BLOOD OVER GOTHAM: DC and Marvel’s winged weirdos take flight for a Halloween season slap fight…
By WALT GROGAN
Hey, it’s that time of year again for ghosts, ghouls — and bats!
Two perennial comic book favorites are DC’s Man-Bat…
… and Marvel’s Baron Blood!
And here’s artist Tom Morgan providing a cross-company match-up between Gotham’s misunderstood anti-hero and World War II’s immortal vampire!
When Tom posted this horrifically awesome (or is it awesomely horrific?) piece the other day, I knew it needed to be turned into a terrifying splash page for a faux mid-1970s inter-company battle! So I gave it vintage colors and appropriate trade dress for an October Trick-or-Treat!
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MORE
— The Amazing HALLOWEEN Comic That Wasn’t: SHAZAM! vs. DRACULA — by GENE COLAN. Click here.
— THE DYNAMIC DUO OF EARTH-TWO: The DC Series That Should Have Been. Click here.
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A 10-year-old Walt Grogan fell in love with the Big Red Cheese thanks to essays written by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson in the paperback edition of All in Color for a Dime, released in 1970 and bought for him by his father off a paperback spinner rack in a liquor store on the South Side of Chicago. Walt runs The Marvel Family Web Facebook page devoted to all incarnations of the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel and blogs about Captain Marvel at shazamshistorama.com.
