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Chris Samnee

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Rhymes with Omni Most recent: Batman & Robin: Year One **please don’t color & repost my art**

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BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Slam Bradley. The DC universe's first private eye/detective, debuted in Detective Comics #1 (1937) and was co-created by Superman's Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster. His final golden age appearance was in 1949 and was reintroduced in Detective Comics #500 (1981).

Slam Bradley profile from Who's Who shows Slam wearing a dark tan trenchcoat, leather gloves and hat, lighting a cigarette. - DC's Who's Who #21, Nov 1986; Slam Bradley; art by Jim Aparo.
BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Organisms from Krypton arrive on Earth and fuse themselves with a Superman robot and a military general with a grudge against the Man of Steel. The Kryptonoid was frozen and banished into deep space after an attempt to conquer Krypton. Now it will get revenge on the man who defeated it -- Jor-El!

The Kryptonoid creature shoots purple rays from its eyes which causes a traffic light to come to life and coil itself around a weakened Superman like a python. "And once you are dead -- nothing can stop me!" Earth will be MINE!" screams the creature. - Superman #328, Oct 1978 by Martin Pasko, Curt Swan and Frank Chiaramonte. Cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez & Dick Giordano.
BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Movie producer Bruce Wayne is in London visiting the set of his new movie "The Scarlet Strangler" when the real Strangler appears, kills the lead actor and kidnaps the lead actress. Batman enlists the aid of three crew members, The Bat-Squad, to find the killer before he murders again!

Batman walks through the thick London fog with a flashlight in hand and passes a poster that says, "WARNING! STRANGLER LOOSE! NEXT VICTIM FEARED!" "Stay close, Margo! You're safe with me!" he says to the girl behind him unaware that she has been snatched by the strangler! - Brave and the Bold #92, Nov 1970 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy.
BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy 100th heavenly birthday to Ramona Fradon. My admiration of her work throughout the decades is well documented. She is best remembered for her work on the silver age Aquaman, the Super Friends comic series, Brenda Starr daily strip and for co-creating Metamorpho. She passed in 2024.

Ramona Fradon poses with one of her beautiful Aquaman water color commissions.
BACK ISSUE! Magazine@backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 2w ago

An experiment to change Metamorpho back to normal ends up making Rex a composite of Superman and Batman so he decides to help them as Super-Freak -- but Rex quickly eclipses the heroes, causing them to defect to a rival communist country. Super-Freak is asked to bring in the heroes - dead or alive.

An insane Metamorpho has transformed into a composite Superman/Batman freak with metal grappling hooks for arms and he is holding an unconscious Superman and Batman in his hand. - World's Finest Comics #217, May 1973 by Bob Haney, Dick Dillin & Murphy Anderson.