#Johnny hazard

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Frank Robbins - Johnny Hazard Sunday 11/08/1959

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Fifties faces from Johnny Hazard by Frank Robbins

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Johnny Hazard Quarterly #2 cover. 1986. Art by Alex Toth.

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Lady Jaguar

Johnny Hazard

Frank Robbins

12 juin 1949

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New stuff.

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Johnny Hazard, 2-U, 1986

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Frank Robbins: Johnny Hazard daily strip original art (1958)

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August 1972. Although the cover of DETECTIVE COMICS #426 is by Mike Kaluta, the Batman story inside — aptly entitled "Killer's Roulette!" — is both written and drawn by Frank Robbins.

Robbins was a comics veteran whose primary occupation from 1944 to 1977 was the syndicated newspaper strip JOHNNY HAZARD, which he created after a stint on SCORCHY SMITH. The latter strip was created by Noel Sickles, who was also a friend and former studio mate of Milt Caniff, on whose style Sickles had a strong influence. Robbins, unsurprisingly, had an adjacent style. Here's one of his relatively early JOHNNY HAZARD strips, from late 1945:

Between 1968 and 1974, Robbins became one of the regular writers of BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS, perhaps best-known today for writing the early appearances of Man-Bat. Robbins drew a handful of Batman stories himself, which always polarized readers expecting Neal Adams-like realism. However, all of those stories stand out for their atmosphere, energy, and storytelling skill. Let's look at a couple of pages of "Killer's Roulette!" as Batman confronts Conway Treach, a gambler with a taste for Russian roulette who's been linked to three apparent suicides in Gotham City:

The "partner in 'Hazard'" line is Robbins' in-joke: Bruce had previously introduced himself to Treach, while mildly disguised but out of costume, as a gambler calling himself "John T. Hazard" (which of course was Johnny Hazard's full name). Treach had invited "Hazard" to play Russian roulette, producing the revolver on the table for that purpose.

(Batman seems surprisingly unconcerned about the possibility of Treach recognizing "Hazard" as Bruce Wayne, which in an earlier era would probably have become a major preoccupation of the story.)

The revolver-chamber montage feels like something from the Batman stories of the early 1950s, with their fascination with oversize props, although it's certainly dramatic. As you may have surmised, Batman has deduced that Treach's revolver is gimmicked, which is why he remains so unflappable; both of them are actually in very little danger, although Treach is hoping Batman doesn't know that (and seems more than a little nervous about making a potentially lethal mistake with his own trick).

Denny O'Neil, the other principal Batman writer of this period, would not have written this story, at least not like this — O'Neil treated Batman as having a more or less pathological aversion to guns rather than simply disdaining them — and this sequence is surprisingly ruthless for Batman, gimmick or no. However, it's tightly constructed and quite tense, and it provides a greater-than-usual payoff of the issue's provocative cover.

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i drew johnny "soap" mactavish as phreak (the original design) from overwatch.

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'Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.'

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Gay? Like horror? And reading about people making fucked up decisions? Check out Johnny and wonder how one man could be so stupid.

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Frank Robbins - Johnny Hazard Sunday 06/21/1959

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Fifties faces from Johnny Hazard by Frank Robbins

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August 18th was the birthday of one of my favorite actors: Patrick Swayze, may he rest in peace. In honor of that I put together a couple of caps of my favorite characters that he played: Miss Vida Boheme, Orry Main, and Johnny Castle <3

Happy Birthday Patrick!

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Johnny Hazard (12-15-69)

by Frank Robbins

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Johnny, to the tech team in the forces: hear me out, explosive sunglasses-