#Al Gordon

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5 Years Later Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 Pull Out Poster from The Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #13 by Keith Giffen and Al Gordon

#keith giffen #al gordon #giffen #rip keith giffen #legion #the legion of super-heroes #the legion of super heroes #legion of super-heroes #legion of super heroes #five years later legion #5yl legion #5yl #dc #dc comics #posters #pull out poster

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Original Art - X-Men Annual #09 Pg 05 (1985) by Arthur Adams, Mike Mignola And Al Gordon

#Comics #Marvel Comics #X-Men #Arthur Adams #Mike Mignola #Al Gordon #Vintage #Art #Marvel #Original Art #X-Men Annual #1985 #1980s #80s

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Marvel Team-Up No. 75, November 1978. A great couple of opening pages. Superb art by John Byrne and Al Gordon with nice colouring work from Michele Wolfman. I especially like the central panel on the second page with Spidey's costume in yellow. Byrne could do no wrong at this point. Hot stuff.

#marvel team-up #marvel #john byrne #al gordon #spider-man #ralph macchio #1978 #chris claremont #michele wolfman

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On this day in 1999, Tom Strong #1 by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse and Al Gordon debuted from America's Best Comics.

#america's best comics #tom strong #comics #comic books #comics to remember #alan moore #chris sprouse #al gordon #dc #dc comics

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September 1990. One of the bright spots of the continuity-related editorial battles that beset the "v4" LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES book was Laurel Gand, introduced in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #6 and retroactively inserted in Legion history to replace Supergirl, who in this period was considered editorially off-limits. Laurel was a Daxamite, with the same powers as Supergirl (albeit with slightly different weaknesses), but she wasn't tied to Superman and she wasn't a time traveler, so her place in the Legion wasn't constrained in the ways Supergirl's had been. Like Supergirl, Laurel dated Brainiac 5, but after their messy breakup, she later got involved with his best friend, Rond Vidar, probably at least partly in hopes of getting a rise out of Brainy. However, Laurel then caught feelings for Rond and had a baby with him, while still secretly carrying a torch for Brainy. Oops! None of that would have been editorially permissible for Supergirl, nor would Laurel's super-thong.

I always liked Laurel and wish the series had made more use of her, but DC in this era was in the throes of its recurring misconception that allowing other characters with powers like Superman's somehow weakens the Superman franchise. She was apparently killed off after Keith Giffen and the Bierbaums left the book, and while a version of Laurel was reintroduced following the dreadful ZERO HOUR reboot, she was recast as a literal space nun, "Sister Andromeda"! Awful.

#comics #who's who #legion of super heroes #legion of superheroes #keith giffen #al gordon #tom and mary bierbaum #laurel gand #brainiac 5 #supergirl #daxamites #rond vidar #the reboot was such garbage #it should have been an AU

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Covers of the 1985 Rocket Raccoon miniseries

By Mike Mignola and Al Gordon

#marvel #marvel comics #comic art #rocket raccoon #rocket raccoon 1985 #80s comics #1985 #1980s #Sci fi art #fantasy art #comic book art #mike mignola #al gordon

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Erik Larsen and Al Gordon - Amazing Spider-Man #327 (1989) splash page 24 with Magneto

Source

#erik larsen #al gordon #amazing spider man #magneto

[sprockyeahlegion]

the Five Fingers of Mordru

#Rokk Krinn #Kono #Reep Daggle #Jo Nah #Mordru #Keith Giffen #Al Gordon #Furball #Five Years Later #5 Years Later

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“what’d you think?”

Kevin Maguire - Al Gordon

#Justice League #Post Crisis on Infinite Earths #Black Canary #Booster Gold #Blue Beetle #Guy Gardner #Rocket Red #Green Lantern #Batman #Kevin Maguire #Al Gordon #Mister Miracle

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Superman and Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen, Al Gordon, and Reuben Rude.

#dc comics #dc heroes #superman #clark kent #Kal-El #savage dragon #image comics #erik larsen #al gordon #chris eliopoulos #Reuben Rude #lois lane

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Tarzan by Bo Hampton

#tarzan #lord greystoke #john clayton #bo hampton #dark horse comics #modern age #al gordon

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Justice League #5

by Keith Giffen; J.M. DeMatteis; Kevin Maguire; Al Gordon; Gene D'Angelo and Bob Lappan

DC

#dc comics #justice league #kevin maguire #al gordon #gene d'angelo #bob lappan #j.m. dematteis #keith giffen

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Original Art - X-Men Annual #09 Pg 06 (1985) by Arthur Adams, Mike Mignola, And Al Gordon

#Comics #Marvel Comics #X-Men #Arthur Adams #Mike Mignola #Al Gordon #X-Men Annual #Rachel Summers #Phoenix #Madeline Pryor #Lockheed #Cyclops #Vintage #Art #Original Art #1985 #1980s #80s

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Page from Ambush Bug Nothing Special #1. 1992. Art by Keith Giffen and Al Gordon.

I’ve got to admit. The news has hit me hard. I saw the tweet and thought it was a joke. Checked back later, and alas it was not. His sense of humor, along with his collaborators, kept me laughing for years. I knew what I was getting in a Keith Giffen book, and was never let down. Comics, and the world, are better off because of him. A legend in the true sense.

#dc comics #dc universe #ambush bug #keith giffen #al gordon #Robert Loren Fleming #swamp thing

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Superman versus Spider-Man.

An old Wizard cover by Kevin Maguire and Al Gordon.

#Superman #Spider-Man #DC Comics #Marvel Comics #Kevin Maguire #Al Gordon

[cantsayidont]

November 1989 (set October 23, 2994). The first issue of the relaunched LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES series reveals that during the five-year gap following the end of the previous series, former Legionnaire Shrinking Violet, whose real name is Salu Digby, had joined the military when her homeworld of Imsk went to war with the planet Braal, homeworld of fellow Legionnaire Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn). By this point, several years later, Imsk has won the war and is occupying Braal, but Vi is in a military stockade.

As the page above alludes, in 2991, Vi and her unit were involved in an Imskian war crime, and she's been imprisoned because she refuses to retract her official protest or agree to keep her mouth shut about what happened.

In the previous series, Vi had expressed a romantic interest in fellow Legionnaire Ayla Ranzz (Lightning Lass), who hesitated, briefly seemed receptive, and then made a panicky dive into an aggressive hetero flirtation with Rokk Krinn's younger brother Pol (who was then killed in the final storyline of the previous series). We learn here that during her imprisonment, Vi and Ayla have been writing to each other, and Ayla has invited Vi to join her on the family's agricultural commune on the planet Winath, where Ayla has gone to live with her brother Garth (formerly known as Lightning Lad) and his wife (Imra Ardeen Ranzz, formerly known as Saturn Girl) since the Legion disbanded. Newly released from the army, Vi finally agrees.

This is an example of the radical shift in the complexity and sophistication of this phase of Legion history. The previous series had had some elaborate plots and characterization, but at the end of the day, it was still a superhero comic. This was something else, and not only in storytelling style. It's regrettable that a pointless series of editorial battles ended up making it such a mess, and even more regrettable that DC later decided to abandon it in favor of a return to cutesy adventures of cute teen heroes with no history. The point in this series was that the characters had BEEN cute teen heroes, but they grew up, and so did the universe around them — both for good and for ill.

#comics #legion of super heroes #legion of superheroes #keith giffen #tom and mary bierbaum #al gordon #shrinking violet #salu digby #imsk #braal #ayla ranzz #lightning lass #the irony is that all the stupid editorial edicts #were later reversed #so it was just territorial bullshit #there is an interesting progression with vi as a character #she had gotten distinctly more butch through the previous series #and the contrast with her teenage self from the '60s is stark #(she's 34 years old at this point)