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Happy 75th Birthday, Batman!
The caped crusader is 75 today, since Detective Comics #27 went on sale on March 30th 1939. He doesn't look his age, does he?
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tony ingram wrote:The caped crusader is 75 today, since Detective Comics #27 went on sale on March 30th 1939. He doesn't look his age, does he?
One of the perks of being a billionaire.
Also, Happy Birthday to Batman, it's been a lot of fun so far!
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I thought Bruce Wayne was merely a millionaire, according to Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
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$9.2B according to Forbes in 2013
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45edmmd/6-bruce-wayne/
Still well behind Scrooge McDuck at $65B, but he edged at Lex Luthor this year.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45edmmd/6-bruce-wayne/
Still well behind Scrooge McDuck at $65B, but he edged at Lex Luthor this year.
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Spektre! How the devil are you! Long time no see.
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Doing poorly health wise. My anti-New 52 campaign remains unabated though!
Afraid as such my new comic hauls are getting fewer and farther between as I clean out shops of back issues I'm interested in. Hardly anyone is selling to shops in the area, so back issues come from overstock of current stuff and we've past the point of pre Flashpoint stuff getting added now.
Also, just haven't decided to regularly bite the bullet on $100+ comics to fill in holes, but that Justice League of America #1 keeps staring me in the face.
Looks like your keeping the place up well.
(And you HAVE probably seen me more than you know. Have to stay ahead of all the bans you know.)
Afraid as such my new comic hauls are getting fewer and farther between as I clean out shops of back issues I'm interested in. Hardly anyone is selling to shops in the area, so back issues come from overstock of current stuff and we've past the point of pre Flashpoint stuff getting added now.
Also, just haven't decided to regularly bite the bullet on $100+ comics to fill in holes, but that Justice League of America #1 keeps staring me in the face.
Looks like your keeping the place up well.
(And you HAVE probably seen me more than you know. Have to stay ahead of all the bans you know.)
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Ah, you're still a master of disguise, then! Good to hear it.
I have just acquired an issue previously missing from my collection for over 35 years-Flash #263, the third part of the four part Ringmaster/Golden Glider storyline, which I have been missing since I was eight years old! And it cost me next to nothing. Sometimes, life can still throw up some pleasant surprises.
I have just acquired an issue previously missing from my collection for over 35 years-Flash #263, the third part of the four part Ringmaster/Golden Glider storyline, which I have been missing since I was eight years old! And it cost me next to nothing. Sometimes, life can still throw up some pleasant surprises.
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Glad to hear it
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A mate of mine from 'round the corner came across it in a box of miscellaneous books he bought at an auction at Woodbridge for a quid. I paid him for the one comic what he paid for the whole box, and it was still a bargain.Lucy McGough wrote:Glad to hear it
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Which mate? Also, what were the books?
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Jim from the parish council. No idea what else he got, aside from some books on military history and a few copies of Tiger (a 1970s British comic about sports, for the uninitiated. Original home of Roy of the Rovers. I'll probably take them off his hands too, and ebay them).Lucy McGough wrote:Which mate? Also, what were the books?
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I'm still amazed there's no new Batman cartoon show on TV for his 75th birthday . . . you'd think that would have been the perfect opportunity to try to lure new, younger fans for the future.
(And, yeah, they're showing Beware the Batman on Cartoon Network again . . . but it's buried in the Adult Swim section at some ungodly hour of the morning!)
(And, yeah, they're showing Beware the Batman on Cartoon Network again . . . but it's buried in the Adult Swim section at some ungodly hour of the morning!)
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Maybe they're not interested in cartoons any more now that we have the live action movie.
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What live action movie?Lucy McGough wrote:Maybe they're not interested in cartoons any more now that we have the live action movie.
The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan's third installment) came out in 2012, while I believe the Superman & Batman movie isn't going to be out before 2016.
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A fair point, well made.
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By the way, did you folks see these 75th anniversary shorts from DC?
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I didn't-but I have now!
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"Sorry, pal. You're history"
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Yeah, it's now more like "79th Birthday heading towards 80th", but based on a comment in another thread:
I figured that a couple of pages from this story from Secret Origins #6 would be appropriate here:tony ingram wrote:That <Secret Origins> was one of my favourite books of the eighties.
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It never made much sense that, right after Crisis on Infinite Earths wiped out the Golden Age Superman and Batman, Secret Origins retold the origins of both of them. But it was somehow both appropriate and very satisfying, nonetheless.
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Well, technically, Golden Age Superman wasn't "wiped out" by CoIE. He just was removed from the main DC Universe's reality for a while (along with Golden Age Lois Lane, Superboy (not yet "-Prime"), and Alex Luthor from Earth-3).tony ingram wrote:It never made much sense that, right after Crisis on Infinite Earths wiped out the Golden Age Superman and Batman, Secret Origins retold the origins of both of them. But it was somehow both appropriate and very satisfying, nonetheless.
Also,
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Comics aren't half confusing sometimes.
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Happy 81st Anniversary Batman!
My wish for a regular on-going comic book that we'll probably never see:
The return of Batman team-ups in The Brave and the Bold, but using Golden Age Batman in the 1940s and having him team-up with other Golden Age heroes.
Oh, well. One can dream that in some parallel-universe such a book is currently being published.
The return of Batman team-ups in The Brave and the Bold, but using Golden Age Batman in the 1940s and having him team-up with other Golden Age heroes.
Oh, well. One can dream that in some parallel-universe such a book is currently being published.
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A shame Bob Haney is dead. He wouldn't have let minor considerations like continuity get in the way...MajorHoy wrote:My wish for a regular on-going comic book that we'll probably never see:
The return of Batman team-ups in The Brave and the Bold, but using Golden Age Batman in the 1940s and having him team-up with other Golden Age heroes.
Oh, well. One can dream that in some parallel-universe such a book is currently being published.
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Heck, Alan Brennert would be a possible writer for a series like that.tony ingram wrote:A shame Bob Haney is dead. He wouldn't have let minor considerations like continuity get in the way...MajorHoy wrote:My wish for a regular on-going comic book that we'll probably never see:
The return of Batman team-ups in The Brave and the Bold, but using Golden Age Batman in the 1940s and having him team-up with other Golden Age heroes.
Oh, well. One can dream that in some parallel-universe such a book is currently being published.
He did write the issues featuring Earth-1 Batman with Earth-2's Robin and Batwoman
as well as the issue with Earth-2's Batman and Catwoman
And then there was Mike W. Barr's issues when Earth-1 Batman teamed up with Earth-2's Huntress (Helena Wayne)
as well as issue #200 (the last one of that run).
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That Interlude on Earth Two story is one of my favourite issues of B&B.
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History of the DC Universe was a beautiful series. It's a shame it was basically out of date almost as soon as it was published.
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