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Grim and Gritty

Jan 2nd

Posted by Darren in Comics

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In a world of super-heroes and super-villains, the little guys tend to get overlooked, but we cannot forget the very hard work done by many more street-level characters who don’t get the applause of the Dark Knight.

Today, we are spending time with police officers, private eyes, and spies.  Enjoy!!!

Commissioner James Gordon of the Gotham City Police Department is undoubtedly the best known cop in the DCU.  He worked with Batman when Bats was still considered a vigilante and helped to bring down corruption in the Gotham City P.D.

Jim is a fine officer, detective, and leader of his men and women in the GCPD.  Let’s not forget that Jim is the father of Barbara Gordon, also known as Batgirl.  It was Jim’s insistence that Babs not enter the police force and Babs internal drive to do good that drove her to don the mask and cape of Batgirl in the first place.

Gordon is a confidante of Batman and is constantly on guard against the ever present danger of corruption in his own people. He is one of the few civilians who can put Batman in his place when need be.

Sgt. Harvey Bullock of the GCPD is one of Gordon’s trusted men and has More >

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More Wild West Stars

Jul 27th

Posted by Darren in Comics

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Here we are again in the Wild and Woolly West… More heroes have taken up the call to tame this era of human history and here they are.

El Diablo…the Devil of the West is Lazarus Lane.  He was a broken man with pangs of remorse about a fellow bank teller who was killed because Lazarus did nothing to stop it from happening.  When he managed to find the bank robbers they threw him into a shallow river where he was struck by lightning.  Found by an Apache shaman named Wise Owl, he nursed Lazarus back to life (on the third day no less) and explained that Lazarus was now two men, the body of Lazarus Lane and the spirit of a restless avenger.  In addition to being an excellent marksman he is an expert with knives, bolas, and the bullwhip.  He also has an uncanny ability to escape certain death, whether this is some sort of mystical mojo or not remains to be seen.

Johnny Thunder and Madame .44…  John Tane was the son of a sheriff and a teacher.  While John’s father believed in dealing out justice with guns, John’s mom believed that education would solve all the world’s ills.  More >

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Justice Society of America – Roll Call II

Mar 11th

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Here we go continuing our look at the JSA.

Carter Hall, same name as our Silver Age version is NOT a Thanagarian, but rather the reincarnation of an Egyptian Pharaoh named Khufu. Khufu and his bride Chay-ara were murdered back in ancient Egyptian days and cursed so that they would live life after life after life. Doomed to find each other and fall in love all over again, however at some point when their love was at its zenith, they would each be murdered again to be reincarnated once again and the cycle repeats itself. In this time Carter and Shiera Hall married and had children and carried on crime fighting careers as Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

Gee, that’s funny. You would think if there is a Golden Age version of Hawkgirl, there would be a Silver Age one..? There is a Silver Age version, we’ll get to her shortly.

Hourman is Rex Tyler and he is a renowned chemist and has invented a drug called Miraclo. Miraclo will give Rex increased strength, speed, and stamina for.. (wait for it).. one hour. Eventually, Rex develops a dependency upon Miraclo and he becomes one of the first comic characters with a drug dependency issue, though not the More >

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Justice Society of America – Roll Call I

Mar 10th

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Now, we’re here on Earth-Two and the counterpart to the JLA is the JSA. Not only the counterpart, but also the predecessor of the JLA. Back when I started collecting comics characters used to be numbered by order in which they appeared, so the original Green Lantern was Green Lantern I but he was from Earth-2. I am not going to do that here.

If any hard core comic book fans are reading this, I probably just moved to the heretic column. Oh well, I’ve been called an abomination before, and it will happen again, so bring it.

What I am going to do is typically use the character’s name and their real name to distinguish which character that we are talking about.

For the five heroes that kept being published from the Golden Age through to the Silver Age…

  • Superman
  • Batman
  • Wonder Woman
  • Aquaman
  • Green Arrow

Only three of them joined the JSA. Wonder Woman was the secretary and Superman and Batman were honorary members. Neither Aquaman nor Green Arrow joined the JSA. Additionally between the Golden Age to the Silver Age no significant changes were made in the character regarding name, origin, powers, m.o., etc.., While some of these may have evolved over time there was not a distinct change that occurred More >