More Mandrake Masterpieces!
More Mandrake Masterpieces!
More Aparo.
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Surprised no one's yet posted anything from Gotham by Midnight, in which the Spectre does some truly wrathful (awful) things and Corrigan finds a measure of (albeit temporary) redemption. Will try to post some panels later.
Age/Bronze, Age/Reptiles, Alex&Ada, Anne Bonnie, Astro City, Bone, Briggs Land, Cerebus, Criminal, Courtney Crumrin, Eleanor & the Egret, Fables, Fatale, Fell, Grass Kings, Green Valley, Goon, Gotham Midnight, Groo, Hellboy, Hillbilly, Incognegro, Jack Staff, JL8, Jonah Hex, Kane, Lazarus, Little Nemo, Lone Wolf, Next Wave, Popeye, Powers, Princess Ugg, Resident Alien, SiP, Squirrel Girl, Stray Bullets, 10G, Thief of Thieves, Tuki, Uncle Scrooge, Usagi, Velvet
from Gotham by Midnight, art by Ben Templesmith, as is the cover, above, posted by Major Hoy!
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Age/Bronze, Age/Reptiles, Alex&Ada, Anne Bonnie, Astro City, Bone, Briggs Land, Cerebus, Criminal, Courtney Crumrin, Eleanor & the Egret, Fables, Fatale, Fell, Grass Kings, Green Valley, Goon, Gotham Midnight, Groo, Hellboy, Hillbilly, Incognegro, Jack Staff, JL8, Jonah Hex, Kane, Lazarus, Little Nemo, Lone Wolf, Next Wave, Popeye, Powers, Princess Ugg, Resident Alien, SiP, Squirrel Girl, Stray Bullets, 10G, Thief of Thieves, Tuki, Uncle Scrooge, Usagi, Velvet
Spectre interviews Neal Adams. From SPECTRE #2.
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I'm surprised the Neal Adams' issues of the Spectre were never collected. I think those were part of a collection that was solicited but never made it to publication.
Gotham Central #23 beginning of the Corrigan arc (he was namedropped earlier, though)
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Comics historian Les Daniels commented that the Spectre had
...a new lease on life after editor Joe Orlando was mugged and decided the world needed a really relentless super hero.
The character came back with a vengeance ... and quickly became a cause of controversy.
Orlando plotted the stories with writer Michael Fleisher, and they emphasized the gruesome fates of criminals who ran afoul of the Spectre.
The Comics Code had recently been liberalized, but this series pushed its restrictions to the limit, often by turning evildoers into inanimate objects and then thoroughly demolishing them.
Jim Aparo's art showed criminals being transformed into everything from broken glass to melting candles, but Fleisher was quick to point out that many of his most bizarre plot devices were lifted from stories published decades earlier.[14]
Daniels, Les. DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes (Bullfinch Press, 1995), pp. 152–153. ISBN 978-0-8212-2076-4
That sounds awesome.