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Matt Hawes
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| Posted: 22 January 2018 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | 1
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As I heard it, Frank Gorshin didn't want to wear the Riddler's tights outfit, so he designed his own, which is the version with the bowler hat. The producers agreed to allow him to wear that outfit on occasion during the series, while he still had to wear the more traditional version, too in some scenes.
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Brian Hague
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Now that we've moved on to a pastiche of sorts of the Peter Davison era, we can come back around to that Riddler suit as the go-to look when we begin reprising Colin Baker's tenure as the Doctor. We'll have to add a bit of color, of course. What Gorshin's wearing is too subtle.
Have we yet mentioned Black Canary's 80's-style double-knit comfy pajama number with the fringed epaulets and Olivia-Neutron-Bomb headband? From Cabaret to Slumber Party in one fell swoop. Actually, headbands in general don't really work. Supergirl. Moondragon. Did anyone look better in one of those things? That look is deader than Krypton, where it originated.
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Mike Norris
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That Black Canary costume was pretty bad, even for the 80's.
Headband are bad. Even on cute babies.
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Brian Hague
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| Posted: 22 January 2018 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | 4
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There's a reason this cover is a classic:
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Eric Sofer
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Brian Hague and Mike Norris - regarding headbands... Nightwing and Flamebird would like a word with you. :) I didn't mind one on Marvel Boy particularly that much either.
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vishard chandool
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I always liked Moon Knight's costume, especially when drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz in his Neal Adams era.
I always hated Robin's original costume.
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 23 January 2018 at 9:33am | IP Logged | 7
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Can I talk about He-Man?
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From THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HE-MAN:
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Peter Martin
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Vanisher started out with a brown suit with blue/gray cape and gloves. Going green sure did give him a serpant look. Not sure why the change. ---------------------------------------------- He started out with a kind of black snake on his chest...
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Doug Centers
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"He started out with a kind of black snake on his chest..."
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Yeah, that and the white spot on the back of his hood gave him a cobra look.
Funny they got rid of those graphics and turned him green in his next appearance.
Is there some kind of vanishing snake out there?
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Wallace Sellars
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I always hated Robin's original costume.
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I don't dislike Dick Grayson Robin's original costume, but do prefer Tim
Drake's... Not that there should have ever been a Tim Drake Robin...
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Peter Martin
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Vishard, do you recall when you first saw Robin's costume?
I have no specific first memory of seeing it, but do recall having a View-Master with a reel of photos from the Adam West Batman movie from when I was very young, say 5 or 6 years old. I found Batman, Robin and Catwoman's costumes so exciting to look at -- the colours were so vivid and the costumes so striking. I think I would later grow to think of Robin's costume as iconic, but back then it was simply exhilarating. A superhero in the flesh.
As for Tim Drake... It's OK. I think if Robin is going to have a bright yellow interior to his cape, you may as well go the whole hog and keep the iconic all-yellow cape.
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Brian Hague
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Eric Sofer wrote: "Brian Hague and Mike Norris - regarding headbands... Nightwing and Flamebird would like a word with you. :) I didn't mind one on Marvel Boy particularly that much either."
The originals and their immediate successors did not wear headbands, Eric, at least not while in costume. Headbands in Kryptonian society were roughly akin to neckties in ours. Any other characters with the names are pretenders to their tiny thrones and I couldn't care less.
But I have to admit, I also like the headband on Bill Everett's Marvel Boy. Of course, I like just about everything Bill Everett's ever done. That affection for the look does not transfer, however, to the character's evolution into the Crusader or his imitator Quasar. Somehow, it works better on a kid, in much the same way the open-top, hair blowin' in the breeze, half cowl does.
I'm surprised to find that I'm inclined to be tolerant of Omega the Unknown's headband as well. And maybe Shang Chi's.
But that's it! After that, I'm drawin' the line!
Edited by Brian Hague on 24 January 2018 at 7:01pm
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