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BHOC: THE FLASH #270
Well, it had happened again: I had missed an issue of a beloved comic book series, this time THE FLASH. While my ardor for it had cooled somewhat as my attention was taken up with my exploration of the Marvel Universe, the character and the book remained a sentimental favorite. But in recent months, my local 7-11 had seemingly stopped carrying the title, and I’d only been able to keep up with…
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I'm here to remind you that DC is the reason we have the term 'fridging’ or 'women in refrigerators syndrome' (coined by Gail Simone). Alexandra DeWitt, who was a girlfriend of The Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, was killed and her body shoved in her fridge for Kyle to find. She was in like less that three comics then she was killed.
Green Lantern Vol. 3 #54
#kyle rayner#green lantern#alexandra dewitt#dc comics#comics#women in refrigerators#everyone point and laugh at Jenette Kahn and Ron Marz since the editor and writer so they will forever be known as#'the DC comics people who inspired the woman in refrigerators trope'#ron marz#jenette kahn#green lantern vol. 3 54#hal jordan#gail simone#batman#robin#flash#wonder woman#aquaman#alan scott#superman#comic tropes#woman in refrigerators syndrome#comic history#the lantern corps#green lantern corps#new titans#justice league#nero#i mean she probably came back no one stays dead in comics but STILL like three comics in and murdered to move the plot ahead 🙄#batcavescolony reads comics
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Folio Society launches "DC Comics: The Golden Age" collections
The Folio Society, independent publisher of luxury editions, has teamed up with US publisher DC Comics to publish DC Comics: The Golden Age (1938-1956), a collection of eighteen stories from the formative age of American comic books
The Folio Society, independent publisher of luxury editions, has teamed up with US publisher DC Comics to publish DC Comics: The Golden Age (1938-1956), a collection of eighteen stories from the formative age of American comic books, including the debut adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and more.
Selected and introduced by former DC Editor-in-Chief Jenette Kahn, the edition…
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So I'm reading Amazing Spider-Man #186 by Wolfman, Pollard, and Esposito. There's a one off character so specific she HAS to be a real person.
Turns out it's Jenette Kahn who was publisher at DC at the time. She's asking Spidey to fight Leon Spinks who had just beat Muhamad Ali. It's a reference to the famous Superman vs Muhamad Ali comic from the same year.
There she is drawn into the audience!
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Batman tribute by Jenette Kahn from Detective Comics No. 599, April 1989.
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🦞SAVE LARRY, KILL LARRY🦞
The 1988 poll to kill Batman's child sidekick, Robin, was inspired by an early example of interactive television: a 1982 Saturday Night Live stunt starring Eddie Murphy and a live lobster.
The April 10, 1982 Saturday Night Live show opened with a chef grabbing a live lobster from its tank, making it dance while humming the Star Wars theme, and then laughing while lowering it into a pot of boiling water. Just before the lobster was placed into the pot, Eddie Murphy appeared, grabbed the lobster out from the way of certain death, and turned to address the audience.
Rather than being boiled alive without protest, Larry the Lobster's fate was submitted to the arena of popular opinion and disposable money. The show's audience was presented with two premium-rate "900" phone numbers"—one for those who wanted to spare Larry, and another for those who wanted to see it boiled alive. Each call cost $0.50, and each caller could call multiple times.
The lobster's televised ordeal can be seen below in a compilation video. (Warning for human cruelty toward an animal.)
Updates on the vote count were given by other cast members throughout the live broadcast; by the end of the show, viewers had made over 400,000 calls. Ultimately the "Save Larry" supporters managed a narrow win against the "Kill Larry" supporters.
To kill a Robin
The SNL stunt stuck with DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, and he proposed to fellow editor Jenette Kahn that they could reserve a similar stunt for killing off a high-profile DC Comics character. By the time of 1988, Batman's colorful child sidekick Robin had been considered a divisive character among the creative forces behind Batman and among Batman fans. After Batman writer Jim Starlin's unsuccessful campaign to kill off Robin in a HIV/AIDS storyline, O'Neil decided the problematic Robin was the perfect candidate for a "Larry the Lobster" stunt. Sales manager John Pope began calling AT&T to secure the two 900 numbers on October 1, 1987; it took him until March 1988 to reserve them.
Like in Larry's case, the voting results were extremely close. Unlike Larry, the outcome supported Robin's death over his survival.
Fun facts!
Larry the Lobster predates Jason Todd's existence. "Larry the Lobster" aired on 10 April 1982. Jason Todd first appeared in the Batman comic in 1983, and he made his first appearance as Robin several months later. This might add credence to the idea that the idea for a DC Comics death poll wasn't specifically conceived with Robin in mind.
Within a span of a single SNL show, a total of 466,548 premium-rate calls were made to decide Larry's fate.
Within a span of 35 hours, a total of
At a cost of $0.50 per call, callers spent a total of $233,274.00 on Larry's poll. (After adjusting for inflation since 1982, this amount would be about $751,420.05 in 2023 dollars.)
At a cost of $0.50 per call, callers spent a total of $5,307 on Robin's poll. (After adjusting for inflation since 1988, this amount would be about $13,541.75 in 2023 dollars.)
Larry was spared by a margin of 11,644 votes. These votes cost a total of $5,822.00.
Robin was condemned to death by a margin of 72 votes. These votes cost a total of $36.00.
Both polls were decided by a margin of less than 1%.
A lobster's probable end
In the aftermath of the sketch, Murphy received letters protesting Larry's treatment. One letter made a racist jab at Murphy: "that man is sick, and I thought those people didn't like seafood."
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To spite this racist comment, Murphy ensured that Larry's stay of execution was only temporary.
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Editorial Eye: Interview With Karen Berger
In our Editorial Eye series, we go behind the scenes with comic and book editors to learn about their role in the creative process and discover how their passion for their industry helps shape their work.
Karen Berger is running the show at Berger Books, and that’s great for comics. In February, I had the opportunity to chat with legendary editor Karen Berger about her imprint at Dark Horse, Berger Books, which celebrated its 5-year anniversary in January . The imprint is in many ways the culmination of a dream, which Berger summed up as: “I wanted to get my hands dirty again.” Berger’s decision to leave Vertigo Comics ten years ago now seems to have been in part due to the editor becoming a victim of her own success. Berger explained to me that, “The line became so big, and I had several editors at various times, over the course of the 20 years, that I didn’t do a lot of hands-on editing. It was more working on acquisitions and working with editors on helping them develop the projects when I first got them.” That was something that Berger had missed.
When I imagine what being an editor at the height of Vertigo comics looked like, I see The Daily Planet newsroom from Richard Donner’s Superman. The hustle and bustle and chaos of meeting deadlines and coordinating stories. But instead of Perry White there’s Jenette Kahn as editor-in-chief. “Jenette is really the person who’s responsible for the explosive creativity that happened in the eighties and the nineties,” Berger explained to me. “It was all Jenette. If it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t have had the backing and the support and the person in charge encouraging us to be fearless and to take creative risks.”
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sorry to drag this back but remember when Gerry Conway made a tweet criticizing how misogynistic and creepy manga/anime art can be and literally everyone threw "bruh you created Power Girl" back at him like it was a gotcha? like even besides the thing he was completely right about, there is such a huge difference in how PG was drawn then and how she's drawn now even in almost exactly the same outfit. it's like every cover she gets a bigger wedgie and a more ridiculous pose.
that's always so funny to me because not only is gerry conway completely right about how creepy & misogynistic manga/anime tends to be but his power girl was a multilayered complex young woman written like very few women in comics were written at the time.
there's layers to this because she was certainly objectified by artist wally wood (explicitly so) and you could argue that that's written into her dna to a certain degree but at the same time wood's efforts look decidedly tame for what we're dealing with nowadays and i sincerely believe conway can by no means be blamed for the art side of things. to that effect, i recall conway also talking about jenette kahn feeling that pg's boob window was sexist and it was promptly erased with her next asc 1976 appearance so at least we can safely say one of the most influential women in comics was at one time involved in pg's earliest stories.
which is to say. lbr now. conway is more than qualified to talk about misogny in comics
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Folio Society Presents Batman!
(February 19, 2024) The Folio Society, independent publisher of beautifully illustrated hardback books, in collaboration with DC, will celebrate the 85th anniversary of the first comic book appearance of DC’s Dark Knight Detective with the release of DC: Batman. Created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Batman first appeared in 1939’s Detective Comics #27 and since then the Dark Knight has stood as a symbol of determination, courage and justice to generations of fans for over 80 years. Batman is one of the most iconic fictional characters in the world, and is a self-made Super Hero, notable not for his super powers, but for his intelligence, determination, and tech savvy.
This collectible compilation includes twelve seminal comics, by a host of iconic writers and artists— including Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Frank Miller, Dave Mazzucchelli, Alan Moore, Brian Bolland and Kelley Jones—all selected and introduced by former DC President, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of DC, Jennette Kahn. Along with the 320-page one-of-a-kind deluxe book, DC: Batman also comes with a stand-alone replica copy of Batman #1. Scanned in its entirety from an original 1940 copy, the replica copy of the Batman #1 comic book, which includes the original back-up strips and vintage ads and introduces DC’s Clown Prince of Crime, aka The Joker, and The Cat, who would come to be known as Catwoman.
“Created towards the end of the Great Depression by artist Bob Kane with writer Bill Finger, Batman is an icon as familiar as James Bond or Tarzan, one who has evolved to reflect the changing attitudes of the twentieth century,” said Folio Society Head of Editorial, James Rose. “The stories selected for DC: Batman reveal how the character and his billionaire alter-ego Bruce Wayne gradually evolved from the dutiful crimefighter of the 1940s to a man possessed, as crazy as the criminals he puts away. The Caped Crusader faces a rogue’s gallery steeped in gothic horror, from the Weimar cinema-inspired The Joker to the Jekyll/Hyde figure of Two-Face and the Moriarty-like Ra's al Ghul.”
“Trauma is a through-line in the Batman mythology,” writes Jenette Kahn in her introduction. “It has made psychopaths of Batman’s foes and brought him to the edge of madness himself. Batman’s battle is not just against criminals and crime. He fears the day he’ll look into a mirror and see, not Bruce Wayne’s
face, but The Joker’s.” The first woman at the helm of the legendary comic book publisher, Jenette Kahn helped transform comics into a sophisticated art form during her 27-year tenure from 1976 to 2002.
“The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Batman: Year One, by Miller and Dave Mazzucchelli, and the terrifying classic The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland are widely regarded as among the greatest comic books ever created,” said Folio Society Publishing Director, Tom Walker. “These stories changed the graphic medium forever with their combination of cinematic storytelling, shocking violence and literary depth and serve as centerpiece texts for DC: Batman.”
DC: Batman includes:
Facsimile: Batman #1 (Spring 1940)
Writer: Bill Finger
Cover artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson
Artists: Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
The Bat-Man
Detective Comics #27 (May 1939)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane
Editor: Vincent Sullivan
Robin—the Boy Wonder
Detective Comics #38 (April 1940)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artists: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
The Crimes of Two-Face!
Detective Comics #66 (August 1942)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artists: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos
Letterers: Ira Schnapp
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth
Batman and Green Arrow: The Senator’s Been Shot!
The Brave and the Bold #85 (September 1969)
Writer: Bob Haney
Cover artist: Neal Adams
Penciler: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Ben Oda
Editor: Murray Boltinoff
Daughter of the Demon
Batman #232 (June 1971)
Writer: Dennis O'Neil
Cover artist: Neal Adams
Penciler: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza
Editor: Julius Schwartz
The Dead Yet Live
Detective Comics #471 (August 1977)
Writer: Steve Englehart
Cover artists: Marshall Rogers, Terry Austin, Tatjana Wood, Gaspar Saladino
Penciler: Marshall Rogers
Inker: Terry Austin
Colorists: Marshall Rogers
Letterer: John Workman
Editors: Julius Schwartz, E. Nelson Bridwell
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 (June 1986)
Writer: Frank Miller
Cover artists: Frank Miller, Lynn Varley
Penciler: Frank Miller
Inker: Klaus Janson
Colorist: Lynn Varley
Letterer: John Costanza
Editors: Dick Giordano, Dennis O'Neil
Batman: Year One—Chapter One: Who I Am—How I Come to Be
Batman #404 (February 1987)
Writer: Frank Miller
Artist: Dave Mazzucchelli
Colorist: Richmond Lewis
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editor: Dennis O'Neil
Batman: The Killing Joke (July 1988)
Writer: Alan Moore
Cover artists: Brian Bolland, Richard Bruning
Artist: Brian Bolland
Colorist: John Higgins
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Editors: Dennis O'Neil, Dan Raspler
The Last Arkham (Part One)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (June 1992)
Writer: Alan Grant
Cover artist: Brian Stelfreeze
Penciler: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Norm Breyfogle
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Todd Klein
Editors: Scott Peterson, Dennis O'Neil
Knightfall Part 1: Crossed Eyes and Dotty Teas
Batman #492 (May 1993)
Writer: Doug Moench
Cover artists: Kelley Jones, Bob LeRose
Penciler: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Norm Breyfogle
Colorist Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Editors: Scott Peterson, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Dennis O'Neil
The release of DC: Batman is the second release in the Folio Society publishing program with DC, following the release of the acclaimed DC: The Golden Age. DC: Batman has been made according to The Folio Society’s exceptional production standards. Scanned from original copies held in the DC archives, the comics have been reproduced in 10” x 7” treasury format. An anti-scratch laminated hardcover features Batman’s signature silhouette, with titles foil-embossed in yellow and midnight blue, the book itself cowled in a pitch-black slipcase bearing the famous Bat-Signal. A compendium of gothic artwork and Batarang-sharp storytelling, DC: Batman is an unmissable investigation into the adventures and pathology of one of the world’s most famous – and most troubled – DC Super Heroes. DC: Batman will be available from the Folio Society on February 20, 2024. The Folio Society edition of DC: Batman, selected and introduced by Jenette Kahn, will be available for £65 / US $100 on February 20, 2024 exclusively from https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/fiction/comics-graphic-novels.
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BHOC: ACTION COMICS #488
I was into picking up this next issue of ACTION COMICS thanks both to the impending showdown between Superman and Microwave Man–a costumed villain from the past who’d spend decades off in space–and the start of the Air-Wave back-up series. I knew Air-Wave from over in GREEN LANTERN and had liked him a bunch as a young would-be super hero in training. So the whole package worked for me–though it…
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‘The Burial’ Preview: Jamie Foxx Stars as Tommy Lee Jones' Lawyer in Court.
Jamie Foxx steps into the courtroom in the newest trailer for Prime Video's “The Burial.” The legal-themed drama-comedy, co-starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, and Alan Ruck, is slated for a Sept. 11 debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Drawing inspiration from Jonathan Harr’s 1999 article in The New Yorker, "The Burial" chronicles the journey of personal injury attorney Willie E. Gary (portrayed by Foxx). He takes up the cause of funeral home proprietor Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe (played by Jones) in his contractual conflict with the Loewen funeral establishment. With Gary by his side, O’Keefe challenges Raymond Loewen's (embodied by Bill Camp) firm, allowing viewers a peek into the shady underbelly of the funeral business and revealing facets of Gary's daring and unique past.
In a conversation with People, the movie's director Maggie Betts shared her thoughts on casting Foxx. “The actual Willie Gary is an enormous character, and Jamie was the perfect choice, given his exceptional talent and dynamism, to capture this intricate role.”
She expressed her delight at Foxx’s portrayal, stating, “His interpretation added a dimension of depth and sensitivity to the character that surpassed my expectations. As a filmmaker, this was a joy to witness.”
Betts went on to say, “The movie is both uplifting and motivational, promising to evoke a range of emotions, from laughter to introspection.”
“The Burial” is penned by Betts in collaboration with Doug Wright. The production team comprises Foxx, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Datari Turner, Jenette Kahn, Adam Richman, and Bobby Shriver. After its unveiling at TIFF, “The Burial” will screen in select cinemas from Oct. 6 and will be accessible on Prime Video starting Oct. 13.
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Antonio Velardo shares: In Harlem, a 19th-Century Home That’s Playfully Modern Inside by BY VIVIAN MARINO
By BY VIVIAN MARINO
Jenette Kahn, who ran DC Comics and MAD magazine for more than a quarter of a century, is selling her townhouse for $3.25 million — whimsical fireplaces, and all.
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Book 081 & 082 & 083
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest, No. 16: Green Lantern
Denny O’Neil / Neal Adams
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest, No. 23: Green Arrow
Len Wein, et al.
The Best of DC, No. 14: Batman’s Villains
Jenette Kahn, et al.
DC Comics 1981 / 1982 / 1981
While I’m more of a Marvel guy, I had these when I was young, too. These are a slightly different format from the Marvel books—sort of a digest size with 100 pages each. The Green Lantern book is particularly good and reprints six Denny O’Neal / Neal Adams classics.
#bookshelf#illustrated book#library#collection#personal library#personal collection#bookseller#books#book lover#bibliophile#dc comics#green lantern#green arrow#batman#Denny o’neil#neal adams#graphic novels
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House Of Mystery #243, July, 1976, Bronze Age, DC Comics, VG+/FINE
House Of Mystery #243, July, 1976, Bronze Age, DC Comics, VG+/FINE
Ricardo Villagran cover art. Written by Bob Haney, Penciled and inked by Franc Reyes.
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House Of Mystery #243, July, 1976, Bronze Age, DC Comics, VG+/FINE
This one has a few very light creases in the top right corner, light tiny creases along the spine, and an indentation in the middle of the front cover.
Ricardo Villagran cover art. Written by Bob Haney, Penciled and inked by Franc Reyes, edited by Joe Orlando for Executive Editor Jenette Kahn!
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