#Eduardo Barreto

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Who’s Who in the DC Universe style pages from Blackhawk Annual #1 (circa May 1989)

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Michael Netzer's Portraits of the Creators Sketchbook

Gray Morrow, Lou Fine, Marshall Rogers, Wayne Boring, Norman Breyfogle, Eduardo Barreto, Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, Marie Severin, Dave Cockrum

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Eduardo Barreto; Flash Gordon

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“Titans Forever”

Eduardo Barreto

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On this day in 1989, DC Comics released Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography #1, by James Hudnall, Eduardo Barreto and Adam Kubert. Due to a C&D from LexCorp, that's all I'm allowed to say.

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January to April 2004. Fans of MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN would likely enjoy this poignant 2004 miniseries by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen, about a young man named Clark Kent in a world very much like ours, where Superman is a familiar — and fictional — pop culture icon. Clark grows up the butt of many jokes, but when he's in high school, he discovers that he really does have powers like Superman's, something that has no precedent in his world outside of comic books.

If this premise sounds familiar, it's because it's a lot like the origin of the Earth-Prime Superboy, before he became a way for Geoff Johns to mock comics fans (and for DC to play out its institutional hostility toward Siegel and Shuster). In the pre-Crisis era, Earth-Prime, one of editor Julius Schwartz's little jokes, was supposed to be our world, where comics artists, writers, and editors transcribed the adventures of the real heroes of the other Earths. In the afterword to the trade paperback compilation of SECRET IDENTITY, Busiek admits that the similarities were wholly intentional, and that while he didn't mention it in his proposal (and DC didn't advertise it as such), this was essentially his extrapolation of that 1985 concept by Elliot S! Maggin, Curt Swan, and Al Williamson.

After moving to New York City in his '20s, this Clark becomes a reporter — though not for the Daily Planet — and meets a young woman named Lois Chaudhari. To my knowledge, this was the first time a counterpart of Lois Lane was presented as an Asian woman (although of course she's not precisely Lois Lane).

Throughout most of the story, Clark uses his powers only in secret, but he does make himself a Superman costume. Eventually, he feels compelled to come clean with Lois:

Like Busiek's ASTRO CITY, SECRET IDENTITY is a very introspective story, less interested in action (of which there's relatively little) than in emotion and small observations of life with superhuman abilities. If you're expecting bigger dramatic stakes, you may find the series underwhelming — there are no supervillains or alien invasions, just Clark's reflections on his life and family, from childhood to old age — and the fact that the story never reveals why Clark has powers may frustrate. However, its autumnal wistfulness is appealing if you're in the right frame of mind for it. Immonen's art is gorgeous, and I can't think of a better artist for this story, which straddles the line between a real-world environment and the "heroic realism" of the modern superhero genre.

Fourteen years later, Busiek tried to do a similar story with Batman, BATMAN: CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, with John Paul Leon, which doesn't work nearly as well, wallowing in some uncomfortable attitudes about mental illness and an inappropriate though deliberately ambiguous supernatural element. Leon's art is interesting, but the story leaves a sour taste, and it does not succeed (at all) in doing for Batman what SECRET IDENTITY does for Superman, which is disappointing.

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Inks by Al Williamson

Pencils by:

John Romita, Jr.

Rick Leonardi

Mike Mignola

Claudio Castellini

Lee Weeks

Eduardo Barreto

Bret Blevins

Pat Oliff

Joe Quesada

Curt Swan

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Comics Dungeon formerly in Seattle, Washington purchase: DC Comics Presents Annual 4. Cover by Eduardo Barreto.

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The Flash Plus Nightwing

Eduardo Barreto, Gerry Fernandez, Ian Laughlin

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Blue Beetle and the Justice League by Eduardo Barreto

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Classic Titans goodness from Marv Wolfman, Eduardo Barreto, Romeo Tanghal, and Adrienne Roy.

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The Shadow Strikes house ad (circa August 1989)

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Eduardo Barreto The Shadow Strikes #9 (1990) Source

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Sinbad and the Coils of the Serpent

by Eduardo Barreto

Source: Brian Peck (comicartfans)

Sinbad and the Coils of the Serpent Promo piece, in Brian Peck's In Memory of Eduardo Barreto Comic Art Gallery Room

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“Cross over”

Romeo Tanghal - Eduardo Barreto

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The Shadow Strikes 1989-1992 DC Comics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive