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JUST IMAGINE! May 1965: Ever More Powerful… ⋆ First Comics News (opens the original)
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Storytelling melodrama necessarily led to an escalation of power in early Marvel comics. Super-powered heroes needed to face even more powerful enemies, and, soon enough, virtually omnipotent beings began to intrude upon a hapless humanity. The Norse chief god Odin came to Earth. Thor faced the unstoppable Destroyer. The Fantastic Four ran into the Infant Terrible, the Impossible Man, Molecule Man and the moon-based Watcher (soon to be dwarfed by the planet-devouring Galactus). Among my favorite
JUST IMAGINE! July 1960: When Turtles Attack! ⋆ First Comics News (opens the original)
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In their DC science fiction anthology title Strange Adventures, editor Julius Schwartz and his staff demonstrated an understanding of the dreamlike quality of the childhood mind. As an example, let’s take issue 118, appearing on newsstands early in 1960, which cover-featured The Turtle Men from Space by writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky. Boys in 1960 often had pet turtles in little plastic water dishes that sported a plastic palm tree, and even more frequently owned green plastic “army
JUST IMAGINE! December 1964: The Lure of the Covers ⋆ First Comics News (opens the original)
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The moody Carmine Infantino cover for Detective Comics 334 features Batman entering a darkened room where handguns are poised to finish him off. But flip to the splash page, drawn by Sheldon Moldoff, and you see a gangster in a grasshopper costume — silly-looking even by 1960s comic book standards — who is riding in the Bat-Boat and netting Robin out of the water like a flounder. Something similar happens with Batman 168, out that same month. Infantino’s intriguing cover shows a muscled arm punc
JUST IMAGINE! September 1973: The Earth Stands Still Again ⋆ First Comics News (opens the original)
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In guided imagery, when asked to picture a wise being, I always think of Michael Rennie as Klaatu. He starred in my favorite science fiction film, 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, as an alien ambassador who lands on the Washington Mall and is attacked. Captured, Klaatu escapes easily to disguise himself as human and explore our planet. Befriending a boy, Klaatu turns not to political leaders but to a thinly disguised Albert Einstein to get across his message of universal peace and civilizat
JUST IMAGINE! May 1949: Batman at Sea ⋆ First Comics News (opens the original)
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An oceangoing pirate might well consider himself to be safe from the Dynamic Duo. In Detective Comics 147 (May 1949), Batman and Robin tackled the Tiger Shark, “…the leader of a gang of criminals who, operating from their undersea headquarters aboard a sunken ship some 200 miles from shore, commits a series of spectacular crimes at sea and on the waterfront,” noted comics historian Michael L. Fleisher. “Ironically, the Dynamic Duo capture the criminals with the aid of a special ‘Sub-Batmarine’ d
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