Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Carnacki Ghostfinder) — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:10:07 GMT

evilskippy wrote:

thevaultofhorror wrote:
I guess the last character they said they'd "never" bring back who is actually still dead is Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel.

Actually he is alive again but is still going to die. He was pulled out of a certain time in his life and brought into the current Marvel...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (evilskippy) — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:38:17 GMT

thevaultofhorror wrote:
I guess the last character they said they'd "never" bring back who is actually still dead is Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel.

Actually he is alive again but is still going to die. He was pulled out of a certain time in his life and brought into the current Marvel "reality".

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (thevaultofhorror) — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:56:29 GMT

I guess the last character they said they'd "never" bring back who is actually still dead is Marvel Comics' original Captain Marvel.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:27:06 GMT

>>Even Bucky lives...<<
>He does? How'd that happen?<

The greatest power in comics...
The REAL cosmic cube...

The Hope for $$$ !!!

>I find it very telling and a little funny that most of the people here belly aching about the state of comics haven't picked up a comic in decades.<

Gregg, I'll freely admit that I buy more old than new - but I DO occasionally pick up, or borrow, newer books, as well as...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (drmedula) — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:31:52 GMT

Apparently, he never died. He ended up frozen just like Cap, but the Soviets found him, and turned Amenesiac Bucky into their OWN Super Soldier. Now he's got his memory back, and is currently "filling in" as Cap while Steve Rogers is currently dead (however long THAT may be...)

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (blackbiped) — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:17:59 GMT

taraco wrote:
Even Bucky lives...

He does? How'd that happen?

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (ArmandV101) — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:31:28 GMT

Hawkboy wrote:
I find it very telling and a little funny that most of the people here belly aching about the state of comics haven't picked up a comic in decades.

-Gregg

How do you know if they happen to be at a newsstand or Barnes & Noble and see a comic book rack and pick up a few to peruse? I do on occasion and I really don't like what I've seen.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Hawkboy) — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:48:29 GMT

I find it very telling and a little funny that most of the people here belly aching about the state of comics haven't picked up a comic in decades.

-Gregg

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (evilskippy) — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:48:52 GMT

To answer some of your questions:
Jason Todd: Not any more. He got better and is now Red Robin on some other earth.

Aunt Harriet & Aunt May: The two have never been photographed together. Hmm. May is still around.

Silver Age Books:I'd buy them in a NYC minute.

Pieface:That is one name you won't be seeing soon. Not PC.

Speedy:The original became Red Arrow with the JLA and may now be in the Titans. It is rawther screwy.

The Mad...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (yendor1152) — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:31:39 GMT

Isn't Jason Todd still dead? And Kraven, the Hunter?

Surely, Aunt Harriet must've passed away by now. Then again, isn't Aunt May still with us? She was ancient in 1963!

What about the three super villains Superman executed? I think they were based on the three from Superman II. Aren't they still dead? Or did it never happen?

Is the original Supergirl still dead? I know there've been other versions--but I haven't read Superman in years, and...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (chris schillig) — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:54:17 GMT

I wonder why there is such a compulsion on DC's part to constantly revisit these heroes' origins and tweak ... and tweak ... and tweak. Just put 'em in costume and send them out to fight crime.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (taraco) — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:36:51 GMT

Even Bucky lives...'death' in comic books is totally meaningless these days.

Even sadder is the total chaos DC has made of some of it's major characters:

1) Hal Jordan. Yes, he's back, but his origin is getting yet another tweaking as we speak.

2) Barry Allen. His return hasn't happened quite yet -- the teaser at the end of DC Universe #0 only had some voice balloons. But how will he reconcile with the twin speedsters he had in the future...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:16:18 GMT

"establishing a new Superman and Batman that they will own outright"

OH yes! Such characters could REALLY supplant the originals!

Geez - give the estates a fair slice of pie & GET OVER IT.

-Craig W.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (yendor1152) — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:51:19 GMT

For DC's epic mismanagement of a classic Silver Age character, one need look no further than Hal Jordan.

Rod

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (captainmarvel1957) — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:49:47 GMT

I would think that as a derivitive of the original that the case could be made that the heirs would still be due their royalties. Try creating and marketing a grandson of Tarzan and see what happens.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (DonM435) — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:36:20 GMT

There was one theory that Warner/DC is tired of paying royalties to the heirs of Siegel/Shuster and Bob Kane, and so might want to get rid of the Clark Kent Superman and Bruce Wayne Batman, establishing a new Superman and Batman that they will own outright.

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (drmedula) — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:49:14 GMT

DC's greatest liability when it comes to making these big changes (besides the fact that many of them are poorly concieved, of course) is that Time/Warner won't let them do anything really significant (remember the corporate edict telling them to bring back Robin after he was "voted to death" by the fans). (Ironically, Warner's FILM division is allowed to abuse the characters anyway they want, even though that reaches a much bigger audience- presumably because bombs like...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:09:12 GMT

Okay, fine, Arthur Conan Doyle threw Sherlock over the brink... and then brought him back...

But only once. And only that one character in his stable!

Not MOST of them! And REPEATEDLY! Or making the others temporarily INSANE! Or making a HERO a VILLIAN! Or a VILLIAN a HERO! Or a MAN a WOMAN! Or a WOMAN a MAN!

... holy hell in a handbasket what an ongoing load of shiite...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Jeff Mclachlan) — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:46:00 GMT

sirharryflashman wrote:
Hell, Jay Garrick is still my idea of The Flash....although I have to say it is good to know that Barry Allen is coming back.

Knowing DC, I wouldn't be surprised to see Jay Garrick back as The Flash this time next year.

Actually, I don't want to sound too negative here. I think bringing back Barry Allen is a good idea, if only because his civilian identity as a police...

Re: Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:22:12 GMT

"A couple of years ago the big idea was to kill off Wally West and replace him with an acceleratedly-aged version"

Well, THAT'S a nice rip-off of Wally Wood's THUNDER AGENT, "Lightning"! The mortality element there really creeped me out when I was a kid...

Best,
-Craig W.

Silver Age Flash Returns

feeds@yuku.com (Doctor Lamont) — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:29:12 GMT

http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=9865
Barry Allen is coming back.