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Paul Kupperberg on March 21st, 2020
Cover by HOWARD PORTER.

I’ve always liked this story, “Visions of Glory,” the framing sequence for the 80-page Justice League Quarterly #16 (September 1994), the “All Glory Issue” featuring four stories starring General Glory. General Glory was a star spangled parody of the straitlaced, upright Captain America created by the irrepressible Keith Giffen and J.M.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on March 17th, 2020

Glossary: Tandy Corporation was the parent corporation of Radio Shack.
Radio Shack was a chain of stores that sold electronics.
TRS-80 (i.e. Tandy/Radio Shack 80 Micro Computer System), a desktop computer launched in 1977, running TRSDOS, with 48KB memory.

I wrote this Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic, a Radio Shack custom comic giveaway, in 1985 for Archie Comics.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on December 11th, 2019

Here’s a little ditty from DC Super-Stars #14 (May-June 1977), a special “Secret Origins of Super-Villains” issue, to which I contributed “Let There Be…Dr. Light!” illustrated by the great Dick Ayers and Jack Abel.

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Paul Kupperberg on July 17th, 2010

And now, the thrill-packed conclusion to, “I Fought Groout, The Creature Who Came From the Cracks in the Earth!” (click on images to see them at a readable size) by myself, Rick Stasi, and Dick Ayers…

(c) DC Comics

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Paul Kupperberg on July 15th, 2010

In one of the myriad versions of the Justice League that DC Comics did during the 1990s, they introduced a World War II character named General Glory. General Glory was supposedly the comic book superhero that Green Lantern Guy Gardner grew up reading, but, in reality, the General really did exist and his comic book adventures where actually part of his elaborate cover created by the U.S.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on November 3rd, 2008

I know Halloween is over, but with Election Day tomorrow, there’s still plenty to be scared about! If you missed it on Friday, Part 1 is here, otherwise, click on an image to view it in a readable size.

GENERAL GLORY: “I FOUGHT GROOUT, THE CREATURE WHO CAME FROM THE CRACKS IN THE EARTH!”
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Paul Kupperberg on October 31st, 2008

Here’s another one of my General Glory pastiche stories, also published in Justice League Quarterly #16, which featured four such stories of mine surrounded by a framing sequence that introduced the, yes, new General Glory.

Anyway, this one was done in the style of a 1950s Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Marvel horror comic story and is entitled “I Fought Groout, the Creature Who Came From the Cracks in the Earth.”… Read the rest

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