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Growing Up Goodness from the 70s & 80s - with Karen and Doug. http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com This is Doug, usually posting from the Chicago Southland - comics, pop culture, and various wonderings and wanderings.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · Sep 28

You were working as a waitress
In a cocktail bar when I met you

Portfolio plate by John Buscema

Conan, seated, enjoys the charms of a dancing girl

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 3h

But what about this?

Early last year, I found a Spanish version of Gene Colan’s Tomb of Dracula Artist’s Edition. I consulted with friends & we came to the conclusion that the original art would be unmarred; the translation would happen at another stage of production.

Nope. Still happy to have it.

La Tumba de Dracula AE cover. I bought this on AbeBooks for $70 shipped.

Two page spread before a complete issue; in this case, ToD 46. Pages are red/brown, like dried blood

First two pages of ToD 46, showing a mix of original English and overlayed Spanish lettering.

From the Gallery section - most pages and covers here are as they were originally created, with no translation.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 18h

This here’s a man of the people.

Former Cubs pitcher Lee Smith on why he always walked so slowly out of the bullpen when he was called - he heard the grounds crew got time and a half of the game stretched past 4:30 pm.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 16h

Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier is such a joy. It’s fresh each time I read it.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 13h

I couldn’t believe it when he went to the Cardinals.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 13h

Jumping the gun, aren’t you? It’s still October 7.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 13h

Kudos to the organist at Yankee Stadium for playing Vanilla Fudge’s cover of You Keep Me Hanging On. 🔥

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 14h

If memory serves, I had the Booberry eraser.

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 14h

Every day is a filled notebook for the historians, sociologists, and political scientists waiting to analyze this.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 20h

Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin covered the Cloak and Dagger Limited Series (1983).

They also interiored it, with writer Bill Mantlo.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 14h

Bingo!

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 14h

For the #TeamVeronica crowd. You can have her.

#TeamBetty wins that contest no matter the metrics, 10 out of 10 times.

Betty creates a new dress with her sewing machine and can’t wait to show Veronica. Veronica sees Betty coming, and intentionally squirts black ink all over the new dress.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 15h

Double whammy last week: a gal I went to high school with, and a student I had in the mid-90s.

The classmate? I had to ask her name, but then upon hearing it had no other recollection.

Student? When she told me her maiden name, it all flooded back to me. I could “see” her in my classroom.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 20h

Lex Luthor: The Animated Series

Model sheet from Challenge of the Superfriends (1978).

Production drawing from Superman: The Animated Series, “Stolen Memories” (1996).

Luthor walking toward the camera, with Superman a few strides behind.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 16h

Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier is such a joy. It’s fresh each time I read it.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 22h

John Wesley Shipp - Flash of Two Worlds

As Jay Garrick in the recent DC TV universe

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Dave Gibbons - pinnin’ up on the Last Son of Krypton, at the doorstep of his Fortress of Solitude.

Superman standing on the ice, the big yellow key to the Fortress just behind him.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 18h

This here’s a man of the people.

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Jackson Guice and Larry Mahlstedt - splashin’ in Flash 4 (1987).

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

Keith Pollard and Terry Austin covered Defenders 65 (1978).

The Red Guardian fights a slime creature, while floating heads of Nighthawk, Valkyrie, Hellcat, and Hulk look on.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed!

Best one was when I went to our family doctor to ask about a… rash… and he entered the examining room with a note-taker: a former student (wait!! A female student!) of mine.

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 19h

Doing a pharmacy pickup, staffed by a former student…

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his hands on his head .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with his hands on his head .

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 20h

Rick Leonardi and Terry Austin covered the Cloak and Dagger Limited Series (1983).

They also interiored it, with writer Bill Mantlo.

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 20h

Lex Luthor: The Animated Series

Model sheet from Challenge of the Superfriends (1978).

Production drawing from Superman: The Animated Series, “Stolen Memories” (1996).

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 22h

John Wesley Shipp - Flash of Two Worlds

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 22h

Original chicken and medium fries - $5. 🤴🏼

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