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Robo Ape
08-06-2008, 07:38 AM
A while ago I asked what the strangest title was that Marvel ever published & I just realized I never asked what the strangest DC title ever published was?
JohnRD
08-06-2008, 07:50 AM
Man, I'm pretty sure this was DC and not Marvel, but somewhere I have two volumes of Super Heroes vs Super Apes. I haven't seen it in at least 10 years as it has been filed away forever, but I think it was DC.
Sean Walsh
08-06-2008, 07:52 AM
Something about DC publishing a comic book called PLOP! always weirded me out...
DonC
08-06-2008, 09:03 AM
Well, you have The Phantom Stranger and The Weird. How're those?
Robo Ape
08-06-2008, 12:02 PM
Didn't DC produce some odd celebrity tie-in titles in the 70's?
Shellhead
08-06-2008, 05:09 PM
My uncle had the entire run of this short-lived series. Goofy comics, but kind of fun:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/82843067128.4.gif
Seraku
08-06-2008, 05:38 PM
Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison
Babylon23
08-06-2008, 05:59 PM
There's always Brother Power, the Geek.
foxley
08-06-2008, 06:16 PM
Brother Power, the Geek would take some beating.

There was also that Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic.
Tetsuo_man
08-06-2008, 06:46 PM
Tomahawk which was set in pioneer days with dinosaurs and giants...i'm not making this up.
Joey Deadcat
08-06-2008, 07:39 PM
Prez was a pretty offbeat title (though, I'm sure Joe Simon was inspired by the film, Wild In The Streets). There's also Jack Kirby's The Dingbats that I thought looked kinda interesting. I'd love to track down these oddball titles that DC had put out during the early 70s! !:smile:
rwe1138
08-06-2008, 08:46 PM
Nothing can top the awesomeocity of Rex the Wonder Dog!
Kid Kyoto
08-07-2008, 12:05 AM
Gotta go with the 80s classic wasteland

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3391/200/3391_2_01.jpg

It was an anthology book of horror stories, surrealism, biography, basically whatever the writers felt like that month.

It makes vertigo look tame.

I should break those out and reread them, there was some good stuff in there.
Robo Ape
08-08-2008, 04:43 AM
There was also that Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic.

This was the sort of title I was thinking of, wasn't their some other titles like this featuring other well known celebrities of the time?
Augusto
08-08-2008, 05:43 PM
What about "Adventures of Bob Hope"?
I can expect dinosaurs, giants and anything else, it's comics! But Bob Hope? Weird.
Mon-el
08-08-2008, 06:19 PM
My uncle had the entire run of this short-lived series. Goofy comics, but kind of fun:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/82843067128.4.gif

I wholeheartedly agree with Shellhead. They was very fun and great series.

Strange Stories #5 also will go in my most terrifying comic as well.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Mon-el/CBR/2107_2_5.jpg

The Game of Death on the ice was really fun for me as a kid

I read Shell's suggestion too, Issue #2 also had very nice stories.

I read them all in Dc Special Best of the Blue Ribbon Digest Strange Sports #13
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/Mon-el/CBR/20676m.jpg
ashez2ashes
08-08-2008, 07:00 PM
I saw scans from a Wonder Woman and Jerry Lewis crossover on Scans Daily once...
dan bailey
08-08-2008, 08:48 PM
Man, I'm pretty sure this was DC and not Marvel, but somewhere I have two volumes of Super Heroes vs Super Apes. I haven't seen it in at least 10 years as it has been filed away forever, but I think it was DC.

Yep -- actually Super Heroes vs Super Gorillas, I believe. One was a one-shot, the other an issue of DC Special, both back ini the mid-'70s.
Ghost Shark
08-08-2008, 08:57 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/BadRonald/abug-unvictorious.jpg
rick
08-08-2008, 09:02 PM
The Green Team for me.


http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6449/greenteam01ap5.jpg
mgs
08-08-2008, 11:59 PM
The Green Team for me.
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so...the Green Team's power is that......they give you money??? O.o
Sir Tim Drake
08-09-2008, 09:24 AM
There is only one possible answer to this question:

http://www.collectmad.com/collectibles/plop.jpg
Robo Ape
08-10-2008, 06:28 AM
What about "Adventures of Bob Hope"?
I can expect dinosaurs, giants and anything else, it's comics! But Bob Hope? Weird.

Anyone got a scan for this as it sounds rather odd to say the least?
princesa
08-10-2008, 12:33 PM
Green Lantern Mosaic that starred John Stewart was as odd as it gets. Really wordy and really different and not really a 'superhero' book.
dancj
08-11-2008, 05:28 AM
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol. That was quite mental!
celticguy
08-11-2008, 07:55 AM
Brother Power, the Geek would take some beating.

There was also that Superman vs. Muhammad Ali comic.

I read that I reember Ali throwing a flurry of punches at Supes mid section and superman just standing there.

I think Ali fought spiderman too once.
rwe1138
08-11-2008, 10:03 AM
Green Lantern Mosaic that starred John Stewart was as odd as it gets. Really wordy and really different and not really a 'superhero' book.

Highlighted by Ch'p getting run over by a yellow truck.
Captain Jim
08-11-2008, 03:22 PM
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer?
Robo Ape
08-12-2008, 11:44 AM
I read that I reember Ali throwing a flurry of punches at Supes mid section and superman just standing there.

I think Ali fought spiderman too once.

I think someone mentioned the Spider-Man title in the Marvel thread about odd titles.
DoubleWide
08-16-2008, 11:07 AM
How about Blitzkrieg? It told tales of World War Two from the German perspective.
rick
08-16-2008, 11:13 AM
Anyone got a scan for this as it sounds rather odd to say the least?

It ran for like 20 years too.


http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/5439/300pxbobhope109ig0.jpg
foxley
08-16-2008, 06:39 PM
DC also published a Jerry Lewis title that ran 124 issues, originally as Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and then as Adventures of Jerry Lewis and towards the end of the run started including appearances by DC superheroes (raising the possibility that they are part of mainstream DC continuity).

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1243/400/1243_4_0112.jpg
Robo Ape
08-17-2008, 06:40 AM
It ran for like 20 years too.


http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/5439/300pxbobhope109ig0.jpg

Thanks for that much appreciated. It's always interesting to see these strange celebrity cross-overs.
Hatut Zeraze
08-17-2008, 11:34 PM
There are a lot of good candidates listed here, but I have to back up Kid Kyoto on this one. Wasteland was a truly bizarre title. One character that came back in 2 or 3 different issues was the Dead Detective. He was shot in the forehead and died. He remained conscious, but couldn't move or speak. People continued to come to his detective agency to get him to help him with strange results, because the mystery never really ended up being the point, assuming there was one.

Gotta go with the 80s classic wasteland

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3391/200/3391_2_01.jpg

It was an anthology book of horror stories, surrealism, biography, basically whatever the writers felt like that month.

It makes vertigo look tame.

I should break those out and reread them, there was some good stuff in there.