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Spirit King Member	posted January 17, 2002 11:51 AM If I recall correctly, DC Direct toys are not your thing, Steven. But here's an idea rife with the potential for cross-promoting of one of your favorite "Greatest Stories Ever" hobbyhorses . . . http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum135/HTML/002457.html IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted January 17, 2002 12:10 PM I especially like the part about the Julie Schwartz action figure. IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted January 17, 2002 06:56 PM quote: Originally posted by Cave Carson: THE GREATEST BIG NOGGIN STORIES EVER TOLD. A collection of stories in which the heroes head was swollen to grotesque proportions.... I like it! There was an issue of Action in which Superman was evolved into a futuristic human with a big head some time in the late '50s, too. Pity Modok is a Marvel character. IP: Logged
NecessaryImpurity Member	posted January 17, 2002 07:11 PM "The Greatest Amnesia Stories Ever Told", with stories from... um... uh... What are we talking about again? IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted January 17, 2002 07:51 PM Greatest Dog Stories! Krypto and Ace and Rex and Streak, and what else? Nominations are open. IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted January 17, 2002 08:59 PM More seriously (not that these aren't all great ideas that would probably sell in the dozens), in the wake of Tales of the Bizarro World and the Supergirl Archives, we should be due for a Red Kryptonite collection any minute now. IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 17, 2002 09:23 PM I'm fairly amazed that we haven't seen more trade-paperback versions of those thematic 80-pagers from the Mort Weisinger era -- the variegated-kryptonite collection, the Lois-Lane's-most-self-demeaning-ploys-to-get-Superman-to-marry-her collection, the most-byzantine-solutions-to-simple-problems collection. Then, again, I should be careful what I wish for. IP: Logged
NecessaryImpurity Member	posted January 17, 2002 09:32 PM Some catagories that would sell in at least the hundreds: Greatest Time Travel Stories Atom's Time Pool, Flash's Cosmic Treadmill, Batman's hypnosis gimmick, GL in the 58th century, lots of non-Legion Superman tales Greatest Magic Stories Dr. Fate, Zatara, Zatanna, Dr. Occult, Phantom Stranger, Kid Eternity, plus the villians who use magic to bedevil non-magic heros (Mxyzptlk, Abra Kadabra, Felix Faust, etc.) Greatest Detective Stories Batman as detective, Elongated Man, early J'onn J'onzz, Slam Bradley, Roy Raymond, The King, and at least one Detctive Chimp. IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 17, 2002 11:15 PM Hah! I got yer Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Told right here: Just Imagine, "Time Traveling Into The Past and Future," SHOWCASE # 11 (Nov.-Dec. 1957), with art by Virgil Finlay Jimmy Olsen, "The Boy Who Killed Superman," SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN # 28 (April 1958), with art by Curt Swan; see also "Jimmy Olsen in the 50th Century," issue # 17 (Dec. 1956) Aquaman, "A World Without Water," ADVENTURE COMICS # 251 (Aug. 1958), with art by Ramona Fradon Challengers of the Unknown, "The Wizard of Time," CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN # 4 (Oct.-Nov. 1958), with art by Jack Kirby and Wally Wood Wonder Woman, "Fun House of Time," WONDER WOMAN # 101 (Oct. 1958), by Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, and Mike Esposito "Secret of the Time Telescope," STRANGE ADVENTURES # 103 (April 1959), with art by Sid Greene "Menace of the Future Almanac," STRANGE ADVENTURES # 106 (Aug. 1959), with art by Sid Greene Batman, "The Second Life of Batman," BATMAN # 127 (Oct. 1959), with art by Dick Sprang Superman, "Superman's Greatest Feats," SUPERMAN # 146 (July 1961), with art by Plastino ... or, perhaps, "If There Were No Superman," WORLD'S FINEST COMICS # 38 (Jan.-Feb. 1949), with art by Wayne Boring ... or both! Rip Hunter, "The Secret of the Ancient Seer," RIP HUNTER ... TIME MASTER # 6 (Jan.-Feb. 1962), with art by Alex Toth; and see also "The Lost Wanderers in Time," issue # 7 (March-April 1962) Blackhawk, "The Man Who Stole the Future," BLACKHAWK # 170 (March 1962), wuth art by Dick Dillin and Charles Cuidera "The Two-Way Time-Traveler," STRANGE ADVENTURES # 143 (Aug. 1962), with art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella "The Maze of Time," STRANGE ADVENTURES # 159 (Dec. 1963), with art by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson "No Yesterday -- No Tomorrow -- No Nothin!" STRANGE ADVENTURES # 161 (Feb. 1964), with art by Sid Greene The Flash, "Fatal Fingers of the Flash," THE FLASH # 146 (Aug. 1964), with art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella And of course there has to be a Time Pool story from THE ATOM. IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 19, 2002 02:19 AM The contents page of a DC anthology devoted to magic and the supernatural, suggested above by NecessaryImpurity, might contain some or all of the following goodies: The Spectre (vs. Zor), MORE FUN COMICS # 55 (May 1940), by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily Doctor Fate (vs. The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen), MORE FUN COMICS # 65 (March 1941), with art by Howard Sherman Superman, "The Enchanted Mountain," ACTION COMICS (1945) Green Lantern, "The Last Answer," ALL-AMERICAN COMICS # 79 (Nov. 1946), with art by Paul Reinman Sargon the Sorceror, "The Woman Who Wanted the World," SENSATION COMICS # 70 (Oct. 1947), with art by Paul Reinman ... or perhaps "The Man Who Met Himself," in the following November issue. Ibis the Invincible, "The Forbidden Pool," WHIZ COMICS # 100 (Aug. 1948), the first Ibis story I ever read (almost 40 years ago!) and still my favorite. Zatara the Master Magician, "Magic Against the Law," WORLD'S FINEST COMICS (1949), with art by Joe Kubert "The Three Prophecies," HOUSE OF SECRETS # 3 (March 1957), with art by Jack Kirby "Three Fearful Wishes," HOUSE OF MYSTERY # 65 (Aug. 1957), with art by John Small Challengers of the Unknown, "The Secret of the Sorceror's Mirror," CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN # 3 (Aug.-Sept. 1958), with art by Jack Kirby Superman and Batman, "The Secret of the Sorceror's Treasure," WORLDS FINEST COMICS # 103 (Aug. 1959), with art by Dick Sprang sigh I think I missed my calling. IP: Logged
John Moores 3 Member	posted January 20, 2002 12:47 PM How about the Greatest Quality Stories Ever Told: Aside from all the Fine,Crandall,Sam/Ray/Condor/Plas/Blackhawk stuff, we could finally see characters like Marksman, Madame Fatale, Wildfire, Ghost of Flanders, The Unknown, Justin Right, Spider Widow and the Raven. Okay, these guys may be mainly second-stringers, but Quality was quality,and even lesser lights like the Mouthpiece have proved atmospheric and enjoyable in the recent Millenium Editions. Truth to tell, I'd rather see these guys than the "Freedom Fighters" Quality heroes anyway. ------------------ Check the definitive (and brand new) site on the Blackout Bombardier: www.doctormidnite.com IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 20, 2002 05:21 PM Shouldn't that be The Highest Quality Stories Ever Told? Seriously: a second volume of The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told would do well to shift the emphasis from National in the 1940s (though Superboy, The Green Arrow, The Newsboy Legion, Dr. Fate, and Robin the Boy Wonder clearly need to be included) to Quality and Fawcett. Uncle Sam, Midnight, Captain Triumph, The Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, The Marvel Family, and Bulletman are conspicuously absent from the first collection. IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 25, 2002 09:07 AM DavidEdwardMartin posted the following suggestions for trade paperbacks down at the ODCUT forum; I like 'em so much that I've stolen them so I can take credit for them on this forum. Yours in blackest villainy, Steven U. * "Hard-Boiled** -- Private eye strips from Slam Bradley to the present. A strictly NON-super/non-costume book, featuring people like Christopher Chance, Jason Bard, and the aforementioned Slam Bradley." [That was David, this is moi: I think his Hard-Boiled and my Danger Trail anthologies would make a terrific set. H-B could feature -- besides Slam Bradley, Christopher Chance, and Jason Bard -- Johnny Double (from Showcase), Lady Danger (Sensation Comics), stories from DC comic books based on the radio shows Big Town, Gangbusters,), and Mr. District Attorney, etc.] "Nine Worlds -- a collection of screwy old space SF tales, one for each world of the Solar System (with the Moon replacing the Earth in the lineup). For example. I remember a 'jungle boy' book set in the jungles of Jupiter and another where the inhabitants of Saturn were using their rings to 'Saturn-iform' the Earth." ["Jungle Boy of Jovian" -- I think that's the title -- appeared in the 100-page Weird Mystery book which ahem DC plans, surely, to replicate for the edification of you young snotnoses. David's idea, anyway, is akin to mine for a hypothetical collection called Adventures on Other Worlds, featuring interplanetary exploits not only of the usual spacefarers, Adam Strange and so forth, but also of Superman, Wonder Woman, Robotman, Blackhawk, Challengers of the Unknown, etc., and non-series gems such as "Diary of the 9-Planet Man." Dry Runs -- DC liked to do trial-balloon versions of things sometimnes, so let's acknowledge that with an anthology of ideas, names, and characters who appeared in different form years before making it big. For example, there was the old STRANGE ADVENTURES tale featuring a different 'Guardians of the Universe.' Or maybe the original 'Suicide Squad.' Rare tales are interspersed with short synopses of more familiar revivals (Flash, GL, Rose and Thorn, etc.)." [The precursors to Green Lantern's Guardians of the Universe were Captain Comet's Guardians of the Clockwork Universe, which you'll find reprinted in the Fireside Mysteries in Space book, if you can find the book itself. Grodd and Gorilla City were sorta-kinda foreshadowed by a Congo Bill story included in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told. Any such collection as this would have to devote pages to The Gallery of Recycled Cover Ideas, which would include (among others) the Felix-Faust's-finger-puppet-JLA, the JLA/JSA-trapped-in-cages-floating-in-space, and the JLA-boarding-rocket-that-will-bear-them-into-exile-in-space covers and the early-1950s covers that clearly inspired them.] IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 25, 2002 09:08 AM Erratum: that title should be "Jungle Boy of Jupiter." IP: Logged
Old Dude Member	posted January 27, 2002 07:06 PM quote: Originally posted by Steven Utley: The Gallery of Recycled Cover Ideas, which would include (among others) the Felix-Faust's-finger-puppet-JLA, the JLA/JSA-trapped-in-cages-floating-in-space, and the JLA-boarding-rocket-that-will-bear-them-into-exile-in-space covers and the early-1950s covers that clearly inspired them.] There was also late All-Star issue cover with the JSA battling a giant robot. The idea was used again on B&B 29 with the JLA. IP: Logged
John Moores 3 Member	posted January 27, 2002 08:15 PM Not to mention All-Star #42's ever classic JSA-strapped-to-perpetual-motion machine, reused for JLA# 6: "The Wheel of Misfortune!" ------------------ Check the definitive (and brand new) site on the Blackout Bombardier: www.doctormidnite.com IP: Logged
Old Dude Member	posted January 27, 2002 10:52 PM DRAT! When I found a site with All-Star Comics covers, therre were two that stood out as obvious sources for later JLA covers. Tonight I could only remember one. You beat me to the other one. IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 30, 2002 12:25 PM Here's a link to an entertaining Shazamgrrl thread. I quoted Old Dude at length on the subject of "The Irresistible Lois Lane." http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum94/HTML/011375.html So: suggestions for a collection of The Greatest What the Fck Stories Ever Told?* IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 31, 2002 02:51 PM Here's a link to Osgood Peabody's "Greatest Football Stories Ever Told" thread: http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum21/HTML/000711.html Me, I'm holding out for a collection of "Greatest Synchronized Swimming Stories Ever Told." Lots of Aquaman in that one. IP: Logged
Old Dude Member	posted January 31, 2002 04:39 PM Would there be a Schaffenberger story with Lana Lang in a swimsuit? Hubba-hubba, drool! IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted January 31, 2002 04:58 PM Are Old Dude and I the only ones here who think the grown-up Lana Lang was a lot hotter than Lois? IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted January 31, 2002 05:10 PM Damn right she was. So was the teenage Lana when Curt Swan drew her. But then I married a redhead when we were both 21... IP: Logged
Steven Utley Member	posted February 01, 2002 02:24 PM Here's a link to a promising thread about superhero origins -- http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum14/HTML/008870.html -- which occasions a solicitation for suggestions for The Goofiest Origin Stories Ever Told. IP: Logged
James Friel Member	posted February 05, 2002 06:03 PM quote: Originally posted by Steven Utley: Here's a link to a promising thread about superhero origins -- http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum14/HTML/008870.html -- which occasions a solicitation for suggestions for The Goofiest Origin Stories Ever Told. Mopee... IP: Logged
Earth 2 Superman Member	posted February 05, 2002 06:24 PM Best story ever? The Superman Red , Superman Blue story.. That one was amazing Earth 2 Superman IP: Logged

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