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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Splash Pages: Justice League of America #111

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This installment of Splash Pages features this gangbusters image by Dick Dillin and Dick Giordano, from Justice League of America #111!

Sure, this motif has been used before, many times in fact, but I still get a kick out of it nonetheless...there's something about the endless battle between superheroes and supervillains being represented as one giant game that just works. It probably doesn't hurt that I would (will!) have killed for an actual game with pieces that looked like this.

Plus, the way Aquaman is posed reminds me a bit of the way he was animated in the opening credits to Challenge of the Super Friends:
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...and that's always good with me!

5 comments:

Craig said...

That's a very JSA-esque JLA image!

-Craig

Earth 2 Chris said...

Yes, and GL is singing his own Ballad of Yellow Gloves!!!

Chris

rob! said...

Oh the irony! Nice catch Chris!

Orin's dad said...

Chris, you beat me to the punch on that one! Love this page...

Shellhead said...

You know, such a game exists.

It's called Heroclix.