When You’ve Caught the Great White Whale, What’s Next?

On December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 By Mark PerigardIn Comics6 Comments

cover of Justice League of America No. 21 — When the Justice Society dropped in on their Silver Age substitutes.

Every collector has one.

That one comic book that somehow remains out of reach.

For some, it’s “Detective Comics” No. 27, or “Amazing Fantasy” No. 15, or maybe “The Walking Dead” No. 1.

For me, for just about forever, it has always been “Justice League of America” No. 21.

If you have even a passing familiarity with the Silver Age of Comics, you understand the significance of that issue.

This August 1963 issue was insanely important for DC and for readers.

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‘Batman v Superman’: Dawn of the Dimwits

On April 3, 2016 By Mark PerigardIn Movies2 Comments

The gang is all here: 'Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.' — The gang is all here: ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.’

In Warner Bros.’ “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” DC Comics’ two greatest titans go mano-a-mano.

The loser: Audiences.

Warning: There be spoilers. If you haven’t seen the film – and I encourage you to wait until it’s on TNT some Sunday morning next year – tread at your risk.

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Spend Thanksgiving with the Justice Society! (Justice League welcome as Plus-Ones)

On November 9, 2015 By Mark PerigardIn Comics5 Comments

Not every Justice Society-Justice League team-up was a crisis.

OK, let me amend that: Not every Justice Society-Justice League team-up started as a crisis.

One, in fact, was even sort of about the mashed potatoes. Mmm. Delicious mashed potatoes.

And it ended with a pizza delivery and the teams turning down an order of free breadsticks.

I mean, who does that? Barbarians.

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Introducing – again – Mr. Terrific!

On October 9, 2015 By Mark PerigardIn Comics3 Comments

A man considers the final moments of his life.

Despite all he’s accomplished in the worlds of business and sport, he is bereft without his anchor, his soulmate, his beautiful wife, taken from him through an act of capricious fate.

Michael Holt stands above an abyss, ready to step into the void.

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The Shocking, Strange, Somewhat Skeevy Secret Origin of Black Canary!

On September 24, 2015October 12, 2015 By Mark PerigardIn Comics6 Comments

She’s my daughter!

She’s my sister!

She’s my sister and my daughter!

– “Chinatown” (1974)

In 1983, it took three esteemed DC Comics writers to answer a question nobody was asking – and in doing so create perhaps the creepiest JLA/JSA team-up in history.

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