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>>77488287
I'll bump anon but sadly this place is a shit hole now so a comics thread that isn't a Storytime or LA isn't likely to last.
>>77489023
Remember some good thread a few years ago where we all laughed at obscure GA superheros?
>>77489195
I miss him ;_;
the best
>>77489186
We have Public Domain Superhero threads every so often, those are usually fun.
>>77489206
Holy shit I loved the Golden Age Elseworld comic.
God bless James Robinson and his gigantic mancrush on Alan.
>>77489237
I love how they took that design into BatB.
>>77489323
>Major Jealousy over there
>Dynamic boy know he's 'mirin
>>77489323
>Gets called Dynamic Boy despite clearly being a fully grown adult just because he's short
Ouch.
This thread needs more Wildcat
>>77489392
>"Big Blue"
...Is that supposed to be Dan Garret?
>Rainbow Boy
>>77489470
Yes, the character is in the public domain but the name "Blue Beetle" belongs to DC.
They also had to rename the Lev Gleason version of Daredevil "The Death-Defying Devil" for the same reason
>>77489336
>Pyroman
>has electric powers
Bwuh?
>>77489392
Call it a hunch, but everyone right of Flame Girl is probably gay.
>>77489570
>Implying The Flame and Flame Girl aren't both gay and are each other's beards
>>77489422
>Doc
>Just some regular dude with an S on his belt
What's his deal? That's some pretty uninspired design work if I ever saw it.
>>77489422
Yank and Doodle sound like what you'd name the protagonists of a 4th of July themed gay porn
>>77489715
Doc is Doc Strange. He's basically their ripoff of Doc Savage, except with a superpower (Doc Strange takes a serum called Alosun).
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Doc_Strange
Alan Moore later used the character and named him Tom Strange, as an alternate Earth counterpart to Tom Strong.
>>77489759
>a serum called Alosun, a "distillate of sun atoms" in order to "defeat crime."
You answered several questions but only raised many, many more.
>>77489853
It's Golden Age comic science, none of it makes sense.
Shit, just look at Jay Garrick's origin (albeit that one actually WAS based on a scientific experiment that was published at the time, where exposing mice to heavy water reportedly increased their metabolic rates).
>>77489422
Sparkman sounds like the kind of idiotic thing Japan would come up with for a Mega Man baddie.
>>77489979
Uh because he actually is a Megaman boss? From Megaman 3.
>>77489336
>fucking Tim
every time
>>77489443
>fully grown
>>77490117
Yes, a fully grown manlet. Because that is presumably where his height capped out since he's clearly long past the stage in life where people grow any taller.
>>77489336
>THERE ARE SOME WHO CALL ME... Tim.
>>77489299
>>77489323
>>77489336
>>77489361
>>77489377
>>77489392
>>77489407
>>77489422
>>77489448
>>77489471
>>77489487
>Captain Future
>The Target & The Targeteers
>Dynamic Boy
>Black Terror & Fucking Tim
>Captain Battle & Captain Battle Jr.
>The Sword
>"Big Blue"
>Fucking Tim
>V-Man & the V-Boys
>Jack
>FUCKING
>Doc
>TIM
>Rainbow Boy
>MOTHERFUCKING TIM
Abominations to the last. Tell me these weren't actual comic characters and are just ripoffs made for a story
>>77490323
>>77490401
I like to imagine that Tim is like ASBAR Dick in that he's a psycho in the making and sometimes Black Terror is just like godDAMN Tim calm down you didn't need to tie that guy's intestines around his neck
>>77490401
Superheroes were HUGE around that time, there were a lot of people trying to cash in on a brand new trend.
Also
>Big Blue
>abomination
motherfucker that's the original Blue Beetle
I still think its funny that Marvel straight up copied the character as soon as they were allowed to.
>>77488287
I'm not sure I'll ever forgive DC for just throwing out their history with the last reboot. I really miss having an old generation of Golden Age heroes around.
>>77490554
>I really miss having an old generation of Golden Age heroes around.
Earth 2 was fantastic at first because it was cool to see a new take on those legacies grow organically from the ground up.
Then Robinson left and everything went to shit.
>>77490429
That's probably accurate
>>77490582
Could you imagine what would happen if someone tried to make a comic like this with a superhero killing ISIS terrorists today?
>>77490573
>read first couple issues of Earth 2
>get really interested in JSA
>go back and read shitloads of JSA stuff
>get even more excited for Earth 2
>Robinson leaves
>now I am doomed to be a not muh fag because apparently literally nobody else is capable of writing the Earth 2 versions well
>>77490582
Is the Black Terror trying to execute as many as possible before they have to suffer being crushed to death by Tim?
>>77490638
>This is inhumane, Tim!
>Shut the fuck up, this is awesome!
>>77490616
You're in good company. There's a whole group of us in the JSA Storytime threads (even though we don't even make a pretense of storytiming JSA-related stuff most times now) who are still fuckin' salty over it.
Those of us who haven't just moved into outright apathy and numbness, that is.
>>77490582
Ah... God old propaganda comics, I wish we were ballsy to do them again.
I really appreciate the Heap.
>>77490690
Did they stop doing the stuff where superheroes teamed up to fight drugs and tobacco? I definitely remember getting that stuff when I was in grade school.
>>77490793
I haven't seen a drug psa since 2004.
>>77489149
>>77489283
Fuck the Dodds Sandman superhero redesign is such a rip off of this guy.
>>77489237
>and the Mayan Temple
sounds fuckin rad
>>77490888
Tarantula's design looked nearly identical too, there was even a thing about that in All Star Squadron
>>77489927
>showering in hard water will never give you speedforce powers
I love reading random public domain super hero stuff in hopes of finding something really bizarre.
>>77490856
Oh no. How can they do that? Elementary schoolers are going to start doing lines of coke in the classroom soon unless they have superheroes telling them not to smoke.
>>77491060
Oh no, the children....
Man Roy Thomas really could never get enough thanks for saving this shit when NO ONE else cared
>>77491265
Roy Thomas doesn't get enough wider attention, period. Dude has written so many great comics it's incredible.
>Lisellotte von Schellendorf was raised by the Germans to be Valkyrie, the most alluring and evil woman of all, and to be the most skilled and deadly of all pilots. Valkyrie and her girl squadron, the Airmaidens, were trained to be perfect Nazis by Herr Oberst, a Nazi colonel. After training, Valkyrie blasted her way through the Allied pilots until she ran into Airboy. When she captured Airboy, three members of her squadron hid him in an old hangar but were found out by Oberst. He ordered them to be whipped and Airboy killed. Although she was all right with seeing the young boy sent to his death, the prospect of seeing her subordinates whipped appalled Valkyrie. She tried to persuade Oberst to show mercy, but the Nazi commander didn't budge. Suddenly realizing that all Nazis were cruel and evil, Valkyrie killed Oberst and then used Airboy's own plane, Birdie, to rescue him and her three comrades.
>From that point on, she joined the Allies and fought on their side for the remainder of the war. She continued to aid Airboy every once in a while. Their feelings for each other grew and, as Airboy got older, their relationship got a lot more physical. If they'd had more than seven adventures together, their romance could have been positively epic.
>>77490429
You should read Terra Obscura.
What the fuck is it with Golden Age designs and jodhpurs.
>>77491364
they look cool
Who was the heroine who had the boy sidekick?
>>77491265
Robin I love you but what is that shit you got on
>>77491265
Wait, there was a point in time where Red Tornado was a fat guy with a bucket on his head?
>>77491513
That's Ma Hunkel homie. The OG. And you better watch your mouth or she'll wash it out with soap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tornado_(Ma_Hunkel)
>>77491513
That's Ma Hunkel, motherfucker, the ORIGINAL Red Tornado.
Literally just a housewife who got sick of gangbangers fucking up her neighborhood, so she cut eyeholes in a soup pot, put it on her head, and went out to bust some skulls herself.
>>77491513
No, there was a point in time when Red Tornado was a fat woman with a soup pot on her head
>>77491364
>>77491375
Googling jodhpurs, I get nothing but dat asses in those things.
They do look like wearing them says, "I got shit to do, fucker."
>>77491548
>>77491549
>>77491551
>that Christmas issue of JSA where Jay, Alan, Ted and Carter all go to visit her and she ends up becoming the caretaker of the JSA Brownstone headquarters.
>>77491513
>talking shit about Ma Hunkle
educate yourself, son
>>77491585
>implying I'm talking shit
Nah, that's fucking awesome. That's the shit I love about Golden Age comics.
>>77491615
That was one of the great things about Johns's work in JSA, it was obvious he did his homework on the history of the team and their legacies and touched on a lot of aspects of that history in the run.
I recommend it to anyone who's trying to get into the DC Universe at large, because it really illustrates just how interconnected the post-Crisis universe was and how the superhero communities branched out and interacted with each other.
>>77489299
>one of the super Herod is just some jackass wearing a pirate hat, green cape, shitty jeans, and t shirt with the America flag on it
>>77491671
God bless Eaglesham and his skill at drawing lovingly-sculpted abs.
>>77491585
Man, NOBODY's age in that comic made any sense. There are very few folks in the DC with unnaturally prolonged lives (due to DC's tendency to just reboot when necessary) but somehow all of the Golden Age characters managed to live to be 180 all through completely unrelated methods that are only occasionally explained to the audience.
>>77491585
oh god
>Christmas
>old lady
>you boys must be hungry
this makes me miss grandma even more
>>77491693
that's by Sadowski, not Eaglesham
>>77491722
Well Wildcat, Jay and Alan all had magic bullshit reasons for still being young, Carter had just been resurrected, and Ma Hunkle is like in her 70s, that all sounds about right
>>77491722
Alan has Starheart magic bullshit
Jay has Speedforce
Carter was resurrected via Thanagarian magic-science and has the reincarnation thing on top of it
Ted Grant has a magical curse that backfired and literally gave him a cat's nine lives
And as for the rest of them, the JSA was stuck in Limbo fighting off Ragnarock (yes the literal twilight of the gods) for a long time, which removed them from the timestream for a bit. Then most of them were involved with Zero Hour on top of it which further fucked around with the flow of time for many of the members, so all of them got affected in different ways.
Like Ted Knight was physically in his 50's despite being just as old as the rest of them (something he has a fair bit of guilt about in Robinson's Starman series)
Contrast that with Wesley Dodds, who aged normally and was well into his 80s when he appeared in the same series.
>>77491764
I suddenly remembered that it was canon that Alan wore a hairpiece
>>77491364
>>77491375
what about the fucking fins on everyone's head
>>77491763
>that's by Sadowski, not Eaglesham
Huh, I thought Eaglesham was the artist on JSA at that point.
>>77491808
>And as for the rest of them, the JSA was stuck in Limbo fighting off Ragnarock (yes the literal twilight of the gods) for a long time, which removed them from the timestream for a bit. Then most of them were involved with Zero Hour on top of it which further fucked around with the flow of time for many of the members, so all of them got affected in different ways.
>Like Ted Knight was physically in his 50's despite being just as old as the rest of them (something he has a fair bit of guilt about in Robinson's Starman series)
>Contrast that with Wesley Dodds, who aged normally and was well into his 80s when he appeared in the same series.
Most of them were old when they got out of Limbo, Alan got deaged later and they started writing Jay and Ted younger because of speedforce/magic bullshit
then they all died during Zero Hour so it didn't matter anywayfuck Zero Hour
>>77491839
Ah thanks for the correction, it's been a long time since I've read the comic where the JSA returns from Limbo.
>>77491832
That spread is from JSA #25, Eaglesham didn't draw JSA until it got relaunched as Justice Society of America
Eaglesham's art is really fucking sexy though, no argument there
How did he get so based?
Black Condor, his parents were murdered when he was a baby, then he was raised by giant condors and learned to fly (because that's how it works). When he was a teen he was found by a monk, and raised again learning about the outside world. That monk was killed by the same criminals that took his parents. And that's why he fights crime.
>>77491892
>sensible and down-to-earth
>limited powers but has a shit ton of utility and general skills that no one else on the team is trained in
>actually has a medical degree
We need more superheroes that can serve as a field medic. Every party needs a healer, after all.
>>77491975
Plus he'd fuck niggas up with a portable surgical laser and wasn't above the occasional "Just what the doctor ordered!" or "This is one doctor that DOES make house calls!"
>>77492049
Just because he's stoic most times and gets shit done doesn't mean he doesn't have a sense of humor.
>>77491265
not sure I like how handsy Hawkman is getting
>>77492531
It's just a friendly shoulder touch anon, it's not like he's touching their belts like Hourman is doing or fondling their nipples
>>77491435
Black Cat and Kit
Marvel Comics in the Golden Age are somewhat underwhelming.
I mean, you have Captain America (and Bucky), Namor and the Human Torch but then?
A bunch of no names.
>>77493173
I wanna /ss/ with her.
>>77493525
I'd read a Firebrand
My favorite Hourman moment in print.
>>77489979
He looks super bad ass though, except for...is that a wand he's holding?
>>77493734
>>77493750
>>77490612
I'd buy it. as long as they were killing them and not trying some shitty non lethal garbage and trying to tip toe around racial slurs.
then again whatever publisher did it would likely get aluakbard
>>77489264
I always wanted that book to be official DC canon. It was just that cool.
>>77490582
motherfucking Tim has to be stopped!
>>77490935
it was a breedy good adventure but i prefer when he team ups with spy smasher or have to defeat sivana
>>77491674
>Flying Yank
...the fucks a Yank?!
>>77496340
Yankee. American from the north.
>>77496363
Internationally, just 'American'.
>>77493173
> That medikit
>>77490612
>>77490690
That's what Holy Terror was
>>77491892
His design is top tier as far as most Golden Age heroes go.
>>77497094
Almost forgot about that piece of shit...
>>77497094
On the subject of Miller's fairly recent stuff, be honest with me folks, who's honestly anticipating DK III Master Race come November 25?
Do you think it'll be at least decent?
>>77493173
Why is there a dildo in the medikit?
>>77493304
They have some other interesting other Golden Agers. Blonde Phantom, the Black Marvel, the original Vision, the Blazing Skull, the Destroyer, the Liberty Legion (Thin Man, Blue Diamond, Jack Frost, Red Raven), Miss America and the Whizzer (who served on both the Liberty Legion and later The Invaders).
Then there were those guys on The Twelve (which sadly never got finished).
>>77490401
>being this new to comics
>>77489149
Is he about to tea-bag that guy?
>>77496340
>Dissing Fighting Yank
watch your mouth boy
>>77497484
Miller's work is many things, but it's rarely boring. I'll at least check out the inevitable storytime
>>77497484
Not much faith desu.
Adams' Superman Odyssey on the other hand, I expect will save the character,
>>77489466
The real panther there should show the human how much nastier teeth and claws are.
>>77496447
Although specifically, a Yankee, from the Northeast.
This one is evocative of a colonial era Yankee, circa the Revolutionary War, making him especially patriotic or something.
I believe Astro City had a guy who was a tribute to this kind of character that was surprisingly badass, a bit of a legend, who always showed up and disappeared suddenly, whenever his country most needed him. Like a ghost or tutelary spirit of AMERICA.
>>77501728
>>77496447
>>77496363
There was also a character called Johnny Rebel.
>>77502240
>>77502249
>>77502261
>>77502323
>>77502333
>>77502433
>>77493304
Just like Marvel today
>>77491892
He had the good luck of being introduced in a mini by Matt Wagner
where the fuck is my Hero Denied, Matt
WHERE
>>77503977
That comic was so good it managed to make credible villains out of the fucking Terrible Trio. I swear Wagner took it as a challenge.
Can someone rec some good readable Golden Age comics?
I've read Superman just for the pride, Batman for the cool as fuck hard boiled noir style, and Wonder Woman just for Marston's insanity. Any other comics good before the war breaks out and they all just start selling war bonds and sinking u-boats?
>>77493844
In my headcanon the Golden Age and New Frontier are in the same canon.
Fuck HBO, when can we get miniseries for these comics? it's so good!
>>77493844
Robinson pretty much treated it as canon in Starman
Is this guy golden age?
>>77489206
Fuck, before I zoomed in I thought it was a man with a giant orb for a head.
>>77509418
Premiered in Action Comics #1 alongside Superman, as Golden Age as it gets.
>>77509351
Yeah, especially in how he showed Ted Knight's characterization. It's pretty much a direct carry-over from Golden Age.
>>77509003
They were actually going to do a Silver Age story that picked up from the end of that, picking up the start of the Silver Age characters and comics in DC, but they scrapped the idea later because reportedly New Frontier was already too close to what they had planned.
>>77509511
>nazipus
well that's a first
The Shadow is great and actually good pulp
>>77489323
>Strongman
>>77491764
Oh he's got a Freddie Mercury complex
>>77491764
>Alan had two female arch-nemeses
>and slept with both of them
>>77513788
Creativity.
Love me some Johnny thunder
>>77501531
interesting
>>77491764
>OFF TO THE CRISIS!
aw fuck
>>77514275
A proud Gotham hero tradition.
>>77516252
In retrospect COIE really shouldn't have gotten rid of Earth-2, that was a really good way to have a version of DC that aged in real time, even if they were constantly having to come up with ways to keep certain characters alive and younger than they should be.
>>77490401
Horrible taste
>>77509511
well that's certainly something
So what's better to get a complete collection of golden age comics and beyond: buying 75 Years of DC Comics, the individual Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age collections, or a combination of them with the character specific 75 Year collections and/or Golden Age Omnibuses?
It seems like 75 years is supposed to be all of them but I have doubts.
Which combination(s) would provide a more complete collection?
>Golden age heroes thread
>JSA sale on comixology right now
>>77489336
>"Black" Terror
>played by a white man
So fucking triggered right now
>>77489466
that sexy bastard...
someone has a image of his ass ?
>>77519521
Thats not Ted Grant, thats Ted Montez
>>77489487
>a guy made of metal
>in flames
This is the most awesome shit ever.
>>77518959
>triggered
fuck off back to tumblr
Up
>>77516050
After having heard about him I kind of wish this would be the direction Fairly Odd Parents went.
>>77489487
How come most of these guys look like the background supers from The Incredibles?
Is that deliberate?
Have we ever made a recommended reading list of Golden Age Comics?
Probably my single favorite GA comic cover.
>>77520977
No. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are obvious. The original Sandman should also be on there, it's a great noir detective strip and Sandman and Dian's relationship is great
>>77517829
And it never really stopped them from making alternate Earth stories or even alternate Earth crossovers. Frankly, I'm glad it's been retconned.
>>77520977
Damn it Plas wait your turn.
>>77521140
Does anyone have a zip of Golden Age Sandman Archives? I've honestly been looking for it for a while but Archive rips are next to impossible to find.
>>77491265
>Johnny Thunder: Hey Terrific, you see Robin? The fuck is that nigga wearing?
>>77520936
those a redesigns of classic public domain superheroes. all the costumes and powers and stuff are actually the same as the original works. Incredibles drew from the same kind of thing but they made their own characters that are homages to this PD sort of character
>>77521140
I might make one today. I want to make categories based on publishing house (Timely/Marvel, National Periodicals/DC, Hillman, ACG)
And then I want to add a category for books made after the Golden Age set or refrenceing events during the Golden Age. Like the Elsewords book by James Robinson, JSA: The Golden Age, Dynamite Entertainment's Project: Superpowers and Alan Moore's Tom Strong and Terra Obscura.
>>77522090
If your going to put on modern comics about the Golden Age add Robinson's run on Starman (one of the biggest love letters to the golden age of comics) and the Vertigo series Sandman Mystery Theater.
That series had a lot of Film Noir references.
>>77489237
>the best
Yes
>>77491265
>3 women
Fucking SJW pandering.
>>77523632
>SJW
No Anon, that's the JSA.
>>77520368
>no concept of sarcasm
Maybe you should go. You're the one who doesn't understand jokes.
>>77519412
"Omae wa mo shindeiru."
Up..
>>77522090
>And then I want to add a category for books made after the Golden Age set or refrenceing events during the Golden Age. Like the Elsewords book by James Robinson, JSA: The Golden Age, Dynamite Entertainment's Project: Superpowers and Alan Moore's Tom Strong and Terra Obscura.
There's Marvel's The Twelve
>>77522046
Those aren't actually redesigns, those images were done by Ross based on the original costumes. The redesigns he actually did for the comic were completely different (like for instance Black Terror's redesign had a glowing skull).
>>77522090
Ok, here is the beginning of a list.
DC
National Comics (later merged with All-Americana and Fawcett)
• Superman
• Batman and Robin
• Slam Bradley
• Zatara
• Tex Thompson, the Americommando
• Seven Soldiers of Victory
• Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis)
• Star-Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton)
• Stripesy (Pat Dugan)
• Vigilante (Greg Sanders)
• Shining Knight (Sir Justin)
• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
• Speedy (Roy Harper)
All-American Publications (1938–1946) — taken over by DC Comics :
• Justice Society of America
• Wonder Woman
• Green Lantern
• The Flash
• Doctor Mid-Nite
• The Gay Ghost
• Hawkman and Hawkgirl
• Mr. Terrific
• Johnny Thunder
• Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man
• Wildcat
Fawcett Comics
• Captain Marvel and The Marvel Family (Captain Marvel Jr., Mary Marvel)
• Nyoka the Jungle Girl
• Captain Video
• Ibis the Invincible
• Bulletman and Bulletgirl
• Spy Smasher
• Captain Midnight
• Phantom Eagle
• Mister Scarlet and Pinky
• Minute-Man
• Commando Yank
• Golden Arrow
The Clock
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Clock
>The first original costumed crime fighter to appear in American comic books, the Clock could be considered the “missing link” between pulp and comic book heroes.
>>77524584
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Butch_%28Quality%29
There was a time in which a young girl being infatuated with an older man, could be considered a joke.
>>77524547
Are any of these comics even available to read... anywhere?
>Golden Age comics were way more progressive than the ones we have today
>>77524683
Yes, there are the DC Archive Editions in Hardcover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Archive_Editions
And the Chronicles Editions in softcover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superman_Chronicles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_Chronicles_%28trade_paperback%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Woman_Chronicles
>>77525486
The Archives are retardedly over priced and out of print and the Chronicles only cover the trinity in the Golden Age and are also out of print.
>>77525604
I agree it isn't easy. I'm not sure how many torrents of GA comic out there there are.
On the positive side though a lot of Public Domain comics are free here.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
>>77519685
Love that his name is Man O' Metal next to a guy conspicuously named Man Of War. Did Man O' War steal his "f"?
THE best
>>77527265
>some Jew makes a generic detective character for publication
>years later /co/ makes their mascot based on the same unoriginal character
pottery
>>77527265
This
>>77491265
>Dr. Fate and RT #1 both looking at RT #2
>"If this nigga don't shut the fuck up..."
>>77527303
>He doesn't like The Spirit
Top pleb
>>77488287
>Golden Age Super Heroes
I support this .
Long before 7-11 was the name of a crappy convenience store it was the calling card of JUSTICE!
>>77488287
Hey, is there an archive some-where that has GA comics that I can DL?
I would love to read the original PyroMan, Magno, Maximo , etc.
>>77489336
>that Captain Harlock looking motherfucker and Tim.
Wut?
>>77531061
Archive was killed
>>77531202
Harlock was created decades after Black Terror and Tim, I wonder if they could fit in a reference to Black Terror somewhere
>>77523763
>thinking sarcasm translates over the internet
your not really that stupid are you?
>>77527303
BooHoo Baby Nazi. You got a reply.
>>77531682
I think they both take their look off of a generic pirate getup.
>>77527265
Of course, how could I forget.
Some Updates
Quality Comics
• Blackhawk
• Captain Triumph
• The Clock
• Doll Man
• The Human Bomb
• Kid Eternity
• Lady Luck
• Phantom Lady
• Plastic Man
• Ray
• Red Bee
• Uncle Sam
Marvel
• The All-Winners Squad:
• Captain America and Bucky
• The Human Torch and Toro
• The Sub-Mariner and Namora
• Whizzer
• Miss America
• Blonde Phantom
• Angel
MLJ ( Archie Comics currently publishes superhero’s under Dark Circle Comics imprint)
• The Shield
• Black Hood
Are there any movies, tv episodes or specials that tribute the golden age? I seem to recall an episode of Spider-Man TAS and Justice League.
>>77489487
>Having somehow gained superhuman "rainbow control" that only works when light is shining on him (but can be overcome through the use of an "ingenious solar battery"), Jay Watson, worker for the "Wizard Kid Radio Program", became the crime fighter Rainbow Boy, often working alongside fellow hero, Hydroman.
Ok, this is kinda silly...
>He can also fly at the speed of light
Well shit
>>77524623
>>77524584
Come anons, no love for The Clock? He was the first Masked Crusader.
Does anyone have DC Archive scans or know a folder with them? Nothing Golden Age from DC exists online.
>>77535151
some would argue he is the bridge that connects pulp with comicbooks
>>77535354
America's Best
Black Terror
Fighting Yank
and some other random stuff.
http://www(dot)demonoid(dot)ph/files/details/2902264/003817293204/
Golden Age Captain America
http://www(dot)demonoid(dot)ph/files/details/2002687/006680263107/
I don't know how good these torrents are but it's a start.
>>77537330
Yet he gets no love, he even has a loli that want him, prime /co/ material.
>>77531704
>being this autist
>>77488287
I think you mean SILVER age heroes, as Barry was the first Flash, not this poser.
>>77519521
Here ya go
>>77539101
Just have to bring him up in the right drawthread.
>>77541502
I found another good example
>>77543525
>>77543538
I think I need a shower right now
>>77541221
you are wrong
Wow I think this is the longest a Golden Age thread has lasted
>>77527265
Based
>>77538983
Based
Still working on the list. Will update later today.
>>77489336
>Tim
>>77489336
It's incredible how much I was annoyed with Pyroman not having fire powers.
>>77547297
Thank you
>>77491335
And now Airboy gets drunk off his ass and blown by trannies in sex club bathrooms
>>77493173
i'd really like to read some new edition of this. but not grimdark and gritty shit like almost everything nowadays, but light and cheerful t rated stories with shitload of innuendos. some kind of /co/ ecci
>>77504973
sauce?
>>77548506
Wut?
>>77545176
Rise
>>77549390
He's talking about the recent James Robinson Airboy miniseries.
The Sandman is my favorite DC hero.
>>77488287
Id like to see Justice Society : Earth One.
It could be awful but i'm willing to take the risk for more good JS stories.
>>77549746
Damn straight.
>>77549746
Ive been meaning to check out Mystery Theatre ever since I read the arc with him in Starman.
Speaking of which i've heard that arc links to a Mystery theatre issue where he fights the Mist.
>>77550062
Yeah, the SMT arc is about how the Mist got his powers back then.
Here is the first test at the Golden Age recommendation chart.
Any thoughts would be helpful.
>>77550812
A background image would spice it up.
>>77550812
You need to add The Spirit
>>77550869
Sure, post any recommended images or if it's been posted in this thread link to it.
>>77551081
While they aren't all GOlden Age characters, i've always liked this image. Ross's Jack Knight is way off in my opinion though.
Alternatively >>77489151
>>77491265
>>77493397
>>77489225
>>77551204
Who's black guy in green costume?
>>77551379
Amazing Man
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Markus_Clay_(New_Earth)
>>77551204
Is there a list of who all is in this picture?
>>77551494
And judging by his costume, I figured he's some sort of sorcerer, heh.
>>77551537
There is in my brain. Who don't you know?
>>77551537
Ill try and name as many as I can.
Pictures : Black Canary 1 (dead), Captain Marvel (left team), Hawkgirl (?) ,Hourman 1,000,000 ( Returned Home), Doctor Fate 1 (dead, i think), Hourman 1 (dead) ,Kingdom Come Superman (Returned Home), Jack Knight Starman (Retired)
Top Row : Starman, Citizen Steel, Mr Terrific 2, Dr Mid-Nite , I don't know, Sandman, Alan Scott Green Lantern, Hawkman, Jay Garrick Flash, Wildcat, Hourman 2, Liberty Belle, Power Girl, Amazing Man, Atom Smasher?, One of the Atoms/Atom Smashers.
Bottom : Gog, Katana?, Cyclone, Wildcat 2, Stargirl, Jakeem Thunder, I don't know, Jakeem's Stand.
>>77551658
>Hawkgirl (?)
Kendra.
>>77551658
>Hourman 1,000,000 ( Returned Home)
>Hourman 1 (dead)
Huh? Hourman 1M traveled to Zero Hour time and took Hourman 1's place, preventing Hourman 1's death.
>>77551831
Didn't know that, never read Zero hour.
>>77551859
Hourman 1 was killed in Zero Hour. There was another comic years later, I almost want to say it was in a JSA arc or something, where Hourman 1M goes back in time to the events of Zero Hour and takes Hourman 1's place while sending Hourman 1 to the present day.
>>77551924
It was part of Johns' JSA series, yes.
It's really tragic and almost kind off funny as all the Hourmen (Rex Tyler, Rick, his son, and Hourman 1Million) wind up arguing for who gets to sacrifice themself against Extant.
>>77551204
Thank you
>>77551204
Okay, Round 2
>>77551204
I love that image
>>77553314
Same
>>77535354
This desu senpai
>>77527265
This
>>77493360
>>77493329
>>77493173
Why aren't there more /ss/ super hero duos?
>>77551204
Man, DC really did just make the JSA Kingdom Come Lite there for a while, didn't they?
Fucking Magog, man.
>>77489392
>/v/man and the /v/boys
I need to request this in the draw thread
>>77521044
Did he shoot folks or just club them with his gun?
>>77514275
Who was the other one?
>>77558569
To be fair, it actually was a pretty good story arc, but really marks the point where the series goes downhill, even under Johns' work.
>>77551767
no shayeira, kendra is on the JLA
>>77551658
the first don't know is the american, he's like on page 1 of johns's JSA Volume
the final i don't know is Black Lightning's daughter, she can't touch electrical things or else she'll cause a blackout for miles. Jakeem thunder also wants to put the moves on her
>>77527303
>implying most of the best Spirit stories are even about The Spirit
>>77559315
He married Harlequin, but he also had a female supervillain with a split personality of Rose and Thorn.
She's the mother of Obsidian and Jade.
How do you stop a rhino from charging?
>>77559334
Guggerheim Willingham, Wilson and Taylor. Thank god convergence jsa was great
Up
>>77551658
The guy between Pieter Cross Mid-Nite and Sandy Hawkins Sandman is Mr. America, he plays into the start of Johns JSA
>>77559528
control it with golden age magic?
>>77563486
Bump
>>77559451
Citizen Steel and Lightning.
>>77491942
I just want you to know that that image is of the freedom fighters, not the all star squadron as it is labeled
>>77549746
dat mignola style
its a good feel
>>77568833
That's true, but at first the Freedom Fighters were part of the All-Star Squadron. Then they (and various other Quality Comics heroes) went to Earth-X.
Honestly Roy Thomas really should've just kept Plastic Man and the Blackhawks on Earth-2 to count their Golden Age stuff, while introducing Earth-X's counterparts to Plastic Man and the Blackhawks (to fit in with the implication that Plastic Man and Blackhawks were gone in the first Earth-X story)
bump?
>>77571077
Westerns I miss you so much
>>77569240
How fucking horrible this is. I think the world would be a better place if the idea of superheroes never came to no one's mid.
>>77571260
leave /co/ and never come back... or at the very least stick to your cartoon boards
So I got drunk and downloaded a bunch of Black Terror comics. Who wants to read some
>>77572429
>michael_douglas.jpg
>>77572468
>Dynamite
Poetry
Dynamite's Masks any good? And Project Superpowers?
>>77572529
>>77572528
I read like 1 issue of Masks, it was okay
>>77572557
Thank you
>>77572595
>>77572586
No prob, the whole series is up on Digital Comics Museum btw
>>77572628
Tim gets shit done
>>77572610
Checking out now cool
>>77572406
your a good man
>>77574117
Bump
Rise
>>77578785
Wow I can't believe this thread's still alive!
>>77578581
Thank you
>>77489336
Classic Tim
>>77579126
Weird but is all good
>>77489206
I'd be frustrated with lack of modern Golden-Age style Alan Scott, had Kingdom Come not already been the best end for the character.
Sitting above the Earth in a Green Lantern energy construct orbital castle as a veritable god of justice seemed very up Scott's alley, assuming his earthly attachments perished or never were.
>>77491877
Fucking Cyclone.
All of my HNNNNG.
>>77491942
>the Axis assaulted Goleta
>where I went to high school
Oh no, I hope they didn't get the CostCo or the shitty airport.
>>77489377
>Green Lama
KEK
>>77489299
So rare to see Woman in Red ever mentioned.
>>77579697
Agreed
Spy Smasher is some god tier comic and the serial was pretty sweet too
Rec guy here. Sorry, I was at a funeral today. I'm going to work on it and post in a bit.
>>77583291
>>77583695
>>77572425
>birthofamonster.jpg
>>77584049
looks good
>>77580744
>Alan Scott gave up on fighting crime to sit in Earth orbit doing nothing but wait for aliens who never came
Really? That's a good end for him?
>>77583230
Didn't this dude cameo in an episode of Justice League Unlimited?
>>77585918
Yea in a WWII flashback if I remember right. Spy Smasher is one of those guys that gets around if only for his cool design and the espionage element.
>>77585918
>>77586055
yup, both right
>>77572528
Project Superpowers started out okay, but I liked volume 2 less, what with the characters starting to stray from their roots.
>>77551658
>Atom Smasher?, One of the Atoms/Atom Smashers
That's Damage in his new Atom-inspired costume.
>Katana?
Judomaster 2, I think.
> I don't know
I think her name is Lightning.
>Jakeem's Stand
He was simply called "Thunderbolt" or "Johnny's Thunderbolt" (his real name was Yz, pronounced "uyes")) until the soul of the original Johnny Thunder permanently merged with him to become Johnny Thunderbolt.
>>77489023
>thread is still up four days later
>>77591429
Almost 5
>>77584049
Christ this needs a folder. Any of the companies acquired by DC are impossible to find now
>>77592353
If you go to this link it has a really good list of all the public domain super heroes and you can search characters which will tell you the original company that published them.
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Domain_Super_Heroes
>>77592405
Thank you
Rise
Spy Smasher, Mr. America, Mr. Scarlet, and Bullet Man
Fighting Yank is like Black Terror only slightly less cool and slightly more patriotic
>>77593520
A cameo on JLU along with captain Nazi http://youtu.be/ITvbpsxWfak
>>77593712
Can't remember what American Spirit was to Fighting Yank in Project Superpowers, but Spirit looks badass for flying flag.
Flame
>>77593872
Perfect
"The creators of Mr. Satan didn’t do much to hide the fact that their brainchild was an unabashed knockoff of DC’s resident dark knight. By day, Mr. Satan was, unbeknownst to the general public, cowardly millionaire playboy Dudley Bradshaw… like Batman (minus the cowardice). And by night he donned a grim costume to inspire terror in the hearts of the criminal element… like Batman."
>>77594326
Surprise he didn't get sue.
>Earth-2 now
>Hourman is Rick who wants his drugs back
I'm not sure whether to be mad that he's evil or that his father got snubbed when all the original members have shown up in some capacity
>>77596375
God damn Wilson
>>77593790
American Spirit was an all-new character introduced in Project Superpowers, he was more like a ghost that showed Fighting Yank the error of his ways and induced him into releasing the heroes from the urn.
>>77596375
They really shit bed with Earth 2.
>>77598627
Please us Dan I hope.
>>77598547
This
Well if your going to Bump, might as well contribute a pic
>>77598826
Honestly I just think he should punt off the current Earth 2 and replace it with his Convergence Earth 2.
>>77488287
this cool looking motherfucker right here. god, I love heroes that use vehicles as there main weapon/"power".
>>77599914
The ending of convergence jsa was beautiful. One last time
>>77550812
Simon & Kirby's run on Blue Bolt
Firehair and Senorita Rio at Fiction House
Black Cat from Harvey Comics
Airboy and Black Angel from Hillman
>>77559315
Rose and the Thorn is technically a Flash villain. Her only appearance with Green Lantern is in a Roy Thomas retcon.
>>77559528
Take away its credit card.
>>77594326
Except both Mr. Satan and Batman can trace that origin back to Zorro, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Shadow. Probably why DC didn't sue.
>>77601295
The end
>>77601126
Plus pulp heroes were very common.
>>77600973
Cole plastic man I heard, blue bettle was decent
>>77599866
Thank god this thread lasted long
Miss Masque
>>77602109
Not a bad costume.
>>77491892
Because as someone once said "Dr. Mid-Nite is more like a superhero first responder" and that's pretty cool.
I don't get Mr. Terrific or Starman. Not the legacies who came after them, those guys are cool as fuck, I just don't understand the reason why somebody would create such characters
I mean, everybody's got their thing. Green Lantern is a magic wizard who can conjure green flame constructs to fight zombies. Alright, cool. Wildcat is a boxer who just got tired of everybody's bullshit and started dressing up like a cat. Sure, whatever. But Mr. T and Starman stick out in the fact that they lack a certain depth that the other JSA members have
I dunno, they just seem redundant to have on the team. I don't understand what they bring to the table, a an in-universe and storytelling standpoint
>>77602542
Starman is a classic science adventurer hero. His gimmick was just "star" power instead of atomic power or electricity or whatever.
Mr. Terrific is a community focused hero which is a kind of dated very Great Depression idea. No powers or anything, just an idealistic guy with a mask smacking up the bullies and making sure the local kids grow up right. If he was around now /co/ would just call him SJW.
>>77602542
read james robinsons' starman run. they actually touch on mr. terrific specifically
>>77489225
Fuckin' love me some Project Superpowers
>>77602675
Cool move
>>77571077
>hooded horseman
>wearing a hat
ok
>>77603095
>>77603095
>hooded horseman
>wearing a hat
>not riding a horse
>>77501531
So we can become fire-based superheroes by impressing Satan with our courage?
>>77513788
>>77514771
Well, he gained his superhuman strength from a secret book of Yogic exercises... so there's that.
>>77524584
>>77524623
I have a strange love of The Clock and Captain Triumph. It would be cool to see someone do somethin' with them.
>http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Triumph
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Blue_Beetle_Singles
so should someone make a new thread once we hit auto-sage and page 9/10?
>>77604274
I hope
Last bump before autosage
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