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Below are the 16 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Daily Scans" journal:

October 20th, 2009
10:02 pm [manofbats] [Link]	Dead Ted, Batman, and Neil Patrick Harris ( Just a friendly reminder that ) Tags: char: aquaman/orin/arthur curry, char: batman/bruce wayne, char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: firestorm/ronnie raymond, char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: plastic man/patrick o'brian, medium: fanart (36 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 29th, 2009
03:34 pm [espanolbot] [Link]	When Billy and Courtney Met the Shade ( Read more ) Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: green lantern/alan scott, char: stargirl/courtney whitmore, char: the shade/richard swift, publisher: dc comics, title: jsa (69 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 25th, 2009
09:22 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	Captain "Skinny Dipper" Marvel Yep, busted. WHIZ COMICS# 50. If he turns back, will Billy be nekkid too or will he have on that red sweater and blue pants outfit? It's often a jolt to read old books and realize how society has changed in ways that we hardly notice anymore. Boys and girls up into their teens used to go swimming naked in the summer (not together), usually in secluded swimming holes and ponds on someone's property or in some semi-hidden bend of the river. No one thought twice about it. Kids used to shower after gym class as a routine, too, and I imagine that has been long dropped. Something happened in the late 1950s or so that made people more apprehensive than before about their children. Walking a mile or so to catch the school bus or to get home after school was normal, kids used to disappear all day on Saturday or in the summer to play, and parents trusted them not to get in too much trouble (and they didn't). At the beginning of POLLYANNA, we see a bunch of young boys jumping into the old swimming hole, bare as when they were born and that was a Disney film. Maybe that still goes on deep in the backwoods of the South or the Midwest today, but I doubt it. era: golden age, char: captain marvel/billy batson Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, era: golden age (39 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 7th, 2009
05:30 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	Where the stuff you lose really goes This story is ironic in a metatextual way, as in a few years Captain Marvel (and his family) would really go to Limbo, when the Fawcett comics closed up shop. There they would chill in the timeless void of fictional characters without a home, until the same company that had caused their titles to be dropped would buy up rights to them and bring them back as secondary characters. (Cap never showed it on the page but he must have been bitter. Be that as it may, this is a typically charming little tale. Captain Marvel discovers that recent thefts of valuables are the work of the Collector, a wizened old coot who is assigned to take worthless inventions, badly written books, crummy art and such away. (From what I see on sale everyday, he hasn't kept up.) Limbo is a gigantic junkyard. The Collector decides to start confiscating something nice once in a while, just to brighten up his metaphysical realm. This is where Cap takes notice. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, era: golden age, publisher: fawcett comics (15 comments \| Leave a comment)
September 4th, 2009
02:18 pm [neuhallidae] [Link]	The Halls of Fate, Part Two (Now with 30% more ranting!) In the first chapter of our story, Doctor Fate was reincarnated as someone several of the older JSA members knew well. In this chapter, we get a quest, a resurrection, and some nice, old fashioned WTF. Forty pages spread out over JSA #8-#46. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: black adam/teth-adam/theo adam, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: dove/dawn granger, char: dr. fate/kent nelson, char: dr. mid-nite/pieter cross, char: flash/jay garrick, char: green lantern/alan scott, char: hawk/hank hall, char: hawkgirl/kendra saunders, char: hawkman/carter hall, char: mister terrific/michael holt, char: mordru, char: nuklon/atom smasher/al rothstein, char: sand/sandman/sandy hawkins, char: silver scarab/dr. fate/hector hall, char: stargirl/courtney whitmore, char: wildcat/ted grant, creator: geoff johns, creator: leonard kirk, group: justice society of america, publisher: dc comics, series: halls of fate, title: justice society of america (44 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 5th, 2009
10:45 pm [icon_uk] [Link]	Those with body dysmorphia phobias may want to avoid this post... As an example of an artistic style being used to make the horrific REALLY disturbing, I present this delightful little parable from November 1951's Marvel Family 65 - "The Melting Mystery" (A 21 page story, which I think I make in under the 1/3 issue limit) ( Another day dawns in Fawcett City.. ) Tags: char: captain marvel jr./freddy freeman, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: mary marvel/mary batson, creator: otto binder, creator: pete costanza (22 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 28th, 2009
09:28 am [seriousfic] [Link]	Impulse saves the day! Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: impulse/kid flash/bart allen (20 comments \| Leave a comment)
June 25th, 2009
12:06 am [harmoner] [Link]	Shazam - The Monster Society of Evil Scans from Shazam - The Monster Society of Evil. I love this mini, it's adorable. Written and drawn by Jeff Smith. ( Click for adorableness ) Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: shazam, creator: jeff smith, publisher: dc comics (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 25th, 2009
08:36 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	Captain Marvel's favorite part of a woman How inexplicable. This is from WHIZ COMICS# 51 in 1944. Odd little throw-away moments like this are one of the reasons why I love Golden Age comics. Marvel has been asked to judge a beauty contest, but why he's doing that with the tape measure is not explained. The question may come up in conversation, "what is the sexiest part of a woman?" or "what is your favorite part?" Guys, as you value your life, immediately say, "Her mind, of course." Eyes or smile are answers you might also get away with. But if you say, "Her forearm and it should ideally be shorter than 29 inches," everyone will draw away from you and you will receive puzzled looks for awhile. Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, era: golden age, publisher: fawcett comics, title: whiz comics (34 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 17th, 2009
06:03 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	Gee, our light-hearted adventures got gruesome all of a sudden Woof. VENUS started out as a chipper romance comics, playing up the glamor angle with its star literally being Venus, Goddess of Love. Then it got into science-fiction and then outright horror (That second cover is by none other than Bill Everett) at the end. This happened quite a bit to titles after WW II ended and super-heroes fell away. ( Read more... ) Tags: char: captain america/steve rogers, char: captain marvel jr./freddy freeman, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: plastic man/patrick o'brian, char: venus, era: golden age (10 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 16th, 2009
10:12 pm [perletwo] [Link]	Batman/Green Lantern SHOWDOWN! Long ago (back on Apr. 17 in fact) scannertastic requested scans of the epic confrontation between Batman and Green Lantern. I just realized those pages are in the JLI trade I just got a week or two ago, and it's the perfect chance to try out the scan function on my new(ish) all-in-one. Soooo, from Justice League International #5, Sept. 1987, 3 pages plus preview image. ( Oh, I BITE all right! ) Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: black canary/dinah lance, char: blue beetle/ted kord, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: martian manhunter/j'onn j'onzz, char: mr. miracle/scott free, creator: al gordon, creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: keith giffen, creator: kevin maguire, group: justice league of america, in-joke: one punch, publisher: dc comics, title: justice league international (34 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 9th, 2009
09:39 pm [bluefall] [Link]	The Marvel Family Status Quo (... perhaps) As requested, the end of the Black Marvel storyline from JSA. ( Spoilers, obviously. ) Tags: char: black adam/teth-adam/theo adam, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: flash/jay garrick, char: green lantern/alan scott, char: isis/adriana tomaz, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: nuklon/atom smasher/al rothstein, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, char: shazam, char: stargirl/courtney whitmore, creator: geoff johns, creator: jerry ordway, group: justice society of america, publisher: dc comics, title: justice society of america (40 comments \| Leave a comment)
April 7th, 2009
11:03 pm [dr_hermes] [Link]	From here to infinity From 1947, here's Pete Costanza's art on WHIZ COMICS# 91, a nice example of an infinity cover. That is, the cover shows Captain Marvel reading the same comic we are looking at, with the result that the cover of the book he's holding shows a small view of him holding the same comic, which in turn shows a still smaller view, and so on into infinity (or until Morgo, Tyrant of the Microverse, objects at this intrusion). This particular example is appealing because of the simplicity of its execution and because the comic held by the Big Red Cheese is at an angle. This angle adds to the sense of infinity, as we seem to be diving down into the series of covers (look at Cap's hand, it almost seems to be moving).Infinity covers were popular through the Golden Age, before super-heroes became too serious and self-absorbed for their own damn good and lost most of their playful spirit. You'd sometimes see the effect on slick magazine covers and in cartoons.. Charles Addams did one showing a barber shop with mirrors on both walls so that you see a series of diminishing reflections in the chair. (And this being Addams, one and only one of the reflections revealing a smirking werewolf) Collectors are funny (this is not the best-kept secret since D-Day). Just as some search for anything to do with Bettie Page or Buddy Holly and nothing else, some only want EC Comics with Wally Wood art and some will not sleep easy until they have every appearance of Hot Stuff the Little Devil (no, seriously). There are collectors who aren't that intererested in the comics in themselves as they are in building an assortment whose covers show skulls or gorillas or girls getting spanked. So I'm sure there is more than one fan out there with a beautiful collection of nothing but infinity covers. Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, era: golden age (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
March 25th, 2009
01:51 pm [seriousfic] [Link]	Behold the Wisdom of Solomon!!1! ( Read more... ) Tags: char: captain marvel/billy batson, creator: jeff smith, publisher: dc comics (15 comments \| Leave a comment)
February 28th, 2009
11:38 pm [perletwo] [Link]	When Jason Todd believed in heroes - - helped turn the tide on the umpty-millionth Apokolips invasion, and Bruce acted like a real father to Jay. Six scans (not my scans!) from the Legends miniseries, circa 1987, writing by John Ostrander and Len Wein, art by John Byrne and Karl Kesel. ( It just keeps getting worse! ) Gosh, remember when stopping Apokoliptic invasions was actually fun? ETA: Can I get a "Jason Todd" tag, Your Modlinesses? Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Cass Cain already have them, so, equal time for black sheep Robins plz? Current Music: John Barry, "Diamonds Are Forever" OST Tags: char: batman/bruce wayne, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: glorious godfrey, char: robin/red hood/jason todd, creator: john byrne, creator: john ostrander, creator: karl kesel, creator: len wein, publisher: dc comics, title: legends (19 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:47 am [superfan1] [Link]	Justice Society of America #24 ( spoiler ) Tags: char: black adam/teth-adam/theo adam, char: captain marvel/billy batson, char: flash/jay garrick, char: green lantern/alan scott, char: isis/adriana tomaz, char: mary marvel/mary batson, char: nuklon/atom smasher/al rothstein, char: power girl/kara zor-l/karen starr, char: stargirl/courtney whitmore, char: wildcat/ted grant, creator: geoff johns, group: justice society of america, publisher: dc comics, title: justice society of america (12 comments \| Leave a comment)