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[chernobog13]

Then there was that time that Superman teamed-up with He-Man to battle Skeletor in DC Comics Presents #47 (July, 1982).

This was the first comic book appearance of Masters of the Universe outside of the min-comics that came with each figure, and was on the spinner racks more than a year before the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe animated series started broadcasting.

#DC Comics Presents #Superman #Masters of the Universe #He-Man #Skeletor #Man-At-Arms #Battle Cat #DC Comics #Paul Kupperberg #Curt Swan #Mike DeCarlo #Gene D'Angelo #Ben Oda

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Detective Comics #485 (1979) by Paul Kupperberg & Kurt Schaffenberger

#richard grayson #dick grayson #robin #detective comics #paul kupperberg #kurt schaffenberger #dc #comics #70s comics #70s #dc comics

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Give Peace a F*cking Chance (2023) You can't pick up a comic these days without Peacemaker showing up. I've seen people dub the "Dawn of DC" as the "Dawn of Peacemaker". In any case I love pulling from the late 80s, with the Kupperberg era helmet. I wanted to draw a guy that’d talk down to you about the sanctity of peace, then kick your teeth in in the same breath. That's Peacemaker to me.

#peacemaker #dc #suicide squad #dc comics #dceu #james gunn #charlton comics #the suicide squad #christopher smith #paul kupperberg

[cantsayidont]

March 1984. In SUPERGIRL #17, Kara Zor-El made one of her most-maligned fashion choices: adding a red headband to her Supergirl costume. Paul Kupperberg, the writer of this series, has since admitted that he introduced the headband only under duress, at the insistence of the producers of the 1984 SUPERGIRL movie (who then decided not to add it to Helen Slater's costume anyway). However, the headband ended up becoming an interesting addition to the series, which contains some of the most notable examples of the Jewish coding of Supergirl.

To be clear, these stories don't assert that Kara is Jewish, but as Linda Danvers, she lives in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago; her landlady Ida Berkowitz is a Shoah survivor; and just three issues earlier, Supergirl had helped to save the Torah of a nearby synagogue when it was almost burned down by antisemitic arsonists. Moreover, as Kara explains in SUPERGIRL #18, in adopting the headband, she has chosen to adapt a venerable Kryptonian cultural tradition traditionally associated with Kryptonian men, in a way that suggests a clear parallel with the practice of wearing a kippah (yarmulke):

As Kupperberg may have recalled, the cultural origins of the Kryptonian headbands had previously been described in a "Fabulous World of Krypton" story in SUPERMAN #264 about a decade earlier (a story by Elliot S! Maggin and Dave Cockrum that's even more strongly Jewish-coded than this one), but the comics had shown Kryptonian men wearing headbands since the late 1940s, so this was well-established Superman lore.

In context, then, the headband becomes less a fashion fad than another expression of the Jewish themes of the 1980s SUPERGIRL series and the Jewish coding of pre-Crisis Kryptonians more broadly. A particularly noteworthy point in this regard is the way Supergirl frames her decision to wear the headband as part of a living, evolving Kryptonian culture, which may be practiced in different ways throughout the diaspora of survivors of Krypton (who in this era included not only Superman and Supergirl, but also the former residents of the Bottle City of Kandor, the prisoners in the Phantom Zone, Supergirl's Kryptonian parents, and a number of others).

(Also, if you just want to focus on Kryptonian fashion faux pas, this outfit — with or without headband — was a vast improvement over Supergirl's previous costume, the one with the red choker and hot pants.)

#comics #supergirl #paul kupperberg #carmine infantino #bob oksner #linda lee danvers #pre crisis #kryptonian disaspora #antisemitism #kara zor el #kandor #josé luis garcía lópez #dick giordano

[marvelousmrm]

Captain America #240 (Kupperberg & Kupperberg, Dec 1979). Steve chases a gang out of Coney Island. There have been so many creative switch-ups lately, I’m not sure anyone in the bullpen knows what to do with Cap right now.

#marvel #marvel 616 #captain america #steve rogers #alan kupperberg #paul kupperberg

[helenaheissner]

I need this to become a meme.

#supergirl #kara zor el #kara danvers #linda danvers #paul kupperberg #carmine infantino #daring new adventures of supergirl #dcu #dc comics #DNAS issue 15 #pre crisis #bronze age

[onlylonelylatino]

Sgt. Rock by Joe Kubert

#sgt rock #iron major #easy company #joe kubert #dc comics #modern age #whos who #tony isabella #paul kupperberg #paul levitz #bob rozakis #e nelson bridwell #greg weisman #todd klein #peter sanderson

[wwprice1]

Supergirl awesomeness by Carmine Infantino, Bob Oksner, and Tom Ziuko.

#dc comics #dc heroes #dc women #superman #supergirl #Kara Zor-El #linda danvers #clark kent #Kal-El #paul kupperberg #carmine infantino #bob oksner #Tom Ziuko

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#power girl #karen starr #paul kupperberg #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

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BHOC: SUPERMAN FAMILY #192

I remember that I passed up this issue of SUPERMAN FAMILY for weeks after it first came out, and for the most minor of reasons. I was a fan of the New Doom patrol, who were guest-starring in the Supergirl story across these three issues. But in this middle one, the chapter is only a short 10 pages in length, and the Doom patrol only show up for half a page. I saw that and I felt cheated by it,…

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#Arvell Jones #Bob Toomey #DC #E. Nelson Bridwell #Flamebird #Gerry Conway #Jimmy Olsen #Joe Staton #Juan Ortiz #Ken Landgraf #Krypto #Kurt Schaffenberger #Lois Lane #Nightwing #Paul Kupperberg #Superboy #Supergirl #Superman #Superman Family #Tom DeFalco #Win Mortimer

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The Phantom Stranger

Action Comics Weekly #613: Can't Judge a Book...

by Paul Kupperberg; Tom Grindberg: Dennis Janke; Petra Scotese (Goldberg) and Bob Pinaha

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#dc comics #Action Comics Weekly #the phantom stranger #bob pinaha #petra scotese #Dennis Janke #tom grindberg #Paul Kupperberg #comic book

[inhousearchive]

House-ad for the four-issue miniseries Power Girl (1988), running throughout DC Comics titles in December 1987.

#power girl #karen starr #paul kupperberg #rick hoberg #kerry gammill #dick giordano #dc #dc comics #80s #house ad #house-ad #dcedit #comicedit #comicsedit

[dcbinges]

Vigilante #19 (1985) by Denys Cowan, Marv Wolfman & Paul Kupperberg

#billy chiang #adrian chase #vigilante #dc #comics #80s comics #80s #dc comics #denys cowan #marv wolfman #paul kupperberg

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The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl

#dc comics #supergirl #kara zor el #daring new adventures of Supergirl #paul kupperberg #carmine infantino

[downthetubes]

Nostalgia Trip: Batman - From the 30's to the 70's

Coming across a striking image of the Silver Age Batman and Robin - indeed, some might say, and iconic images - stirred some old, happy memories...

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#Batman #Brendan McCarthy #Carmine Infantino #Crown Publishing #DC Comics #Detective Comics #E. Nelson Bridwell #Heritage Auctions #Judge Dredd #Murphy Anderson #Paul Kupperberg #Shazam #St. Ives #Superhero Comics #Superman #Tom Brevoort

[ufonaut]

Everything I know about my future is true. I will kill my fellow GL Corps members. I will kill Sinestro... then use the power of this very battery to destroy the universe and reform it. But, god help me, there’s no changing that.

A couple surviving pages of ‘Emerald Interlude’, a three-parter set in-between the pages of Green Lantern (1990) #48-50 that would have expanded on Hal’s decision to kill Sinestro and the Guardians. This time travel tale would have appeared in Legends of the DC Universe (1998) with script by Paul Kupperberg and art by Peter Doherty & Joe Rubinstein. It was likely replaced by Hal’s Spectre story in issues #33-36.

#hal jordan #parallax #martin jordan #sinestro #thaal sinestro #green lantern #legends of the dc universe #paul kupperberg #dc #dc comics #comic book history #(in a manner of speaking!) #comicedit #dcedit #comicsedit #u can reblog #god im always obsessed with the martin parts. obsessed im telling u. worst father in history #i am NOT thinking about the parallels between sinestro and martin. nuh uh.