"For all my powers, I could not save _____": An image thread

somehow i missed this era of Lois Lane bondage covers

take it to the Lois Lane Bondage thread guys

okay, here's the best of them imo
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/102-1.jpg

"when you're dead, you're dead!"

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/112-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/135-1.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/lois-lane/88-1.jpg

the dog

I love that there is a least three batshit things about every cover. No single-issue batshittery here.

To redress slightly, I think these are all fucking great.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229160125/marvel_dc/images/c/c0/Superman_v.1_417.jpg
http://clzimages.com/comic/large/1a/1a_2796_0_ActionComics571MissiontoEarth.jpg
http://covers.cbrd.info/86faedcb61befc19ee3df59584839ce2_l.jpg

And

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081229155858/marvel_dc/images/0/04/Superman_v.1_410.jpg

Superman 422 is very much all time.

loving all the DC batshit but yeah maybe should be its own thread, i do love the idea of being able to open this one up on days when i'm feeling cocky with all my amazing powers, getting some perspective, all that

And what might your amazing powers be, Doctor Casino?

this thread has just turned into Po-Faced #3 is all

The Po-Faced Absurdity of DC Comics (picture thread)
Po-Faced Absurdity of DC Comics, Part 2: Son of Po-Face

yeah that wasn't really what I was going for - it's not like the title trope is unique to DC

as evidenced by the v first post

it happened organically

for all our powers, we couldn't keep the thread on topic

https://themiddlespaces.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/putthingsright-asm70.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/thor/256-1.jpg

this one is only four issues later

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/thor/260-1.jpg

awesome

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20051107154935/marveldatabase/images/5/59/Tales_to_Astonish_Vol_1_75.jpg

seems characteristic of Marvel to go the more self-absorbed route:
http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/pasttreasures/items/360646/catphoto.jpg

i think these final panels from daredevil 7 by lee and wood are an interesting variation or inversion of the kind of the thing this thread is getting at - ie what 'value' are superpowers - or, for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul etc etc. stan is telling his readers, hey kids, courage and determination are more important than any silly superpower.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Panel-2.JPG

I can't get over the kitschy bad-taste of that Heroes Against Hunger cover. did that 'marvel superheros react to 9/11' book have one of these?

they had crying911doom.jpeg
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/doom-crying.jpg

stay on topic here kids (Marvel had Heroes for Hope - which was just as bad in content, altho the cover was standard "Wolverine is a badass" nonsense)

what 'value' are superpowers - or, for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul

tbh I was thinking of it more in a Greek-tragedy sort of context, ie you are fucked no matter what you do or how badass you think you are, the universe is a merciless clockwork and you are just a pawn

"Not all my power can save..." is such a weird (and repeated!) construction compared to "All my powers cannot save..."

Not to be prosaic and such

if there's one thing Stan Lee is good at, it's mangling syntax

back on topic
http://archive.facetasm.com/bundles/bilderundworte/uploads/catalog/product/110001/item110814.1.thumb.300.jpg

I hate it when diseases won't die

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/0/3125/317691-18006-124072-1-world-s-finest-comic.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d7/9b/c5/d79bc56c2eed2109d1bcf424bde0b532.jpg

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081101124342/marveldatabase/images/thumb/2/27/Incredible_Hulk_Special_Vol_1_4.jpg/300px-Incredible_Hulk_Special_Vol_1_4.jpg

lol what's up with that phrase and that character, you'd think it'd at least be "NOT ALL HULK'S POWER CAN SAVE HULK!"

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JLIXx7Zw0rE/hqdefault.jpg

"NOT ALL HULK'S POWER CAN SAVE HULK!"

lol

had detailed discussion w my wife last night about the difference between Hulk and Bizarro syntax

"Bizarro Hulk has excellent syntax, thanks for asking."

this is not quite the same thing but feels related

http://www.newkadia.com/Covers/S/A/Action%20Comics%201938%20series/actioncomics385.jpg

ok, i love that.

in the future, all doctors are white guys and they still use head mirrors for some reason

late to this but is that Aquaman cover upthread Aparo? somehow it doesn't all quite come together into a visually striking design but so many elements of it are wonderful

yup: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman_Vol_1_62

Aquaman and Mera are each about 13 heads high

just realised I don't think I've ever read a comic with Mera in it but I wrote her name without thinking

for all my powers, I could recall her

Love the 60s Aquamans by Aparo and Steve Skeates, amongst the most formally inventive of all Silver Age DCs eg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0aF72ivaEJI/TDlIyF5YdCI/AAAAAAAAEVA/LT2MEJpq0U0/s400/Aqua%252053%2520Splash%25202.jpg

pencilled, inked and lettered by Aparo.

wow, that's cool. when i started reading comics as a kid in the mid-to-late 80s, i was buying new batman comics which aparo was drawing alongside british reprints of older batman stories he'd drawn too, so his version of batman is pretty essential to me.

Gotta love the fact that even when Mera is berating her husband for the death of their child, she still calls him "Aquaman".

weirder still is that their kid was also known as 'aquababy' according to that wiki page

how is aquababby formed

Chewed up aquababby parts squashed between aquaman and aquawoman.