Caius the Bigger

For the folks who are new here: have a ask me a question meme; I posted it on Monday so I don't really feel I should post it again, but have at it!

To have content here, and something for at least some of you new TF friends to talk about: have an absolutely amazing picture from Japan's TV Magazine, April 1987.

Warning: Large Image

Someone rearranged all the Gestalts! I think there are all sorts of exciting story possibilities here. :D

(For example: poor Silverbolt. He thinks the Aerials are bad!)

(Some of the names are bizarre because they're directly transliterated from the Japanese. The weirdest is probably Graze; they mean Blades.)

Image is from The Allspark, here. Lots of other cool stuff there.)

I know a lot of you don't read scans_daily, so I'm posting to let you know that I posted some wacky SHIELD vs HYDRA scans the other night.

Check it out. There be skateboards.

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #45 is officially entitled "The War Lover" and is described on Wikipedia as "shaded exploration of a trigger-happy soldier and the line drawn, even in war, between killing and murder. Daring for the time, when majority public sentiment still supported the undeclared Vietnam War, the story balanced present-day issues while demonstrating that even in what is referred to as "a just war", a larger morality prevails."

This is true enough. What Wikipedia *doesn't* mention is that it is also a very touching tale of Dum Dum Dugan's devotion to his fedoras.

Witness! ( Rather a lot of fedora scans )

Not the comic book hero Uncle Sam, either. This is the cover of an official U.S. Department of Defense publication, "Arms Forces Information Pamphlet Number 5," published February 12, 1954.

Just so you know exactly how wrong this *is*.

( CROTCH! )

Since this sounds even worse than it looks, I'm linking the panels from the relevant quotes.

"My pistol is pointed at your chest! I can kill you now!"

"Or I may kill you--feel that pistol barrel?

Go ahead, Taurey! You'll never get a better chance to get your rocks off!"

--William Taurey, Revolutionary War reenactor and supervillain, and Captain America.

INTRODUCING Steve Rogers as...

( The NOMAD! )

When Real Men had CLEAVAGE. *g* (From Captain America and the Falcon #180, Dec 1974)

As a bonus, from later in the issue, the hazards of capes.

So monkeycrackmary has been requesting Captain America/Bucky fic. (and anyone so inclined should rush over and write her some, damnit! also, read mine.) Which reminds me that, not so long ago, I was reading rather a lot of Steve Englehart [aka the OTHER totally pervy GL writer]'s Captain America and the Falcon from the early seventies.

Which is OMIGODSEVENTIES and also OMIGOD THE SLASH! In the way a seventies semi-political buddy comic should be. Plus, it's Captain America, for whom I harbor a sekrit and not very well informed crush, so what's not to like?

There are MANY MANY scans that could be shown from this; however, because the keyboard on my own computer won't be fixed until tomorrow, I'm going to have to restrict myself to stuff I've uploaded already, for one reason or another. (That is to say--some of you will have already seen some of these.)

They have, to begin with, the BEST LETTERCOL NAME EVER: Let's Rap with Cap.

This splash was my first introduction to the series. It takes two people (one with pointy boobs of doom, one with seventies mancleavage of doom) and a bird to escort Cap to his hotel room. Where there's yet someone else waiting for him! MAN, he's a popular guy. (The guy waiting was Nick Fury, and he and Cap proceeded to have a rather tasty fight scene in the hotel room.)

And then there is this REALLY SWEET RESCUE SCENE.

( But they were men... )

There were girls, too, of course. Both Cap and Falc had girlfriends; Falc's black militant girlfriend notably did not APPROVE of Cap. Possibly because he did things like this. This is NOT the only time the Cap/Falc relationship was compared to a marriage, or explicitly denied to be one, although it's the only example I seem to have uploaded.

And...that is the end of my scans, sadly. More later if there's interest.

On the occasion of evadne_ (she of the impressive posting and pimping powers) finally getting 'round to reading Infinity, Inc, I present couple of scans from Infinity, Inc #1 that I uploaded awhile ago.

Al Rothstein is cute. And he has a Mohawk.
(Al Rothstein is the god-(grand)son of the Golden Age Atom, and the grandson of the reluctant Golden Age villain Cyclotron. He's big. And Jewish. And gets bigger! The blonds are Lyta Trevor, daughter of the Golden Age Wonder Woman--this was pre-Crisis--and Hector Hall, son of the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl. They're preparing to ask their elders for JSA membership.)

The JSA are old fogies. Jennie-Lynn and Todd have an interesting sense of timing.
(Al, Lyta, Hector, and Norda--a protege of the Hawks' from a hidden race of bird-people--are in costume awaiting the verdict of the JSA. Star-Spangled Kid and Hawkman present it. Jen and Todd introduce themselves.)

The semester is over, and for the last week, I've been only partially employed, reading *lots* of comics, and not feeling very articulate. I have, however, been (metaphorically) clipping funny, cracky, or slashy things from some of the stuff I've been reading, and since a lot of that has been Flash v1, there's been...quite a bit. Some of it got posted to scans_daily; here are many many more.

From the Green Lantern backups:

Flash v1 238: Hal gets all the cute aliens!. One of these is probably later to be known as Itty, and if anyone with slightly better image skills than me could make me an icon of this, I'd be very grateful and possibly write stuff.

Flash v1 240: Itty tags along. Having saved the day, Itty gets its name!

Flash v1 243: Hal devolves! More cave Hal! Yet more! Hal evolves!

Flash v1 246: Hal goes a little bit nuts. Plus an early glimpse of the Floronic Man.

From the feature stories, with Flash himelf:

Flash v1 239: The Piper makes some Central City police dance a jig.

Flash v1 252: Barry carries off Ralph Dibny--right under Sue's nose!

Flash v1 255: In case anyone was wondering, Sam Scudder (Mirror Master) wears boxers under his costume.

Flash v1 259: Barry Allen makes like a genie in a ring and a stripper through town.

Flash v1 265: Is he Flash, Captain Boomerang, or in fact, Plastic Man? (Further down on the page, Barry says "I'll be doggoned!" Aww, Barry.)