Okay I am like so on a role with these charecter comparisons. I had Miss Harbour pegged pretty well. Look out Mr. Darker, your next.



Aunt May. She was always a constant support to Peter Parker (Spider-Man) even though most of his carrer as Spider-Man, Peter never knew that Aunt May knew he was Spider-Man. This touching details were revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #400, right before she died. (For more information see the post "Amazing Spider-Man #400".)

Miss Harbour reminds me of Aunt May so well, because of her kind spirit and her willingness to help others without thinking of what she may get out of it. A true spirit that just wants everyone to feel loved and cared for. Aunt May was such a constant support to Peter, being there for him both with his problems as Spider-Man and Peter. Although there were many times that Aunt May was such a burden in that Peter was constantly concerned that his life as Spider-Man endangered Aunt May because of the types of criminals that he deals with. He was afraid that one day, they would come after her, if they ever found out that he was Spider-Man.

There is no doubt that Aunt May's unknown (to Peter) acceptance of him being Spider-Man was more of a help to Peter than he realized. Although there were several times that there were criminals that came after Aunt May, Spider-Man was always there to rescue her, to his knowledge, unable to tell her who he was, because of these criminals. Depsite all these things that came about because of Peter being Spider-Man, Aunt May lived a full and happy life. Although Aunt May did pass away in Amazing Spider-Man #400. It was quite a shock to readers, although we all knew that at her age, it was a unavoidable ending.



Miss Harbour really was much remenicant of the actress that played Aunt May in the Spider-Man movies, Rosemary Harris. Many times the things that Miss Harbour has said reminds me so much of this actress' protrayal of Aunt May. She can be hard-nosed when the point needs to be made. But can be so concerning and loving when someone just needs someone to talk to, or even someone to listen. This is Miss Harbour.

If you haven't seen the Spider-Man movies, you should Miss Harbour. For me it is a shinning tribute to the support and happiness that you bring here to blogstream.

Miss Harbour aka Aunt May.

There were several things that tipped me off on Miss Abigail and Typhoid Mary. I did a post on "What Would You Do?" about Typhoid Mary called "A Scared Little Girl, In A Woman's Body". Walker was her name. Mary was abused as a child, and to deal with that her psyche created a person that was more capable of combating the abuse. (I must use a disclaimer here, that I am in no way insinuating that Miss Abigail was abused. The reason that Mary became who she was, is the similarity, not the cause.) This created Typhoid. Typhoid was the offensive side of her personality. The one that rose in anger to combat the filthy men that infest this world. Men that show no respect for a woman. Men that use and abuse them.

But Mary . . . Mary was the exact opposite of Typhoid. Mary was the "skin" of all the personalities. She was what made the apperances. What her psyche wanted people to precieve she was. She was cool and confident, strong and sexy. She didn't have to go looking for men, they came looking for her. It was the confidence that she didn't have herself.

Then there was Typhoid Mary, the composite of both personalities. She was made up of Mary and Typhoid, and all the pentup things and dark feelings of Walker. She was created to try and heal and hide the damage that her abuser had done to her.

I guess what I could say the similarities between Miss Abigail and Typhoid Mary, is the extreme differences in "personalities". I have seen some of Miss Abigail's posts, when she is angry about something. When she is angry, she is angry. A heated rightouse anger. One of the first times that I saw such a post, it was most surprising. As the times that I had talked to her, she was most sweet and endearing. Someone that I could not imagine was filled with so much anger and frustration. That is until I did find the source of it . . .

But still Miss Abigail didn't seem like that kind of person. But that she is. So I guess it seems as Miss Abigail is Typhoid Abigail. 8-) That is not a bad thing Miss Abigail, we all have two sides to our personality.

The good thing about the end of the story is that Spider-Man, through his acts of kindness, is able to make her realize who her true self was, and was able to surpress Typhoid. Although in the great gist of comics, of course Typhoid resurfaces and the story starts again.

Well that is my thoughts on Miss Abigail and Typhoid Mary. I hope that in my attempt I made no offence Miss Abigail 8-)

Batgirl . . . aka Barbara Gordon

Miss Mindpower wanted to know who reminded me of her most in comics, as far as charecters. Now this was kind of borderline, so I decided to post it in both blogs.

Barbara started out as Batgirl, inevertantly. Batman was never one to make personal apperances. He believes he does what he does to fight crime, unknowning that he inspires people without trying. There was a need for more of Batman's presence to inspire people that their town was safe. One of these instances was during a parade in Commisoner Gordon's honor (Barbara's father). Batman has great faith in Commisoner Gordon, and honors him by helping him fight crime in Gotham. But Barbara felt that an apperance at the parade would help the people of Gotham. So she decided to make an apperance herself, in a costume she made. After that, it just kind of stuck.

Later, in her career as Batgirl, she feel victim to the Joker. But as Barbara Gordon. In an attempt to get at Commisoner Gordon, the Joker came to their house, shot Barbara, and kidnapped her. Batman finally did rescue her, but the gunshot had lodged in her spine and she was a parapalegic, paralized from the waist down.

Unable to fight crime as Batgirl, Barbara, became the Oracle. And this is where I find the similarites between her and Miss Mindpower. The Oracle was the central intelligence for Batman and Robin. Housed in an unknown safehouse, surrounded by equipment to help her, Oracle did much of Batman's legwork while he was on the run. She used her intelligence and famliarity with computers and such devices to help Batman run down criminals and analyize clues and evidence. She used her mind to help Batman when he was unable to do it himself. Eventually she expanded to also help the JLA, in finding and going over evidence for them too.

Even as Batgirl, she used her brain to overcome crimes and criminals, and was a constant asset to Batman. The mind never ceases to amaze when put to good use, and this is what Barbara did, able to handle many inquiries by all the super-heroes of the DC Universe.

So there Miss Mindpower, there is your comic twin double. Continue to flex your brain and you will go places that some people will never be. I hope you liked this here post. Make sure to let me know what you think. Take care Miss Mindpower.

Well I went to the comic book shop yesterday and really snagged me some awesome issues.

1) Batman #336-339 Batman: Year 3

This is the story of the release of Tony Zucco, the man responsible for killing Dick Grayson's (the orginial Robin, now Nightwing) parents release from prison. It is about the effect that it had on everyone, Alfred, Dick, and Bruce. And this is shortly after "A Death In The Family" in Batman #426-429 where the second Robin, Jason Todd was killed by the Joker. It reminds me why comics of old so far surpass anything done in this decade.

2) Incredible Hulk #330, 332, 333, 350

These are this issues that I was missing that make up the "Grey Hulk" storyline. This is where the persona of both Bruce Banner and the Hulk, come together to form a new hulk, with grey colored skin. This Hulk, although weaker in power as compared to the green Hulk, far surpasses the green Hulk in intelligence. In fact as he went on to take the name Mr. Fix-It and worked as hired muscle in Las Vegas as a mob inforcer. One of the best storyarcs of Hulk.

3) Batman #400

Haven't read it yet, but it has a forward by Stephen King.

4) Batman #441, 443

The missing issues I need for the "A Lonely Place of Dying" storyline, also very good.

5) The Saga of Ras Al Ghul

A reprinting of some of the classic clashes between Batman and Ras AL Ghul. One of Batman's most formitable foes.

Thought that I would relay some of the awesome comics that I got in my collection as of yesterday. The one thing that I was really looking for, I didn't get. I am only missing one issue of the "grey hulk" storyline. Incredible Hulk #340. Wish me luck in finding it and convincing my wife it is worth $50.

Take care all and thanks for stopping by.

I remember this as one of the first storylines I remember reading when I discovered Legends of the Dark Knight (LOTDK). It quickly became one of the best titles of Batman.

For one thing, it carried short storylines, 2-5 issues long, so that it was something that new readers, could always jump into at anytime, without having to purchase multiple back issues just to catch up with what was going on presently. Another thing was that the stories where many times written by a different writer and artist. So that there was always differnent interpertaions and thoughts on Batman and Bruce Wyane's charecter. The series was started to give up and coming artists and writers a chance to jump into mainstream comics and make a name for themselves. A lot of good art and stories were told in these pages of LOTDK.

But my post is about a particular storyline in LOTDK. I looked back through my older comics, many times the ones that I remember finding back when I first started collecting comics. This was the second storyline I read, since I picked up LOTDK.


Written by James Robinson
Art by John Watkins
Published by DC Comics
Date: May-June 1995

The first issue kind of sets up the story, how Batman gets involved in this crime and how it takes him to London. (Which I thought was kind of clique.) Well the story starts that Batman went to Gordan in response to two murders. Both of them were people that worked for Bruce Wayne at the Wayne Foundation. The first was shot, pretty straightforward. The second however, a Dr. Hugh Downs (I don't that is in relation to Mr. 20/20. Sorry Barbara Walters, I have a wad of "You aint Hugh Downs" and can't hear what you are saying) was murdered viciously. Torn apart. So after some investigation, Batman first suspects something with WayneTech's office in London, as they were already under suspicion of using the office as a front for money laundrering.

So Batman decides to go to London, at the suspicion of his own employees and the eyewitness, testimony of Hugh Downs death, that is was a werewolf that killed him, as Dr. Downs was out walking his dog when he was attacked. Well on arriving in London, Batman goes to work with his patented investigating. Coming across a suspecious man named Tommy Twist that has connections to Charles Blake that was rumored to be a crime boss, using a legitimate buisness as a front for his illegal activites. But Blake himself had been missing for years, as he had disapered shortly after his wife divorced him and has not been seen since. As the London police, working with Batman, tell him that Blake's buisness was bought a while back, by a Willian Sinclair in a hostile takeover. So thinking that maybe Sincliar had something to do with it, Batman decides to visit Sinclair's home. He doesn't find Sincliar, but he does find . . .



Wowsers that's a big a meataball! Look how he throws Batman around . . .



That left panel is one of my favorite renditions of Batman. Both as the charecter and how once he is set to a task, nothing will stop him, not even a possible broken rib. And also artisticly. The look of determination as he brushes of the broken glass to return to the battle with the werewolf. That is determination there. As you can see from the panel next to it, that Sinclair is most definatly dead. But who did it and who is the werewolf? Batman's thoughts on that? Blake is the werewolf. But why and how?

Batman's investigations take him to a cult know for their worship of this feral beast. However, them and their leader Raven, claim that they don't know of the wereabouts of the werewolf, or who is human alter ego is. So Batman must investigate further to figure this mystery out.

The more Batman finds out the more that it still leads back to Blake. So Batman goes to find Tommy Twist once again. But before he can the police call Batman and explain that while they were at a stakeout for Blake, they woke up, feeling drugged and one of their men, Yeardley was killed by the werewolf. So what kind of werewolf has to drug people to kill them?

So Batman after confronting Tommy one more time to give him a chance to come clean, Tommy sets out to put a price on Batman's head, because of his interupting their buisness. Batman has given Tommy a chance to come clean. Believe me Batman will be back and this time Tommy will not be happy.



A new tip comes to Batman's attention. Blake's ex-wife called Bruce Wayne (who I forgot to say was the woman that Bruce Wayne was renting a flat for his stay in London) to tell him that while she was cleaning through some of Blake's stuff that he had left their after their divorce, she found something that may lead to finding Blake himself. But what he found was not what he was suspecting. The information that Blake's ex-wife had found, was a note that after Blake's buisness went under, his equipment from his buisness was moved to a up until then undisclosed location. So Batman goes to this location in hopes to find some clues. But what he finds his Blake himself. Long dead, for months. But what he did find was Blake's journal. What he discovers is that Blake was indeed a werewolf, and that he was working in seclusion to try and find a cure for the curse of the wolf. Of course, right on schedule, Tommy Twist catches up with Batman, and a battle begins. Tommy is killed by the werewolf, in an attempt to avenge his brother's death at the hands of the werewolf. But not before the werewolf can escape, Batman is able to defeat the beast. But what was all this about and who was the real killer?

Read on . . .







So that is the story. It was a great one. That is one of things that I like about Batman stories. Is that the most simplistic things can make a great story when Batman is concerned. There are some of the most fabulous stories can come from a simple crime that can make a helluva story.

Thanks for reading my posts and I hope that you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed posting it and the memories that came with remembering such a good story. Take care all.