Friday, October 14, 2022

Atomic Skull Vs. Red Skull

 

The Atomic Skull may have one of the goofiest villain costumes in comics (he later got a cool upgrade that was perhaps a bit too close to Ghost Rider's look), and may have never left the C-List of Superman Rogues... but I've always really liked the character.  Despite his appearance, he's appeared in some pretty fun stories.

9 comments:

Carycomic said...

When you're right, you're right, Ross. My favorite Atomic Skull appearance is when he and some hyper-evolved she-panther penetrated the Fortress of Solitude...in DC PRESENTS #35!*

*Which, if I recall correctly, either was revamped as or was inspired by the real-world SUPER FAMILY TEAM-UP.

Slarti said...

Ha! I'm reminded of "The Rocketeer" and Paul Sorvino's delivery of a line very similar in sentiment to this. Nice.

Ross said...

Starti, that's what inspired this cover!

Slarti said...

Glad to see I was on the right wavelength, then. 😃

Carl Cafarelli said...

Similar also to John Byrne's Batman And Captain America one-shot, where the Joker (of all people) made the same rebuke of the Red Skull: "I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!" This was cover-dated February 1997, so you're correct that the '91 Rocketeer film did it earlier than Byrne.

Detective Tobor said...

These two will make great actors. Look at those fantastic head shots.And they have broven they will work down to the bone.

Carycomic said...

Why would they want to go into acting? They're already super-rich...being members of the Skull Society of Yale.

Ken Roskos said...

I guess you could say; playing these roles would take a lot of... backbone?

Carycomic said...

@Ken Roskos: bravo! That was very humerus.

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