Golden Age Tarantula (John Law) Appreciation (2019)

[SIZE=1]NOTE: This thread is to serve as continuation of the previous "[B][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Golden Age Tarantula (John Law) Appreciation Thread [/FONT][/B]", which can be found at [indent][URL="https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?107166-Golden-Age-Tarantula-(John-Law)-Appreciation-Thread"]https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?107166-Golden-Age-Tarantula-(John-Law)-Appreciation-Thread[/URL][/indent]

[/SIZE]From the previous version [SIZE=1](originally created in February of 2018)[/SIZE]:[QUOTE=MajorHoy]He may not have been DC's first character named "Tarantula" (a villain Sandman fought in [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Adventure Comics #40[/FONT] in 1939 came first), but in 1941 DC introduced the [U]heroic[/U] character named "Tarantula" in [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Star Spangled Comics #1[/FONT][SIZE=1] (October 1941)[/SIZE].
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS]To be continued . . . [/FONT][/SIZE][/quote]

From the previous version of the thread, the version of Tarantula's costume introduced back in 1983:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant10.jpg[/img]
[SIZE=1]entry from [B][I]Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XXIII[/I][/B] (January 1987)[/SIZE]

from [B][I]Star Spangled Comics #3[/I][/B] (December 1941):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant12.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant11.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant13.jpg[/img]

That old outfit is pretty much the same as the old Sandman, isn't it? Not a lot of originality back then...

I knew nothing about him as a character, but I always really liked his modern brown outfit. When was the last time he appeared in anything?

[QUOTE=j9ac9k;4431995]That old outfit is pretty much the same as the old Sandman, isn't it? Not a lot of originality back then...

I knew nothing about him as a character, but I always really liked his modern brown outfit. When was the last time he appeared in anything?[/QUOTE]In the early 2000s in the Nightwing series, as far as I know. He was an old man who lived in Dick's building. Don't know if he died when it was destroyed or lasted until all of Bludhaven was destroyed.

[QUOTE=Tzigone;4432002]In the early 2000s in the Nightwing series, as far as I know. He was an old man who lived in Dick's building. Don't know if he died when it was destroyed or lasted until all of Bludhaven was destroyed.[/QUOTE]

It should also be noted that Jonathan Law has been name dropped in Doomsday Clock...

[QUOTE=Stingo;4432030]It should also be noted that Jonathan Law has been name dropped in Doomsday Clock...[/QUOTE]

Cool. Not reading that one, so had no clue.

[QUOTE=Tzigone;4432031][QUOTE=Stingo;4432030]It should also be noted that Jonathan Law has been name dropped in Doomsday Clock...[/QUOTE]

Cool. Not reading that one, so had no clue.[/QUOTE]A couple of pages from [B][I]Doomsday Clock #10[/I][/B]:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/doomsd13.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/doomsd15.jpg[/img]

Don't know where else / when else Jonathan Law (or at least his name) has shown up.

Kid looks uncomfortable in picture. Given the letter, that's understandable. Some nice creepy blood spatter.

So, I see a script. Looks appropriate to what I know of John's work. Honestly, as someone not reading it, my first thought is how/if the different dates (all in 54) play in.

[QUOTE=MajorHoy;4449663]A couple of pages from [B][I]Doomsday Clock #10[/I][/B]:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/doomsd13.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/doomsd15.jpg[/img]

Don't know where else / when else Jonathan Law (or at least his name) has shown up.[/QUOTE]

I wonder if Dusk in the screenplay is Nathanial Dusk.

[QUOTE=Sandy Hausler;4450779]I wonder if Dusk in the screenplay is Nathanial Dusk.[/QUOTE][img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/doomsd15.jpg[/img]
They showed that scene from the Nathaniel Dusk movie earlier in that issue.

from [B][I]Star Spangled Comics #4[/I][/B] (January 1942):
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant14.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant15.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/tarant16.jpg[/img]

A bit more on Tarantula's new costume from [B][I]All-Star Squadron #24[/I][/B] (August 1983)[SIZE=1]
<As well as his encounter with Brainwave Jr. of Infinity Inc.>[/SIZE]:
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/001_ta10.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/002_ta10.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/18/91/37/14/003_ta10.jpg[/img]

The original Spider Man himself!

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