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Neal Adams with Bob Haney on THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD. Yes, the Haney plots were always 'out there', and es, ultimately, the Haney-Aparo team became 'iconic'...and Nick Cardy, who drew most of the issues between Adams and Aparo, was great in his own right...but Adams' covers, in addition to his interiors, were mind-blowing..and, for at least those 8 issues, the art overshadowed the off-model quirkiness for which Haney is remembered.
Marin Pasko and Curt Swan(and various inkers) on SUPERMAN. Toward the end of the '70s, the erstwhile 'Pesky Pako' of letter columns went to work for Julie Schwartz. Then, in '76, he hit the big time, writing occasionally for JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, and regularly, through mid--1979, on SUPERMAN, as Cary Bates concentrated on ACTION COMICS. Pasko was known for injecting more costumed super-powered villains into SUPERMAN(while Bates went more for the 'weird looking and weird-named alien races who never made more than a single appearance.') Under Pasko's stewardship(and in ollaboration with Bates), Lana Lang returned to Metropolis, luv, becoming Clark Kent's co-anchor on WGBS. Meanwhile, Superman took on both familiar and unfamiliar(to Metropolis) the likes of Bizarro, Metallo, Blackrock, old and new iterations of Toyman, and even Kobra. And for good measure, Pasko kicked off DC COMICS PRESENTS with the 1978 edition of the 'Superman-Flash race',, which many consider the high point of DCCP.
Gerry Conway and George Perez on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Doing either JLA or NEW TEEN TITANS would be a full plate for any artist. Doing both simultaneously proved to be unsustainable for Perez, who stepped away after only a handful of issues on the League.But they are very fondly remembered stories, including two JSA team-ups, the Starro and Red Tornado/T.O. Morrow two-parters, an unappreciated gem in issue # 194 involving tarot cards come to life, and,in his JLA swan song, contributions to # 200.
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