#bob brown

[cantsayidont]

May 1969. Batman reveals that he's been expanding his musical horizons in this panel from "The Cry of the Night Is--Sudden Death!" from DETECTIVE COMICS #387.

#comics #detective comics #mike friedrich #bob brown #joe giella #batman #bruce wayne #robin #dick grayson #batman close-ups #janis joplin #for some reason the reprint of this story in a batman digest #reletters the title as “The Cry of the Night Is--Kill!” #a batman and his bat-music

[gameraboy2]

The Brave and the Bold #78 (1968), original art by Bob Brown

#bob brown #brave and the bold #the brave and the bold #batman #wonder woman #batgirl #vintage #comics #comic book #comic book art #comic books #art #illustration

[tomoleary]

Jim Starlin and Alan Weiss 1976 Marvel Calendar November Illustration Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, and Captain Marvel Original Art (Marvel, 1975)

More from 1976

Gil Kane, Frank Robbins with Frank Giacoia, Bob Brown with Mike Esposito and Frank Brunner.

#jim starlin #alan weiss #1976 Marvel Calendar #adam warlock #silver surfer #captain marvel #gil kane #frank robbins #bob brown #Mike Esposito #frank giacoia #frank brunner

[batmanonthecover]

Detective Comics #383 - January 1969 (DC Comics - USA)

Cover Art: Irv Novick

THE FORTUNE-COOKIE CAPER

Script:  Frank Robbins

Art:  Bob Brown (Pencils), Joe Giella (Inks)

Characters: Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tommy Chee; Yin Yan; Hu Shi

Batman story #1,260

#comics #dc comics #detective comics #batman #robin #irv novick #frank robbins #bob brown #joe giella #1969

[splooosh]

“D-E-A-D”

Bob Brown

#Doom Patrol #Elast Girl #Mento #Superman #Cliff Steele #Robotman #Flash #Barry Allen #Batman #Niles Caulder #Madame Rogue #Bob Brown #Earth 1 #Justice League of America #tangled #weddings

[dcbinges]

Detective Comics #411 (1971) by Dennis O'Neil & Bob Brown

#talia al ghul #bruce wayne #batman #detective comics #dennis o'neil #bob brown #dc #70s #dc comics #70s comics #comics

[chernobog13]

Doom Patrol (Vol. 1) #95 (May, 1965). Cover by Bob Brown.

I love how the Chief's armored suit has a bearded helmet so we can tell it's him.

#Doom Patrol #Elasti-Girl #Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man #Negative Man #The Chief #Dr. Niles Caulder #DC Comics #Silver Age comics #Bob Brown

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Challengers Of The Unknown #048

Pencils: Bob Brown

Inks: Bob Brown

Colors: ?

Letters: Ira Schnapp

DC (Feb-Mar1966)

#Comics #DC Comics #Challengers Of The Unknown #Doom Patrol #Bob Brown #Ira Schnapp #Vintage #Art #DC #1966 #1960s #60s

[dirtyriver]

"Die in the Name of the Law!" in Red Circle Sorcery #8, August 1974, written by Marv Channing, art by Gray Morrow

This story was published in a B&W digest in France in 1977 and has been a favorite of mine ever since. Gray Morrow's art is gorgeous in black and white.

And of course this story of a modern person obessed with pulp heroes resonated with me, like Copperhead would in Daredevil #124-125 a few years later.

Daredevil #124, August 1975, art by Gene Colan (pencils) and Klaus Janson (inks)

Daredevil #125, September 1975, original art by Bob Brown (pencils) and Klaus Janson (inks)

I love pulps, I love stories about pulps, and I love fictional books and magazines. Those two stories were made for me.

#Comics #Archie #Pulp #Red Circle Sorcery #Gray Morrow #Daredevil #Gene Colan #Klaus Janson #Bob Brown

[comic-covers]

(1964)

#Doom Patrol #comic book #1964 #Bob Brown #Negative Man #vintage #1960s #comics #the Brotherhood of Evil #Monsieur Mallah #Robotman #The Chief #Elasti-Girl #DC #comic books

[cantsayidont]

May 1971. Neal Adams cover for the first appearance of Talia, today called (deplorably) Talia al Ghul. (Adams did not do the interior art for the cover story, which is by Bob Brown and Dick Giordano.)

With all the — entirely justified — criticism of how Talia has been handled over the past decade, one may wonder if there was some prelapsarian nonracist early version of this character. Nope! Talia, like her father, is a character for whom a troubling degree of Orientalist racism is a load-bearing conceptual element. In her initial appearance she is, by O'Neil's own later admission, just a plot device, a helpless damsel in distress; her relationship to Ra's al Ghul (who had not yet appeared) was apparently added to the dialogue at the last minute, after this issue was mostly finished. In her second appearance in BATMAN #232 (June 1971), this time drawn by Adams, Talia is "promoted" to exotic eye candy, an Orientalist caricature without a single word of dialogue. By her third appearance three months later (in BATMAN #235), she's emerged as a femme fatale of ambiguous motives, an obvious pastiche of Sax Rohmer's Fah Lo Suee, the daughter of Fu Manchu.

Both Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams tended to bristle at the suggestion that Ra's al Ghul has any relationship to Fu Manchu, but the similarities are hard to miss, and Talia is one of those. Fah Lo Suee, first seen in THE HAND OF FU MANCHU in 1917, was at times her father's dutiful servant; at times his rival; and occasionally his enemy, since she could be swayed by the charms of one or the other of his white opponents. She herself was Eurasian, and her moral conflict was unambiguously racialized: Her choice was to succumb to the evil, Asian side of her nature (through allegiance to her father and/or his pan-Oriental secret society), or embrace good and whiteness (in her case, through romance with a heroic white man). You may notice that this also summarizes the basic tension of Talia's roles in the Batman mythos, and not just recently! In a 1984 interview, O'Neil described Talia as "tainted with evil" because of her father, and the degree to which she's ever been portrayed as good or heroic has always been directly tied to her willingness to reject her father in favor of Bruce and whiteness. Save for a throwaway line in this issue about her studying medicine at the University of Cairo (swiftly forgotten even by O'Neil), her role in the stories has never allowed for even the possibility of any third alternative.

To be sure, some of Talia's appearances are more offensive than others, but the point is that she, like Fah Lo Suee, is a character who is fundamentally shaped by Orientalism and ideas of white supremacy, which don't disappear even if one tinkers with the details (e.g., by making both Ra's and Talia white, as the Nolan movies did). That in turn has fundamentally shaped the way Talia is characterized with regard to her son, to whom Talia's racialized moral conflict has essentially been transferred.

#comics #batman #detective comics #neal adams #league of assassins #talia #talia al ghul #denny o'neil #bob brown #dick giordano #fu manchu #fah lo suee #ra's al ghul #sax rohmer #bruce wayne

[marvelousmrm]

X-Men #106 (Claremont & Mantlo/Brown & Cockrum, Aug 1977). A convoluted retcon — Xavier recalls an early training session for the new team in the Danger Room. Sedated, he accidentally projects evil versions of his original X-Men…

#marvel #marvel 616 #x men #scott summers #cyclops #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #warren worthington iii #angel #chris claremont #bill mantlo #bob brown #dave cockrum

[pookiestheone]

Bob Brown

#Vintage Men #Bob Brown

[the-spinner-rack]

Nat & Matt (by Bob Brown & Vince Colletta from Daredevil #122, 1975)

#daredevil #black widow #bob brown #vince colletta #kiss #valentines

[batmanonthecover]

Detective Comics #382 - December 1968 (DC Comics - USA)

Cover Art: Irv Novick

RIDDLE OF THE ROBIIN'ROBIN

Script:  Frank Robbins

Art:  Bob Brown (Pencils), Joe Giella (Inks)

Characters: Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; the Smokescreen Mob; the Blowtorch Mob

Batman story #1,255

#comics #dc comics #detective comics #batman #robin #irv novick #frank robbins #bob brown #joe giella #1968

[splooosh]

“Hate the unknown”

Bob Brown - Mike Esposito

#Scarlett Witch #Avengers #Bob Brown #mike esposito