urbwar Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Based on characters that appeared on the cover of Exciting Comics #45, here is the Robot Master and one of his robots: here's an image of the cover: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbwar Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 3 more public domain villains, courtesy of Joe Singleton. Black Axeman, Lady Serpent and Super Brain: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnStrawberry Posted October 11, 2015 Report Share Posted October 11, 2015 Whoa, a supervillainess with a cigarette-holder, monocle and a snake draped over her shoulders! What man can resist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted October 13, 2015 Report Share Posted October 13, 2015 There's something about the robot in the background in this image that makes me think it's trying to sneak up on the hero--and as he's doing so it's laughing to itself--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnStrawberry Posted October 14, 2015 Report Share Posted October 14, 2015 To me, that cover's kind of odd, even by Golden Age standards. Since Samson is clobbering Robot 1 with a morning star, my sympathy is naturally drawn to the robot. Based on the scale of the train car and buildings, the combatants are kaiju-sized. Based on the civilians falling out of the train, the supposed hero doesn't care if they plummet to their deaths! Almost would've been better to let the robot abduct them (?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 To me, that cover's kind of odd, even by Golden Age standards. Since Samson is clobbering Robot 1 with a morning star, my sympathy is naturally drawn to the robot. Based on the scale of the train car and buildings, the combatants are kaiju-sized. Based on the civilians falling out of the train, the supposed hero doesn't care if they plummet to their deaths! Almost would've been better to let the robot abduct them (?). Lists for $12,000. Deep thinking wasn't a hallmark of the genre in 1939 & 1940. https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/610292.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 So how would you pitch to Batman? I'm thinking an inside curve, myself. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted November 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 You're never gonna fool that umpire though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Depends who's pitching. Though I'd have thought Batman and Robin would have both played for the same team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Depends who's pitching. Though I'd have thought Batman and Robin would have both played for the same team. I figure it's a pickup game--they chose sides with whom they had. As for pitching--Howzabout this guy? If he ain't Golden Age, then who is, Doc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 don't look at me I don't know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted November 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Deep thinking wasn't a hallmark of the genre in 1939 & 1940. It was common for the main characters to be HUGE in cover art, to emphasize their power, perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted November 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 A couple examples of this effect on Golden Age comic covers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 If The Shield and The Hangman knew how thoroughly they'd be overshadowed by the guy on thier shoulders--would they be smiling so broadly? I wonder. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted December 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 The Shield was a pretty cool character, too bad he disappeared Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 I thought all of the Golden Age MLJ heroes were really cool, and deserved to be remembered in the modern age. Too bad all the attempts to revive them seem to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Found these on YouTube and thought I'd pass them along--some brief but nifty videos about Golden Age heroes, and one about the British character Spring-Heeled Jack, which according to this page is the "first" superhero. If you're into origin stories, this is for you. FizzFop1 Videos Page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 And to think Captain America just punched out Hitler-- But it took Cat-Man 20 issues to get there, where Cap did it in his first issue. Sorry guys, but I'm gonna go there: "Hey! Check out the butt on Cat-Girl!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Project Superpowers - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Superpowers Project Superpowers - Wikia http://projectsuperpowers.wikia.com/wiki/Project_Superpowers_Wiki Project Superpowers - Dynamite Entertainment http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-Project_Superpowers Project Superpowers - Comic Vine http://www.comicvine.com/project-superpowers/4050-20326/ The Twelve (Marvel Comics) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_(comics) The Twelve - Marvel Comics Database Wikia http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Twelve_(WWII)_(Earth-616) The Twelve - Comic Vine http://www.comicvine.com/the-twelve/4050-19973/ Some Resources for You! QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 You know your in a golden age comic book when there is a young girl in bondage on the cover, even if the scene is never depicted exactly that way inside the comic book itself. (You can replace 'young girl' with 'kid sidekick' if you want...). Golden Age Wonder Woman was just thinly veiled bondage porn. It is known, Khaleesi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Golden Age Wonder Woman was just thinly veiled bondage porn. It is known, Khaleesi. .. I don't recall the veil being all that prominent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted December 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 None of the reboots really seem to hold up, particularly the latest one. very disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Golden Age Wonder Woman was just thinly veiled bondage porn. It is known, Khaleesi. I cannot agree with that. Yes, there were elements of bondage in the Wonder Woman comic, and there were elements of non-traditional lifestyle in the life of William Moulton Marston. But that does not mean there was not anything more to the comic, that there was not anything more to the life of Dr. Marston. There are plenty of people, women and men, who have found great significance in the character, and have made her a part of their lives. Many of them are featured in the PBS documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines--and if you were to say to them that their favorite hero was nothing more than "just thinly veiled bondage porn," I don't think they would take it well, and would be very cross with you. More than that--you would be aligning yourself with every parent, every schoolteacher, every self-proclaimed "expert" who said comics were nothing but childish, pointless trash which was not worth the paper it was printed on, that they were only fit for delinquents and illiterates. Is that what you want to say? Do you want to be the sort of person who says such things? Just saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 No one is doubting that the the Iron Age of comics has become a mature genera for mature readers, but I ALSO don't think anyone doubts that, due to the Comic Code Authority, the Silver Age was written to and for 10 year-old boys. That's what makes the Golden Age interesting - It's comics without the Comics Code Authority but NOT the Iron Age. Also, and it's late and not really relevant to the thread topic, but when we speak of comics as myth in modern culture, Wonder Woman as an example of Feminine Power works only as an example of the FALSE IDEAL that is sold to women at large in the late 20th/early 21st century. The lie is that Wonder Woman is simply Superman with breasts, and for a woman to be powerful she must abandon her last shred of femininity and become as masculine as possible, leading to the real life expression of this ideal in Hillary Clinton. The ACTUAL example of Feminine Power, as depicted in the myth of the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone, is largely absent in modern culture post Gloria Steinem. In the myth of the the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone, it is shown that by willingly assuming the subservient role in a relationship, but maintaining personal power and integrity by being able to exit the relationship at any time, the submissive becomes the one who actually controls the interpersonal dynamics. And that, while not being a common theme in late 20th/early 21st century at large, IS a common theme, well known and firmly held to, in the BD/SM community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phydaux Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Actually, if you want to see the myth of the Maiden, the Matron, and the Crone played out in modern culture, rewatch the first season of The Sopranos. In The Sopranos you have the symbol of male power in Tony Soprano - Wealthy, influential, comfortable with violence, leader of a group of other powerful makes, all proficient practitioners of Magick (where the definition of Magick is "Making your will manifest on Earth"). But as powerful a warlock as Tony is, he is powerless when confronted by the three vessels of Feminine Power in the Matron, Tony's wife, the Maiden, Tony's girlfriend on the side, and the Crone, Tony's mother. Those three vessels of Feminine Power constantly leave Tony confounded, clueless as to why his masculine power, so effectual when dealing with politicians & criminals, is useless on the three of them. To bring the discussion back to comics, I recommend the discourse on the history and fall of Feminine Power from the graphic novel From Hell by Allen Moore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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