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Anyone own issues of these?
Which do you prefer? FOOM or The Amazing World of DC Comics?
Which do you prefer? FOOM or The Amazing World of DC Comics?
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funny to see Dr light on that cover as he was really a light weight villian for so longLooking for Infinite Heroes Robin and Catwoman
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^ I don't think he was lightweight back then....it wasn't until years later, even after New Teen Titans, when he became a joke character for a while and was even beat up by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys if I recall. and his tenure in the Suicide Squad didn't do him any service either....
Around the time of the Amazing World issue, Dr. Light was very much an A-list foe of the JLA and it's individual members.Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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Yeah, Doctor Light was a big-time name villain who took on the JLA. I forget when & why they decided to turn him into a joke. That issue of AWODCC was the only one I ever ordered through the ads in the books. I loved that Secret Socirety of Super-Villains title...this issue printed the original unprinted first issue. I collected the rest over the years ...still need #1!
I must mention cover artist on that book was Dick Dillin, a guy who did some nice stuff for a long time. He doesn't get the recognition he should. Dillin handled the JLA, the Blackhawks, World's Finest for years. All those JLA/JSA team-ups with a million characters...and the book was never late. I think that issue featured a bio article on him.
I liked those fanzine type of books, years before the internet they were like insider info gold! Sometimes I miss those simpler days when there was less information about what was coming out & who was doing what. You young guys will never know the pleasure of going into a store and seeing something NEW you never heard of sitting there on the rack!
The Legion of Super-Heroes issue #9 was crazy high priced for a long time, I think it's still about a $25-30 book.
Never read much of FOOM back in the day, I've a copy or two of it. I know I have a John Carter of Mars-Tarzan issue.Last edited by johnnystorm; Jan 22, '10, 9:57 PM.Comment
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The funny thing about that cover of Amazing World of DC is that every other hero on the cover is being kicked around by their respective arch enemies, except for Wonder Woman, who's being shoved by Dr Light. Was he ever really her bad guy? I would have expected The Cheetah instead.Comment
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^ Maybe they wanted to keep it all guys....if memory serves Wonder Woman may have gone up against Dr. Light once or twice back then...maybe in Adventure?Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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I can't recall Wonder Woman fighting Doctor Light solo...back then, it was pretty rare for a villain to go outside the stable for that particular hero. In fact, when it did happen, it was kind of an event, at least in my mind.
I can only recall a few instances...in the sixties Weather Wizard fought Batman in Detective one time...and in the 70s he went up against Aquaman in Adventure. Wonder Woman fought Chronos during that 12 labors to rejoin the JLA thing (which BTW, I'd love to see collected in trade), but then the Atom was guest-starring and Chronos was his villain. Solomon Grundy fought Superman, so did Gorilla Grodd. The Joker fought Green Arrow & Black Canary, the Creeper, and Lex Luthor in his own title. Other than that, I can't think of too many. Occasional stuff like Catman in Freedom Fighters or a villain fighting the JLA (Joker comes to mind using Snapper Carr), but never really swapping heroes. The Secret Society of Super-Villains was kind of based on the swapping villains theme, but that was a team book, not an individual hero series.
At least up into the mid-80s I only recall Captain Cold & Mirror Master fighting Batman, again in Detective.
Doctor Light's shtick actually was played up by DC as him being the villain who fought different heroes...as was the Calculator series when it ran in Detective. Even hero guest-shots at DC were rarer...such as the aforementioned JLA Wonder Woman run, or even the original Zatanna stories. The occasional GL/Flash teamups were an event, as were the JLA/JSA ones, or the Challengers/Doom Patrol. That was how Marvel succeeded in passing DC in the sixties...at DC teamups were events or part of a teamup book like Brave & Bold. At Marvel in was everyday business.Comment
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When Solomon Grundy crossed over to Earth 1, he kind of became Superman's bad guy didnt he?
Or is that more of a Superfiends kind of thing (Which I assume inspired the Crash Test Dummies lyric "Superman never made any money, Saving the World from Solomon Grundy)Comment
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Before Crisis on Infinite Earths, Solomon Grundy was Superman's foe after he crossed over to Earth-1. I think his battles with Batman came after and then eventually all earths were merged and he found his way into the Starman universe.Think OUTSIDE the Box! For the BEST in Repro & Custom Packaging!Comment
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Never read or seen an issue of FOOM. Really not much of a Mrvel guy anyway. I love DC.
I have never read or owned an issue of Amazing World of DC but I have tried several times to win them on ebay. Went higher than I felt like paying (with shipping figured in).
They are on my want list for someday.
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Wow Foom, that is so nostalgic!Comment
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Amazing world of Dc only becuase #3 inlcuded a till then unpublished GA GL story from the 40'sComment
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As I recall it was slated for a future issue when the original run was cancelled in the 40's and just ended up in the dead bin with so many other hero stories. I think it was called fair play or something like that. I'll have to see if Julie Schwartz explained why he used it in the issue (it had to be some anniversay of something)Comment
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Dug it up last night from my collection. it was the Julie Schwartz tribute issue Amazing World of DC commics #3 nov 1974. the story "Safety First" (boy did I remember that wrong) it was selected acording to the Mag as one of only 3 hero stories Julie actually wrote and the only 1 never published beforeComment
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