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bringbackwendellvaughn · 7 months

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#Justice League #Flash (Wally West)#Martian Manhunter #Donna Troy #Wonder Woman #Power Girl #Superman #John Ostrander #Arthur Adams #Armageddon 2001 #team shots

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inhousearchive · 2 months

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House-ad for Wasteland (1987), an anthology-style horror comic written by Del Close and John Ostrander.

#house ad #wasteland #del close #john ostrander #dc #dc comics #comicsedit #dcedit #comicedit #80s

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curtvilescomic · 5 months

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Legends

#comics #Legends #John Byrne #John Ostrander #Len Wein #Karl Kesel

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dcbinges · 6 months

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Suicide Squad #13 (1988) by John Ostrander & Luke McDonnell

#booster gold #michael carter #javelin #suicide squad #john ostrander #luke mcdonnell #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #comics

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evilhorse · 5 months

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Go back to sleep, kid.

(Manhunter #9)

#manhunter #mark shaw #the flash #wally west #go back to sleep #nope #uh oh #Cuba #invasion!#crossover #team up #Kim Yale #john ostrander #frank springer #pablo marcos #dc comics #comics #80s comics

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cantsayidont · 5 months

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January 1996. Before it became a Harley Quinn thing, BIRDS OF PREY was Barbara Gordon's (barely) crypto-lesbian crimefighting polycule. After Babs was shot by the Joker and summarily discarded by the Bat-books, John Ostrander and Kim Yale reinvented the former Batgirl as Oracle, a computer hacker and information broker who for a while was Amanda Waller's second-in-command of the Suicide Squad. In 1995, Oracle became the costar of the leading homoerotic team-up franchise of the '90s, recruiting Black Canary and later various other superheroines for what was nominally a CHARLIE'S ANGELS type adventure series with Oracle as Charlie.

What's memorable about this initial special, aside from its horny Gary Frank art, is that Black Canary doesn't know who Oracle is except by reputation and as an electronically altered voice on the telephone. However, Dinah is going through a rough patch, so when she comes home to find an answering machine message from Oracle saying she has a dangerous job for her and has already bought her a first-class ticket to Gotham, Dinah decides she has nothing better to do but play out the string. Oracle has gotten her a fancy rental car and a swanky hotel suite, in which there's a throat mic and tiny transceiver that will let Oracle communicate with her (and surveil her, although Oracle already knows everything about her, from her recent breakup with Oliver Queen to her poor credit rating) 24/7:

So, Babs not only wants Dinah to do some legwork for her, but also dresses her up like a doll, watches her every move, and is a voice in her ear basically at all times. (The early BIRDS OF PREY stories often have scenes of Babs talking to Dinah from the bath or the hot tub, because that's the kind of series this is.) Rather than being creeped out by this weird stalker/control-freak behavior from an anonymous woman, Dinah says, "Sure, why not?" and decides to just go with it, even after Oracle starts bringing other women into the mix. (It seems pretty clear that when Dinah asks, "Are these your personal taste?" she's asking whether they're what Oracle wants to see Dinah in — which Dinah evidently doesn't have a problem with — rather than whether they're something Oracle herself would wear.)

This being a '90s comic book by right-wing homophobe Chuck Dixon, there are of course various no-homo evasions throughout, but I'm not sure how one is supposed to not read this as kind of gay. The second BIRDS OF PREY story, which teams Black Canary and Lois Lane (and is written not by Dixon, but by Jordan B. Gorfinkel, the editor of the initial special), has this little aside:

There's no way anyone writing something like this in 1995–96 wouldn't know how people were likely to read this. (Dinah does know that Oracle is a woman even in their first adventure, and while Babs typically distorts her voice when communicating with people as Oracle, it doesn't appear that she does that with Dinah.)

After a while, Dinah does become curious to know more about Oracle, but Babs refuses to let Dinah actually see her. Eventually, though, circumstances force the issue in BIRDS OF PREY #21:

Dixon's script for this issue contained the following note for artist Butch Guice:

The more drama you can squeeze from this the better. We’re going for The Pieta as opposed to anything that HINTS of the sexual. This scene is apparently RIPE for misinterpretation (or OVERinterpretation.) by some of our readers.

Mission accomplished — no lesbian implications here, boss!

So, as you can see, they have the "be gay" part down pretty well, and you may also be assured that Babs spends this series doing crimes. As a hacker, she of course commits computer fraud on the regular, breaking into restricted and classified systems (she's hacked the military GPS constellation so she can track Dinah, for instance), but she also routinely steals as much money as she needs to finance whatever equipment she needs and keep her girlfriend partner and their ever-growing list of attractive female cohorts in hot cars and fancy underwear. Vigilante superheroes generally take a pretty selective attitude about the law, but the number of felonies this once rather prim policeman's daughter and one-time congresswoman perpetrates honestly puts Catwoman to shame. The stories are frustratingly stupid and the art only gets hornier as it goes on, but what a good series this could have been if it were actually good.

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haveyoureadthiscomic-poll · 4 months

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#spectre #the spectre #jim corrigan #john ostrander #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

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jewishcissiekj · 3 months

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Star Wars: Republic #71 - written by John Ostrander with art by Jan Duursema

#daily asajj thought of the day #stole the other plot away you are going to have to read the issue if you want to know it #this might be my fav non-haden blackman legends asajj comic issue #sw #star wars #asajj ventress #ventress #star wars comics #anakin skywalker #star wars republic #john ostrander #jan duursema #star wars legends #star wars eu #how anakin got his scar in legends btw:)#i don't think of their relationship as a sibling relationship #but i feel like they should get to beat each other up every once in a while like siblings

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comfortfoodcontent · 3 months

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1998 Martian Manhunter DC Comics House Ad

#j'onn j'onzz #martian manhunter #1998 #90s #1990s #dc #dc comics #john ostrander #tom mandrake #dc comics house ad #house ads #comic ads #comic house ads #print ads

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redbread-design · 12 days

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If Rocksteady can introduce queer Rick Flag in the game, can we PLEASE talk about Bronze Tiger?? 🤨

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#suicide squad #ssktjl #rick flag #bronze tiger #dc comics #ben turner #john ostrander #gay #lgbtqia #ship #queer

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balu8 · 6 months

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Wonder Woman

Legends #6

by John Ostrander (plot); Len Wein (script); John Byrne (P.); Karl Kesel (pp. 1-20)/ Dennis Janke (pp. 21-30-I,); Carl Gafford (C.) and Steven Haynie (L.)

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#dc comics #legends #john byrne #len wein #john ostrander #comic book

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bringbackwendellvaughn · 1 year

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#Suicide Squad #Barbara Gordon #Amanda Waller #Thinker #Bronze Tiger #Captain Boomerang #Count Vertigo #Deadshot #Nightshade #Poison Ivy #Atom #John Ostrander #Geof Isherwood #team shots

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comfortfoodcomics · 29 days

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Detective Comics Vol. 1 #622-624:

622's copy text tells all: "There's a new Batman in Gotham City. His name is Simon Petrarch, he has supernatural powers, and he believes in killing his enemies. What happened to Bruce Wayne? Where is the Batman we all know?" John Ostrander gives us a comic within a comic as a Gotham citizen makes his own comic about Batman. Ostrander didn't get many chances to write Bats, but when he did he killed it. The only Mike McKone art I've ever enjoyed. Highlighted by Dick Sprang doing INSANE covers in 1990 that also serve as covers for the fake comic.