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Oh that's right!! I actualyl saw the main "batman as starman" panel at DC Comics when I had a tour of it..i had a picture until i lost it >_<. You don't happen to have those books or know what ish do you Nightcrawler?

I don't have DC #247 unfortunately. I did look for it a time or two at the Cons.

Here are some panels I've found...




And here's a couple of pages from DC #286, which I do own...

I wanted to point out that this subject is also discussed here .

I just finished reading my Starman Omnibus. It was great revisiting the Jack Knight version in such a handsome, inexpensive package. This edition features issues 0-16. Cover price is $49.99. In-Stock Trades (thanks to Pov for introducing me to IST!) sells it currently at $31.49. When I got it from them, it was only about $27!

This volume contains no Legion connection yet, but it has masterful storytelling from James Robinson! This title (all 80 issues) is one of the classic runs of any comic ever!!!

Nice gif of Thom.

And reading that page of Batman as Starman, the bottom left panel with Robin holding the Batman costume gave me a Wertham moment. Robin: "Please wear the costume for me!"

my only bit to add was that towards the end of the Robinson run on Starman in the early 00s, Jack again meets Thom, who hints that the timeline is not as carved in stone. Maybe Robinson had a heads-up that Threeboot was coming.

Actually, I was thinknig the other day about another Starman/Star Boy connection (not the yellow-purple Will Payton one though). In the late 70s/early 80s, DC used to run its upcoming attractions page under the faux-newspaper format "the Daily Planet." Fred Hembeck did short comic strips at the bottom of those pages. One of those featured Ted Knight, Mikaal Tomas and Prince Gavin all telling Thom that they werem't his father.

Other great Hembeck gags: Dinah and Ollie stuck in traffic. Suddenly she smooches him - she was following traffic signs: "Turn On Green Arrow."

There needs to be a collection of those Hembecks, I tell ya.

Here PG this will really blow your mind.

It was latter revealled in the 90's Starman series that the Starman you are talking about was not even who he thought he was. He was really the Prince Gayven version all along who absorbed all of Will Paytons memories when Will was killed in the blast that everyone thought gave him his powers. Prince Gayven was thought to have been killed in the first Crisis but had been instead turned into energy and became the blast of energy that killed Will Payton in the first place. When the "Will Payton" version was thought killed on Earth he actully ended up back on Prince Gayvens world still not knowing who he was until the Jack Knight Starman set him free.

Told you it would blow your mind.

My head is swirling and I don't think I'll be able to materialize for at least a week now. I wondered if the character was Thom when I bought them. They were only $1.00 each so I don't feel so bad.

If you ever want to read a great series though the 90's Jack Knight Starman was one of the best things DC has put out in a long time.

I like bearded Thom he's so dreammmmmmmmmmmmy...wait that was a pun i didnt mean to make oops.

Also zero hour thom was also a reincarnation of someone from the old west Matt O'Dare i believe.