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o obscurity and those comics aren t sitting in a back issue bin somewhere for 3 50 one possible lead is the character crispus allen he s listed on the cast of gotham on imdb allen first appeared in detective comics 742 which can be had for a few bucks now whether or not crispus allen s first appearance ends up being worth anything depends not just on the popularity of gotham but on whether or not allen is a major character or a bit player still the risk is fairly minimal any other money to made from gotham will involve some seriously long range speculation for example one gets the vibe from the gotham promo material that we re going to get more of a film noir gotham than a comic book gotham by which i mean i don t think we re going to see many superpowers so are there other non superpowered bat villains that might show up in a second or third season that have more affordable first appearances than two face or riddler again not much to see here a villain like hugo strange seems like he might be a good bet to show up on a show like gotham but strange first appeared in detective comics 36 vf 8 0 8 000 maybe calendar man probably you could get a good episode of tv out of him first appeared in detective comics 259 vf 8 0 265 two possibilities do present themselves and again we re talking total shot in the dark speculation here first carmine falcone first appeared in batman 404 the beginning of miller s year one storyline vf 8 0 16 my guess is that gotham will have to have an organized crime angle and carmine is a likely addition to the cast if that happens second victor zsasz first appearance batman shadow of the bat 1 available for an affordable price 9 2 nm 4 00 zsasz is a crazy serial killer type also a good fit for a dark crime show in sum for the time being i don t see much potential for a gotham series to affect the comic book collecting market though there may be a couple long shot books you could lays hands on for a decent price 1 comment casting the justice league in 1977 posted on june 2 2014 by copperchrome under dc movies tv i was recently reading an old issue of justice league of america 146 to be exact it was a double sized issue published in 1977 in which the league takes on the construct a giant robot who can communicate with and control other machines basically he s a poor man s ultron the drama in this issue revolves around whether or not red tornado who has apparently returned from the dead is being controlled by the construct or not all of that is fine and good but what i really want to talk about here is the letter s page on that page editor bob rozakis announced that 24 year old christopher reeve has been chosen to play superman in that much talked about movie chris a graduate of cornell university tested with 200 other actors for the part how s that for a bit of superhero history but wait it gets better in anticipation of the upcoming superman movie readers were asked to mail in their ideal cast for a hypothetical justice league movie just for fun rozakis announces the results in the letters column and they are hilarious i thought since we re all getting geared up for the justice league movie which apparently has been in production since 1977 i d share the cast that comic fans wanted to see in a justice league movie 40 years ago some of the fan picks were gimmes obvious choices or big time stars other choices are celebrities whose stars have faded considerably since the 70s a few you ve probably never heard of rozakis announced the winners as well as some of the runner ups i ve listed the most noteworthy and comical examples here wonder woman fans were apparently almost unanimous in their support of lynda carter as wonder woman no surprise here really in 1977 we re right in the heart of abc s classic wonder woman television series carter s wonder woman was and remains wildly popular the flash apparently fans wanted lee majors the six million dollar man for the flash majors also got votes to play superman green lantern and green arrow stunningly charles bronson was one of the other popular choices to play barry allen bronson as flash seems a bit like casting russell brand to play martian manhunter bronson was a crime fighting action star but i have no idea what would make people want to see him as a spandex clad speedster green arrow fans tabbed frank converse as the 70s oliver queen who is frank converse he was a tv actor who looked an awful lot like oliver queen his claim to fame was that he starred in an nbc drama series called movin on from 1974 1976 the show was about two truckers who drove around helping people and presumably delivering things another popular choice for the role was charlton heston which may seem odd at first but if you think about his performance in planet of the apes you can kind of see it one great irony of course is that green arrow is the jla s resident bleeding heart lefty and heston is well not that black canary farrah fawcett received almost unanimous support to play dinah lance or black canary fawcett s celebrity was sky high in the late 70s she was one of the stars of charlie s angels also the iconic red swimsuit poster came out in 1976 to this day it remains one of the most recognizable glamour shots of all time this seems like a pretty bang on choice to me green lantern not much to see here fans picked don galloway a supporting character on the long running nbc tv series ironside which starred raymond burr as a paraplegic detective one thing that s a bit odd is that fans were almost exclusively committed to tv actors for the justice league film curious perhaps it s because there just were no superhero movies prior to superman in 1977 though superheroes did appear on tv so maybe when fans thought about stars who would pack themselves into brightly coloured leotards they thought of tv actors more than film actors some fans did vote for guys like sylvester stallone and roger moore to take on roles but there are no votes for people like al pacino jack nicholson robert de niro or anne margaret olsson it really speaks to how far the superhero movie genre has come it s now expected that a comic book movie will feature blue chip talent it would surprise no one for example to hear that johnny depp would be playing dr strange in a couple years or that michelle williams would be cast as black canary aquaman another somewhat obscure choice for aquaman doug mcclure he played a cowboy in an nbc western series called the virginian and looked kind of like aquaman one of the runner ups was particularly strange olympic swimmer mark spitz spitz was basically the 1970s version of michael phelps maybe readers were taking a piss but i m not so sure i kind of think people thought spitz would be a great aquaman because he s such a good swimmer which is a bit like holding a casting call at sea world because you need someone who can communicate with whales hawkman atom one of my favourite fan suggestions from this jla letters page is that henry winkler should play either hawkman or the atom awesome hilarious i still want to see that happen ball s in your court zack snyder batman the overwhelming choice for batman was adam west a bit surprising given how campy we now think that old batman series was if a comic book fan living in the 1970s was somehow able to travel through time and see t he dark knight his or her head would probably have exploded at about the 11 minute mark another astonishing vote getter for the role of batman leonard frikkin nimoy superman though some fans were happy to have whoever would get cast in the superman film play the man of steel in the jla movie other suggestions included sylvester stallone and buckle up bruce jenner it s worth remembering that this poll was taken right after the 1976 olympics when jenner won the gold in the decathlon he was not always the skeletal patriarch of tv s most irritating family the most popular choice however was peter lupus who played willy armitage the muscle on mission impossible as with mark spitz and jenner for that matter this seems like a case of fans thinking it was necessary to choose the strongest and most muscular actor to play superman i guess because they assumed the actor would actually need to lift really heavy things over his head i wonder if this just goes to show how much we take special effects for granted these days i m pretty confident that with a little makeup and some good cgi sheldon cooper could be turned into a passable kal el not so in the 1970s still maybe fans were onto something with russo he did play a helluva superman in this tv spot for the united states air force waring watching this commercial might prompt you to immediately turn off your computer and enlist in the air force it s that persuasive also how did 1970s comic book readers completely miss the acting talent of chicago bulls star jerry sloan anyway i hope you enjoyed our little time travel adventure our retro roll call have a good one copper and chrome leave a comment upon further reflection amazing spider man 2 breaks my heart posted on may 30 2014 by copperchrome under comic books marvel movies spider man superheroes here be spoilers and foul language fair warning i know this is about a month out of date i had to reflect on this for a while by now everyone who wanted to see asm2 has seen it these are my thoughts i welcome yours i hate this franchise i fucking hate it but before i really get into this review let me be clear about the exact nature of my hatred sony s the amazing spider man movie franchise inspires in me the kind of hatred that can only be inspired by something you love have you ever been cheated on the pain and the anger generated by that betrayal is only possible because you ve been wounded by the very person you love the most the very person you put your faith and trust in is the one who stabs you in the back so if you re with me i am elin nordegren and webb s amazing spider man is my tiger woods i want to chase it down the street with a fucking 9 iron i want to smash its stupid smirking face in this movie gets lots of things right and then gets so many others so very very wrong and the things it gets wrong are stupid stupid things let s start with the planes late in the film electro drains all the power out of new york city which right there is stupid just juvenile uncreative stupid action the loss of power means that the airport loses contact with two passenger planes and they end up on a collision course with each other spider man then turns the power back on and the planes are saved it occurred to me about halfway through the airplane episode that this was useless action filler stupid stupid fuck stupid fuck there were no recognizable characters on the planes they were random collateral damage a trumped up unimaginative action movie catastrophe to which there is no emotional connection no spectacular pay off no sigh of relief when the planes are saved because who the fuck cares about these stupid planes spider man and electro are fighting a climactic battle at a power plant cliché and stupid but whatever and we keep cutting away to see these pointless planes compare that scene to the ferryboat scene at the end of the dark knight the joker orchestrates a prisoner s dilemma that has everything to do with the plot of the movie and its commentary on the darkness and resiliency of the human spirit it s an unforgettable piece of film amazing spider man 2 answers that with two planes that maybe are going to crash but don t because woosh woah cool there are so many interconnected webs of rage inducing awfulness in this film that i just need to break it down by character electro jamie fox is fine good even except that his electro is the worst written super villain since schwarzenegger s mr freeze he s all special effects and no soul the motivation for this character is all over the place totally incomprehensible he s got a stalker crush on spider man he wants to be seen by people that gets twisted instantly into a desire to kill spider man because electro decides the wall crawler is selfish also oscorp stole his schematics for a power plant so he wants revenge i guess and to make everyone live in a world without a spider man basically electro s origin story is yadda yadda yadda hey look the sinister six oh and also electro is dr manhattan now one other thing if a soulless cutthroat exploitative company like oscorp discovered one of its employees was smart enough to design a high tech power plant that solved the world s energy problems probably they would exploit that person further as opposed to completely ignoring him and treating him like a glorified maintenance man probably probably they would you know see if he had any other ideas that could make the company more money they probably wouldn t just let b j novak treat him like a bitch fuck okay now gwen emma stone is a really great gwen stacy she and andrew garfield have obvious chemistry on screen for a good chunk of this movie i thought webb was doing a good job setting up gwen s inevitable death then the final 30 minutes of the movie happened maybe i was living in a cave but i didn t realize that this was going to be gwen s swan song i thought she was sticking around for another film i kept thinking that all the way through this film mostly because i thought there was no way that the green goblin who looks ridiculous by the way is going to kill gwen stacy five minutes after he first acquires his powers but yep that s what happens in a fucking clock tower a clock tower symbolism and how does gwen end up in harm s way she follows spider man to the super high tech power plant and why does she follow him because she s seen the schematics and knows how to fix the damage electro has done single handedly she s in high school but y know she s the valedictorian so she can pretty much fix a power plant by herself look i recognize that webb wants to disrupt the whole damsel in distress narrative he wants to make gwen capable and heroic in her own right great i m down with that but make her heroism plausible no one can fix an exploded power plant by herself stupid have her invent some doo hickey that short circuits electro s powers or something in comic books as in superhero movies the willing suspension of disbelief only operates in particular zones can people come back from the dead yep do people get superpowers when struck by lightning totally believable can a really smart high school kid pilot a submarine because her grandfather was in the navy and told her all kinds of underwater seafaring stories no lastly let me talk about the whole secret origin sub plot webb has spent a lot of time on this it s an interesting question whatever happened to peter parker s parents but the revelation that peter s dad was an oscorp scientist adds absolutely nothing to the plot or the mythology of spider man it s pointless look part of the reason this movie makes me so angry is because there ar...