Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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What is the status of that colleague today?

I will love and miss this woman forever.

I have found Friday is the news day where the most terrible evil things are reported. A little jolt in the morning, then the big scary shit around 5 EST - the perfect time for maximum people missing the news so it’s largely forgotten Monday. To have this fall on this day somehow lands harder.

Screenshot from “Challenge of the Super Friends“ featuring Batman, facing the large oval dais with the members of the Legion of Doom watching on. Lex Luther stands in the middle serving as judge. We see Batman from the back his arms are spread the open palms facing the Legion as he says, “We’re being charged with crimes that are completely within the law.”

Older man sits in the foreground, reading glasses or something, reading a newspaper. Outside his office stands a man in a black suit and Hawkwoman looking in at him. Older guy says, "It's an editorial CARTOON. They call it SATIRE, m'dear. And it's MEANT to STING."

Two men in a room: an grey haired man in a brown suit and a younger man in a polo shirt, turned to face the first guy, looks surprised. Guy in suit says, "You look surprised."  "I AM." "Well, that's a relief," says the older man.

Head and neck close up of Jerry Lewis. Buck-toothed smile and a thought balloon that says "IDEA?"

Spider-Man swinging thru New York at dusk says, "Sheesh! I'm SPIDER-MAN...and I love being me!"

Man and woman in swim suits on the beach kissing, beautifully framed by an ocean wave. Narration: “HE WOULD RATHER HAVE HIS HANDS ON CYNTHIA, WHEN HE WAS WITH HER, HE COULD HARDLY KEEP HIS HANDS OFF HER. IT WAS ODD, HE THOUGHT.”

Ultra close up of a man's nose, smile with bright white teeth and chin. He says, "Oh, yes. That's GOOD."

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

Dazzler is holding her smartphone in one hand and making a half-hearted effort to cover her mouth as she yawns says, "Excuse ME. It's been a long day. I'm probably going to crash for the rest of the night...."

I felt Thayler’s observation to the tips of my toes.

Omega the Unknown pushes twisted metal or rubble off the top of him. Narration: "Survival is generally a matter of learned CONTROL...! CONCENTRATE--! HEAVE--! CON! CEN! TRATE!"

Narration: "Meanwhile..." A woman dressed in late 1960, early 1970s microdress showing almost all leg, turns to admire the view of her side view in front of a full length mirror. "I got to admit I look FANTASTIC!" she thinks.

Close up of a king pulling his hair and bellowing, "I am NOT weak in the head. But I've got RELATIVES visiting me--they've been here for WEEKS and WEEKS and they WON'T GO home. This is the ONLY way I know to get rid of him."

Nick Fury, leader of S.H.E.I.L.D., is lying down on the floor in head and shoulder image with his one good eye closed. Off panel apparently Fury says, "...ME!" To the far right of the panel: "NEXT: THE REASON WHY!!"

The Thing from Fantastic Four emerges from rubble. Lifting a large piece over his head as he says, "Fer cryin' out loud...I just took a BATH!

Superman and a man in labcoat and hardhat stands outside a building labeled "S.T.A.R. Labs Detroit." Barely looking over his shoulder Superman says to the man, "--you EARTH PEOPLE should feel lucky to have me at all!"

Night time on an unknown planet two men try to guide some sort of drill or something attached to a army tank like vehicle. The Steve Ditko created Starman says, “Hey – – need a HAND with that rig, miner?“ One of them replies, “Your help’s MORE than welcome, stranger – – but your SHIP would be even BETTER! Can you bring ‘er DOWN?“

A curly blonde haired girl looks towards the upper right corner of a panel, and says towards off panel, “Goodness, Prince Roy! That was a very SHOCKING experience!“

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

Fred from Mystery Incorporated stands with arms crossed standing directly next to a smug man in hat and suit and tie. Fred says, "All of this sounds VERY EXPENSIVE.This is a LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD. The people who live here CAN'T AFFORD apartments like those! If you tear down their homes, where are all the POOR PEOPLE supposed to live?" The man replies, "I guess they'll just have to move to the SUBURBS like everyone else."

With law enforcement walking forward off the right of the panel, Captain America turns to the Wasp and asks, "Why so SOMBER, Janet?" "Just trying to figure out if we won," she replies.

Written around the time in Roger Stern’s era where they flirted with Spider-Man joining the Avengers in a two-parter, this person proved to be a prophet.

🎶 Take your protein pills/ and may Joan Jett’s love be with youuuuu 🎶

"At the rate the Avengers changes its roster, in a few years there won't be anyone left in the Marvel Univers that hasn't joined the Avengers."

#DamnLettersToTheEditor

A blank panel in which red an aura of black lines over pinkish backround. In the center is Dracula pulling a woman from behind. Her umbrella still in her right hand perpendicular to where she's being pulled. He yells, "WOMAN! DRACULA HAS NEED OF YOU!"

Ultra close up of Oliver Queen's face looking off forward left and thinks, "Does AMBUSH BUG ever have days like this?" Off panel a woman says, "Sammy, I've told you a thousand times...."  Presumably Sammy replies, "But, ma! He almost gave me MONEY!"

Well played!

I’m pretending this is a message from the Silver Age to Impulse.