Counting Comics - Part 5

OK counting my comics, I started today with 

DC = 373

Marvel = 23

Others = 13

Justice League Generation Lost

1 - 24

After Max Lord uses tech to boost his powers to make the World forget about him only the ex-members of Justice League International remember and seek to bring him to task for his crimes. With Captain Atom, Booster Gold, Rocket Red, Fire & Ice, and Jaime Reyes aka Blue Beetle 3.

Blackest Night

Wonder Woman 1 (of 3)

Adventure Comics 508, 510

Suicide Squad 67

Starman 81

Catwoman 83

The Phantom Stranger 42

The Aom and Hawkman 46

Blackest Night Tales of the Corps

1 - 3

Blackest Night Superman

1 - 3

Blackest Night Titans

1 - 3

Blackest Night

1 - 8

Running on from the Sinestro Corps War the Blackest Night story line in 2009 - 2010 told of the threat of Nekron, a personified force of death who reanimated dead superheroes and seeks to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. A Black Lantern power battery is found in Sector 666 and soon the rings reanimate hordes of previously fallen heroes. The situation requires all the other lanterns of the emotional spectrum to rally together to face the menace. They merge forces to create White Lanterns and the Blackest Night story changes to Brightest Day.

Shadowpact

1 - 25

Created by Bill Willingham, this group 1st got together in Day of Vengeance # 1 (2005) to battle the rampaging Spectre. The story has it that many groups have used this name over the centuries, as groups of mystics teaming up doomed to champion lost causes. Their original membership in the modern era includes Blue Devil, Detective Chimp, Enchantress, Nightmaster, Nightshade, and Ragman.

The All New Atom

1 - 25

Ryan Choi, the protege' of original Atom Ray Palmer, takes over the heroes mantle after he disappears for a time. The character is credited to Gail Simone and Grant Morrison. In this series he faces such adversaries as M'Nagalah the Cancer God, microscopic aliens, psychotic shrinking serial killer Dwarfstar and even gets swallowed by Giganta before engaging in a hunt to find Ray Palmer somewhere in the New 52 DC universes. Ryan's version of Atom was the 4th person to use the name and debuted in Brave New World #1 (2006)

Infinity Inc (1984 - 88)

1 - 53

Annual 1 - 1987

Annual 2 - 1988

Infinity Inc is a team of legacy heroes following on in the footsteps of their parents/inspirations who made up the Justice Society. Their original membership included Brainwave, Jr., son of the villain Brainwave who wanted to atone for his father's crimes; Fury, whose mother used the same name in her days in the Young All-Stars; Jade & Obsidian, children of Golden Age Green Lantern, Alan Scott; Northwind, Hawkman & Hawkgirl's godson; Silver Scarab aka Hector Hall their actual son; Nuklon, son of Al Pratt the original Atom; and their leader Skyman who started his career as the Star Spangled Kid of the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Infinity, Inc. was created by Roy Thomas, Jerry Ordway, and Mike Machlan, first appearing in All-Star Squadron #25. (1983)

The Young All-Stars (1987)

1 - 28, 30 - 31

These guys were a probationary auxiliary team of the main All-Star Squadron group, they formed in the Spring of 1942 with a membership that consisted of Dan the Dyna-Mite, Flying Fox, Fury, Iron Munro, Neptune Perkins, Sandy the Golden Boy, Tigress, Tsunami. They were created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, Brian Murray & Michael Bair and fought such foul
foes as Axis-Amerika, Baron Blitzkrieg and Per Degaton.
The cast itself was basically a mirror of Golden Age heroes who were erased from the All-Star Squadron's history by the Crisis On Infinite Earths: Iron Munro (Superman), Flying Fox (Batman), Dan The Dyna-Mite (Robin), Fury(Wonder Woman), Neptune Perkins (Aquaman), Tsunami (Aquaman), and Tigress (Green Arrow). Sandy the Golden Boy, already a member of the All-Star Squadron by being the partner of Sandman, served for a time as a member of Young All-Stars while Sandman was hospitalized. By the time of the final issue of the title series, Tigress had turned into the villain that would later be known as the Huntress, and the rest of the team was absorbed into the main All-Star Squadron group.

El Diablo

1 - 16

These books feature the 2nd of 3 men to use the El Diablo name. The 1st was a gunslinger vigilante of the old west named Lazarus Lane who was said to be possessed by a demon as he slept, a spirit of vengeance that hunted the wicked. The 3rd El Diablo is Chato Santana a fire controlling super criminal who was part of the Suicide Squad, he was depicted in the film of 2016 by actor Jay Hernandez

The El Diablo from these books, the 2nd character to use the name is Rafael Sandoval, he first appeared in El Diablo #1 (August 1989), and was created by Gerard Jones and Mike Parobeck. He was a rookie member of the city council of Dos Rios, Texas who fought crime under the alter ego of El Diablo. His book lasted 16 issues and since then the character has made a few guest appearances in other comics, most recently he was wounded by a member of the Royal Flush Gang whilst helping Oracle in the Villains United Special.

All-Star Squadron (1981)

1 - 24, 26 - 35, 37 - 67

This team debuted in a special insert inside Justice League of America #193 (August 1981) and started in their own book the following month that ran for 67 issues and 3 annuals. The team was created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway. It was set on Earth 2 as a retcon of the Justice Society, to explain how heroes active in the war could also still be active in the modern day. Issue 20's letters column, (April 1983), has the very 1st known use of the term "retcon" meaning "retroactive continuity", used by Roy Thomas to explain the reworking of origins, ironing out of continuity errors and filling in of missing details.

After Crisis on Infinite Earths this title was cancelled and replaced by The Young All-Stars that I already mentioned above. With many of the original JSA members now written out (retconned) so they were  never around at this time they were replaced with the analogous heroes as mentioned previously, so Iron Munro = Superman, Flying Fox = Batman etc.

So that's 265 more comics to add to the DC tally making the totals now

DC = 638

Marvel = 23

Others = 13

I made an impulse, crazy purchase as well, 75 random comics that I do an unboxing of here

This special from 1984 really caught my eye, it tells of a character called Wrath, who lost his parents the same night that Bruce lost his, but whereas the Waynes were murdered by Joe Chill, his lost their lives at the hands of a police officer whilst commiting a crime. Wrath is the antithesis, the polar opposite of Batman. His origin reminds me very much of that of Grant Morrison's Prometheus!

This buy was comprised of

DC = 31

Marvel = 30 

Others = 14

Leaving my new total so far at

DC = 669

Marvel = 53

Others = 27

Come back next week where I'll be going through, talking about, and counting some more of my comics

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