This time we have a panel from a Bulletman story, featuring one of his patented 'way-too-brutal-for-a-children's-comic' villains.
Yeah, in case you wanted to know, he threw the two street kids a poisoned quarter, and while fighting over it they both died.
Again, this is a children's comic.
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8.4.09
If I may present... the greatest single panel in the history of Comic Books
My general dissatisfaction with modern-day comics has caused me to delver deeper and deeper into the Golden Age for entertainment, and I feel very lucky that I did, because if I hadn't, I never would have read issue 64 of Fawcett's "Master Comics", and seen the greatest single panel in the history of comic books.
Said panel appeared in the middle of an otherwise middling Bulletman story. For those unfamiliar with the character, Bulletman is the Flying Detective. Much like (actually, exactly like) the Silver Age Flash's origin story, Jim Barr is a mild mannered police scientist who invented a 'gravity helmet' to help him fight crime. It allows him to fly, is shaped like a bullet, and has super-magnetic powers that attract bullets to it, then cause them to bounce away after impact, making him functionally bulletproof. He also made a helmet for his Girlfriend (and daughter of the police chief) Susan Kent.
Said panel appeared in the middle of an otherwise middling Bulletman story. For those unfamiliar with the character, Bulletman is the Flying Detective. Much like (actually, exactly like) the Silver Age Flash's origin story, Jim Barr is a mild mannered police scientist who invented a 'gravity helmet' to help him fight crime. It allows him to fly, is shaped like a bullet, and has super-magnetic powers that attract bullets to it, then cause them to bounce away after impact, making him functionally bulletproof. He also made a helmet for his Girlfriend (and daughter of the police chief) Susan Kent.
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