I didn't like the other video. It just didn't look right some how. I correcte my mistakes and now here is a new one for the site. Feel free to use the video on your site to promote the museum.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Doom Patrol Fan site
Personally I have not been a big fan of the Doom Patrol. However, I know many of you are. Since I saw this on El Jacones's Comic Bunker I decided to provide a link to it also since this site is dedicated to team-ups and teams. So here is the link to the Doom Patrol fan site.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Original Watchmen
Here is wha we all know the Watchmen were suppose to look like in the beginning. you can see more of this person's art if you go here.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tony Stark/Iron Man Tribute Video
This week I have done a lot of videos based on the DC heroes. It is time to even the scales so today I have one as a tribute to Iron Man.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
What I Got Last Week
There aren't a lot of new comic books that I have been buying outside of the new Dynamite Universe. Yet I couldn't wait for the new Batman Confidental which hit the stands last week. The reason is that it was the first appearance of King Tut in the comic books. Till now you only saw him in reruns of the old Batman TV show.
This one takes place years ago and is the first time Batman matched wits with the King. It is a very good story. Random people are turning up dead and riddles are left behind. The reader sees that it is King Tut who is skinny in this version and not the overweight history teacher he was on TV. Maybe he gains weight as he gets older. Anyway Batman and Gordon suspect thte Riddler. However, he is still locked up. They question him and he give them insight into the killings and tells them he isn't the killer. He is really offend that his M.O. is being used by someone else. They find the common link between the people and the info the Riddler gives them proves to be true. Still uncertain if Riddler is breaking out to kill and then return they pay him another visit. When they do they find that Riddler has indeed broken out this time.
Is Riddler the new King Tut? Did he just break out this time to get revenge for using his M.O.? All will be answered in the next part of the story as it is continued. I can't wait to see how this one turns out.
This one takes place years ago and is the first time Batman matched wits with the King. It is a very good story. Random people are turning up dead and riddles are left behind. The reader sees that it is King Tut who is skinny in this version and not the overweight history teacher he was on TV. Maybe he gains weight as he gets older. Anyway Batman and Gordon suspect thte Riddler. However, he is still locked up. They question him and he give them insight into the killings and tells them he isn't the killer. He is really offend that his M.O. is being used by someone else. They find the common link between the people and the info the Riddler gives them proves to be true. Still uncertain if Riddler is breaking out to kill and then return they pay him another visit. When they do they find that Riddler has indeed broken out this time.
Is Riddler the new King Tut? Did he just break out this time to get revenge for using his M.O.? All will be answered in the next part of the story as it is continued. I can't wait to see how this one turns out.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Star Crossed Love
With Valentine's Day just past I was thinking of couples in the comic books. Most that posted this past weekend were about couples where both had superpowers. I have had on my mind couples where only one had a superpower. Here are my picks.
Sharon is a SHIELD agent and worked on many cases with Cap. Over time they fell in love. Sometimes Cap was placed in the role of wating for Sharon to come back from a dangerous mission. He tried to get her to quit but to no avail.
After not returning back from a secret mission it was believed she was dead. Years later it was revealed that she was captured. Once she got free she came across a group that planned to use the cosmic cube to return Hitler to life. It took her, Captain America and even the Red Skull to stop them.
Sharon was still working with SHIELD when the Superhuman Registration Act was put into effect. She was a supporter but had her doubts since Cap was against it. When Goliath was killed she switched sides. On his way to Federal Court a sniper shoots Cap in the shoulder. However, someone else deals the killing shot to him in the stomach. That person was a hypnotized Sharon Carter following through a command that Dr. Faustus placed in her head. Later it appeared that Cap died of his wounds.
The king of superhero/non-superhero relationships are Superman and Lois Lane. For years they were only co-workers who ocassionaly dated. Then, after all that time of keeping his identity secrect and the crazy schemes it took to get her off the trail of who he was, Clark told her the truth. It was about time. He propsed and she accepted. The wedding was done in time to coinside with the nuptials of their television version on the show "Lois and Clark." Out of all of those mentioned this is the one relationship that is still going on to this day.
First is the Flash, Barry and Iris Allen. For years Barry dated Iris who was a reporter who covered the crime busting antics of the Flash for Picture News in Central City. Barry was always arriving late for their dates as he was too busy taking care of solving a crime. He was the fastest man in the world and to his friends he was known as a slowpoke and always late. Even when they were married she still didn't know he was the Flash. She later found out his other life when she heard him talking in his sleep.
Next is Spider-man and Mary Jane. For a long time their Aunts tired to bring these two crazy kids together. They lived next door to each other for years but despite this they dated others. Peter had a crush on Betty Brant at the Daily Bugle and later dated Gwen Stacey. It looked like she was the one who would become Mrs. Spider-man. The Green Goblin put an end to that. MJ comforted him when she died. Later when he fell in love with her he revealed to her that he was Spider-Man so he could ask her to marry him. It was then that she told him she knew for years. It turned out that she use to see him climb in and out of his bedroom window as Spider-man when she lived with her Aunt. His spidersense never went off as she was a friend and not a danger to him so he never knew she saw him. Later they married but now none of this means anything as the current story line says that it never happened.
Next is Spider-man and Mary Jane. For a long time their Aunts tired to bring these two crazy kids together. They lived next door to each other for years but despite this they dated others. Peter had a crush on Betty Brant at the Daily Bugle and later dated Gwen Stacey. It looked like she was the one who would become Mrs. Spider-man. The Green Goblin put an end to that. MJ comforted him when she died. Later when he fell in love with her he revealed to her that he was Spider-Man so he could ask her to marry him. It was then that she told him she knew for years. It turned out that she use to see him climb in and out of his bedroom window as Spider-man when she lived with her Aunt. His spidersense never went off as she was a friend and not a danger to him so he never knew she saw him. Later they married but now none of this means anything as the current story line says that it never happened. 
Captain America and Sharon Carter have a checkered romantic past. Depending on which story line you follow Sharon is either the kid sister or the niece of Cap's WWII love Peggy Carter.
Sharon is a SHIELD agent and worked on many cases with Cap. Over time they fell in love. Sometimes Cap was placed in the role of wating for Sharon to come back from a dangerous mission. He tried to get her to quit but to no avail.
After not returning back from a secret mission it was believed she was dead. Years later it was revealed that she was captured. Once she got free she came across a group that planned to use the cosmic cube to return Hitler to life. It took her, Captain America and even the Red Skull to stop them.
Sharon was still working with SHIELD when the Superhuman Registration Act was put into effect. She was a supporter but had her doubts since Cap was against it. When Goliath was killed she switched sides. On his way to Federal Court a sniper shoots Cap in the shoulder. However, someone else deals the killing shot to him in the stomach. That person was a hypnotized Sharon Carter following through a command that Dr. Faustus placed in her head. Later it appeared that Cap died of his wounds.
The king of superhero/non-superhero relationships are Superman and Lois Lane. For years they were only co-workers who ocassionaly dated. Then, after all that time of keeping his identity secrect and the crazy schemes it took to get her off the trail of who he was, Clark told her the truth. It was about time. He propsed and she accepted. The wedding was done in time to coinside with the nuptials of their television version on the show "Lois and Clark." Out of all of those mentioned this is the one relationship that is still going on to this day.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Brave and the Bold On Line?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day
In honor of Valentine's Day here is a cover gallery of heroes getting married.
Friday, February 13, 2009
On Tonight's The Brave and the Bold
Here is a brief look at the teaser where Batman meets Jonah Hex.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
George Barris of the Mighty i Patrol
We all know that George Barris designed classic TV cars like the Batmobile and the Monkee Mobile. Who knew he also designed bicycles? Well it says he did in this 1969 ad.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
How TV and Radio Influenced Superman and Batman
As comic book fans we like to think that the comic book creators created all of our favorite characters and had all of the influence on any changes thater were made in the series. For the most part that is true. But when writers for other media get involved when they make it a series in their own industry they make some changes that influence the comic books too. Here are some ways that the World's Finest Team has been influenced by Radio and Television.
Another influence on Superman still came from the radio series. Superman needed a contact at the police station. The answer was Inspector Henderson. His connection
continued in television and the comic books. For many he is more known from the TV show where he was play with quiet strength by actor Robert Shane. His last appearance on TV was in the recurring part of Reggie, the blind news vendor, on another DC superhero series, "The Flash." The character of Inspector Henderson was even a supporting character in the DC comic book "Black Lightning." In the Adventures of Superman series the character played the same role as the character was designed for on radio and did some actual police work. Unlike our next character.
Chief O'Hara was created for the 1966 Batman TV series. He was played by Stafford Repp as a comic foil to Batman and straight man to Comissioner Gordon. The Comissioner and the Chief were usually seen in the office calling Batman and Robin on the Batphone when a crime was comitted. Later the Chief would show up in the end with more police to take in the villains that the dynamic duo captured.
Chief O'Hara did turn up in the comic books but not often. His best known were in Batman #301 from 1978 titled "The Only Man Batman Ever Killed!" and the Batman mini-series Dark Victory where died as the first victim of the Hangman killings. He has also made brief appearances in World's Finest, Detective comics and Swamp Thing.
In the Batman series the character of Aunt Harriet had already appeared two years earlier when the character Alfred Pennyworth died. The character on the show was
played by Madge Blake. Not much was added to the character from the TV show. However, we were were told her last name was Cooper and she was a widow.
Two years after he died it was revealed that he had been revived by a mad scientist.
Now lets step back a second to 1943. Alfred arrives at Wayne Manor as the clean shaven, overweight Butler who accidentally discovers that Bruce and Dick are Batman and Robin. He was introduced as to bring comedy to the series. At times he solved crimes but completely by accident. In 1964 he died while saving Batman and Robin from being crushed by a boulder.
Now jump back to 1966. Alfred is now the supervillain the Outsider and trying to kill Batman and Robin. Eventually his memory comes back and he has no memory of being the Outsider. Only now he has a mustache and much thiner. He looks more like his TV counter-part on the TV series played by actor Alan Napier.
That name had an influence on the Batman movie. When they revealed that the real name of the Joker was Jack NAPIER.
Soon another character form the Batman TV show will make his long over due appearance in the comic books. Will he be here for the long run. Who knows at this point?
First up is Jimmy Olsen. Many think that Jimmy was created in the comic book. However, it is thanks to the Adventures of Superman radio series that we have
to thank for his creation. Superman needed someone to talk to when he was thinking about his latest adventure. If not he would be doing a lot of thinking or talking to himself. So they created Jimmy to be his friend who he could confide in. When the character became popular on radio the writers of the comic books turned an office boy, that they used in the books but hadn't named, into Jimmy Olsen Cub Reporter. He became a fixture in the comic books and in nearly every TV and movie that was about Superman. Jimmy even proved popular enough to support his own long running comic book series. He had every type of transformation you can think of in that series. From a giant turtle man to werewolf to Kandor's superhero Flamebird and his most famous transformation Elastic Lad.
It seems odd to me that while Jimmy is usually shown with flaming red hair it is rare when a red headed actor is cast in the part. Most have had dark hair like Jack Larson who played him on the TV version of the Adventures of Superman. Thankfully on Smallville Aaron Ashmore plays him and he has red hair.
Another influence on Superman still came from the radio series. Superman needed a contact at the police station. The answer was Inspector Henderson. His connection
continued in television and the comic books. For many he is more known from the TV show where he was play with quiet strength by actor Robert Shane. His last appearance on TV was in the recurring part of Reggie, the blind news vendor, on another DC superhero series, "The Flash." The character of Inspector Henderson was even a supporting character in the DC comic book "Black Lightning." In the Adventures of Superman series the character played the same role as the character was designed for on radio and did some actual police work. Unlike our next character.Chief O'Hara was created for the 1966 Batman TV series. He was played by Stafford Repp as a comic foil to Batman and straight man to Comissioner Gordon. The Comissioner and the Chief were usually seen in the office calling Batman and Robin on the Batphone when a crime was comitted. Later the Chief would show up in the end with more police to take in the villains that the dynamic duo captured.
Chief O'Hara did turn up in the comic books but not often. His best known were in Batman #301 from 1978 titled "The Only Man Batman Ever Killed!" and the Batman mini-series Dark Victory where died as the first victim of the Hangman killings. He has also made brief appearances in World's Finest, Detective comics and Swamp Thing.
In the Batman series the character of Aunt Harriet had already appeared two years earlier when the character Alfred Pennyworth died. The character on the show was
played by Madge Blake. Not much was added to the character from the TV show. However, we were were told her last name was Cooper and she was a widow.Two years after he died it was revealed that he had been revived by a mad scientist.
Now lets step back a second to 1943. Alfred arrives at Wayne Manor as the clean shaven, overweight Butler who accidentally discovers that Bruce and Dick are Batman and Robin. He was introduced as to bring comedy to the series. At times he solved crimes but completely by accident. In 1964 he died while saving Batman and Robin from being crushed by a boulder.Now jump back to 1966. Alfred is now the supervillain the Outsider and trying to kill Batman and Robin. Eventually his memory comes back and he has no memory of being the Outsider. Only now he has a mustache and much thiner. He looks more like his TV counter-part on the TV series played by actor Alan Napier.
That name had an influence on the Batman movie. When they revealed that the real name of the Joker was Jack NAPIER.
Soon another character form the Batman TV show will make his long over due appearance in the comic books. Will he be here for the long run. Who knows at this point?
Monday, February 2, 2009
The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman
This is the cutiest thing I have seen in a long time. The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Spider-Man Stuff
Hey if you like Spider-Man then check out Spider-Man Stuff. It's first post is today and it should be fun.
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