#steve mitchell

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Renee’s birthday.

From “Happy Birthday Two You…” from Detective Comics #747 (August 2000), written by Greg Rucka, art by William Rosado and Steve Mitchell, letters by Todd Klein.

These excerpts omit glimpses into Renee’s life while she was still in the closet, and the heavy weight she carries in both her personal and professional lives, which makes her moment of happiness at the end even more satisfying. Read the whole issue if you can find it.

[daily-bruce-wayne]

[80smovies]

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Comics Dungeon formerly in Seattle, Washington purchase: DC Comics Presents 30. Cover by Rich Buckler and Steve Mitchell.

[brokehorrorfan]

Chopping Mall is getting a novelization on November 19 via Encyclopocalypse Publications in association with Scream Factory. It will be published in paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book.

The 138-page adaptation is written by Brian G. Berry (The Barn: The Novelization), based on the screenplay for the 1986 cult classic by Jim Wynorski and Steve Mitchell.

High tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into "killbots" on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers! Four couples are trying to make it after hours in a mattress store. They make it alright-in the morgue!

Pre-order Chopping Mall: The Novelization.

[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.

[the-gershomite]

The Incredible Hulk versus Quasimodo #1 -March 1983-

Marvel Comics

writer: Bill Mantlo

artists: Sal Buscema & Steve Mitchell

letters: Jim Novak

colors: Bob Sharen

[splooosh]

“Crime goes on”

Frank Miller - Steve Mitchell

[burningfudge]

Cover by Luke McDonnell and Steve Mitchell

Iron Man (1968) #182

[sigurism]

Alain Delon (Steve Mitchell & Van Heflin) Once A Thief Dir: Ralph Nelson

[dirtyriver]

Icon #21, January 1995, written by Dwayne McDuffy, original art by M.D. Bright (pencils) and Mike Gustovich and Steve Mitchell (inks)

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Sleeping Pigs by Steve Mitchell

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[cryptocollectibles]

Iron Man #178 (January 1984) by Marvel Comics

Written by Bob Harras, drawn by Luke McDonnell and Steve Mitchell.

[tomoleary]

Luke McDonnell (Pencils) and Steve Mitchell (Inks) Iron Man #165 (December 1982) Source

Colorist uncredited.