was in September 1988, the stories I'm using here started in August 1989) for a new Robin, they sowed the seeds early.
( During Batman Year Three in fact )
Batman #251
Mar. 31st, 2019 02:20 pmcyberghostface"The question was 'what do we do with the Joker?' Do we make him the same way he was? Kind of silly... yeah, we have to do that. Can we make him more deadly? Actually, he was pretty deadly back in the old days. Why don't we just do the Joker? Maybe a little bit more deadly, but really, the old Joker was pretty darn good. So, we introduced the Joker in that one comic book and everybody re-fell in love with the Joker." -- Neal Adams
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So this is half the reason I decided to share this comic, isn't it weird that Neal Adams the co-creator of the X-men villain, Sauron, ended up drawing Captain Power's Soaron, who looks almost like a Sauron crossed with a Terminator? Is that even coincidence? I know series co-creator Gary Goddard is a comic book fan (his feature film, 'Masters of the Universe,' was a Jack Kirby homage as much as it was an adaptation of He-man), and show runner J Micheal Stracynski is no stranger to comics even if he wasn't prolific in them till later on.
I couldn't find anything mentioning it elsewhere... but is Soaron an homage to Sauron?
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thanekosHe'd just discovered that he hadn't killed Lex Luthor as he thought.
" Luthor, you torment me past your death! This suits you not! "
Lex laughed.
( Superman took the scene in. )
" Luthor, you torment me past your death! This suits you not! "
Lex laughed.
( Superman took the scene in. )
