posted May 03, 2003 04:37 PM               

I also believe another BLACKHAWK book would do well.

posted May 03, 2003 05:14 PM               

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Originally posted by Steven Utley:
Johnny Quick and The Vigilante are certainly on my want list, along with the contemporaneous (and comparatively more or less probable) Boy Commandos, Doctor Fate, Hawkman, Newsboy Legion, Robin, Robotman, and Scribbly.

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Johnny Quick and Robotman are my two most desired GA archives. Hawkman is my most desired one that I consider likely in the next two years.

posted May 03, 2003 05:26 PM               

Really--the art was that bad, huh? I think I have read that on some posts about GA Flash as being almost unreadable. I think that may be the hold-up. I like the idea of Dr. Midnite stories in a trade (or other GA heroes) as well. Hopefully DC can read these posts and get some ideas. I remember the well-drawn stories from Detective COmics 100 pagers as a kid, and I thought the art was good. Maybe these were from the 1947 years on, as you suggest.

I guess I must remember that the art back then was done by kids and the emphasis was to crank them out.

Thanks for your reply and clarification. Hourman was bad too? What a shame--I love the character and the concept.

I remember reading some Golden Age Johnny Quick and loving the art in the DC Flash 100 pagers. I have an old Detective Comics from the 1940s with a Robotman story in it--great art for what it was. The story was silly, of course.

posted May 04, 2003 10:06 AM            

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Originally posted by James Friel:
Hourman was drawn by Bernard Baily, who also drew The Spectre, which seems to be selling very well. Of course, the character isn't quite as memorable, but the look of the strip is certainly similar--it's quite competently done.

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Oh yeah, Baily is better than Aschmeier, but I think the Spectre stories have been carried through precisely on what you said - the sheer weirdness of the Spectre strip, compared to Hourman's strip, which slipped into a formula pretty quick.

Batfan:

Yeah, the easiest reprints of Doc to get hold of are "Case of the Talking Shadows!" [which was reprinted in DETECTIVE, during the 100 page giant era] and "The Tarantula!" [not the actual title; which was reprinted, again, in a hundred page giant fronted by the Two-Face trilogy from '42/'43] both of which are drawn by Maestro Toth.
Most of the earlier stories are just variations on a theme, and play down anything to that makes Doc different from, say, Batman: it's all Doc goes on a boat and fights thugs [#67] or Doc goes underground and fights Nazis [#40] or Doc goes to the movies or wherever and fights thugs - all wrapped up in six pages. The Toth art made the stories a little better, like #90's fun little "ghost story" and these are well worth reprinting in a nice, cheap comic book giant.

posted May 04, 2003 10:31 PM            

The fact is that he is a B character at best. The only hope the man of the hour fans have is that maybe Rick Tyler gets hot on the current JSA run. That might speed it up. Otherwise, reprint city. On a related note, how long did the 'Flashback' series run for? We need a relaunch of that..........

posted May 05, 2003 10:14 PM               

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Originally posted by hourman!:
An Hourman archive..............hey, a guy can dream...........

The fact is that he is a B character at best. The only hope the man of the hour fans have is that maybe Rick Tyler gets hot on the current JSA run. That might speed it up. Otherwise, reprint city. On a related note, how long did the 'Flashback' series run for? We need a relaunch of that..........

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posted May 05, 2003 10:18 PM               

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Originally posted by batfan63:
John Moores,

Really--the art was that bad, huh? I think I have read that on some posts about GA Flash as being almost unreadable. I think that may be the hold-up. I like the idea of Dr. Midnite stories in a trade (or other GA heroes) as well. Hopefully DC can read these posts and get some ideas. I remember the well-drawn stories from Detective COmics 100 pagers as a kid, and I thought the art was good. Maybe these were from the 1947 years on, as you suggest.

I guess I must remember that the art back then was done by kids and the emphasis was to crank them out.

Thanks for your reply and clarification. Hourman was bad too? What a shame--I love the character and the concept.

I remember reading some Golden Age Johnny Quick and loving the art in the DC Flash 100 pagers. I have an old Detective Comics from the 1940s with a Robotman story in it--great art for what it was. The story was silly, of course.

Thanks for the replies and for the record, I am not as familiar with the Viglante issues. Of course, I am familar with the character. I have a Secret Origins from the 1970s with Vigilante, but that is the only Golden Ager of his I own.

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