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Steven Myers
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Last night I dreamed I was at John Byrne's house with some other people. He had a stack of drawings he said we could use for "practice inking" (not his own drawings, but copies of pencils). He was so impressed by my inking he gave me some ice cream!
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I had a very similar dream where I was a houseguest of Paul McCartney, and he'd left out a bowl of chocolate mints because he knew it was my favorite candy.
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Last night I dreamed I was at John Byrne's house with some other people. He had a stack of drawings he said we could use for "practice inking" (not his own drawings, but copies of pencils). He was so impressed by my inking he gave me some ice cream!

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I dreamed once I was at John Byrne's house.  For some reason, he yelled at me for rummaging through his outside trash can and asked me to leave.  In real life, though, he's a very nice person. 
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Just seeing this thread for the first time. The refs to a young, Brad-Pitt-ish Bernie Wrightson and people dressed up like superheroes immediately flashed me to the surreal but mesmerizing Brave and the Bold 237 from 1970 written by Denny O'Neil and drawn by Neal Adams which, too, was based on a dream featuring a young Bernie Wrightson (not a dead ringer but certainly buff and handsome, an approximation of Pitt with longer hair earlier in his career?) and people garbed in superhero costumes.

...Only this version of the dream was experienced by O'Neil some ~55 years ago.



The left of the four people walking together in panels two and three is apparently a 22 year old Bernie Wrightson (the others are reportedly Gerry Conway, Dick (Robin) Grayson, and Alan Weiss).



The fellow in the third panel center with the glasses and hat is definitely O'Neil.

O'Neil even wrote about the dream that became B+B 237 in the lettercol.

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Definitely OT so apologies but I appreciate Adams' fun with Marvel in a DC book, showing the Thor costume with a literal claw hammer obviously grabbed in lieu of mjolnir by the Halloween guest as well as the other unnamed but clear refs to Cap, Spidey ("webslinger"), and even Havok. Also, some Batman costumes have similar pouches on the utility belt as used by Miller some ~13+ years later in Dark Knight Returns. I know FM was a Batman reader growing up so I wonder if he saw this issue and filed that idea away for later use.
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Brave and the Bold 237 from 1970
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I think you mean Batman #237 from 1971.
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Posted: 28 October 2025 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Yep, thanks Colin! Was thinking of Adams' glorious Batman run on B+B (which was actually late 60s) and conflated the two. Must've been dreaming as well!

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