Is it just me, or did Hitler and The Whizzer cameo on page 3?
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Bring On the Back-ups: "Battle Cry" by Starlin and Tanghal
Check it out, Groove-ophiles! The final chapter of Jim Starlin's OMAC revival from Warlord #39 (August 1980)! "Battle Cry" (with finishes/inks by Romeo Tanghal) is an all-out action epic with two full-page splashes of piled-up and piled-upon warriors.
Is it just me, or did Hitler and The Whizzer cameo on page 3?
Is it just me, or did Hitler and The Whizzer cameo on page 3?
lol, me thinks it is indeed the Whizzer and Hitler on page 3!
ReplyDeleteThe Starlin O.M.A.C. backup series was originally begun in KAMANDI 59 in 1978, as part of the "DC Explosion" that would give us all these great backup series, with an additional 8 pages per issue. Instead the DC Explosion became the "DC Implosion" with DC cancelling 17 titles immediately, and a number of stillborn planned new series that were shelved instead of beign released. All only saw print for a long time as a 2-volume series of low-grade xeroxes as CANCELLED COMICS CAVALCADE vol 1 and 2, created only to copyright the material that was inventoried.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of the O.M.A.C. stories, the story was eventually printed in 1980 in THE WARLORD 37-39. WARLORD 37 reprinting the O.M.A.C. story from KAMANDI 59, and the next 2 issues running the till-then unpublished parts 2 and 3 by Starlin.
My only regret with parts 2 and 3 is they were inked by Tanghal, which I think was a bad match of incompatible styles. I would have preferred Rubinstein who inked part 1, or maybe Wiacek, Giordano, Bob Smith, Terry Austin, McLaughlin, Milgrom, Marcos, or y'know, pretty much anyone else. Oh Well. I guess it was interesting to see the two in a one-time collaboration.