Hobbergosher

Yourself, but as a cartoon

Tales of Suspense cover - comic text: THE MENACE FROM THE MURKY DEPTHS!

When I take a bath

Me on day three of the shuttle trip

Picard and Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation sitting in front of a glowing screen

"it's called video baseball and you will never in your life beat me at it"

1 - Sub-Mariner approaching a group of people thinking "Before resorting to force, I shall adopt the methods of the surface dwellers! I shall press my claim LEGALLY!" from Daredevil #7 (1965)

2 - Sub-Mariner smashing open the door to Matt Murdock's (Daredevil) law office saying "I wish to engage a lawyer! Have I come to the correct place?" from Daredevil #7 (1965)

3 - Sub-Mariner smashing the handcuffs that have been placed on him, saying "I shall accompany you to your court of law -- but NEVER in chains!" from Daredevil #7 (1965)

4 - Matt Murdock with Sub-Mariner in court, saying to the judge "Your honor, before this trial begins, my client wishes to file a counter-charge against the entire human race!" from Daredevil #7 (1965)

The Sub-Mariner goes to court
(Daredevil #7 - 1965)

Mondays, man

An old woman is pulling a gun from a drawer and saying "I expect NOBODY!" Tales of Suspense V1959 #63 (1965)

Me literally anytime someone knocks on our apartment door.

Sub-Mariner pin-up from Fantastic Four V1961 #33 (1961)

Sub-Mariner forgiving Lady Dorma for betrayal - "I, above all others, am aware of the strange things one may do -- in the name of love!" Fantastic Four V1961 #33 (1961)

Sub-Mariner bathing in the rain - "Rain to soothe the wounded soul...To cleanse the air I now must breathe!" Not 100% what issue this is.

Sub-Mariner defying Magneto - "I am the Sub-Mariner! I ally myself with NO ONE who speaks to a female as you do!!" The X-Men V1963 #6 (1964)

This is and will always be a Sub-Mariner stan account

Journey into Mystery V1952 #112 (1965) - Thor soars into a crowd of people saying "I could not help overhearing the topic you were discussing!"

when I hear someone talking about Star Trek

Post your least favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

Comics of November, 1963: Avengers 002 Fantastic Four 020 Journey into Mystery 098 Tales of Suspense 047 X-Men 002 Amazing Spider-Man 006 Tales to Astonish 049 Sgt. Fury 004 Batman Annual 06 Detective Comics 321

In my ongoing attempt to ignore the world I'm now looking at comics from the month of November, 1963.

Batman #165 (Aug, 1964) - Text reads "THE MAN WHO QUIT THE HUMAN RACE!"

me irl

Strange Tales #46 (May 1956) - cover A man bathed in light holding his arms up in shock. Text reads "WHY DID EVERYONE SAY... 'YOU MUST NOT LOOK!'"

Good morning

(Strange Tales #46 (May 1956))

Batman Annual #6 (Nov 1963) - An old white haired man in a suit lights a cigar

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Cover of Strange Tales #113 (Oct 1963), A man in a suit with a hat behind some bushes. The text reads "Even the flaming HUMAN TORCH is helpless before the super-natural power of the PLANTMAN!"

Plantman's crime spree begins 1. A weird looking guy with slicked back hair thinks "I hereby dub myself...PLANTMAN! Now to avenge myself on the one who fired me!" Narrative: "An hour later at the jewelry store where Doris' father is employed as manager..." 2. Plantman, while shooting his plant ray through the door: "I'll just aim my ray at that plant near the door and..." 3. "Turn off the burgler alarm! That's an order! ...Do you hear? An order from plantman!"

Plantman's big attack against The Human Torch: He makes some acorns fall on him

The Human Torch roasting the plants, the vines surround plantman and break his special magic shears.

Lastly for this month, in Strange Tales #113, Sam the gardener gets struck by lightning and discovers that he can control plants with his special gardening shears and becomes THE PLANTMAN and tries to do some robbing about it. The Human Torch roasts his plants until they get sick of Plantman.

Ant-Man and The Wasp fill plastic bags with liquid cement and set them on the table.

The bags of liquid cement erupt on porcupine man and he's defeated I guess? Huh.

Ant-Man and The Wasp defeat The Porcupine Man by filling up bags with liquid cement and setting them up on a table and then spraying him with them.

I am decidedly not a fan of Ant-Man.

Alex Gentry, a scientist, surrounded by machinery, saying to himself: "Yes, the PORCUPINE is nature's perfect fighting machine for attack or defense... A creature that wears its weapons, and then shoots them at his enemy! So simple, so direct... So foolproof!"

Four panel origin of Alex Gentry the scientist putting on his porcupine suit. 1. "Using the porcupine as a model, I think my combat suit is the ultimate in weaponry! Every soldier wearing it will become a one-man regiment!" 2. "I personally shall make the final test... but without loading the quill-like tubes!" 3. "And I mustn't forget the gas mask so that the wearer will not be affected by fumes from the gas tubes!" 4. "Yes, each button controls a special group of tubes! Once the quills are loaded... some with gas, some with stun-pellets, ammonia, liquid fire, detector mine tubes and all the rest... The man who wears this suit could defeat ANY foe!"

In Tales to Astonish #048 (Oct, 1963), Alex Gentry gets the brilliant idea to turn himself into a ...porcupine

Detective Comics #320 Four Panels 1. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson approaching a crashed space ship 2. Bruce messing with the "strange robot pilot", Dick looking at the control panel - "The instruments... they don't seem familiar at all, Bruce... This is an ALIEN capsule!" 3. A green orb is surrounded by 'CLICK' sounds, Dick: "Bruce! What's that noise..." 4. The orb explodes with a KA-ZAAP

Dick and Bruce, both green: Dick: "B-Bruce! Your face... hair... they're..." Bruce: "Green! We've... Both turned completely green, Dick!"

Batman and Robin as mummies. Robin: "Well, Batman, I think we've convinced everybody that we're wearing these mummy costumes to shield our supposed radiation!" Batman: "When actually we're shielding our green complexions and thus safe-guarding our real-life identities! Our plan is working..."

Mummy-Batman leaping towards two gangsters. Gangster 1: "YIIII! It's the Mummy Batman!" Gangster 2: "A-And Robin is on the cat-walk behind us... We're trapped!"

Detective Comics #320 - Batman and Robin fuck around with a crashed alien ship and turn themselves green. So the obvious solution is to fight crime as mummies for awhile.

Data smoking a pipe

Reed: "...remember when he mentioned that an ancestor of his had invented the first time machine? It could have been Doctor Doom!" Thing: "Maybe he was Doctor Doom himself! Maybe he found a way to live for centuries... It might have been the Doctor Doom of the future!"

An interesting tidbit, Reed and The Thing contemplate whether RAMA-TUT is actually Doctor Doom from the future.

Fantastic Four #019 (Oct 1963) - Cover - Rama Tut next to a pyramid lords over the Fantastic Four while shooting then with a gun that disables their powers

The Fantastic Four flying to Doctor Dooms abandoned castle to use his time machine

The Fantastic Four as prisoners of the RAMA-TUT

RAMA-TUT escapes by blasting off to another dimension in a rocket ship out of the Sphinx

Fantastic Four #019 (Oct 1963) - The FF use Doctor Doom's abandoned time machine to go back to ancient Egypt to try to recover a device that will restore Alicia's sight.

Iron Man had also just gone back to Ancient Egypt in August (Tales of Suspense #44)

Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Soldiers firing at Lava Man saying "THE LAVA MAN! FIRE!!" and "It's useless! Our shells are charred before they can reach him!" Lava Man is saying "HUMANS! This is my final warning! Evacuate the cities! Take to the sea! I claim all the dry surface of Earth for the LAVA PEOPLE!"

Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Thor swinging his hammer and leaping at Lava Man. Thor is saying "BACK, you demon from the nameless depths! The surface belongs to MANKIND, and THOR is their protector!!" Lava Man is responding: "Your words are as futile as your deeds, costumed one! The day of the humans is over! Do not prolong their agony!!"

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Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Two men in the city reading an open newspaper. The newspaper headlines: "MENACE FROM VOLCANO IDENTIFIED AS LAVA MAN!" and on the other page, "HAVOC WIDESPREAD; THOUSANDS FLEE!" One man says "Looks grim, doesn't it?" and the other is saying "LAVA MAN!?? Who is he? WHAT is he?"

Catching up on the news

Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) - cover - Thor wielding his hammer flying towards the Lava Man who stands atop a volcano with his arms raised.

Thor transforming

Figures Loki is behind this. Two panels of Loki remembering Lava Man and deciding he's going to resurrect him to mess with Thor. Oh, Loki.

Thor swinging his hammer, about to spin up Lava Man. Lava Man saying "No! It isn't possible! Nothing human could have escaped my lava trap!!" Thor responds: "This is no HUMAN you face, Lava Man! This is THOR, God of Thunder -- Son of ODIN, Lord of Asgard!"

In Journey into Mystery #97 (Oct 1963), Thor battles THE LAVA-MAN, who appears to be just a giant pink dude in purple shorts. Lava shorts. Thor spins him up and throws him back into a volcano.

Four panels of Doctor Doom blinding and almost smashing Spider-Man with a big hunk of metal.

Spider-Man never really gets the upper-hand on Doom before the Fantastic Four shows up.

Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) - cover - Doctor Doom taunting Spider-Man: "This is your FINISH, Spider-Man! If the FANTASTIC FOUR themselves could not stop me, what chance have you?". He's shooting his finger-laser while Spider-Man swings off a broken web above

Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) Jameson truly had it out for Spider-Man all the way from the very beginning. Shown here he's on TV saying "I am sponsoring this program to expose Spider-Man to the public as the menace he is!"

Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) Doctor Doom, working a machine, thinking "It should be child's play for me to persuade Spider-Man to join me against the Fantastic Four!" Panel below, Spider-Man showing up and asking Doctor Doom why he called him.

Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) The Fantastic Four showing up, Doctor Doom realizing he can't fight Spider-Man and them at the same time and bailing - Spider-Man hasn't yet realized that the FF has arrived.

Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963)
Doctor Doom tries to get Spider-Man to join him. After a little tussling, the Fantastic Four shows up and Doom bails.

Comics of October 1963 Detective Comics 320 Strange Tales 113 Tales of Suspense 046 Journey into Mystery 097 Fantastic Four 019 Amazing Spider-Man 005

Today I'm looking at October 1963. Spider-Man (#005) encounters Doctor Doom for the first time, Batman and Robin mummify themselves (Detective Comics #320), and the rest of the gang take on a handful of weirdo villains (Lava-Man, Rama-tut, The Porcupine, and one of my favorite weirdos: PLANTMAN)

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