We Interrupt This JLI Content for Some JLI Content: SECRET ORIGINS #33 (JLI 29)
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I planned for the next part in this series to be the Max Lord spotlight in Justice League International #24, but that’ll come early next week.
Warning for some discussion of age-inappropriate relationships and creators with tainted histories.
DC’s Secret Origins series did all JLI-themed origin stories for three issues, after doing the Justice Society and the original Justice League of America. Each issue had three stories: this one includes Mister Miracle and Oberon, Fire/Green Flame, and Ice/Icemaiden. No, Fire shouldn't be able to fly on that cover; just go with it. YES, ice-bridges are more Iceman's thing, JUST GO WITH IT.
Mister Miracle and Oberon’s story is “Escapism” by Mike Carlin and Don Heck. It’s a split-page compare-and-contrast exercise.
( You see, Mister Miracle is...TALL, and… )
The First Appearance of Marvel's The Hulk...
Nov. 25th, 2025 09:48 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily...but not that one. No, this is a backup story from Strange Tales #75, published in 1960, two years before the much more successful Hulk.
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And the next original New Mutant to get their own series is...
Nov. 25th, 2025 10:58 pmicon_uk posting in scans_dailyWell, Illyana has had a couple, Sam and Berto were apparently due to get one in the Krakoan era but it got shelved, and Doug has had his own "upgrade" but now it's someone who has definitely earned one.
Yup, Dani Moonstar is getting a solo miniseries!
( Better image and more info under the cut )
Yup, Dani Moonstar is getting a solo miniseries!
( Better image and more info under the cut )
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Nov. 25th, 2025 10:57 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
The US presented a new "peace plan" for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it appears that things got confused somewhere along the way and they presented Vladimir Putin's Christmas wish list instead.
Trump and New York Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani had a bizarrely cordial meeting last week, which perhaps shows that flattery DOES get you everything.
Six US Lawmakers who are also veterans of various military and security services released a video reminding folks that "Following orders which are unlawful is a very bad idea", which apparently was seen as such a controversial move that at least one of the six is now being investigated by the Pentagon. Presumably for "Remembering the lessons of the Nuremberg trials" or something.
The website-formerly-known-as-Twitter added a new feature last week, which allowed you to see what country an account was created in, and hilarity ensued as any number of pro-Trump accounts claiming to be proudly American turned out to be not remotely American at all. The new feature has now apparently been turned off.... the more paranoid among us might wonder why.
And the UK has an exciting (there might be other, better, words to describe it) Budget to look forward to tomorrow.
Also to note the passing of reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, at 81.
To those working retail on Black Friday, may your shoes be comfortable, may your breaks be enforced and may your customers be as mellow as possible.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
The US presented a new "peace plan" for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it appears that things got confused somewhere along the way and they presented Vladimir Putin's Christmas wish list instead.
Trump and New York Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani had a bizarrely cordial meeting last week, which perhaps shows that flattery DOES get you everything.
Six US Lawmakers who are also veterans of various military and security services released a video reminding folks that "Following orders which are unlawful is a very bad idea", which apparently was seen as such a controversial move that at least one of the six is now being investigated by the Pentagon. Presumably for "Remembering the lessons of the Nuremberg trials" or something.
The website-formerly-known-as-Twitter added a new feature last week, which allowed you to see what country an account was created in, and hilarity ensued as any number of pro-Trump accounts claiming to be proudly American turned out to be not remotely American at all. The new feature has now apparently been turned off.... the more paranoid among us might wonder why.
And the UK has an exciting (there might be other, better, words to describe it) Budget to look forward to tomorrow.
Also to note the passing of reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, at 81.
To those working retail on Black Friday, may your shoes be comfortable, may your breaks be enforced and may your customers be as mellow as possible.
Power Man - Timeless #4
Nov. 24th, 2025 02:32 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily
Power Man is a future version of Luke Cage who's also the Sentry and the Hulk. He's also Iron Fist, though you'd think that wouldn't matter much compared to the other two.
Last issue: punching. Apocalypse was there. This is the conclusion.
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Nightwing #132 features Olivia Pearce's face.
Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:09 amthanekos posting in scans_dailyThis year's annual'd shown her mind a bit, gone into her serving the Zanni and his need to make the world a circus.
She's been the head of Spheric Solutions, the super-weapons company militarizing Blüdhaven's police - legitimacy that's not looking so much to police commissioner Maggie Sawyer.
Sawyer and Nightwing knew her tie to recent disappearances of children. Nightwing went after Pearce for that - and for what a scheme of her brain'd done to Bryce Moran in issue #131.
( She met him. )
She's been the head of Spheric Solutions, the super-weapons company militarizing Blüdhaven's police - legitimacy that's not looking so much to police commissioner Maggie Sawyer.
Sawyer and Nightwing knew her tie to recent disappearances of children. Nightwing went after Pearce for that - and for what a scheme of her brain'd done to Bryce Moran in issue #131.
( She met him. )
Max, Out: INVASION #3 (JLI 28)
Nov. 23rd, 2025 07:28 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
(Running this early because I might have some laptop issues imminent.)
The 80-page Invasion #3 has such a misleading cover that I wonder if it reflected an earlier, discarded version of the plot. AAR, the actual plot (by Keith Giffen) has enough impact on the Justice League that it deserves its own section here. Finished art (over Giffen layouts) by Bart Sears, who had a long future with this League ahead of him. Script by Bill Mantlo, whose work on the series was his only DC Comics job ever.
The war is over, but like Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese holdout of World War II, one Dominator geneticist refuses to give up the fight.
( Not that one should encourage too many comparisons between the Japanese and the yellow-skinned Dominators, who attach great importance to a red circle, are known as planners, have a pluralistic society, attacked the Southeast Indies…uh, but they also have castes and forehead dots, like Indians…Fu Manchu fingernails…you know, I’m starting to regret that I brought this up… )
Power Man - Timeless #3
Nov. 21st, 2025 06:40 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily
Power Man is a future version of Luke Cage who is also the Sentry, and also Iron Fist, and also the Hulk. He's also a time traveler. This is all canon for the main Marvel universe.
Last issue, Power Man fought Aeon the Knife and the planet Mercury turned out to be a giant brain in a shell.
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