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25. MILLIE vs. MOPSY  26. LOVERS' LANE vs. BOY MEETS GIRL  27. KEN SHANNON vs. CRIME PATROL  28. MY LOVE vs. SABRINA THE TEEN-AGE WITCH 
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25. Mopsy, like the spread of the skirt
26. Boy Meets Girl, love the wink
27. Crime Patrol
28. Sabrina
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25. Mopsy : I thought the boy on the smaller Millie cover had just received a ball to his ... but I see instead that his racket hand is probably concealing something else. Millie is oblivious. Which is why Mopsy wins. It's much more knowing.
26. Boy Meets Girl: These are your daughters! In Lover's Lane we don't see the other side of the bed where the bloke from the picture has just departed. Over in Boy meets Girl is the wink telling you what's going to happen later, or is she trying to pick up someone else? At that age! I'm scandalised! Boy meets
Girl wins because one of the sparkles makes it look as though a lady in the background is wearing a monocle.
27. Ken Shannon: It's all about vests. Shannon wears his, so he didn't catch a cold while he was on the run. Vestless man in Crime Patrol was picked up in a drug store trying to get cold remedy. Shannon was also helped by not looking a bit like his poster, but loses points by having his fingers wrap round the corner in view of the cops.
28. Sabrina: The art, jacket/shirt coordination, and angst on My Love is better. But it's a very mixed message. Sabrina is the funnier social commentary.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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25. MOPSY. Yep, Mopsy is more clued-in.
26. BOY MEETS GIRL. The wink wins it! This is no milquetoast miss.
27. CRIME PATROL. The desk sargeant looks so tickled.
28. The visual aspects of My Love are strong, but I think I know where that story is going. To no surprise SABRINA has quality visuals, but I definitely want to know how the story will play out. Sabrina takes it for the set-up.
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27. CRIME PATROL. The desk sargeant looks so tickled.
I was reading "great, I thought I'd never get to beat up a crook this shift." into it.
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They all look pretty happy. It's like, "look at this poor sop struggling like crazy"...
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1. TEEN TITANS vs. NEW TEEN TITANS 2. PONYTAIL vs. FRANKENSTEIN 3. DATE WITH DEBBI vs. CHILI 4. NORMALMAN vs. BATMAN & ROBIN ADVENTURES 5. BIG TOWN vs. ALL-AMERICAN MEN OF WAR 6. DARK WOLF vs. THE MASKED MAN 7. SILVERBLADE vs. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD 8. SUPERMAN vs. SUPERGIRL
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9. FLINCH vs. THE SPIRIT 10. SECRETS OF YOUNG BRIDES vs. TRUE SECRETS 11. THRILLER vs. WATCHMEN 12. THE BOYS vs. ALPHA FLIGHT 13. SMASH COMICS vs. SILVER STREAK COMICS 14. THE ESTABLISHMENT vs. NIGHT FORCE 15. FINDER vs. STRANGERS IN PARADISE 16. DAZZLER vs. DOCTOR STRANGE
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17. NEW TEEN TITANS (BAXTER) vs. OMEGA MEN 18. HUMPHREY vs. JOE PALOOKA 19. LEADING COMICS vs. SUPER FRIENDS 20. WONDER WOMAN vs. OUTSIDERS 21. ARCHIE'S MADHOUSE vs. BUNNY 22. ACTION GIRL vs. AKIKO 23. THE SPECTRE vs. CAPTAIN MARVEL 24. MYSTERIES OF UNEXPLORED WORLDS vs. UNUSUAL TALES
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I just remembered another reason I liked Batman Adventures for 4. Seeing the Dynamic Skeletons reminded me of a strip drawn by Steve Yeowell, where the central character ended up just like that.
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29. JUGHEAD vs. HENRY ALDRICH  30. REX MUNDI vs. PLANETARY  31. ZATANNA vs. RUSE  32. FLASH COMICS vs. FLASH ANNUAL 
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25 Jughead, he is making me envious
26 Planetary, how haunting
27 Zatanna, great artistry
28 Flash Annual, more vivid
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25. Henry Aldrich: He's doing a good job of Out Olsening Olsen. A funny cover, using just the right number of props to make it work to it's best. Jughead: dead at 30.
26. Planetary. I have quite a few issues of Rex Mundi. It had a really interesting alternate history going on. But it never really lived up to it's potential. It was using some Holy Blood/Holy Grail ideas in the backstory, and it never really recovered when that had another spell in the limelight bashing over it's more careful approach.
Although the Planetary cover is lots better with its haunbting mood, the story was a bit of a let down. That's when the book's cheap knock offs of the Fantastic Four are found to have destroyed life on a planet just to store their weapons. Yet all four are light weights in the latter part of the series.
27. Zatanna. The guys on Ruse have just been knocked out and strung up. Zatanna's the one with the dawning realisation that she's someone's marionette (cue Abba song).
28. Flash Comics: Modern Flash has more steroids pumped into his arm muscles than a dozen Russian Olympians (oooh, topical). Classic Flash is running on water, man. He's running on water. There's a real sense of danger from the cover and that Masthead is classic
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29. HENRY ALDRICH. A Quasars? concept fo sho, but the art takes it. Look at the colors!
30. PLANETARY. No, a million is a tragedy. A grayscale version of the Weeping Window. (Or the other way around, really.)
31. ZATANNA. What thoth said.
32. FLASH COMICS. It's not after the thing, it is the thing.
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33. AMAZING MYSTERY FUNNIES vs. WEIRD FANTASY  34. INHUMANS vs. TEEN TITANS GO!  35. BARBIE vs. BARBIE FASHION  36. DOLL MAN vs. THE ATOM 
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29. Amazing Mystery Funnies
30. Teen Titans Go
31. Barbie Fashion
32. Doll Man
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25. MILLIE vs. MOPSY 26. LOVERS' LANE vs. BOY MEETS GIRL 27. KEN SHANNON vs. CRIME PATROL 28. MY LOVE vs. SABRINA THE TEEN-AGE WITCH 25. JUGHEAD vs. HENRY ALDRICH 26. REX MUNDI vs. PLANETARY 27. ZATANNA vs. RUSE 28. FLASH COMICS vs. FLASH ANNUAL Looks like the numbering got duplicated.
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33. it could be... I spend like whole seconds wonder where I'd seen the guy on the left before. Then I read the caption. Amazing Mystery Funnies reminds me of the Hawkman/ Showcase cover with the Hawks fighting a serpentine Byth at a tunnel entrance. But it's Weird Fantasy that wins due to the detail in the planetary rings.
34. Teen Titans Go! Crumbs! Is that Aqualad? I thought it was Nightwing. At least the titans are doing something more than wiggling their eyebrows on their cover. They guy at the bottom of the Inhimans cover deserves nothing for being in a huff.
35. Barbie Fashion: Too many horror movies and Doctor Who versus the Autons means that I find both covers rather creepy.
Fortunately, all those romance covers have given me a keen insight into Comic Cover Fashion. And the clear winner is Barbie Fashion. Its timeless Eurocentric coordination provide both the tones for formal events with the flexibility and lightness for more fun Barbie evenings.
36. Atom: Alas, Doll Man is being tortured by American trained thugs from recent CIA years. That's just a variation on waterboarding. Back in the good old days, anything went in those sweaty backwaters where your tax dollars kept brutal dictators in power. Strapping your foe to a grenade certainly sends out a message to the rest of those rebels.
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Looks like the numbering got duplicated.
Numeration goof fixed.
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1. The old Teen Titans. So much to like here. The villain on a bike wearing a fireman's helmet, spiky brass knuckles and an iron cross! The look on Donna's face as Dick takes them over a cliff! Garth falling off a bicycle! Wally struggling to keep up! What's not to like?
2. Frankenstein. Because bacon and eggs.
3. Chili. Because it rhymes with Millie. Also, polka-dots hurt my eyes this early in the morning.
4. Normalman. Valentino doing Sim! Excellent (as were all the Normalman covers).
5. All-American Men Of War. Planes are old hat. Shooting at each other point-blank in a tram car, on the other hand....
6. Dark Wolf. So noir it almost hurts.
7. Silverblade. This one draws me in, makes me want to find out what's going on. My first impression of the B&B cover is "what is that big red thing?" Then I notice the eye slits and realize it's a middle ages KKK guy.
8. Superman. Even though there is more going in, Clark's cover seems less cluttered than cousin Kara's.
9. Flinch. At first I was drawn to the Spirit cover, but once I zoomed in to get a better look, the stuff going on in the background gave Flinch the edge. I wish there was a better way to enlarge these pics than waiting for photobucket to load, though.
10. Secrets of Young Brides. One picture really is worth far more than 45 words.
More later.
First comic books ever bought: A DC four-for-47-cents grab bag that included Adventure #331. The rest is history.
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I DECLATE CHILI THE WINNER OF EVRYTHING! THUS SPEAKETH MLLASH!!
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henry aldlrich and I are to be gay married
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No, make that Jay garick ND I he's super in love with me
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dang, doll MAN, QUIT IT YOU!!
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