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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Bill, DC was a wee bit over-enthusiastic; I believe there were pilots made, and the over-optimistic publisher just jumped the gun.  The Flash made it as part of the Justice League on The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, but the male chauvinists kept Wonder Woman off the roster (and, thus, out of the cartoon).

I seem to recall a screening of the Plastic Man pilot at a convention some 30-odd years ago; we didn't miss out on much.  If memory serves, it was based on DC's "revival" of the character - Woozy Winks was replaced by a bespectacled, plaid-jacket-and-bow-tie wearing "pre-yuppie"-type [named Gordon K. ("Gordy") Trueblood], and this Plas was the son of the original(!)*

 

*I have the same problem with this that I have with Reed getting Sue pregnant -- with a rubbery consistency, how do these guys--y'know...how do they...well...y'KNOW...  At least the Elongated Man could just lay off the gingold if he and Sue (Dibny) wanted to >ahem!< "get frisky".

Sue: "Hey, Reed!  Y'got wood?"  Ben: "Naw, he got RUBBER!  Haw!  Haw!"  Many, MANY apologies to Stan 'n' Jack.



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 Brian wrote:
...Wow, Matt. Slow day at the shop?  ;) ...

LOL! Well, a little bit (it's been off and on today), but I actually had most of these pictures scanned for some time. The scans that are from the back covers of comics come from eBay scans I made for stuff I sold.

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Oh, NO!  Now some super-villain is gonna load Kryptonite into that Automatic Firing Tripod Machine Gun and >gulp!< TAKE OUT SUPERMAN!  Matt, how COULD you?!?
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 Michael Andrew Gonoude wrote:
...Oh, NO!  Now some super-villain is gonna load Kryptonite into that Automatic Firing Tripod Machine Gun and >gulp!< TAKE OUT SUPERMAN!  Matt, how COULD you?!?...

Gasp! You're right. Michael! I hadn't though... I never even considered how such information could fall into the wrong hands!! I hope Superman can forgive me!

Wait a tic! Luckily, these ads have since expired! Whew! No evil-doer will be able to order these things anytime soon! Yayy!!!

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The next two are not exactly PC...

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