Showing posts with label Don Heck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Heck. Show all posts

Saturday, April 22, 2023

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Revived from suspended animation after 15,000 years, the warrior named NightGlider discovers Earth of the 1990s is not like the civilization she left behind!
Her language is unknown to the present-day inhabitants of Chicago, which is built over the ancient lost city of Garza where her stasis chamber lay.
And the confusing primitive (to her) transportation technology inadvertently injures her when she impacts a helicopter's rotors and falls forty stories to the ground!
She's transported, unconscious, but alive, to a nearby hospital, where...
To Be Continued at...
on Monday!

Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics' one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the projected "KirbyVerse" featuring concepts and characters created by Jack (King) Kirby, one of the major creative forces in comics from the birth of the Golden Age in 1940 to the then-present of 1993!.
Glida/NightGlider, with her fellow genetically-enhanced soldiers Bombast and Captain Glory, would battle the evil forces that had also survived the disaster that doomed the Ninth Men 15,000 years earlier and keep them from dominating the humans of the present (aka "Tenth Men") in the Secret City Saga mini-series!
After the end of that series, the group were to continue fighting the good fight in a new mini-series, Victory! along with other, already-existing characters created by Kirby like Silver Star and Captain Victory and the Galaxy Rangers, but it was cancelled after the first issue, with the remaining four parts unpublished to this day!

Friday, April 21, 2023

NIGHTGLIDER "She Glides in Beauty Like the Night..." Part 1

Placed in suspended animation over 15,000 years ago...
...she is one of a trio of genetically-enhanced soldiers who will save us from the planet-wide destruction that is coming...soon!
To Be Continued...
TOMORROW!
Created by Jack Kirby, plotted by Roy Thomas, scripted by Gerry Conway and Illustrated by Don Heck, this never-reprinted tale from Topps Comics one-shot NightGlider (1993) was an integral part of the "Secret City Saga".
You can read the previous parts HERE, HERE, and HERE!

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Who WAS Nubia? "War of the Wonder Women" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Heroines...

Note: Nubia does not wear the outfit shown on this kool Nick Cardy-illustrated cover in the actual story!
...the secret origin of Nubia (aka Wonder Woman of the Floating Island) is revealed...she's Princess Diana's sister, created from clay at the same time as Diana!
Now, the long-term plan of Mars, God of War against the Amazons, utilizing Nubia as his pawn, has been implemented, so...
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!
You'd think after making Nubia the lynchpin of Wonder Woman's return to being a super-powered heroine (with a lot of attendant publicity) she would've become an integral part of the DC Universe, right!
Here's what you'll see...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Who WAS Nubia? "War of the Wonder Women" Part 1

We met Nubia HERE and learned a little about her HERE...
...but now, previously-unrevealed secrets come to light!
It all begins after Wonder Woman breaks up a protest involving women vs. men...
(Hey, it was the early '70s, the heyday of Women's Lib!)
Note: for a brief time, Diana Prince worked as a translator at the UN, rooming with two other translators...whose names were never revealed to readers!
Here's where a major retcon (alteration of past history) occurs...
So what did the God of War want with Hippolyte's other daughter?
Like most villains, he loves to review his plans...
(although you really have to ask "why didn't he wait until Nubia had also been given all the "Gifts of the Gods?")
Now...
LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!
Well, dear reader, you already know, but Princess Diana will have to wait until
to find out!
But we can tell you this...
DC had major plans for Nubia!
When this book...
...Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes, was published in 1976, this story was included!
The book ran both the first-published "origin" story of each character, but also a later (usually expanded) version!
For Wonder Woman, they included her origin from DC's Wonder Woman #1 (1942) and this story from DC's Wonder Woman #206 (1973)!
Considering they had just retold Diana's "classic" origin two issues earlier in #204, why not run that instead of this story, which really features Nubia's origin, if they didn't intend to "play up" the character?
We'll explore this further next week!

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