Cinder's Fábrica de Heróis Thread (Amazo and Despero - Modern and Golden Age)

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Re: Cinder's Fábrica de Heróis Thread (Amazo and Despero - Modern and Golden Age)

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Cinder wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:00 pm Amazo (Golden Age)

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This one is Amazo's 2nd costume. Black Canary designed it in "Justice League of America" #112, from 1974. During what most fans call the early Bronze Age.*

His first costume, from "The Brave & the Bold #30" (1960) (Silver Age) looks like your Modern Age version from the waist up and from the "Golden Age" version from the waist down.
Cinder wrote: Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:00 pm Amazo (Modern Age)

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Ken wrote: Sat Dec 12, 2020 2:42 am
This one is Amazo's 2nd costume. Black Canary designed it in "Justice League of America" #112, from 1974. During what most fans call the early Bronze Age.*

His first costume, from "The Brave & the Bold #30" (1960) (Silver Age) looks like your Modern Age version from the waist up and from the "Golden Age" version from the waist down.
Very interesting. I’ll have to read those issues. Would you say that the Black Canary costume was more commonly portrayed?
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The '70s and 80s costume was easily more prevalent.

His first costume was only seen in the aforementioned "The Brave and the Bold" #30 (during the JLA's tryout run) and then #27 and #65 (and early in #112 before the change).

The 2nd costume was used in #112 and #191, and the first JLA Annual. But it was also used in several issues during the "Justice League Detroit" era, and Amazo made a number of appearances in "Superman" and/or "Action" because Amazo made for a good Superman foe (and by then, legendary JLA editor Julius Schwartz was the editor of the Superman books) and his appearances in the "villain army" during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths".

Anything after 1985 is anyone's guess because redesigns were, by then, common, and DC stopped giving artists model sheets and color guides.

Oddly the costume introduced in the late 1990s JLA comic, the modern one you have, could have easily been his first costume except for the coloring.
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