#jose delbo

[jetslay]

Superman/Clark & Lois portraits.

[tomoleary]

Jose Delbo and Joe Sinnott - Brute Force #1 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1990) Source

Jose Delbo and Mike DeCarlo - Brute Force #2

Jose Delbo and Mike DeCarlo - Brute Force #3 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1990) Source

Jose Delbo and Mike DeCarlo - Brute Force #4

[cantsayidont]

September 1980. Yet another change in direction for the Bronze Age Wonder Woman, and the addition of a new eight-page backup strip starring the Huntress, daughter of Earth-2's late Batman and Catwoman. The "new twist" for Wonder Woman was the second return of Steve Trevor. Steve had been killed off back in 1968 (in WONDER WOMAN #180); he returned briefly in 1974 as a "mentally-induced" illusion and was resurrected for real two years later (in WONDER WOMAN #223). He died again in WONDER WOMAN #248, leaving Diana bereft. In the issue before this one, Hippolyta prays for Aphrodite to cut Diana some slack, which the goddess does by using the Mists of Nepenthe to erase Diana's memories of Steve. Almost immediately after that, the Steve Trevor of a parallel Earth crash-lands near Paradise Island and is rescued by Diana as she did in her first meeting with the Earth-1 Steve. In this issue, Aphrodite says she can't send this Steve home, "for even I do not know from which of an infinity of worlds he came," so Hippolyta sends Diana to take him back to Man's World and resume her role as Wonder Woman, while Aphrodite uses the Mists of Nepenthe to "cause every man, woman, and child on Earth to forget that Steve Trevor ever died." The only one on Earth who remembers the truth is Hippolyta. (This blew up later: Diana eventually discovered that her memories had been altered and was not happy about it, although she and this Steve got married during the Crisis.) All very messy.

The new Huntress backup strip picked up from Helena Wayne's short-lived feature in THE BATMAN FAMILY, which had ended temporarily when that book was folded into DETECTIVE COMICS. Initially written by Paul Levitz and drawn by Joe Staton (inked in this first three-part story by Steve Mitchell), the eight-page strip quickly overshadowed the main feature in quality and coherency, and the conventional wisdom was that between 1980 and 1984, many readers were buying this book for Helena rather than Wonder Woman. The strip lost some steam in 1982 with the departure of Levitz, succeeded by Joey Cavalieri, and then the loss of Staton, leading to more than a year and a half of artistic musical chairs. The backup was finally dropped from WONDER WOMAN in 1984, but the final installment in issue #321 proclaimed, "Word has it that people want a full-length Huntress comic every month…so we're working on it--no fooling! Keep your eyes open for a mini-series, coming soon to a comic rack near you!" In the letters page, editor Alan Gold said there would soon be a four-issue miniseries by Cavalieri and Eduardo Barreto, but it never materialized, and the Huntress met a much crueler fate in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS.

Without her, WONDER WOMAN was soon demoted from monthly to bimonthly status, managing only eight more issues before it was canceled in early 1986 in anticipation of its post-Crisis relaunch.

[wwprice1]

Awesome throwback cover and story!

[wonderbatpanels]

Wonder Woman Vol. 1 #223 (1976)

"... But I've still got a long way to go before I'm my former self again!"

"Oh, come on, Di-- you're not going to start that again!"

[smashedpages]

Rest in peace, José Delbo.

[nerds-yearbook]

The New Teen Titans were introduced in the anthology DC Comics Presents 26#, cover date of October, 1980. The issue premiered Beast Boy/Changling, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire and Silas Stone who were created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. ("Superman and Green Lantern: Between Friend and Foe", "New Teen Titans: Where Nightmares Begin", "Whatever Happened to Sargon the Sorcerer?", DC comic Event)

[cryptocollectibles]

NFL SuperPro #1 (October 1991) by Marvel Comics

Written by Fabian Nicieza, drawn by Jose Delbo and Mike DeCarlo, cover by John Romita, Ron Frenz, and by Joe Sinnott.

[evilhorse]

I-It’s Supergirl! Thank heavens!

[smashpages]

Quick Hits | Rest in peace, José Delbo

Plus: Amy Chu, Rob Liefeld, Frank Johnson and what the heck is going on with Cadence Comic Art?

[onlylonelylatino]

Zatara and Superbaby by José Delbo

[comicartarchive]

Wonder Woman 283 pg1 by Jose Delbo

[tomoleary]

Jose Delbo “Superman” Illustration Original Art (DC, c. 1970s) Source

[splooosh]

“Protectors of the Environment”

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Ghosts #38 ‘Specter in the Surf’, ‘The Midnight Ghost’ and ‘The Death-Demon of Prague’ (1975) by E.R. Cruz, John Calnan, José Delbo and others. Edited by Murray Boltinoff. Cover by Luis Dominguez and Tatjana Wood.

Ghosts #38, May 1975 Cover by Luis Dominguez

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