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The Batman from the masterpiece book and figure set. Found (pre flickr)at the Modesto Barnes & Noble on clearance for Fifteen dollars. The mego-esque Batman figure is 8 inches and designed by Alex Ross.
I have a confession to make. My car is actually missing one of the clear plastic headlight covers. It is only by camera trickery that this model looks like it has both covers in these pictures.
Yeah, so it's a bit daft. 12 year old orphand says "Shazam!" and turns into a grown up who can fly and throw tanks around like balsa wood.
But I bet you would of loved to do that when you were a kid, right?
Cap is outdated, sure, but it works in his favour. It's great to have a reminder of the times when comics were so innocent and about fun and ludicrously positive, squeaky clean role models. To that degree, Marvel is probably more Apple pie than Superman, but the fact that his powers come from magic always seemed to give him a myserious and ever-so edgy quality that I liked. He has no weakness in the face of magic, unlike Superman, and a fresher, bouyant perspective on the world.
Yeah, so maybe he's annoying and just a rival comic comapany's rip off of the greatest comic icon ever, but he has enough originality and fun to make him just as compelling, even now, 67 years on.
Altogether now...
SHAZAM!
By Jean-Claude Forest. Published by Eric Losfeld. Hardcover, 60 pages. 2nd print. In the third comic of this page, the very first appearance of Barbarella.
Rollout at Langley Airport of Sikorsky S-76B #76-0455? Small group of people were around the helicopter.
Strobist: 1 SB-600 front-left, snooted, -3exp, illuminating backdrop
1 SB-600 right side, -3exp, amber gel,bounced off white reflector
The "Bat Man" swiftly picks up the paper that the murderer stole from Steven Crane's safe...
Strobist: 1 SB-600 front-left, snooted, +/-0exp, illuminating backdrop
1 SB-600 right side, -3exp, amber gel, difusser
1 SB-600 front-low, -3exp, diffuser
Guri No.73
Published in Brazil 1943
Easily one of the rarest International Editions in the genre world-wide.