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Gardner Fox. It's from Showcase #64 in 1966, so a bit before public sentiment really began to turn against the war.

She had the body of an angel -- and the appetites of a demon!! Jim Corrigan stars in "The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Demanding!"

Jim Corrigan decides he'd rather be a hardboiled private investigator who gets to cavort with loose women than a goody-goody cop.

It just seems odd knowing the many atrocities that were committed during the war. Sure, there could have been individual good acts done, but it's jarring to use it (or any war) as shorthand for "good deeds" in the same way that Peace Corps is.

This is a really odd sequence: To combat an evil force, the Spectre needs to collect positive energy generated by good deeds so he visits the Peace Corps, a hospital, and...the Vietnam War??!?

Zapped right in the dinghy.

Light Sabers? Pffft. Real ones battle using Comet Clubs!

The Spectre demonstrating how Star Wars should really be done.

Spinal Tap's later druid costumes were simple but spooky.

🎶 Stonehenge! Where the wind whips musically through the giant stones!

🎶 Stonehenge! Where the spirit sleuth goes rigid with alarm!

The Marvel books from Taschen have been beautiful so I'm assuming these Disney editions will be absolutely gorgeous. Just look at these sample pages!

Cover to Taschen's upcoming Disney Comics Library. Carl Barks’s Donald Duck. Vol. 1. 1942–1950 which has a release date of November 2025 on Taschen's site and December 15, 2025 on Amazon.

Looks like another Taschen XXL book that I'll be adding to my wishlist: www.taschen.com/en/books/com...

Illustration by Yuhki Demers showing Spider-Man as a cowboy in a western setting (aka the Web-Slinger) being confronted by Kraven as a bounty hunter with a lion trailing behind him. Kraven is saying "It's over, Parker! Ain't nowhere else to run." To which Spidey replies "Who said anything about runnin'?"

I'd love to see the story behind this scene by @ninjayuhki.bsky.social. I'm surprised Sony hasn't released an anthology series w/animated shorts showcasing different Spidersonas across the Spider-Verse. It'd be a nice appetizer while we wait for the third film, which doesn't come out till...2027??!

I had a hard time picking out images to share because I didn't want to spoil any of the surprises in the story. Viz has the first two chapters free to read for a total of ~150 pages, almost the whole first volume! Unfortunately there's a gap in the series at the moment with chapters 4–23 missing.

Yoshiaki is a talented cartoonist equally adept at comedy and action plus introducing distinctive character after character.

Rai Rai Rai Volume 1 by Yoshiaki

I hadn't heard anything about Rai Rai Rai but it was one of the new digital releases at my library so I checked it out & it was an entertaining first volume. It's an interesting sci-fi shonen superhero story with a likeable protagonist who has abilities thrust upon her and becomes a reluctant hero.

"Scott, stop squirming around! Your bare ass is almost right in my face!"

That time Batman was trapped in tight spot with a buck naked Scott Free.

"If I'm very, very quiet and completely still maybe she'll forget I'm here."

I love how even though you can't see Batman's face in this panel you can still clearly tell he's thinking "What the hell am I watching??"

Granny doesn't want to be known as Granny or Goodness anymore — from now on she'll be Gorgeous Gal!

I feel like Granny has transcended petty concerns about youthful beauty but maybe Darkseid's inner circle is like Republican ranks where women are rewarded for maintaining certain standards of physical appearance.

Oh, Gigi — Why, you've been growing up before my eyes

In Brave and the Bold #128 Batman met Granny Goodness and summed her up as "a bloodcurdling dame!"

I like Granny's clever Alias of "Gigi" as in her initials "G. G." Ah, ah -- get it?!

Cover to The Brave and the Bold #138, with Batman and Mister Miracle trying to outrun some streaming hot spaghetti sauce.

Cover to The Brave and the Bold #128, with Batman and Mister Miracle facing the consequences of Scott refusing to let Barda turn up the thermostat.

When you bill yourselves as the World's Greatest Escape Artists, you're just tempting every nut who wants to build an elaborate death trap you can't beat, including your wife and manager.

"Let me call my good friend Amanda Waller and see if she thinks that could be anything."

"Wait a second -- 'Suicide Squad' -- hmmm..."

"Batman, I thought you'd learned your lesson about trying on strange outfits after you found that pirate costume sitting around at the Gotham socks."

What, Batman finds a pharoah outfit lying around in an ancient Egyptian tomb and he's *not* supposed to try it on??

The Brave and the Bold #112 (Apr.-May, 1974) By my reckoning, DC Comics’ The Brave and the Bold was one of the first comic book titles I ever spent my own money on (for the record, it was preceded only by Superman, Detective Comics, Gre…

This site has a longer look at what a weird story this was:

Like many B&B stories, it's a doozy, with Batman and Mister Miracle not actually doing much and more stumbling through the plot while things happen around them. "I didn't do it!" could be the title of this adventure.

"Oh the irony! To discover the secret to immortality only to be trapped in this tomb forever! Hardly seems worth it now."

Interesting that although Superman was explicitly part of Kirby's Fourth World saga, Batman was the first DC hero to interact with any of the main New Gods characters, meeting Mister Miracle in 1974's Brave and the Bold #112.

We're all Highfather now.

"Yeah, Highfather's been super bummed out ever since he saw Orion's new costume."

a man in a spider-man suit says let 's do this again ALT: a man in a spider-man suit says let 's do this again

When you underestimate how long you need to mute a term for.

Wondering what this implies for Schroeder in this mashup universe.

Goddamn that's good.

Marvel Fanfare #1

Fantastic Four #243

Daredevil #181

The Amazing Spider-Man #226

And other Marvel comics from 1982 that I owned but sold I now have in other formats, so yeah 1982 was a pretty golden year for me.