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a_black_medallion_for_sulking
13:57 / 25.04.06
Pre-Crisis DC was so wrong in so many ways. Now I understand why it had to be put down:













More.
superdickery.com
 
 
a_black_medallion_for_sulking
14:03 / 25.04.06
Erm, d'oh?
 
 
doctorbeck
17:41 / 25.04.06
best. panels. ever.

and that's why DC will always be more joycore than anything stan the man can come up with.
 
 
gridley
21:27 / 25.04.06
So, is the Infinite Crisis over with yet?
 
 
Mario
21:39 / 25.04.06
If it had an end, it wouldn't be infinite.

(there's one more issue to go)
 
 
John Octave
22:10 / 25.04.06
The rest of them I can sort of imagine a possible context they might have sprung from. But Lois' robot-sore ass? I'll admit I can conceive of no innocent explanation for it.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
22:11 / 25.04.06
Oh my GOSH. Are those panels totally real? I honestly didn't think Bruce and Dick had ever shared a bed. I don't know whether to be SHOCKED or AROUSED by all those images.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
22:19 / 25.04.06
The rest of them I can sort of imagine a possible context they might have sprung from. But Lois' robot-sore ass? I'll admit I can conceive of no innocent explanation for it.
It must have been a spanking thing. Old DC seems to have a thing for spanking.
 
 
Spyder Todd 2008
22:47 / 25.04.06
I must admit, I think that Green Lantern one is quite possibly my favorite single panel ever.
 
 
Panic
23:52 / 25.04.06
I'd like that panel on a t-shirt.
 
 
COBRAnomicon!
23:53 / 25.04.06
Look at the clouds underneath Superman in the Gay City panel and tell me that there wasn't some snickering going on.
 
 
Benny the Ball
23:59 / 25.04.06
I'd take the Worlds Finest swimming cover - it's the fact that, even though dialogue, thought ballons and any splash exclamations were the play de jour back then, there isn't anything there, it just makes it weirder - what are they saying to each other?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
00:15 / 26.04.06
I thought that one must be about not being able to take their masks off to swim, for fear of revealing their secret IDs. It was one of the few I could see any innocent explanation for, actually.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
00:18 / 26.04.06
Oh no, hang on... is it about the boys breaking the law because there's "No Swimming"? This is like a puzzle-pic.
 
 
Benny the Ball
00:21 / 26.04.06
Yeah, Robin's trying to coax them to break the rules, to go against the law and do something that all the kids are trying... or something?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
00:44 / 26.04.06


I have liked this for ages, despite Robin's attempt at denial. Yeah, the colour of this forum is red, too [needs a "rolleyes" smiley]

It'd be great to see a modern artist draw Batman in this pink outfit, actually. There are loads of great fan-artists around; perhaps I can make a public request for it.

By the way, this superdickery is all off-topic, isn't it... fun tho it is, should it be moved onto a new thread or something?
 
 
Mr Tricks
01:20 / 26.04.06
Well, because you asked so nice. pinkman
 
 
thirty/thirty
09:12 / 26.04.06
Chronic bachelor Batman sharing his bed with a child? Superman having his butt spanked and liking it...alot? Robin with his face covered in spunk? A cross-dressing Jimmy Olsen?

I tell you the writers of these golden age comics were very dirty old men. Just look at that grin on Batman's face as he and Superman exchange glances over whether or not to go swimming in a lake filled with naked underaged boys. It troubles me.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
09:19 / 26.04.06
Thanks Mr Tricks, that's such a fine costume.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
09:24 / 26.04.06
With regard to thirty/thirty's comment, I was wondering when reading that Superdickery site if in fact there isn't a fair bit of homophobic humour in it ~ you know, like "we thought those 1950s comics were so innocent but look how perverted they are; they're full of gay overtones!" Increasingly I don't know if this should go on another thread.
 
 
doctorbeck
10:10 / 26.04.06
au cointraire, the love of discovering the gay subtexts (tho there is not much sub about these texts) in mainstream media is a longstanding pastime of homosexuals and the people who love them. in fact there is a whole publishing and academic industry devoted to just that. see mark simpsons work for a brilliant excavation of morcombe and wise, laurel and hardy and football terminology for example. personally these panels have made my day.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
12:07 / 26.04.06
Well, yes I know, but there's a difference between discovering and celebrating them as a secret, unspoken history of same-sex love within a repressive era, and discovering them, then saying "I can't believe how dirty those supposedly clean-cut comics were! the writers were devaint perves!"

I'm not suggesting anyone here was saying that, or even that Superdickery is doing so. But I think there are different ways of approaching and uncovering gay innuendos and overtones in "officially-straight" texts.
 
 
a_black_medallion_for_sulking
14:31 / 26.04.06
With regard to thirty/thirty's comment, I was wondering when reading that Superdickery site if in fact there isn't a fair bit of homophobic humour in it ~ you know, like "we thought those 1950s comics were so innocent but look how perverted they are; they're full of gay overtones!" Increasingly I don't know if this should go on another thread.

I felt the same way when I first visited the site. That's why I posted selected images from the site that I felt was appropriate. Some of the comments made by the site's author do veer a little to closely to that "ew, look Batman's gay! Yukky!" playground homophobia but for the most part it is light-hearted (like Joker making a goat tongue Batman's open mouth). If you'd like, we can move to have the link to the site removed, that would be fine by me. I just thought people would like to know where to find more of the same.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
14:39 / 26.04.06
Oh, I wouldn't say that, and I'm in no position of authority to recommend it anyway. I just think it's worth discussing. Would you consider starting a thread about this site and the process and politics of finding "gay readings" in "officially-straight" old comics?
 
 
a_black_medallion_for_sulking
14:49 / 26.04.06
Sure why not.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
20:37 / 26.04.06
I thought the legacy of Wally Wood was that, essentially, everbody involved in comics was a perv of one angle or another? Involving rich old bat-eared leatherdaddies or otherwise.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
22:02 / 26.04.06
As to the location of Metropolis, I read somewhere (Les Daniels Superman book, maybe?) that Siegel and Schuster intended it to be an analogue of Toronto, not Chicago.
 
 
The Science Dad
12:31 / 27.04.06
I recently re-read DnA's 'Resurrection Man' and wonder if anyone knows what the untold origin of this character was.
There were lots of 'clues' and blind alleys toward the end of the series, was the ending ever told anywhere? In particular, I noticed that in virtually every resurrected form, Mitch Shelley managed to wear a belt buckle with the initals 'CSA' on it. Was there a super-meaning to this? Was Resurrection Man really an undercover narc for the Child Support Agency?
 
 
Jack Fear
13:32 / 27.04.06
CSA = Confederate States of America.
 
 
Aertho
14:56 / 27.04.06
Does anyone know who all the secondary characters are in that Battle for Blüdhaven mini?

There's Gardner Grayle's Atomic Knights, and Captain Atom, that Peter Monolith golem, an Earth 8 Firebrand (With firepowers maybe?), Freedom's Ring that is now S.H.A.D.E. consisting of Major Force, Major Victory, Lady Liberty, Silent Majority, Human Bomb, Blockbuster, Phantom Lady, and Doll Man? Then there's the villains like Mister Nitro, Reactor, Geiger, and three others.

Are these all new characters?
 
 
Mario
15:06 / 27.04.06
I haven't read #2, but according to my sources, the villains in #1 were all pre-existing, the members of Freedom's Ring are new, and this is a new version of the Knights.
 
 
Aertho
23:02 / 01.05.06


Did one of the Crises fix this? If so, how?
 
 
Mario
23:06 / 01.05.06
That's from his first appearance as the android. It was cleared up by the end of the storyline.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
19:56 / 02.05.06
Did aquaman really fight someone called Captain Noah?
  
 
Mario
23:24 / 02.05.06
Yes, in Adventure Comics #271. One shot villain, who used the ID to cover up a plan to extract gold from seawater.
 
  

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