DC History Club..September 2020 - Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics, Expanded Weekly Polls, Discussion, Quiz

in October
The DC History Club
Will have two topics
For Halloween

Swamp Thing
Constantine

The Arrowverse Club
Will do the
Pilot for
The Constantine TV series
On.September 30

The series itself is lesving
DCU
In late October
The start of the removal
Of all video.from this site

This pilot is important
Because it covers
The Newcastle Incident

This Origin.story
Is told in Hallblazer 11
Part of the 300.issues
That are
Vertigo and not in our library

This is the only way
Members can currently
Get info on this event

Edit All Vertigo issues of Hellblazer now in our library

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Watchmen movie is at HBO Max
For a limited time,
Along with HBO sequel

Pretty close to comic books
But different ending

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Jenette Kahn interview

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Silver Age

Challengers of the Unknown =
Early Fantastic Four

https://zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/challengers.html

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And now, I just found that some '70s Challengers include Swamp Thing between his 72 and 82 runs. Who knew?

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Dwayne McDuffie

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Comic Book Creator
End Credits

Snyder Cut

Julie Schwartz Memorial Lecture at MIT
By Neil Gaiman

Three segments

Starts with memorial
Written by Alan Moore
About Julie

Warm and funny homage to Julie

Includes Julie wanting Gorillas on the Cover quote

Then speech mainly on genre

Above two segments take a half hour

Remaining hour and 15 minutes is Neil being interviewed, including about Sandman

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Old Julie Schwartz interview

When he still was
Dc editor for

Justice League
Flash
Green Lantern
Atom
Hawkman
Strange Adventures

https://www.cosmicteams.com/docs/awdc_14-julius-schwartz.html

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This is a cool little interview Harlan Ellison did with Schwartz back in the day.

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Most 1940s super heroes are hard to read in large doses.

Batman stories are the best

For Superman, it is often fascinating how Jerry Siegel uses his imagination to find a story for a too powerful super hero.

As for Marston’s Wonder Woman, let’s just call it a very unique approach.

Here are some links on another creation of Jerry Siegel, the all powerful Spectre.

With his set of powers, he could end any story on page one, yet there were JSA stories that had him fight street thugs

Eventually comic sidekick Percival Popp became the lead, just like Black Canary overtook Johnny Thunder.

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Siegel and Shuster had little to do with the debut of Superboy in 1945, although they are credited in More Fun 101.

Siegel was in the Army at the time. Shuster was aware of the story.

See Links

1945 Comic book More Fun 101 introduced Superboy - Superman when he was young. Superboy was not part of Siegel Shuster contract. Siegel suggested it but DC said no. DC used character while Siegel was in Army.

1947 Court Case As 10 year contract nears end, Siegel Shuster sue DC for rights to Superman and Superboy. They lose the case and are fired by DC.

From my
Super Hero Genre History

Other sources
On Siegel Shuster
Court Cases

Shuster never married and his relatives sold his rights to DC Comics cheaply.

https://www.cbr.com/dc-wins-final-appeal-in-long-battle-over-superman-rights/

One of the articles is hard on Joanne Siegel

But she kept Jerry going in the hard decades after he got fired by DC.

1956 to 1967 Comic Books Jerry Siegel 's second wife, who modeled for Siegel Shuster as Lois Lane, shamed DC to employ Siegel as a writer for Superman stories again including Return to Krypton and Imaginary Story Death of Superman

Their story is told in

A clip on her

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Early DC Comic Book History