The Silver Age Spectre... murderer of millions!

[Hibou]

I just purchased a couple of reader copies of JLA 46 and 47 (1966) and I had to laugh at this panel...

 

The Spectre just squashing millions of innocent people!

 

Gotta love the 60's.

 

 

 

 

 

[VintageComics]

That would never happen in a Marvel comic.

[kav]

No, no it wouldn't....

[nickwire]

he kills the entire population of the country of Vlatava in one of the modern series. that's how he rolls yo

[kav]

Superman pulled a chain of planets with a giant rope in one story

[Moondog]

There is no God in Marvel Comics. There are god-like beings but no one capable of doing what the Spectre could do. The Spectre is (was?) the most powerful being in comics. Holding two earths at bay was child's play for him.

 

I too would chuckle at these things when I was a teen-ager.

 

"What the heck is that?"

[kav]

Superman also blew out a sun in the story 'the super-super-superman'

Anyone know what issue that's from? I'm trying to track it down

I want to scan it so everyone can read the coolest but most ridiculous story DC ever did

[Hibou]

Superman also blew out a sun in the story 'the super-super-superman'

Anyone know what issue that's from? I'm trying to track it down

I want to scan it so everyone can read the coolest but most ridiculous story DC ever did

 

I'd love to read that one too... I hope someone can track it down!

[kav]

It's an uncanny story-Curt Swan used all kinds of crazy perspectives/foreshortening he never used in any other story

It's a stand-out story on many levels

[shadroch]

There is no God in Marvel Comics. There are god-like beings but no one capable of doing what the Spectre could do. The Spectre is (was?) the most powerful being in comics. Holding two earths at bay was child's play for him.

 

I too would chuckle at these things when I was a teen-ager.

 

"What the heck is that?"

 

 

God, the rea,l true Christian God, appeared in a Ghost Rider story, early on. I think it was while still in the Spotlight books, before getting his own title.

[ComicConnoisseur]

That would never happen in a Marvel comic.

Yes, Jim Shooter would not approve, as Claremont and Byrne found out the hard way about Phoenix.

[kav]

One thing about Stan Lee he would say that doesn't make sense!

[seanfingh]

That would never happen in a Marvel comic.

 

No, they would just have Hercules tow Manhattan Island with some really big chains.

[shadroch]

That would never happen in a Marvel comic.

 

No, they would just have Hercules tow Manhattan Island with some really big chains.

 

Backwards, to boot.

[rjpb]

As a kid this was my problem with much of DC's lineup. If they could have remembered to use the full extent of their powers every issue, the stories would have all been two pages long.

[bug33fouf]

Superman also blew out a sun in the story 'the super-super-superman'

Anyone know what issue that's from? I'm trying to track it down

I want to scan it so everyone can read the coolest but most ridiculous story DC ever did

 

I'd love to read that one too... I hope someone can track it down!

[Unca Ben]

There is no God in Marvel Comics. There are god-like beings but no one capable of doing what the Spectre could do. The Spectre is (was?) the most powerful being in comics. Holding two earths at bay was child's play for him.

 

I too would chuckle at these things when I was a teen-ager.

 

"What the heck is that?"

 

 

God, the rea,l true Christian God, appeared in a Ghost Rider story, early on. I think it was while still in the Spotlight books, before getting his own title.

 

God is obliquely mentioned in a few early Marvel Comics.

 

A Lee / Kirby FF I recently read had the Watcher saying something like, "There is One who is more powerful than all, and his only weapon is love", or something to that effect.

 

I seem to remember Sue Storm thinking, "Please God, don't let Ben die" in another Lee / Kirby FF.

 

And so on.

 

 

[Davenport]

Spectre by Neal Adams. Fun how he'd occasionally sprinkle Spectre stories with "Marvel" monikers, "Disembodied Daredevil", "Astral Avenger" and the like.

 

[Wally's Comics]

population control at it's finest.

 

 

[majawi]

Ha, love it! I have some really early reader grade JLA's that I like going through just for stuff like this, great find.

 

We should have more threads with this stuff IMO