...so now we're presenting another of his never-reprinted encounters with denizens of the DC Universe!
By "2nd page following", we mean "tomorrow", when Refrew and you, dear reader, will see what's in the ring!
E Nelson Bridwell scripted and Bob Oksner drew this meeting of The Flash and his Rogues' Gallery with the multi-media comedy icon from DC's Adventures of Jerry Lewis #112 (1969).
And, like the Wonder Woman appearance, it's decidedly non-Silver Age (or any Age) canon!
The then-non-super-powered Wonder Woman meets fan Jerry Lewis and his nephew Renfriew!
After Jerry accidentally injures her, Diana, Jerry, and Renfriew are teleported to Paradise Island to rescue her mother who has been kidnapped by Zodor the Barbarian.
Jerry, with the aid of Amazon Brawnhilde, defeats Zodor's best warrior, Bulque.
Now they must figure out how to rescue Diana's mother, Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons!
Wait!
According to the sales figures at the bottom of the last page, this book was selling 174,000 copies an issue?
DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and the others would kill for those sort of sales figures today!
Note: We originally-planned to present the never-reprinted...
..based on the lost TV series Once a Hero, but Lewis' passing has inspired (if that's the word) us to present his never-reprinted team-ups with DC Comics' icons!
Jerry had one of the longest-running books among the celebrity-comic book crowd.
Starring Lewis and his then-partner, The Adventures of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis debuted in July, 1952, ran for 40 issues, and ended when the partnership did, in mid-1957.
DC kept the title going without Dino for another 84 issues until June 1971, plus one 68-page Super DC Giant! for a total of 125 books...an impressive run by anyone's standards.
During this run, Jerry encountered Superman, Batman, the Flash, and last, but not least, Wonder Woman, who was in her non-super-powered story arc that ran from 1968 to 1972.
But writer Alan Riefe, penciler Bob Oksner, and inker Tex Blaisdell decided to go a bit outside the Wonder Woman series continuity and allow Diana to return to Paradise Island...which she couldn't do at that point in the comic!
Yes, this never-reprinted tale from AoJL #117 (1970) is not Silver-Age canon! Shocking, ain't it?
While Batman was a comic character played by Adam West on TV from 1966 to 1968...
...Adam West himself had already appeared in comic books five years earlier!
His character, Detective Sgt Steve Nelson was added to the cast for the third and final season of the police procedural The Detectives,which already featured a pair of actors who would go on to other genre shows during the 1960s...Mark Goddard on Lost in Space and Tige Andrews on The Mod Squad!
A strip based on The Detectives had several appearances in Dell's Four Color Comics anthology as tryouts for an ongoing run, but the show's cancellation ended those plans after only three issues.
West's character, Steve Nelson, appears in only one story out of the six which were published.
Written by Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer and illustrated by Nat Edison, this never-reprinted tale from Dell's Four Color #1219 renders Adam West with rather prominent arched eyebrows and light brown (almost sandy) hair!
BTW, if you want to see Adam West in action as Steve Nelson, sadly, you're out of luck. The Detectives has never been issued on video, not even in the VHS days and is not currently running on any channel in the US!
I found a single episode from the third season on YouTube.
It's in four parts, and the video will guide you to the other three parts...
The series is available on a German DVD set, but it's dubbed in German and has no English subtitles!
Besides the three comic issues, there was a single novel by Norman Daniels (who did a lot of movie and TV adaptations)
R.I.P.
Adam West
1928-2017
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