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Bill Collins
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Posted: 31 May 2026 at 6:45am \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

I had just started an afternoon 2pm-10pm shift at work in
a steel processing factory (We're 5 hours ahead of New
York) and in our bay we had no radio because it was too
noisy. A maintenance fitter who had a radio in his
workshop told us what had happened, and like J.B. we
imagined a light aircraft like a Cessna embedded in one
of the towers. As he learned more, he kept us informed
and the true horror became clear. (Nowadays we'd be
watching it on our phones)
I remember coming home and switching on the tv and being
stunned by the horrific footage. It was like a movie, but
real, was my overbearing thought.

I am a fan of New York based band Dream Theater, and they
had an image on one of their albums of a burning heart
wrapped in barbed wire. For their live version of a
subsequent album called Scenes From A Memory played in
their home city of New York-The Big Apple they had an
image of a burning apple wrapped in barbed wire with a
silhouette of the New York Skyline in the background with
The Two Towers clearly visible, they called the album
Live Scenes From New York. It was released on 9/11/01 and
was hastily withdrawn and a new cover designed. On
Tuesday 9/12/01 a pre-ordered copy of said album was
delivered by mail. I can't begin to explain how weird it
felt to open that package and see that prescient scene on
the cd cover.

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Posted: 08 June 2026 at 2:05pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Looking at that MAN OF STEEL page all these years later, it is SO obvious Giordano didn’t ink it.

Thanks a lot, Dick.

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Mike Devlin
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Posted: 08 June 2026 at 3:59pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Did Dick ink *any* of Man of Steel, JB, in actual fact?

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Posted: 08 June 2026 at 5:43pm \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

He inked some faces and figures. He did the most on the third issue.

The rest was Frank McLaughlin, which I learned from Frank years later.

(This has got to be some of the weirdest thread drift ever!)

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Mike Devlin
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Posted: 08 June 2026 at 6:30pm \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

Wow yeah it really is! heh

So Frank does the lion's share of the inking and doesn't even receive a credit? Seems unethical from DC/ DG.

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