tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post4356104292884407708..comments2024-03-29T09:20:48.360-04:00Comments on Supergirl Comic Box Commentary: Back Issue Review: DC Comics Presents #43Anjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-68192207751366166092018-02-01T04:31:04.043-05:002018-02-01T04:31:04.043-05:00Great comments!
I love the knowledge bombs being d...Great comments!<br />I love the knowledge bombs being dropped over colorist errors here! Such a great Supergirl community!Anjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10023193805914075078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-33170404285791591272018-01-31T23:09:53.912-05:002018-01-31T23:09:53.912-05:00Uncle Screensaver: The red skirt in Action Comics ...Uncle Screensaver: The red skirt in Action Comics 251 may have been a carry-over from Superman #123. But aside from that, it's curious that all of the red skirt issues came out successively: Action Comics 260 to 264, dated January to April 1960, and Superboy 80 (cover) also dated April 1960.<br /><br />I could understand the red skirt being a colorist's mistake the first time, but not a second time, much less a third or a fourth time, as a "mistake" like that would have been so obvious.<br /><br />Maybe Weisinger and all were still undecided about the color and went back and forth with it for a few months before settling on the blue once and for all.Professor Feetlebaumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-89357913641464827192018-01-30T22:22:07.663-05:002018-01-30T22:22:07.663-05:00Nice review, Anj! I had never known Kara made a ca...Nice review, Anj! I had never known Kara made a cameo in that issue, which I'm shocked I didn't know, but pleasantly surprised to see! Any chance you'll review the Dominus saga that ran through the titles 20 years ago for Superman's 60th anniversary, which not only gave readers a Supergirl named Kara again (albeeit briefly) and which would eventually see Kismet become Strange Visitor?<br /><br />@Professor Feetlebaum: Action Comics @251 is red but that may have been the mistake as Kara's costume would later be shown as one piece, with the belt more decorative than functional. However, the belt loops were coloured red for #252 and throughout her early career, and that seemed intentional to emulate Superman's. Still, it is odd that for covers, Kara might have had a red skirt when one would think that would be where a colorist would take more care in colouring, unless it was their way of getting in what they felt looked better. :PUncle Screensaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05300304069069472828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-41127147518812809692018-01-30T04:16:30.757-05:002018-01-30T04:16:30.757-05:00"...Back in 1959 the colorists used to regula..."...Back in 1959 the colorists used to regularly get her skirt color wrong..."<br /><br />I wonder if Supergirl's skirt was originally intended to be red, and then changed to blue when Action 252 was colored. The prototype that Jimmy Olsen conjured up in Superman 123 had a red skirt, and the full page ad in Action 251 showed Kara wearing a red skirt. Was the skirt colored blue by mistake for Action 252, and then Weisinger decided he liked that better?<br /><br />The red skirt turned up on the covers of Action Comics 260 (Supergirl as a baby), and 262, although it was blue on the inside. The skirt was red in the stories published in Action Comics 261 and 263. After that, I think it became blue permanently, at least until the early '70s when Kara began experimenting with new costumes. <br />Professor Feetlebaumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-52410633976938131392018-01-29T12:38:12.677-05:002018-01-29T12:38:12.677-05:00As loose as the artwork is in this issue, Dave Hun...As loose as the artwork is in this issue, Dave Hunt's inks are still a vast improvement over the irritating scratchy and overdetailed inking by Swan's regular Frank Chairamonte....as for the botched color scheme on Supergirl's costume this was likely due to the colorist not being able to keep up with her ever shifting "super wardrobe".<br />Hell back in 1959 the colorists used to regularly get her skirt color wrong, now they add in "puffy ball hot pants versus red running shorts versus etc etc etc..."<br />:)<br /><br />BTW I' ve always prided myself on owning almost all of Supergirl's cameos and guest appearances during the bronze age, nice to know there is still some things I need to acquire.<br />JFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-11570175615787382272018-01-29T09:03:57.805-05:002018-01-29T09:03:57.805-05:00reat review, thanks Anj.
I do like that Kara and ...reat review, thanks Anj.<br /><br />I do like that Kara and Hal got cameos, took me right back to the excellent DCCP #26-29... and I realise Hal wasn't actually part of the Mongul sequence, but hey, it was a story with Starlin art, it was cosmic and it sat right next to Mongul's debut. I'm having it!<br /><br />I so miss the Daily Planet/WGBS shenanigans, I've been Twitter-campaigning for the return of Josh Coyle, y'know!<br /><br />GMartin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2669531469217423923.post-67544427797654493292018-01-29T08:18:16.291-05:002018-01-29T08:18:16.291-05:00Pretty good issue, even if you have to forgive the...Pretty good issue, even if you have to forgive the logic leaps and incredibly convenient coincidences.<br /><br />But it was an entertaining issue. Good action, good cameos -back then you seldom saw Supergirl fighting alongside the JLA-, and a villain who back then was terrifying before Post-Crisis writers turned him into a sorry wimp.<br /><br />Curt Swan isn't at his best here but he's still a master.<br /><br />"Wildfire has a pretty good list of beings he has thwarted on his own - a sun-eater, Omega, a Darkseid cloned Oan. The dude is tough."<br /><br />I don't know why people complain about Superman's power level. You'd think there're no more powerhouses in his universe.<br /><br />And I admit I laughed at Clark thinking his excuses get lamer every time. I have the feeling neither Lois nor Jimmy were buying it for now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com