KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS - KULL THE CONQUEROR #1...

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Before CONAN, there was KULL, who first appeared in CREATURES On The LOOSE #10, before eventually being awarded his own magazine, which you can see above.  Incidentally, I'm proud of myself - I managed to resist the compulsion to type KULL The KONQUEROR as the title to this post.

KLASSIC KIRBY KOMIC KOVERS: The FOREVER PEOPLE #1...

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"KIRBY'S HERE!" screamed the cover blurb, but it was mainly AL PLASTINO's SUPERMAN and JIMMY OLSEN inside the magazine, as their faces (and Superman's figure) were mostly redrawn to render them more 'on-model' than JK had drawn them.  I sometimes suspect that the only reason DC lured Jack away from 'The House Of Ideas' was more to do with them thinking it would damage MARVEL in some way, rather than because they really wanted him.  Why else would they seemingly seek to sabotage his work by diluting the full 'Kosmic Kirby' effect?  It's like hiring MICHELANGELO and then getting him to creosote your garden fence.  Despite the interference, Jack managed to shine during his tenure at DC, but nowhere near as brightly as he had shone at Marvel, alas.    

KLASSIC KOMIC KOVERS - CAPTAIN ACTION #1...

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H'mm, a guy with a panther pushing SUPERMAN out of the way?  Well, I suppose with his 'coins of power', it was possible for the comicbook incarnation of CAPTAIN ACTION to do so, but he bore little relation to the concept of the IDEAL toy figure he was based on.  Hardly surprising, seeing that the articulated figure was little more than a clothes horse for various superhero outfits, not all of which DC held the copyright on - hence the different approach with CA's five issue comicbook run.

PART TWO Of DETECTIVE COMICS COVER GALLERY...

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Part one of this DETECTIVE COMICS cover gallery had 11 covers, this part has 13, so why didn't I do 12 covers each?  Simple! I wanted to keep the issues where BATMAN operated on his own separate from the ones with ROBIN The BOY WONDER.

I'm not really into sidekicks, to be honest.  The only one that ever worked (initially anyway) was RICK JONES (seeing as he was the catalyst for The HULK's origin), but even he soon wore out his welcome.  In the case of Batman, I always thought that he worked better on his own, which is why I loved the early '70s tales where Robin went to college and disappeared from the scene - apart from his own back-up tales that is.

Anyway, that's enough prattling preamble from me - enjoy these 13 classic covers from The DARK KNIGHT's earliest days. (And be sure to let me know which ones you prefer.)