#dan richards

[chernobog13]

Batman and Manhunter (Paul Kirk) by Walt Simonson.

This version of Manhunter has a rather confusing history. Originally, Paul Kirk was a private investigator, created by Ed Moore, who starred in his own serial in Adventure Comics (vol. 1) starting with issue #58 (January, 1941). The feature was titled Paul Kirk, Manhunter, but that was just a description of the job he did, not a nickname he used, nor was he ever called that.

The Paul Kirk, Manhunter feature ended in issue #72.

The final appearance of Paul Kirk, Manhunter, from Adventure Comics #72.

Adventure Comics #73, April 1942)* saw the debut of a new, costumed Manhunter feature by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.

The new Manhunter was Rick Nelson (no, not Ozzie and Harriet's kid), a former big game hunter who decided he should put his skills to use hunting down criminals. He donned a costume and began his career as a crimefighter.

The cover of Adventure Comics #73, the new Manhunter's first appearance, and page 8 from his initial story. Obviously, no one at DC editorial knew that Manhunter had a blue face mask, which is why the colorist went out of his way to create a mask for the character.

Adventure Comics #75, wherein everyone is finally on the same page about the mask, except now his ear is blue as well.

As you can tell from these images, the new Manhunter definitely was in no way related to the previous feature with Paul Kirk.

Except by his second appearance in Adventure Comics #74 the character's name was changed from Rick Nelson to Paul Kirk. I don't know why made that decision, although many sources point the finger at DC's editorial staff. Anyhow, that led to the original Paul Kirk getting completely retconned out of DC continuity.

Simon and Kirby left the Manhunter feature after Adventure Comics #80 (November, 1942), although they were still doing the Sandman feature in that book. Manhunter's final appearance was in Adventure Comics #92 (June, 1944).

Writer/editor Archie Goodwin and artist Walt Simonson revived the Manhunter character for a series of 8-page back-up stories in Detective Comics (vol. 1) #473 (November, 1973).

The new Manhunter by Walt Simonson. The figure is from a DC house ad.

This new Manhunter was a revived and revised Paul Kirk. Kirk had given up the costumed crimefighter gig and returned to big game hunting. He was mortally wounded during a hunt, and that would have been the end of him. But an organization called the Council found him, used their super-science to heal him, and gave him a genetic enhancement that gave him advanced healing. They also cloned him enough times to create a small army, of which Kirk was leader.

Goodwin and Simonson were going to make their Manhunter a completely original character. However, they used Simon and Kirby's version of Paul Kirk so that they did not have to spend their limited comic book pages to create a back story for their hero.

Kirk eventually realized the Council was up to no good and began working to take the organization down. He gained some allies along the way, including Batman. Together they brought an end to the Council, although Kirk lost his life - for good this time - when he caused the Council's HQ to explode.

Jack Kirby tried to revive his Joe Simon's version of Manhunter in 1st Issue Special #5 (August, 1975).

The main character was Mark Shaw, not Paul Kirk, but the costumes were very similar. Jack also established an ancient organization that picked worthy individuals to act as a Manhunter to take down the criminals and gangs that the police could not - or would not - touch.

Unfortunately, Jack never got to finish that story. Instead, Steve Englehart took the concept and ran with it in a totally different direction during his brief tenure as the writer on Justice League of America.

That was not the end of the Manhunter character, of course, which has been revived several more times (including twice by surviving clones of Kirk). But that's a post for another day.

(* In March, 1942, one month before Simon and Kirby's Manhunter debuted, Quality Comics introduced their own Manhunter in Police Comics #8.

This guy was Dan Richards, a police rookie who graduated at the bottom of his academy class. A friend of his got framed, so Richards donned a rather dull costume (sometimes without pants, and the footprint chest emblem didn't last long) to fight crime. He was assisted by his faithful dog, Thor.

This Manhunter outlasted DC's version by a good stretch, until August, 1950's Police Comics #101.

Shortly thereafter, DC bought all of Quality's characters. Eventually all of them were incorporated into the DC Universe. The two different Manhunters finally met, post-Crisis On Infinite Earths, in All-Star Squadron #31.)

#Batman #Manhunter #Paul Kirk Manhunter #Rick Nelson #Dan Richards #Thor the dog #DC Comics #Quality Comics #Golden Age Comics #Ed Moore #Joe Simon #Jack Kirby #Tex Blaisdell #Alex Kotsky

[shirtlesscelebsofdaworld]

#dan richards #5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton irwin

[onlylonelylatino]

Manhunter versus the Masked Pirate by Joe Kubert

#manhunter #masked pirate #joe kubert #golden age #quality comics #dan richards

[kaosmancers-kollection]

light vs dark

#Scarlet Begonias #Shaylene Pase #d2l2 #Dan Richards

[kaggsy59]

The Wild Places: A Coda

As you might have gathered from my review of “The Wild Places” last month, I was really absorbed in Robert Macfarlane‘s explorations of the edgelands of the UK islands. The fact that I’ve finished all of his mainstream books irked me a little, and I did have a bit of a dig round to see if there was anything I’d missed. Imagine my delight when I stumbled across a short book which is a kind of coda…

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#dan richards #holloway #robert macfarlane #stanley donwood

[watch-joey-collect]

#Infinity Inc #47 #Harlequin #Jade #Obsidian #Dan Richards #Millennium #DC #Vince Argondezzi

[pulledrounder]

Richard Siken, Boot Theory // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // astralcorbozo on TikTok // Mary Herbert, A Long Time in the Desert // Dan Deacon, When I Was Done Dying

#i've been thinking about this for so long #web weaving #parallels #richard siken #boot theory #frank bidart #the war of vaslav nijinsky #mary herbert #dan deacon #when i was done dying #webweaving

[soranatus]

Spider-Man is a Weird Guy! By Dan Schkade

#dan schkade #marvel comics #spider-man #spiderman #peter parker #fantastic four #reed richards #susan storm #johnny storm #ben grimm

[swingingthehatchetnow]

The nerdy prudes playing monopoly

Based off of the draw the squad base, idk who the original artist is

#nerdy prudes must die #npmd #starkid #team starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #starkid black friday #nightmare time #pete spankoffski #grace chasity #stephanie lauter #richard lipschitz #donna daggit #dan reynolds #hatchetfield

[bet-on-me-13]

Supers and Bats

So! Jazz, Danny, Dan, and Ellie are adopted by Clark Kent and Lois Lane after bouncing around the System for a while.

Jazz couldn't legally take care them because she's just an 18 yr old in College and couldn't provide for two 16 yr Olds and a 12 yr Old on her own.

(Dan is in his Post-AGIT Body, so he looks like Danny's Twin Brother, and Ellie is still 12 because she hasn't started Aging yet.)

Anyways, eventually the Fenton Family opens up about their Powers and are accepted into the Super Family. They even Begin acting as Heroes for Metropolis, taking on their own Super names. Like Superkid, Supergal, and Superguy, all lazy but funny names that fit the Family Naming Convention.

And you know the Rule, if you are a Super, you will inevitably end up with your very own Bat.

Obviously Clark adopted Bruce as his Bat. They were the originals, the OG's, they set the precedent.

Kon adopted Tim as his Bat while on YJ, or maybe or was the other way around? They both don't know, since they were both absolutely Messes when they were on that Team. It really could have gone either way.

Jon and Damien have been eachothers Bat/Super since the Day they met. Let's even say Jon never got stuck in that Time Paradox and stays the same age (a gift from peepaw Clocky)

Barbara actually gets Jazz. She's not exactly as Super as the rest of her Family and Adopted Family, but she he up there. And she constantly studies for her Classes at Barbara's Library, so they get to hang out a lot and bond over having to take care of their respective Families.

Danny and Duke get along well, and decide that Danny is now his Super. They started hanging out when Danny decided to become the 2nd Day Shift Hero of Gotham on a whim, cause why is Duke the only one? He splits his time between Metropolis and Gotham but as a Super it's not an inconvenience. They like Joking with eachother on patrol.

Surprisingly Dan and Dick get along very well. Dick used to be extremely Agressive and Violent, and can relate to Dan who has recently begun trying to ugnore his more extreme reactions. They bond over the feeling of not being understood as kids and their shared "Extremely Repressed Anger" emotions. (Dick doesn't have dad instincts shut up jason)

Cass and Steph take one look at "Still a 12 yr old Chaos Gremlin" Ellie and decide that she is theirs now. It's okay, they can share! They absolutely love their brand new Little Sister, and let her be the biggest of Gremlins!

Most people forget but Jason has Bizzaro as his Super, while he is on the Outlaws. Once Ellie hears about Bizzaro's situation, she helps stabilize him using some of Vlad's old Tech. So Bizzaro gets to live in this! Yay!

That's the idea, thoughts?

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #DC #Dcu #Every Bat has a Super #Clark and Bruce #Kon and Tim #Jon and Damien #Jazz ans Barbara #Danny and Duke #Dick and Dan #Steph and Cass share Ellie #Bizzaro and Jason #Bizzaro lives #Danny gets adopted by Superman #The Fenton Parents just lost custody after CPS was called #They may still be alive #Or they may he in prison #Who knows? #Steph and Cass have a new Daught- they mean Sister named Ellie #Shut up “Richard” #How's Dan doing recently?

[petermorwood]

This is one of, if not THE, best April Fools jokes ever, and may even be the very first to air on "serious TV". The prank was aired April 1 1957 at the end of the BBC current-affairs programme “Panorama”.

It was helped by spaghetti being a rare exotic food in 1950s Britain, and narration by the hugely respected journalist and presenter Richard Dimbleby made it utterly convincing.

Afterwards people either got the joke - or didn’t, and wanted to grow their own spaghetti trees. These optimists were told to “place a length of dry spaghetti in a jar of tomato sauce and hope for the best”.

*****

The entire spoof got it wrong, of course, since free-range organic spaghetti doesn’t grow on trees at all. 

In actual fact it’s a kind of marshland reed, and very seasonal, only available from March 15 (when by tradition the first harvest is made by use of many small sharp knives) through until April 2nd, when it’s officially declared to be stale.

Extruded lengths of flour-water-egg paste - originally called spaghetti finti or spaghetti di casa - replicate these reeds while being available all year round.

*****

Some humourless pundits indulged in sputtering outrage that such nonsense was part of a serious programme, but "Panorama” producer David Wheeler stuck to his guns, suggesting that viewers needed a more critical attitude to what was shown on TV, and shouldn’t believe everything they saw. 

What would he have said now?

*****

@dduane​ says that for US readers to understand just how effective it was, imagine the same thing on “60 Minutes”, voiced with equal sincerity by Dan Rather.

*****

And oddly enough, what we’re having for supper tonight will be...

Probably not spaghetti.

;->

#April Fool's Day #spaghetti harvest #Richard Dimbleby #Dan Rather #pinch of salt

[shirtlesscelebsofdaworld]

#dan richards

[zestysharkwolf]

I really like making these

#starkid #team starkid #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetfield #mark chasity #karen chasity #ruth fleming #max jagerman #grace chasity #Solomon lauter #richie lipschitz #richard lipschitz #boy jerry #officer bailey #dan reynolds #donna daggit #steph lauter #stephanie lauter #peter spankoffski #pete spankoffski

[fleursial]

#ryan gosling #richard haywood #henry letham #dan dunne #dean pereira #luke glanton #holland march #officer k #my gifs

[lobinilo]

Disney live action couples + dancing

#my favourites are prob aladdin and yasmin #but i had to include jonahs lil twirlie twirl #disney #disney couples #disney movies #disney live action #cinderella #cinderella 2015 #lilly james #richard madden #beauty and the beast #beauty and the beast 2017 #batb 2017 #emma watson #dan stevens #aladdin #aladdin 2019 #mena massoud #naomi scott #the little mermaid #the little mermaid 2023 #halle bailey #jonah hauer king #cinderella live action #beauty and the beast live action #batb live action #aladdin live action #the little mermaid live action #disneyedit

[gloomtownfags]

Richard Siken - Little Beast / Black Veil Brides - Devil's Choir / DanAndPhilCrafts - Slime / Parker Millsap - Heaven Sent / My Chemical Romance - Burn Bright / Semler - Jesus From Texas / Hozier - Take Me To Church / Wilder Woods - Religion / Troye Sivan - Heaven

#web weaving #web weave #dan and phil crafts #dan and phil #phil lester #daniel howell #richard siken #religious trauma #ex religious #ex christian