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cantsayidont · 3 months

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May 1969. Batman reveals that he's been expanding his musical horizons in this panel from "The Cry of the Night Is--Sudden Death!" from DETECTIVE COMICS #387.

#comics #detective comics #mike friedrich #bob brown #joe giella #batman #bruce wayne #robin #dick grayson #batman close-ups #janis joplin #for some reason the reprint of this story in a batman digest #reletters the title as “The Cry of the Night Is--Kill!”#a batman and his bat-music

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atomic-chronoscaph · 7 months

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The Mighty Marvel Superheroes' Cookbook - art by Joe Giella (1977)

#joe giella #the mighty marvel superheroes' cookbook #marvel comics #comic art #stan lee #leftovers #gene malis #the amazing spider-man #the incredible hulk #captain america #scarlet witch #the thing #seventies #1977

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browsethestacks · 21 days

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Vintage Comic - Detective Comics #0339

Pencils: Carmine Infantino

Inks: Joe Giella

DC (May1965)

#Comics #DC Comics #Detective Comics #Carmine Infantino #Joe Giella #Gorillas #Vintage #Art #DC #Robin #1965 #1960s #60s

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tomoleary · 2 months

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Joe Giella - Batman #190 Cover Re-Creation Original Art (c. 1990s) Source

Batman #190 by Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella (1967)

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batmanonthecover · 10 days

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Detective Comics #383 - January 1969 (DC Comics - USA)

Cover Art: Irv Novick

THE FORTUNE-COOKIE CAPER

Script: Frank Robbins

Art: Bob Brown (Pencils), Joe Giella (Inks)

Characters: Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tommy Chee; Yin Yan; Hu Shi

Batman story #1,260

#comics #dc comics #detective comics #batman #robin #irv novick #frank robbins #bob brown #joe giella #1969

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goldenboyreturns · 6 months

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Thought I should start sharing the inspirations behind these:

#batober 2023 #batober #dick grayson #joker #batman #carmine infantino #joe giella

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splooosh · 1 month

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Shades of the Infinite?

Mike Sekowsky - Joe Giella

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comic-art-showcase · 1 year

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DC Trinity by Joe Giella(R.I.P.)

#joe giella #wonder woman #batman #superman #dc trinity #the trinity #dc

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p-c-ba-dcforever · 1 year

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Classic DC artist Joe Giella has left us, leaving behind a staggering catalogue of work, as both penciller and inker. His work with all of the stars of the DC Universe will always be something we celebrate here.

#dc comics #joe giella #batman #robin the boy wonder #wonder woman #superman #the flash #green lantern #the joker #catwoman #the riddler

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ungoliantschilde · 9 months

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some DC Comics by Carmine Infantino.

#DC Comics #Carmine Infantino #Murphy Anderson #Bob Oksner #Joe Giella #Black and White #Batman #Robin #the Riddler #the Flash #Supergirl #Master Class #DC #Comics #Art #Illustration

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dcbinges · 4 months

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Showcase #23 (1959) by John Broome & Gil Kane

#hal jordan #green lantern #the invisible destroyer #invisible destroyer #martin phillips #john broome #gil kane #showcase #dc #dc comics #comics #50s #50s comics #joe giella #cover

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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October 1966. You can't keep a dead butler down. About two years after killing off Alfred the butler in 1964, editor Julius Schwartz was faced with a problem: William Dozier, the producer of the forthcoming Batman TV show, wanted to include Alfred in the show, and wanted him reintroduced into the comics as well! Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox struggled with this challenge and finally came up with the utterly preposterous story presented in the issue above.

Even for a Silver Age Gardner Fox comic book, this story is exceptionally convoluted, so it's best considered chronologically. We begin with a flashback sequence involving iconoclastic "all-around scientific genius" Brandon "Plot Device" Crawford:

This is already straining credulity a little because the story in DETECTIVE COMICS #328 in which Alfred died (helpfully recapped elsewhere in this issue) showed that he had been crushed to death by a giant boulder. That did not seem survivable at all, and even if it were, this would imply that neither Batman and Robin nor whatever doctor who filled out Alfred's death certificate nor the mortician noticed that he wasn't actually dead! Anyway …

So, Alfred wasn't actually dead, he wasn't embalmed, and he was buried in a refrigerated coffin (that's what the purple cylinders in the last panel previous page were for). A stretch, but we'll allow it. However, upon discovering this, Crawford, instead of calling an ambulance like a normal person, seizes on the opportunity to do some Frankenstein shit with Alfred's maimed, broken, mostly dead body, as one does (if one is a reclusive "radical individualist" who dropped out of college to pursue unorthodox, dubiously ethical scientific experiments, I guess).

One of the initial objects of Schwartz's tenure had been to rid the Batman books of the fantastical aliens, monsters, and bizarre transformations of the 1957–1963 period in favor of something a little more grounded. All that goes out the window here, despite the rather defensive editorial footnote, which says:

EDITOR'S NOTE: Physics professor Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality," has said that death can only be defined in relative terms. He points to the hundreds of persons revived after drowning, asphyxiation, electrocution, and heart attack. "Biological death depends not only on the state of the body," Ettinger says, "but also on the state of medical art!"

Okay, then. On to the Frankenstein shit:

So, Crawford's experimental cell regeneration machine has restored Alfred's broken body, but in the process transformed him into an unrecognizable, rather hideous-looking being who is also evil. Check! The regeneration effect we see Crawford panicking about then transforms him so that he looks like Alfred, while leaving him in "a catatonic trance." The Outsider, rather ungratefully, puts Crawford's unconscious body back in Alfred's coffin to cover his tracks, and uses Crawford's various machines and his own "increased mental power" in his new quest to destroy Batman and Robin.

This was not the first appearance of the Outsider, who had actually been hounding the Dynamic Duo on and off since DETECTIVE COMICS #334 two years earlier, although he had never appeared on-panel, and his identity had been a mystery. Where Schwartz originally intended to take that plotline is not clear (Schwartz's own account doesn't say, and Gardner Fox said later that he didn't think Schwartz had a solution in mind at the outset), but it doesn't seem likely that revealing the Outsider as Alfred was the plan, particularly since subsequent Outsider stories had shown that the villain had superhuman powers, including the ability to bring inanimate objects to life! In this story, the Outsider really does transform Robin into a wooden coffin, as the cover indicates — it's not a hypnotic illusion or some other such dodge. Fortunately, the effect is reversed after the villain is defeated:

Batman's determination to keep these events secret from Alfred is bizarre, since Alfred's death is a matter of public record: As seen in DETECTIVE COMICS #328, Bruce Wayne started a charitable foundation in Alfred's name, with its own building in Gotham City! Batman suggests that they can rename the charity the Wayne Foundation (as of course they subsequently did), but how he expects to resolve the various problems created by Alfred having been legally dead for months without his finding out is unclear. They do take the time to retrieve Crawford (who has miraculously not suffocated or starved to death in Alfred's coffin) and use his machine to return him to normal, after which Batman suggests that Bruce Wayne will give Crawford a job at the renamed foundation.

If you're wondering, "Wait, does this mean Alfred now had super-powers?" the answer is yes! Since he didn't retain any conscious memory of his death and resurrection, he was normally unaware of this, but Alfred's evil Outsider personality resurfaced several times, and he sometimes spontaneously reverted to the Outsider's form, in which he once again had supernatural abilities:

Notice the background, with the buildings burning like candles? The Outsider did that with his mental powers, along with a bunch of less grandiose but equally impossible feats. Fortunately, they reverted to normal after he split into separate good (Alfred) and evil (Outsider) selves and defeated himself. The Outsider resurfaced once more in 1985, battling the Outsiders and nearly killing Superman by transforming the Batcave's giant penny into Green Kryptonite.

I guess this whole saga did resolve the problem of resurrecting Alfred for the TV show, but in what I think can fairly be called the most ludicrous way possible. (And you thought the PENNYWORTH show spun out of GOTHAM was silly …)

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smashedpages · 9 months

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Today in 1959, Green Lantern Hal Jordan debuted in Showcase #22 by John Broome and Gil Kane with Joe Giella. He was editor Julius Schwartz's second superhero relaunch after the success of The Flash.

#green lantern #hal jordan #gil kane #joe giella #john broome #julius schwartz #comics to remember #showcase #dc comics

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browsethestacks · 2 months

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Brave And The Bold: Strange Sports Stories (1962-1963)

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tomoleary · 3 months

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Joe Giella - Superman Illustration Original Art (undated)

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batmanonthecover · 2 months

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Batman #206 - November 1968 (DC Comics - USA)

Cover Art: Irv Novick

BATMAN WALKS THE LAST MILE

Script: Frank Robbins

Art: Irv Novick (Penicils) Joe Giella (Inks), Gaspar Saladino (Letters)

Characters: Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; A. N. Tenna (repairman); The Planner [E. G. Never] (villain); The Cat-Crook (villain, death); Chomp (villain); Stomp (villain); gang of criminal hippies [Chief Sittin'-In; Li'l Moose; Big Squat (villain)

Synopsis: After capturing a gang of crooks from a crime planned by the Planner, the villain engages in a duel of wits with the Caped Crusader to make him look bad. Batman turns the tables on the crook and he is sent to prison to die in the electric chair: in a Batman uniform!

Batman story #1252

#comics #dc comics #batman #irv novick #frank robbins #joe giella #gaspar saladino #1968

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