Month: September 2013

WHO’S WHO CLASSICS – PRE CRISIS TOYMAN

Welcome to another installment of Who’s Who Classic, a regular feature here at the Fortress where every Monday I will present an entry from the original series of Who’s Who comics that DC published between 1984 and 1988.  Superman was well represented in those series and I wanted to share the entries with you just in case you have never seen them.  Today’s entry is Toyman…Pre-Crisis!

Toyman A(originally published in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #24, February 1987)

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PEOPLE AT WORK…JURGENS, ORDWAY AND STERN

Direct Currents- Stern Ordway JurgensFCTC is running late this week, folks.  I’ll explain a little more in the next episode of the show (which should be out soon) but let’s just say that real life has made itself known again, though this time it’s a pretty cool thing, especially for Jeff.  Until then enjoy this little blast from the past.  This appeared in the back of Direct Currents though I am not sure which one as I clipped this way back when it came out and ditched the rest of the issue because I did not foresee things like the Internet or my desire to talk about Superman on said Internet.  It was in the early fall of 1990 because Ordway, Jurgens and Stern are talking about Superman #50 but that’s all I have to place the time period this was published in.  In the end it really doesn’t matter as this is a cool little piece and brings back a lot of great memories of being a teenaged comic book fan entering the ninth grade.

I’d make a joke about feeling old but considering we just hit the twenty year mark for Lois and Clark that feeling is omnipresent at the moment.

Enjoy!

BREAKING NEWS – SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL VOL. 8 SOLICITED!

A few weeks ago (or months…I have no real sense of time anymore) I wrote about the fact that I wasn’t covering the latest Superman solicitations as they are released anymore.  That doesn’t mean that I won’t discuss something in those solicits if catches my fancy.  Well, the December 2013 solicitations just hit and something definitely got me excited.

MOS TBP Vol. 8 SolicitSUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL VOL. 8 TP

Written by PAUL KUPPERBERG, JOHN BYRNE and ROGER STERN
Art by JOHN BYRNE, TY TEMPLETON, GEORGE PEREZ, MIKE MIGNOLA, JERRY ORDWAY and others
Cover by JOHN BYRNE

On sale DECEMBER 31 • 240 pg, FC, $16.99 US

Superman’s 1980s adventures continue with the introduction of Checkmate, plus appearances by Wonder Woman, Man-Bat and others. Collects ACTION COMICS #598-600, SUPERMAN #16-18 and ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #439-440.

I am very excited to see the actual solicitation for this book.  I wrote about it when someone pointed out to me that it was available for pre-order over on Amazon in a post you can find here and then went on to speculate what future volumes could contain, which you can read about here and here.  Part of me was pretty sure that this trade would never actually be solicited but here it is.  I normally don’t do this sort of thing but I am going to once again ask if you want to see this book make it to print (because sometimes a collected edition will be solicited and due to low orders not be released) and if you want to see future volumes of this line come out then you need to pre-order the book either through your local comic shop or, if you buy your books online, head on over to the Superman Homepage’s Amazon store and order it through there.  I haven’t decided how I want to buy it yet but you can be sure this book will be on my shelf soon after it is released.

WHO’S WHO CLASSIC – YELLOW PERI

Welcome to another installment of Who’s Who Classic, a regular feature here at the Fortress where every Monday I will present an entry from the original series of Who’s Who comics that DC published between 1984 and 1988.  Superman was well represented in those series and I wanted to share the entries with you just in case you have never seen them.  Today’s entry is Yellow Peri!

Yellow Peri(originally published in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #26, April 1987)

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NOT FEELING UP TO SNUFF RIGHT NOW

DragonCon was a lot of fun but make no mistake…it’s a gauntlet.  There’s a lot of walking and making your way through crowds and walking the mean streets of Atlanta and generally being around 50,000 of your best friends all of whom are having the best time of their lives.

I laughed.  I cried.  It became a part of me, as it usually does.

The downside of all that is I feel like crap.  Sometimes people get sick after a convention and that sickness is lumped into the catch-all title of con crud.  I don’t know if I am fighting that off but I am not all that well at the moment.  My intention was to have the latest From Crisis to Crisis up and ready by today but that just didn’t happen.  It will be along soon but for now here is the awesome Superman Red/Superman Blue stand-up that Alan Leach, Jr. sent me years ago.

Superman Red Superman Blue Standee Side 1 Superman Red Superman Blue Standee Side 2 Superman Red Superman Blue Standee Side 3 Superman Red Superman Blue Standee Side 4I love this stand-up more than I should.  Thanks again for sending it to me, Alan!