The Two Hundred Fifty-Ninth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

This is a perfect example of nostalgia gone mad. If I see current comic book characters referencing popular fiction, I'm as likely to groan as anything else. Yet if I see people in the 40s doing the exact same thing, I'm deeply charmed.

The Two Hundred Fifty-Eighth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

Oh, colourists, you've always made mistakes like this, haven't you? Or is the Human Bomb's hand the same colour as his suit because he's been out of the sun too long?

The Two Hundred Fifty-Seventh Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

I just had to go back to the shrunken head story. Because obviously.

The Two Hundred Fifty-Sixth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

I feel like Dollman is narrowing his definition for 'supernatural powers' so far that it's essentially meaningless. This is a villain who could hypnotize people into killing themselves - what would he have to have done in order to qualify as supernatural? Summon a literal demon to kill people?

The Two Hundred Fifty-Fifth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

This is the most intensely disturbing body-horror I've seen in a while, and it's in the middle of a LAdy Luck Comic. Did David Cronenberg read this as a child?

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'The World Domination Document'. Can we all just take a moment to revel in that? Just a quiet second to appreciate such an incredible concept?

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Gosh, how much more interesting would The Shawshank Redemption have been if the tunnel had led into a Nazi officer's private quarters?

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Wow, is this a fantastic throw-away villain.

The Two Hundred Fifty-First Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

"The Human Bomb punched the skeleton right in its face."

This should be the first line of every novel.

The Two Hundred Fiftieth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

 
I've yet to tire of how wonderfully kinetic Plastic Man action scenes always are.

The Two Hundred Forty-Ninth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

Now a moment in the Quality Comics art sweatshop, circa 1944...

"Gosh, it's boring drawing this guy wandering around, looking for a bird... Hey, I know, I'll draw an overtly sexualized woman standing in the foreground! That's what kids like, right?"

The Two Hundred Forty-Eighth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

I like the crazy technology far too much to be concerned with the casual racism.

The Two Hundred Forty-Seventh Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

No comment needed here. Although I do need a question - did they have head-shrinking tribes in South America? I honestly don't know.

The Two Hundred Forty-Sixth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

Oh, Manhunter. This may be a new low in keeping your identity secret. It's bad enough you're a cop with a dog who becomes a superhero with the same dog - at least don't brag about your love of quick-changing.

The Two Hundred Forty-Fifth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

There's onomatapoeia, and then there's onomatapoeiest. This is the latter.

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Go on, Midnight, call them panthers all you want, those are pretty clearly long-tailed Terriers. I didn't know such a thing existed, but according to this artist, here they are!

The Two-Hundred-Forty-Third Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

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Oh, superstitious natives, you're always so easy to bedevil!

And let's not forget the part that monocle power played in this!

The Two-Hundred-Forty-Second Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

On some level I'd like to call out the confusion between sumo and jiu-jitsu, but then I noticed the skin tone assigned to the 'Jap Wrestler', and decided that's what we should all be focused on.

The Two-Hundred-Forty-First Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

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You know what's extremely interesting, Dollman? The fact that the diary writer realized that there was a limit to the amount of text people snooping through his thoughts would be willing to read, so he increasingly moved to pictographical representations of his own life story.

The Two-Hundred-Fortieth Greatest Panel in the History of Comics

This is - officially - the worst way of haunting someone.