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Bat to the Beginning: March 2014
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Sunday, March 30, 2014. Detective Comics #77 (July, 1943). Brilliant, fashionable, rich person's surgeon Matthew Thorne leads a double life - he secretly operates a "crime clinic" where instead of examining patients and prescribing medication he examines criminal plans and prescribes methods for carrying them out! Not a cop, Doc? They follow the Crime Doctor to Matthew Thorne...
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Bat to the Beginning: February 2015
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Detective Comics #79 (September, 1943). Diamond Pete Ransome is a diamond thief (don't say? Anyways, turns out the strong fighters who follow him are actually Batman and Robin, and after they beat up him and his mean they help him enter a heavily guarded place, which is to say - jail! Turned the unclaimed trunk over for auction! Get the wrong tru...
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Bat to the Beginning: August 2014
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Sunday, August 10, 2014. Detective Comics #78 (August, 1943). Oooh, boy. Prepare for patriotism and propaganda! Dick is reading book on American History, presumably for school, and the thought strikes him that World War II is a revolutionary war for freedom in the same way as the War of Independence! One of the applicants is a former merchant marine captain who's ship was des...
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Bat to the Beginning: August 2013
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Detective Comics #71 (January, 1943). Batman has agreed to give a daily series of lectures about crime fighting for the USO, and so come Monday crowds of Gothamites show up to watch Batman's lecture (can you imagine modern-day Batman doing something like this? Joker and his men make off with the painting in an oil truck and while the Batmobile is in...
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Bat to the Beginning: September 2012
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Bat to the Beginning. Reviewing the original adventures of Batman from the Golden Age of Comics and beyond, May 1939 - April 1964. Saturday, September 22, 2012. Detective Comics #59 (January 1942). For those wondering, this cover is a good indication of what Bob Kane's artwork looks like when no one else is inking him - flat like cardboard. The King of the Jungle! Bruce and Dick, meanwhile, are travelling by train on vacation (picking up from the Winter issue of World's Finest. 4 left off) That being sai...
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All Jets Ablaze!: Tales of Suspense #52 (April, 1964)
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Reviewing the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man! Monday, December 30, 2013. Tales of Suspense #52 (April, 1964). The Crimson Dynamo Strikes Again! Don Rico (as "N. Korok"). Last we saw Anton Vanko,. The brilliant Russian scientist had defected to America and become an employee of Tony Stark. Now he works tirelessly developing the new "laser light", which if it could be perfected would be a powerful new weapon for Stark's defense contracts. Natasha manages to distract Stark with her sultr...
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All Jets Ablaze!: Tales of Suspense #48 (December, 1963)
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Reviewing the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man! Friday, September 13, 2013. Tales of Suspense #48 (December, 1963). Based on the Jack Kirby cover art, we can already tell this is an issue to be excited about. Red-and-gold, baby! The Mysterious Mr. Doll! A Mr Carter unexpectedly reneges on a deal to supply Stark Industries with steel. Tony heads over to Carter's residence to find out what's going on. And so Tony resolves to build a brand new model of the suit that will be lighter, faster...
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All Jets Ablaze!: Tales of Suspense #49 (January, 1964)
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Reviewing the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man! Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Tales of Suspense #49 (January, 1964). Well, we're 11 issues in and we've got our first cross-over! The novelty will wear off by the time we hit the 90s, let me assure you. The Angel, a member of the fledgeling X-Men. Decides to fly over the Stark Industries factory in Flushing as "shortcut" to Professor Xavier's mansion in Westchester. However, at that moment Iron Man is guarding an atomic explosion test.
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All Jets Ablaze!: Tales of Suspense #51 (March, 1964)
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Reviewing the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man! Saturday, October 5, 2013. Tales of Suspense #51 (March, 1964). Iron Man is pursuing a thief through a vaudeville theatre when he's assisted by a contortionist called the Uncanny Umberto who figures helping Iron Man collar a crook would be goo publicity. Iron Man makes a remark that he's glad Umberto is on the side of the law with abilities like his, which of course. Seriously this guy is the most slapdash crook I've ever seen. Happy start...
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All Jets Ablaze!: Tales of Suspense #50 (February, 1964)
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Reviewing the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man! Sunday, September 29, 2013. Tales of Suspense #50 (February, 1964). Classic Marvel comics overhype themselves so much on their covers that it can sometimes be hard to tell which issues actually are important milestones and which issues are utter trash. Well, hold on to your hats, merry Marvelites, because this truly is "another mighty milestone in this, the Marvel Age of Comics! The Hands of the Mandarin! Meanwhile, back in America, the CI...
