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Justice League Of America #159 Pg 09

Original Art

Art by Dick Dillin And Frank McLaughlin

DC Comics (1978)

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The Viking Prince, Jonah Hex, Miss Liberty, Enemy Ace, and the Black Pirate in heroic splendor, embodying the legendary Five Warriors from Forever. Plucked from their respective eras by the enigmatic Lord of Time as "Puppets From The Past" to disrupt the annual Justice League and Justice Society summit. This page holds the Bronze Age debut of the Black Pirate, a character unseen for three decades since All-American Comics #102.

The Phantom Stranger

Art by...

1) Jim Aparo

2) Dan Schkade

3) Iain Laurie

4) Scott Hampton

5) Mike Mignola

6) Dick Dillin And Frank McLaughlin

7) Gerry Talaoc

8) José Luis García-López

9) Sara Richard

DC Finest: Justice League of America - Crisis on Earth-X by Len Wein, Frank McLaughlin, Cary Bates, Dick Dillin and more. Cover by Nick Cardy. Out in August.

BLUE BEETLE (vol. 3) #1 (June, 1964). Cover by Bill Fraccio and Frank McLaughlin.

"The Giant Mummy Who Was Not Dead!"

He just had a mild fever.

This book marks the origin and first appearance of the Charlton version of Dan Garrett Blue Beetle, who was much different from the original Blue Beetle from 1939.

Here, Dan Garrett is an archaeologist instead of a beat cop, and his last name is spelled with two Ts now. The original Blue Beetle wore a bulletproof (well, it was most of the time) chainmail-looking cellulose costume, and was granted "super energy" by Vitamin 2X, which gave him a varying degree of super-strength and stamina, depending on the demands of the story.

The new Blue Beetle was granted true superpowers - strength, flight, invulnerability, X-ray vision, etc. - courtesy of a mystical blue scarab he found in an abandoned Egyptian tomb. Which makes me wonder why the cover has him swinging on a rope since he could fly. Bill Fraccio was also the penciller of the story inside; did he forget he drew Blue Beetle flying several times?

Be that as it may, the new Blue Beetle didn't set the world on fire and, given the quality of the stories and art, that's not surprising. He only lasted ten issues before Charlton pulled the plug in 1965.

Great Neptune!

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