The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!
WHO'S WHO #20 - October 1986
I've already gone through this issue in last year's Who Was Who Is Who posts (first part of the issue here, second here) so it would be a bit redundant to go through it again so I figured I'd highlight a couple of things from the back cover that made me smile:
Sandman versus Sandman - the Kirby version hurling sand at the original!
Shade the Changing Man scaring the Scarecrow!
Sargon the Sorcerer casting a spell using the DC Bullet!
There you go, just a quick and easy one this week.
I'm a huge, huge fan DC's Who's Who, and seeing these just brought a smile to my face, especially the Shade scaring the Scarecrow, and the the funnier one(for me anyways) Kirby's Sandman throwing sand on the Original Sandman(who Kirby also worked on briefly back in the day)
ReplyDeleteNice post Gary:)
Cheers - the Sandmen was the first thing that caught my eye so had to include that.
DeleteAnd yeah, I love Who's Who - just a shame the plans for a new version never came to pass.
Indeed. I think it would've only been to DC's advantage as a way to help further establish and educate new fans(and probably some old one as well) about the new versions of these heroes. Leave it to Didio and friends to miss the boat on that one.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, I think the new version was planned pre-New 52 but the reboot completely killed it off. Also there were plans to do a Showcase Presents collection of the original series but I think issue with paying contributors got in the way of that, sadly.
DeleteYeah that is sad. Why that's such a big problem I'll never know, but still, the point is they missed the boat on something very helpful to the new readers they were trying to bring in. A simple year-long maxi would've sufficed since they were just beginning to world build at the time. Then again, considering how often creative teams were being let go, and stories/plots being changed around by editorial so often, it might've been more of a nightmare to coordinate than we think.
ReplyDeleteconsidering how often creative teams were being let go, and stories/plots being changed around by editorial so often
DeleteAnd that would have been the problem - despite DC saying they had a timeline plotted out, there were several instances where things were just made up on the spot. Had they produced a Who's Who in the New 52 it would have been out of date and/or incorrect almost from the first issue.
Do you two listen to Rob Kelly and the Irredeemable Shag's Who's Who podcast? Highly entertaining stuff, with superb follow-up comments.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.aquamanshrine.net/2013/10/whos-who-definitive-podcast-of-dc.html
I've heard a couple but will check out more. Cheers for the link!
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