Friday, June 26, 2026

Doctor Strange and Batgirl

 


When I posted a cover featuring Commissioner Gordon summoning Doctor Strange a week or so ago, Ken Roskos (a Patron of this Blog) and others said that the set up called for a follow up cover.  I had to agree, so here's what had Jim Gordon so concerned.


Posted by Ross at 5:00 AM
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12 comments:

Carycomic said...

Oh, yes. Ken definitely had the right idea. This raises another question, though; is Arkham Asylum suffering the same bedevilment as the Baxter Building back @ STF #5175? If I were writing for the doc's mainstream Marvel mag, I'd say "yes." And I'd even have a suitable culprit in mind. One of the good doctor's oldest foes. One who has yet to even debut, here.! But, I'll save that reveal in case Ross has some other guilty party in mind.

June 26, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Anonymous said...

I think it's simply Val Kaliban alias The Spook. Ex-architectural draftsman-turned-amateur hypnotist, escape artist, and special effects wizard. In other words, the Dark Knight's version of Mysterio during the 1970's!

June 26, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Ross said...

Anon, I was thinking the same thing as I made this. I loved that villain and wish he had stuck around longer.

June 26, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Reg Aubry said...

Excellent costume color scheme matching!

June 26, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Detective Tobor said...

make no bones about it, he will!

June 26, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Carycomic said...

Yeah, I had a hunch that was who you were depicting. But, I kept hoping it might be "The House of Shadows," nonetheless! For those too young to remember? That was the title of a story where Dr. Strange first encounters an extra-dimensional being who disguises himself as "haunted" buildings!

June 26, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Simreeve said...

Maybe that House of Shadows could be explored by Cain?

June 26, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Carycomic said...

Ooh! Not a bad idea. And I have the perfect protagonist for that scenario. Submitted for your approval: Cain asking the following question...

"Do you dare to enter the House of Shadows, Ghost Who Walks?"

June 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Anonymous said...

I'd rather see Godzilla vs. Gorgo...with the Phantom's home land caught in the middle! You see, Charlton Comics (once based in Derby, CT) published a comic book spin-off of the British s-f movie GORGO in the early Sixties. And, from 1969-77, they also did their version of Lee Falk's "The Phantom" (with Bengalla being depicted as an island-nation somewhere in the Indian Ocean). Unfortunately, they chose to take up where the numbering formerly used by Harvey and King Comics left off...sort of.

They started with PHANTOM #30. Giving rise to the urban legend that there's a long-lost #29 out there!

June 26, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Anonymous said...

In summary? Ross could merge the Charlton images of Gorgo and the Phantom while using the Marvel images of Godzilla from 1977-79.

June 26, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Bob Greenwade said...

If Doctor Strange is at it, then the ghost is probably real, not an illusion. And one of the most common reasons for a ghost to be haunting a place (in fiction) is being the victim of an unsolved murder. That could lead Stephen and Barbara just about anywhere, though I'd really love it if Detective Chimp led the way to Green Goblin or the Chameleon.

June 26, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Bob Greenwade said...

PS: I'd really love to see a cover where Skeeve conjures up a blue-skinned Ringo Starr, with Aahz lamenting, "That's not what I meant...."

June 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM

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