Obscure villains story time

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>>88584679
starting off with Man of Steel #3

>>88584679
M A G P I E
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>>88585054
bump if reading

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>>88585109
here she is

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>>88585266
best page

>>88585084
bump!

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>>88585616
and thats that, now a brief break while i go download batman 401

>>88585636
Thanks, man.

Are you still taking requests?

>>88585800
eh, maybe tommorow, got some work to draw up.

But if you wanna tell me what you want ill try and storytime it same time tommorow.

Im thinking of doing an orca storytime thread somepoint

>>88585853
Ah. I was just curious about Matatoa. He showed up in Beware the Batman once and I didn't know he was a comic villain until recently.

http://comicvine.gamespot.com/matatoa/4005-16794/

He's in Batman: Gotham Knights #16 and #17.

Thanks.

>>88585894
Christ i dont even know who he is.

Ill see if i can find a torrent though, ill post tonight if i have time.

Turns out it may be a while till i post the next magpie issue as the only torrent for 401 i could find was ina a gigga torrent of all 800 odd issues of batman.

so ill storytime one more story for y'all for now, first come first served.

>>88586029
have you anything with calendar man?

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>>88586225
yup

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>>88586806
thats that for Calendar Man more Magpie soon hopefully

>>88586881
Thanks again.

Also, bump!

>>88587181

Someone storytime the Mime again!!

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>>88489743

im gonna have a break from work, any requests?

>>88590882
Bah, you can't post it enough.

>>88590957
The character isn't very obscure, but do you have the first appearance of the Black Mask? I don't think I've ever read it.

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>>88591045
muh nigga, early black mask is 10/10 shit but i dont have it sadly, only in floppies.

How about black spider instead?

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>>88591263
Do the Johnny LaMonica Black Spider!

We need some Lord Death Man in here.

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>>88591286
oh and is that russian fucker around? cus they're making a bootleg of the poison ivy figure you wanted fyi

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>>88591302
again i dont have it sorry

>>88591331
is there a torrent for the batmanga? i may do the whole thing if so

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>>88591263
>Not spiderman
I never felt such force compelling me to read something

>>88591376
The Jiro Kuwata collection is available on Readcomicsonline. Death Man is in the first few stories.

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>>88591750
sorry about the pause folks

>>88591853
he was voiced on young justice by the same guy who did peter in the 90's show funnily enough

>>88591500
Oh this si back when Bats had a penthouse apartment
Cool I guess

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>>88591961
i've read from death man to the gogo the weather wizard, be good to check out the rest.

can you download from rco?

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>>88591344
Poor Hunk didn't even get a panel.

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>>88592032
and that seems to be it, the rest of the issue seems to be a calculator story, ill be back in five with the second half

>>88592084
>the rest of the issue seems to be a calculator story

Fits the "obscure character" quality.

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>>88592084
hey, you missed 5 pages

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>>88592082
SHIT

>>88592032
looks like you'd have can't download from there.

Maybe try Getcomics.

>>88592140
those were just adds, i did miss page 2 tho

>>88592105
true, prhaps ill post it later

>>88592198
So they just move frombeing in a rooftop at night to an airport track in just one page?

I don't mean to steal your thunder SuicideAnon, but I have a collection of just about Every Batman Comic Book Ever that I got from KAT before they went down. So if somebody wants a character/appearance you don't have, or you just want to take a break, I'd be more than willing to help out.

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>>88592172
ace, thanks boss

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>>88592231
fuck heres the other missing page

>>88592242
Man, you guys rock.

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>>88592084
the correct reading order

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>>88592242
thats totally cool dude, could you do ten eyed man or firebug, never read those ones. Or just anything you think is good with a minor villain, doesnt have to be batman really either

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>>88592373
this story really gives me a dirty harry/magnum force kind of feel

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>>88592389

Lego Batman is going to fun just for all of the villains.

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>>88592455
pretty much the only reason im going to see it

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>>88592568
>What if Peter was the one that shot Uncle Ben

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>>88592832
and thats that for black spider.

pretty much every story after this featuring him will ignore his actual motivations and have him working for money or alongside other criminals like poison ivy or catman and basically make him a dull background mook,toher than that one alan grant story that is.

>>88592568
What is with criminals and cabbie caps in old comics?

>>88592735
>Twinkies
These never get old

>>88592891
I expected not spiderman and got something very different and I quiet like it
Do you have anything left OP?

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>>88592891
Storytiming that aforementioned Alan Grant issue.

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>>88594248
Right before digital colors took over traditional colors had reached such an amazing point.

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>>88594335
>Benday dots

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>>88594358
potential reaction image on the third panel

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>>88593535
Dockworker type criminals wore cabbie caps back in the 40s, and comics to this day still uses nior visual tropes.

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>>88594408
...d'ya think anyone pointed out the absurdity of a Neo-Nazi literally working alongside a black guy?

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>>88594445
>...d'ya think anyone pointed out the absurdity of a Neo-Nazi literally working alongside a black guy?

The 80s was a more tolerant time.

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>>88594684
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>>88594684
So you see, >>88592891
the reason Black Spider only appeared as a mercenary mook after this issue is because he ded, and the guy who used the costume/identity afterwards was an ex-mafia palooka. I'll storytime his first appearance next if anyone's still interested.

>>88594718
>I'll storytime his first appearance next if anyone's still interested.

yes plz

>the reason Black Spider only appeared as a mercenary mook after this issue

You're forgetting the League of Shadows version. He was even in Young Justice.

>>88594718
This is the best thing I've read tonight and I'm sying this with my pull list next to me

People says 90's comics are needlessly edgy but this was a gritty drama and a serious social tragedy unlike today's comics that are just fanwankery. the flat lmited palette and the narration from a letter only make me like it even more.

bing on the next issue man.

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>>88593714
sorry anon im off to sleep, ill post the calculator one miday tommorow

>>88594718
please do, itll give me something nice to wake up to.

>>88594772
Oh sad.
Do you have the links to your previviews threads?

>>88594445
not really that unheard of. It's just business

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>>88594772
>Eric Needham later turns up in Neil Gaiman's critically acclaimed fantasy comic The Sandman, dating supporting character, Lyta Hall. No explanation was given for his resurrection.

This is issue #57, I think? If one of you guys has Sandman on hand, can you post a page with him? I can't find it on google.

>>88584724
I got this issue in a sand bucket that was given out by a hotel i stayed at as a kid.

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>>88594747
>You're forgetting the League of Shadows version. He was even in Young Justice.
Uhhh, hate to call you casual, but YJ's version of Black Spider isn't "canonical". That is, he's accurate inasmuch as he's a mercenary, but I'm prrretty sure he never worked for the League of ASSASSINS (they were first called the League of Shadows in Batman Begins because obvsl Bruce would never join a group of self-described Assassins, and it found its way into YJ and eventually into the comics because I guess it sounds cooler.)

But then again, wikipedia tells me there was a third Black Spider I'd completely forgotten about, and tho there's no reference to him working with the League I honestly can't say I know for sure.

Anyway, this issues doubles as part of a Black Mask story arc, so Sionis fans, sit back and enjoy too!

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>>88594882
Doug Moench is honestly my least favorite of the three writers who defined 90s Batman (Dixon and Grant being the other two), but I remember this story arc as avoiding most of my pet peeves with his writing... maybe it's because he created Back Mask, as the living embodiment of his simultaneously grim and very ARCH writing sensibilities, and I still find that way more interesting than just having him be a stock mob boss who happens to wear a mask.

>>88594795
one got posted earlier on, here part two
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>>88594869
fucks sake neil

>>88594872
im jealous dude

>>88594882
im fairly certain theres four

>>88594882
>Uhhh, hate to call you casual, but YJ's version of Black Spider isn't "canonical". That is, he's accurate inasmuch as he's a mercenary, but I'm prrretty sure he never worked for the League of ASSASSINS

I get that. What I mean is that this specific version of Black Spider

>Black Spider was a member of the group of assassins known as the Council of Spiders. Black Spider came into conflict with Red Robin and was defeated.

is the same as the one in Young Justice. At least that's the impression I got when I watched it a few years ago.

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>>88594972
I love the idea that the most powerful gang lord in Gotham City holds power through a mixture of cult of personality, and playing on Gothamites' eerie tendency to create new identities to "mask" themselves.

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>>88595007
Oh... yeah I dunno, I didn't read very far into that run. I'll look into it, but it honestly just felt to me like Weisman wrote the role to give Josh Keaton a job, homage the comics he grew up with, and generally make supervillains more "believable" by treating them as hi-tech mercenaries. He did the same thing to Sportsmaster, basically.

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>>88595142
See this? This shit? THIS is the Black Mask I know and love. All madness and pathos and purpose, while still being just plain cruel and greedy to show that despite the fact he believes his own propaganda, deep down, he's still just a schmuck named Roman who's still mad his parents didn't love him.

>>88595036
In a city full of psychotic supervillians, why not let every thug feel like he's a supervillian too?

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>>88595182
...and uses a mannequin as his RealDoll.

>>88595182
ifind it weird that the red hood guy is the only writer in years to give me a good black mask story.

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>>88595196
Yes, exactly. I love the idea that crime in Gotham City mutates into an increasingly over-the-top form of violent self-expression, replacing traditional organized crime with the madness of fanaticism. Maybe it comes from loving the Mutants in TDKR.

And, of course, some guys who just realize "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em"...

>Go to bed
>Read comics
I can't decide
just post faster

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>>88595328
...like THIS asshole!

As much as I like the OG Black Spider, I fuckin' love Johnny LaMonica for being the polar opposite. He's just a petty, money-hungry schmuck who couldn't even be assed to come up with his own costumed identity, and doesn't
really get along with this newer, crazier breed of crook that runs Gotham. I hope Scott Snyder or somebody remembers Black Spider is supposed to be the most hilariously stereotypical greasy spaghetti-slurping mob hitman stereotype.

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>>88595472
Sorry man, technical difficulties caused me to post twice without images. I'll try and pick up the pace.

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>>88595509
...I hope the Batman/Joker shippers never find this page.

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>>88595552
Ah, Madolyn Corbett. So much build-up, for so unsatisfying a conclusion. Godspeed, you crazy stalker, you.

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>>88595673
>>88594760
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, Alan Grant had a real knack for writing Bat-villains sympathetically and tragically, but without coming across as needlessly edgy or trying too hard. Kinda reminds me of BTAS that way.

>>88595720
I need more alan grant on my life now

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>>88595720
Fun Fact: Manny Terraro is one of the mob bosses introduced and killed off in the second Batman vs. Predator mini-series, the one with The Huntress! So yes folks, Batman vs. Predator is actually canon.

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>>88595744
>>88595732
I may share one of my favorite stories of his if I have time, but this IS a two-parter and it's already half-past midnight. If not tonight, I'll probably do it tomorrow.

>>88595565
>Madolyn Corbett

Now this is a character so obscure I've never heard of her. Literally who?

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>>88595766

wait what happened to Alfred

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>>88595785
And just cuz it ties back into my point here,
>>88595744
I've included the letters page which were actually responses to Moench's Batman vs. Predator II. Which is nowhere near as good as the first one, but hey, few things are.

>>88595811
Okay, I'm going the fuck to sleep
Night y'all

>>88595618
I'm not use to politicians supporting Batman, and the Commissioner opposing him.

>>88595803
This came out shortly after the Knightfall saga (that's also why Gordon is unsure about Batman, because nobody told him about Jean Paul), in which Alfred was horrified at how Bruce was pushing himself even as he healed from his injuries (he was on a mission to save his then-love-interest Dr. Shondra Kinsolving in the "Knightquest: The Search" tie-in arc), so he decided to quit because he couldn't in good conscience support his self-destructive efforts.

"Leaving... is all I have left to make you understand that you're not Batman anymore."

Anyone who said Alfred was out of character in The Dark Knight Rises is a pleb.

>>88595766
Could you post the other Johnny LaMonica stories?

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>>88595886

>>88595886
I see, thanks for the explanation

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>>88595916
>>88595781
I was intrigued by her too anon, but unfortunately the pay-off just wasn't worth it. She's just a garden variety celebrity stalker, and while I got way too much amusement out of her literally skulking in the bushes outside Wayne Manor and physically attacking Tim Drake when he asks "What the fuck are you doing, lady?", she ultimately just does the "if I can't have you, I'll kill myself!" cliche and then Bruce is caught by the police just as he finds her body, and we get a lame one-off story about him convincing the cops he DIDN'T kill her that's no Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, and let's face it, that story wasn't great to begin with. So yeah. At least we got a few more pages of DickBats out of it while Bruce was in holding.

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>>88595973
"Goosh and Boom" sound like a henchmen duo waiting to happen.

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>>88596015

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>>88596032

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>>88596044

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>>88596077
I kinda hate how this arc tries to make Sarah out to be the bad guy, especially when Jim should fuckin' know better.

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>>88596118
You may think I'm reading into it, but look at the way Moench draws her for fuck's sake!

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>>88596136
And Gordon being such a drama queen feels OOC to me too.

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>>88596168

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>>88596190

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>>88596207
On the other hand, what follows is maybe Gordon at his Gordon-iest since Year One.

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>>88596231
That second panel is exploitable af.

>>88596077
Krol has one "l", not two.

Editors messed up.

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>>88596253

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>>88596297
BREAK YO'SELF, FOOL!

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>>88596312

>>88596136
>look at the way Moench draws her for fuck's sake!

Moench is the writer, Kelley Jones is the artist.

Jones is my favorite Batman artist, and issues like this highlight why.

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>This building is nothing but a MASK covering its true nature - A HIDE-OUT FOR BLACK MASK
This on-the-nose stuff is partially why I'm not the biggest fan of Moench, despite his plotting being pretty good. Dixon should've told him that less is more.

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>>88596380
>>88596365
Shit, you're right... I know that too, I'm just brainfarting from the neverending barrage of storefronts and sushi from Capcha. Still, my point stands... I get why he draws Batman with a crazy grin when interrogating crooks, but why Sarah of all people?

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>>88596412

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>>88596428
I generally like Jones' art too, but wtf is up with his baby hand in the last panel?

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>>88596253
Have you ever noticed that Batman only smiles when he's stalking someone in the shower?

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>>88596446

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>>88596473
S A V A G E
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>>88586479
>Supervillain
>But he stops at a red light

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>>88596489
And that's that! I'm gonna hit the sack, and then go to bed. I'll be here tomorrow though, so if you have any requests feel free to throw them out.

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>>88596463
Why IS Batman so happy to catch people in the shower? YOU decide!

>>88596523
Thanks ma! Have a good night!

>>88586732
>Driving around town, bothering people with a giant
Calender Man is this really even ille-
>Oh and we're going to rob banks too
Awright.

>>88596550
I wish they went back at making Batman look like a monster

>>88596473
>>88596489
Great issue, but the face scarring seems really forced.