posted December 29, 2001 02:05 AM               

I came here directly from the 80 & 100-page Giant thread, which has become totally Utley of the Apes.

posted December 29, 2001 08:29 PM               

There isn't much room for talk about gorillas though.

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posted December 29, 2001 08:31 PM               

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posted December 30, 2001 12:33 AM               

BTW, I wrote Mike Gold a long letter for my ideas for "The Greatest Team-Up Stories, Vol. 2," and about my disapointment that the covers were not show for some of the stories that were cover featured (most of them as a matter of fact.) He wrote a really nice letter back, and even told me what was in the near future concerning the Archives. This was 1991, I believe. Ah, the years, they do ever faster, fly past.

Questions: What was DC's "Seventh Generation?"

posted December 30, 2001 01:36 AM               

It was to be a team-up of Sandman and Dr. Mid-nite. I have no idea which title would have featured it, but it was supposedly written by Gardner Fox, but not illustrated. I've seen it mentioned before in fanzines and on the boards, but no one has really proven it exists. If it does, I have no idea why DC would illustrate it and publish it in one of its replica editions.

posted January 15, 2002 08:06 AM            

Select and arrange the contents of a trade-paperback anthology to be called The Greatest Stories Ever Retconned in such a way that the first and last stories therein offer versions of the DC Universe as nearly completely contradictory as possible.

posted January 15, 2002 01:20 PM               

I'd much rather grumble about not having yet seen Greatest 1960s Stories, Greatest Green Lantern Stories, Greatest Wonder Woman Stories, Greatest Western Stories, or multi-volume artist collections of the best of Gil Kane, Alex Toth, Joe Kubert, Lee Elias, and Carmine Infantino.

posted January 15, 2002 02:17 PM               

As for trades, I don't see any of what you suggest as particularly improbable, or necessarily very likely either. So many variables--whether the characters are undergoing a revival, who the artist is, what else is selling well that month, what an editor had for breakfast that morning....

posted January 15, 2002 09:25 PM               

Not just Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Sandy, The Guardian, Bulletgirl and Dan the Dyna-Mite, but also the inevitable Jimmy Olsen.

But Wait!
You also get Etta Candy!
Doiby Dickles!
Woozy Winks!
Stretch Skinner!
Uncle Dudley Marvel!
And as a special no-charge extra: Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys--all sidekicks with no hero!!

posted January 16, 2002 01:05 PM               

The Grooviest DC Stories Ever Told

All the hippest way-out wild stories about those cool DC cats published in the swingin' '60s, man.

posted January 16, 2002 10:46 PM               

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Originally posted by Steven Utley:
Let's see. There's the story in which Jimmy Olsen becomes the "Red-Headed Beatle" of umpty-something B.C., and one in which Clark Kent becomes a disk-jockey called Clark the K. Truly painful, those. There's "The Anti-Supergirl Plot," ca. 1967, wherein the Girl of Steel foils a plot involving a rock band whose members dress up as Batman, Green Lantern, and The Green Arrow. It's not bad, actually. A Batman story published around 1969 or '70 played off the rumor that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced in The Beatles by a ringer.

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