Following a four-issue miniseries, Phantom Stranger landed in the pages of Action Comics Weekly as a regular, rotating feature. The Stranger has always attracted top tier artistic talent (Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Jim Aparo, Mike Mignola, to name a few), and the trend continued in his ACW strip, including two tales drawn by probably the top talent of the day, the amazing Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.… Read the rest
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When you’ve written about a thousand and a half of these things over 45 years, only a relative handful are likely to stand out in your memory. One of the standouts for me was the time I spent writing the Phantom Stranger, the supernatural hero created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino that first appeared in DC Comics’ The Phantom Stranger #1 (August-September 1952).… Read the rest
Talk about scoring a hit! “Congratulations, Mr. Bates–It’s a Warlock!” was a short story I wrote that was inspired by the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer, that appeared in House of Mystery #294 (July 1981). The hit came in editor Karen Berger’s assignment of the art to a pair of legendary artists, George Tuska and Tony De Zuniga.… Read the rest
From the script that made its penciller, comic book legend Don Heck call me a “Son of a bitch!”… “Fire of the Gods!” from Weird War Tales #75 (May 1979). The story was inked by John Celardo, colored by the wonderful Bob LeRose, lettered by Albert DeGuzman, and edited by Paul Levitz.… Read the rest
Last time on PaulKupperberg.com…this! Now, Part 2–“The Choice!” from Green Lantern #153 (June 1982). This Tale of the Green Lantern Corps was pencilled by Carmine Infantino, inked by Frank Chiaramonte, lettered by Adam Kubert, colored by Anthony Tollin, and blue-pencilled by Dave Manak.… Read the rest
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Who was Earth’s first Green Lantern? I think there have probably been about half a dozen stories about characters claiming that honor. Here’s mine, a (Pre-Crisis) tale of the Old West from Green Lantern #149 (February 1982), with art by the great Don Newton, inked by his (to my mind) best inker (other than Don himself), Dan Adkins.… Read the rest
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Back in the van dyke and Dollar Comics days of Green Arrow, from World’s Finest #257 (June/July 1979), “Time Keeps on Killing” featuring the timely menace of the Clock King as well as the art of Jose Delbo and Frank McLaughlin, plus coloring by Jerry Serpe and lettering by Shelly Lefferman.… Read the rest
From Detective Comics #504 (July 1981), another “Tales of Gotham City”/Commissioner Gordon back-up story, “A Day in the Life of a Cop,” with art by Jose Delbo and Joe Giella.
I’d later do a close to two year run as the writer of Superboy with Kurt Schaffenberger, but I believe this was the first time the legendary artist of Captain Marvel and Lois Lane ever drew one of my scripts. From Detective Comics #485 (August-September 1979), a Hudson Collage-era Robin the Boy Wonder in “The Case of the Cavorting Corpse!”… Read the rest
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