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Tom vs. Comics

Tom Vs. DC Special #6

Tom vs. Comics

Thomas Katers

Arts, Visual Arts, Books

4.9575 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Death Times Five

 

Writer: Gerry Conway

Penciller: Arvell Jones

Inker: Bob McLeod

Colorist: Jerry Serpe

Editor: Jack C. Harris

Cover by Rich Buckler & Jack Abel

Music by Big Dipper

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tom versus DC Special number six or Gotham City has the worst museums.

0:12.5

Welcome back for DC Special number six featuring the Secret Society of Supervillains,

0:17.4

August 1977 issue, featured covered by Rich Buckler and Jack Abel.

0:21.2

Our issue for today, we have so many issues. Our story for today is death times five,

0:26.6

written by Jerry Conway, penciled by Arvell Jones, inked by Bob McLeod, colored by Jerry Serp,

0:31.6

edited by Jack C. Harris. And we start exactly where we ended last story

0:37.8

funky shocked and surprised he's returned to the sinister

0:41.2

citadel and grot is put together his own secret

0:44.8

society of supervillains and funky doesn't want anything to do

0:48.5

about it because he does not want to commit murder

0:51.0

that's right funky might be a lot of things

0:53.3

he might have

0:54.6

sword. No, he didn't work for Dark Side. I mean, I was going to say, he's involved with a lot of

1:01.4

people that have probably committed murder at some point, right? Or very, very seriously

1:06.5

injured people. But that is not a line that Funky will cross. And because of that, that's why

1:11.4

Grod put together this new secret society. He's got Star Sapphire. He's got Engelman, who is a totally lame Wonder Woman villain with like a new thing going for him, which we'll see in this issue, Sinestro's, Return to Earth to be part of it, Poison Ivy's part of it, Bizarro's part of him. Bizarro in a fit of rage wants to smash.

1:29.5

Funky. Sinestra stops him because Gras has to explain exactly what's going on. Because he is so

1:35.4

arrogant. You see, they're going after the five most powerful superheroes on earth. Batman, Green

1:40.1

Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Superman. See, they fought them all before individually,

1:44.6

Imano, Imano, or ape, imano.

1:47.5

And they've lost, but working together as a team under Gorilla Gras'

1:50.6

leaderhip, they can destroy the superheroes by picking off one by one.

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