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
[Constantine]
Before he was a Legend, he was a lowly sorcerer trapped in an asylum, but all that’s about to change. Join us as we look back at John Constantine’s beginnings in the Arrowverse with the pilot episode of his short-lived NBC series, “Non Est Asylum.”
Though the show wasn’t conceived to be a part of the Arrowverse, Matt Ryan’s later appearance on Arrow and subsequent starring role on Legends of Tomorrow gave the producers the chance to retroactively add that version of the characte…
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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Silver Age
Challengers of the Unknown =
Early Fantastic Four
https://zak-site.com/Great-American-Novel/challengers.html
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msgtv
February 10, 2021, 12:55am
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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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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
Revised version of history December 7 2019
Also see
Other sources
On Siegel Shuster
Court Cases
Shuster never married and his relatives sold his rights to DC Comics cheaply.
In the early 1930s, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster developed the fictional comic book character of Superman. In 1938, they sold the character to Detective Comics, Inc. (the corporate precursor to DC Comics). After Superman became a great success, the pair attempted to recover the rights to the character. This began a long chain of legal battles over ownership, royalties, and credit that would continue after their deaths.
National Allied Publications was founded in 1934 by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson...
https://www.cbr.com/dc-wins-final-appeal-in-long-battle-over-superman-rights/
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster are now widely recognized as the creators of Superman, one of the best comic book superheroes of all time. However, it wasn’t always so certain that the duo would get their due as comic book luminaries. Despite...
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
Early DC Comic Book History