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Haunted #32 (October 1977) cover by Wayne Howard.
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PANEL DISCUSSION
From time to time Your Humble Narrator likes to sort through the stacks of old comic books of which he has far too many. A recent such rummage led me to reflect, on the last day of Black History Month, that I learned a fair amount of what little I know about black history not at school but from comics.
Although Adalifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (2011) is a lively and accessible study, its focus is deliberately narrow. As far as I can find, a comprehensive history of the black presence in comic books, both as characters and as artists, writers and publishers, is yet to be written. Reading up to review Marvel's Black Panther a few years ago, I came across a reprint of All-Negro Comics from 1947...
...which contained probably the earliest black superhero, Lion Man; even though the title was run out of business after only one issue, it left me wondering if it could have influenced the creation of T'Challa years later over at Marvel.
But in my collection, amongst the superhero, scary and funny titles, I found a number of civic-minded, non-fiction comics devoted to black history, most notably...
...the 169th issue of Classics Illustrated, Negro Americans: The Early Years, from 1969. Classics Illustrated were highly abridged and expurgated adaptations of literary classics intended to interest kids in reading, and I was their success story: the dorky kid who actually became a bookworm at least partly because of the hours I spent poring over these mostly lame version of Wells and Verne and Hugo and Melville, and even Homer and Shakespeare.
Negro Americans was different than the other Classics Illustrated titles, however, in that it wasn't based on a classic book; no author is credited. On the table of contents page it says "...we try to give accurate accounts of some of those black men and women who gave their talents and lives to their country during its formative years. Space allows us to show only a few of these black heroes...The efforts and triumphs of these black men and women live as their legacy to American heritage."
I bought this comic off the stands sometime in the early '70s, and learned from it--not from school--that Crispus Attucks was arguably the first man to die in the American revolution when he fell in the Boston Massacre...
...or about the advances in heart surgery by Daniel Hale Williams...
...among many other extraordinary accounts.
I also have the Classics Illustrated version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, from 1944...
...with better-than-average art for the series.
A while back I acquired (for a dollar an issue!) a full run of the Golden Legacy comics, a series of 16 books on black history published from 1966 to 1976. Most of them concern African-American history--Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Martin Luther King, Jr., arctic explorer Matthew Henson, Amistad mutineer Joseph Cinqué, and two volumes on Frederick Douglass, among others. But there are also issues on ancient African civilizations, on Toussaint L'Ouverture and the founding of Haiti, and on the ancestry of Dumas and Pushkin. Again, they didn't teach most of this stuff at my school.
The art was pretty cool, too.
My stacks yielded a couple of '70s-era comics featuring Quincy, the everykid from Ted Shearer's newspaper strip...
They were published by King Comics, the periodical arm of King Features Syndicate. Along with Quincy's adventures with his white pal Nickels and others, the books featured educational content, teaching readers proper grammar, etc...
Moving away from educational comics, I found several issues of Midnight Tales, a creepy Charlton Comic that ran from 1972 to 1976. It's noteworthy not because of any specifically black content, but because the artist, the marvelous Wayne Howard (1949-2007) was probably the first African-American comic book artist to get a "Created by" credit on his title. Indeed, he was one of the first artists of any race to do so; comic books were usually uncredited in earlier decades.
In Midnight Tales Howard, in collaboration with writer Nicola Cuti, dreamed up Dr. Cyrus Coffin, aka "The Midnight Philosopher," who collected strange yarns with his beautiful raven-haired neice Arachne. I still think it would make a wonderful TV series on, say, the CW Network.
I love the macabre wit in Howard's artwork...
Or my favorite of his covers, from the first issue...
How much had Dr. Frankenstein been drinking when he made that mistake?
Finally, I came across a striking 1984 issue of All-Star Squadron, DC's superhero team-up title set in the 1940s. This particular story...
...is set against the real-life backdrop of the white rioting against the residents of the Sojourner Truth housing project in Detroit in 1942. More strikingly, it features black superhero Will Everett, aka Amazing Man, facing off against a hooded supervillain wonderfully called "Real American," who has the hypnotic power not only to turn the white citizens into mindless, violent racist rioters, but to have the same effect on some of Amazing Man's superhero allies.
Hard to imagine that some Republicans in congress wouldn't love to get their hands on that technology...
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Despicable SCUM (by Gil Kane & Wayne Howard from Marvel Team-Up #14, 1973)
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BHOC: E-MAN #3
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New Horror 2022 - Day 13
"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
"I would come, but cruel, wicked Hester holds me very tight."
Gothic af.
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"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)
"I toyed with forces I couldn't control."
This has bits of Lovecraft but it’s mostly an adventure story, and that just reminds me that so much of the adventure stuff I loved as a kid is from the action subgenre of horror.
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Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)
"Honey, I’ve given you something there’s no cure for."
This was an interesting contrast with Ganja & Hess. It lacks the redemptive element sewn throughout that movie, instead leaning into a Tales from the Cyptesque comedic cautionary tale, and a heavy dose of Christian moralism.
#def by temptation#james bond iii#movies#monster hunters#comics#george wildman#nicola cuti#wayne howard#the nurse's story#elizabeth gaskell#short stories#horror#new horror 2022#horror fiction
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Ghostly Tales No.129 - April 1978.
Cover by Bill Molno.
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Catwoman #58 (2023)
#dc comics#catwoman#tini howard#nico leon#veronica gandini#lucas gattoni#david nakayama#selina kyle#red hood#jason todd#batman#bruce wayne
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Bruce throwing a batarang at Jason in Catwoman #57 is quite a choice considering...
#dc#dc comics#comics#comic books#catwoman 57#catwoman comics#gotham war#the gotham war#batman/catwoman: the gotham war#under the red hood#utrh#batman utrh#batman comics#comic pages#comic panels#parallels#media commentary#bruce wayne#batman#jason todd#red hood#batfam#batfamily#batkids#character dynamics#media analysis#comic analysis#angst#tini howard#judd winick
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Issue 57 of Catwoman was really good! Loved it’s focus on family dynamics!
#dc comics#dc heroes#dc women#batman#bruce wayne#catwoman#selina kyle#Nightwing#dick grayson#red hood#jason todd#gotham war#gotham city#tini howard#nico leon#Veronica Gandini#lucas gattoni#bat family#batman family
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𝑹𝒊𝒐 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒐 (1959): Howard Hawks and his stars John Wayne and Angie Dickinson.
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Batman by Howard Porter
Batman: One Bad Day - Bane (2023)
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Ghostly Tales #98 (October 1972) cover by Wayne Howard.
Reprinted in Haunted #63 (September 1982).
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I have been in the trenches (the PennyWaynes tag) for 2h and I believe that the PennyWaynes would have absolutely Hated Howard Stark.
They only put up with Howard and Maria bc Alfred and Jarvis are old friends, and Bruce and Tony like each other's company.
Martha goes with Alfred to Stark Manor just to see Ana while the boys - Alfred, Jarvis, Bruce & Tony - have a play date.
#alfred pennyworth#edwin jarvis#ana jarvis#martha wayne#thomas wayne#bruce wayne#tony stark#howard stark#maria stark#pennywaynes#AceF
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#i... wasted all my effort on making the image so i am presenting it w/o comment#this page is from Knight Terrors: Catwoman Issue 1 (2023) by Tini Howard. Leila Leiz. & Marissa Louise#i haven't read the whole comic i just follow a tumblr that posts bits of comics out of context#batman#bruce wayne#trans batman#transgender#transmasc#dc comics#sanmemeno#top tino post#santagno#pvp enabled
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#dcvsmarveltournament#dc comics#poll tournament#tournament poll#tumblr tournament#dcau#marvel#dcu#marvel comics#thomas wayne#howard stark
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he's murdered, resurrected, live! ✨️✨️ catch six seven batkids as a sparkly tudor-style pop idol group in my six the musical au for the @batfam-au-zine
PRE-ORDERS open 'till May 19! get your copy here!!! ➡️➡️ https://batfamauzine.bigcartel.com/
#batfam au zine#batfamily#jason todd#jason todd fanart#batfamily fanart#dc#dc fanart#red hood#i suppose jason can also be: disowned; beheading (other people LOL); survived! ✨️✨️✨️#the other caption i was workshopping went something like 'six wives? more like seven waynes' but steph isnt adopted so im always like .-.#'six waynes and a brown'? but then also like technically--literally nominally--there's only ONE wayne 'cuz everyone else hyphenates#if they take the wayne name at all#and this first started cuz i wanted to draw steph in the k. howard outfit SO BAD so i couldnt just boot her out in favour the adopted kids#anyways lmao#GO BUY THE ZINE YALL THE ART IN IT IS SO!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#if u wanna know a lil more abt this au then hmu bc i have some Thoughts on it haha like theyre all singing abt#how they're their own people with their own stories away from their mentor/father figure 😌 but i digress#any which way#preview#zines
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