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Hobbergosher
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I make computer music. Also screenshots and gifs of old TV shows, movies, video games, and comic books.

All GIFs I post are made by me unless otherwise noted

Currently reading and posting about silver-age comics chronologically, starting around 1963.
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Lastly for this month, in Strange Tales #113, Sam the gardener gets struck by lightning and discovers that he can control plants with his special gardening shears and becomes THE PLANTMAN and tries to do some robbing about it. The Human Torch roasts his plants until they get sick of Plantman.
Cover of Strange Tales #113 (Oct 1963), A man in a suit with a hat behind some bushes. The text reads "Even the flaming HUMAN TORCH is helpless before the super-natural power of the PLANTMAN!" Plantman's crime spree begins 1. A weird looking guy with slicked back hair thinks "I hereby dub myself...PLANTMAN! Now to avenge myself on the one who fired me!" Narrative: "An hour later at the jewelry store where Doris' father is employed as manager..." 2. Plantman, while shooting his plant ray through the door: "I'll just aim my ray at that plant near the door and..." 3. "Turn off the burgler alarm! That's an order! ...Do you hear? An order from plantman!" Plantman's big attack against The Human Torch: He makes some acorns fall on him The Human Torch roasting the plants, the vines surround plantman and break his special magic shears.
May 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Ant-Man and The Wasp defeat The Porcupine Man by filling up bags with liquid cement and setting them up on a table and then spraying him with them.

I am decidedly not a fan of Ant-Man.
Ant-Man and The Wasp fill plastic bags with liquid cement and set them on the table. The bags of liquid cement erupt on porcupine man and he's defeated I guess? Huh.
May 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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In Tales to Astonish #048 (Oct, 1963), Alex Gentry gets the brilliant idea to turn himself into a ...porcupine
Alex Gentry, a scientist, surrounded by machinery, saying to himself: "Yes, the PORCUPINE is nature's perfect fighting machine for attack or defense... A creature that wears its weapons, and then shoots them at his enemy! So simple, so direct... So foolproof!" Four panel origin of Alex Gentry the scientist putting on his porcupine suit. 1. "Using the porcupine as a model, I think my combat suit is the ultimate in weaponry! Every soldier wearing it will become a one-man regiment!" 2. "I personally shall make the final test... but without loading the quill-like tubes!" 3. "And I mustn't forget the gas mask so that the wearer will not be affected by fumes from the gas tubes!" 4. "Yes, each button controls a special group of tubes! Once the quills are loaded... some with gas, some with stun-pellets, ammonia, liquid fire, detector mine tubes and all the rest... The man who wears this suit could defeat ANY foe!"
May 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Detective Comics #320 - Batman and Robin fuck around with a crashed alien ship and turn themselves green. So the obvious solution is to fight crime as mummies for awhile.
Detective Comics #320 Four Panels 1. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson approaching a crashed space ship 2. Bruce messing with the "strange robot pilot", Dick looking at the control panel - "The instruments... they don't seem familiar at all, Bruce... This is an ALIEN capsule!" 3. A green orb is surrounded by 'CLICK' sounds, Dick: "Bruce! What's that noise..." 4. The orb explodes with a KA-ZAAP Dick and Bruce, both green: Dick: "B-Bruce! Your face... hair... they're..." Bruce: "Green! We've... Both turned completely green, Dick!" Batman and Robin as mummies. Robin: "Well, Batman, I think we've convinced everybody that we're wearing these mummy costumes to shield our supposed radiation!" Batman: "When actually we're shielding our green complexions and thus safe-guarding our real-life identities! Our plan is working..." Mummy-Batman leaping towards two gangsters. Gangster 1: "YIIII! It's the Mummy Batman!" Gangster 2: "A-And Robin is on the cat-walk behind us... We're trapped!"
May 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Data smoking a pipe
May 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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An interesting tidbit, Reed and The Thing contemplate whether RAMA-TUT is actually Doctor Doom from the future.
Reed: "...remember when he mentioned that an ancestor of his had invented the first time machine? It could have been Doctor Doom!" Thing: "Maybe he was Doctor Doom himself! Maybe he found a way to live for centuries... It might have been the Doctor Doom of the future!"
May 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Fantastic Four #019 (Oct 1963) - The FF use Doctor Doom's abandoned time machine to go back to ancient Egypt to try to recover a device that will restore Alicia's sight.

Iron Man had also just gone back to Ancient Egypt in August (Tales of Suspense #44)
Fantastic Four #019 (Oct 1963) - Cover - Rama Tut next to a pyramid lords over the Fantastic Four while shooting then with a gun that disables their powers The Fantastic Four flying to Doctor Dooms abandoned castle to use his time machine The Fantastic Four as prisoners of the RAMA-TUT RAMA-TUT escapes by blasting off to another dimension in a rocket ship out of the Sphinx
May 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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You can certainly try
Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Soldiers firing at Lava Man saying "THE LAVA MAN! FIRE!!" and "It's useless! Our shells are charred before they can reach him!" Lava Man is saying "HUMANS! This is my final warning! Evacuate the cities! Take to the sea! I claim all the dry surface of Earth for the LAVA PEOPLE!" Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Thor swinging his hammer and leaping at Lava Man. Thor is saying "BACK, you demon from the nameless depths! The surface belongs to MANKIND, and THOR is their protector!!" Lava Man is responding: "Your words are as futile as your deeds, costumed one! The day of the humans is over! Do not prolong their agony!!"
May 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Oh wow coincidence!
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In Journey into Mystery #97 (Oct 1963), Thor battles THE LAVA-MAN, who appears to be just a giant pink dude in purple shorts. Lava shorts. Thor spins him up and throws him back into a volcano.
Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) - cover - Thor wielding his hammer flying towards the Lava Man who stands atop a volcano with his arms raised. Thor transforming Figures Loki is behind this. Two panels of Loki remembering Lava Man and deciding he's going to resurrect him to mess with Thor. Oh, Loki. Thor swinging his hammer, about to spin up Lava Man. Lava Man saying "No! It isn't possible! Nothing human could have escaped my lava trap!!" Thor responds: "This is no HUMAN you face, Lava Man! This is THOR, God of Thunder -- Son of ODIN, Lord of Asgard!"
May 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Catching up on the news
Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) Two men in the city reading an open newspaper. The newspaper headlines: "MENACE FROM VOLCANO IDENTIFIED AS LAVA MAN!" and on the other page, "HAVOC WIDESPREAD; THOUSANDS FLEE!" One man says "Looks grim, doesn't it?" and the other is saying "LAVA MAN!?? Who is he? WHAT is he?"
May 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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In Journey into Mystery #97 (Oct 1963), Thor battles THE LAVA-MAN, who appears to be just a giant pink dude in purple shorts. Lava shorts. Thor spins him up and throws him back into a volcano.
Journey into Mystery #097 (Oct 1963) - cover - Thor wielding his hammer flying towards the Lava Man who stands atop a volcano with his arms raised. Thor transforming Figures Loki is behind this. Two panels of Loki remembering Lava Man and deciding he's going to resurrect him to mess with Thor. Oh, Loki. Thor swinging his hammer, about to spin up Lava Man. Lava Man saying "No! It isn't possible! Nothing human could have escaped my lava trap!!" Thor responds: "This is no HUMAN you face, Lava Man! This is THOR, God of Thunder -- Son of ODIN, Lord of Asgard!"
May 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Spider-Man never really gets the upper-hand on Doom before the Fantastic Four shows up.
Four panels of Doctor Doom blinding and almost smashing Spider-Man with a big hunk of metal.
May 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963)
Doctor Doom tries to get Spider-Man to join him. After a little tussling, the Fantastic Four shows up and Doom bails.
Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) - cover - Doctor Doom taunting Spider-Man: "This is your FINISH, Spider-Man! If the FANTASTIC FOUR themselves could not stop me, what chance have you?". He's shooting his finger-laser while Spider-Man swings off a broken web above Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) Jameson truly had it out for Spider-Man all the way from the very beginning. Shown here he's on TV saying "I am sponsoring this program to expose Spider-Man to the public as the menace he is!" Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) Doctor Doom, working a machine, thinking "It should be child's play for me to persuade Spider-Man to join me against the Fantastic Four!" Panel below, Spider-Man showing up and asking Doctor Doom why he called him. Amazing Spider-Man #005 (Oct 1963) The Fantastic Four showing up, Doctor Doom realizing he can't fight Spider-Man and them at the same time and bailing - Spider-Man hasn't yet realized that the FF has arrived.
May 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM