Searching for the five Two-Faces of the Golden Age
Wanted: scans of BATMAN # 50 and particularly # 68. They're not reprinted anywhere, not even in any of the hardcover archive editions! Heck with it, I may just do a request post at scans_daily.
I very much want to do an epic essay about the five different Two-Faces in the Golden Age, with a special focus on the three different takes on the character of Paul Sloane. And heck, I'm interested to actually read the original Sloane story, as well as the Wilkins the Butler. Yes, Harvey even has a butler who dresses up as him to commit crimes. I love the Golden Age!
jlroberson was awesome enough to post the BATMAN newspaper strip version of Two-Face # 2. In this version, he's not Harvey Dent, District Attorney, but rather Harvey Apollo, ham actor.
I kind of love this version. I imagine him sounding like Calculon.
DRAMA!!!
On that scans_daily post, psychopathicus_rex responded to my discussion of the five Two-Faces by saying, "I kind of like the concept of Two-Face as the ultimate legacy villain, an identity assumed by countless people obsessed by the horrific original. It's even plausible - after all, all you would need to become Two-Face is to have half of your face scarred or disfigured somehow, and there are hundreds of ways that that could happen. Acid, fire, car accidents, a stroke - or, of course, something deliberate and removable like makeup. He could be like the Dr. Mabuse of Batman's rogues."
I think it'd actually be fascinating to see what happens with that in the modern continuity. It'd certainly allow poor Harvey to grow free from his Sisyphean lot in life and explore themes of duality in other ways.
Me, I quixotically hoped that Harvey would stay healed and sane (ish) as a vigilante antihero post-ONE YEAR LATER and that the mantle of Two-Face would have been taken up by Alexander Luthor, having survived the Joker's gunshot. I would have loved to have seen that, even if the risk was we'd get more of the wanky, petulant Luthor we say in INFINITE CRISIS. But hey, if Superboy-Prime can be made interesting, anything's possible!
I very much want to do an epic essay about the five different Two-Faces in the Golden Age, with a special focus on the three different takes on the character of Paul Sloane. And heck, I'm interested to actually read the original Sloane story, as well as the Wilkins the Butler. Yes, Harvey even has a butler who dresses up as him to commit crimes. I love the Golden Age!
jlroberson was awesome enough to post the BATMAN newspaper strip version of Two-Face # 2. In this version, he's not Harvey Dent, District Attorney, but rather Harvey Apollo, ham actor.
I kind of love this version. I imagine him sounding like Calculon.
DRAMA!!!
On that scans_daily post, psychopathicus_rex responded to my discussion of the five Two-Faces by saying, "I kind of like the concept of Two-Face as the ultimate legacy villain, an identity assumed by countless people obsessed by the horrific original. It's even plausible - after all, all you would need to become Two-Face is to have half of your face scarred or disfigured somehow, and there are hundreds of ways that that could happen. Acid, fire, car accidents, a stroke - or, of course, something deliberate and removable like makeup. He could be like the Dr. Mabuse of Batman's rogues."
I think it'd actually be fascinating to see what happens with that in the modern continuity. It'd certainly allow poor Harvey to grow free from his Sisyphean lot in life and explore themes of duality in other ways.
Me, I quixotically hoped that Harvey would stay healed and sane (ish) as a vigilante antihero post-ONE YEAR LATER and that the mantle of Two-Face would have been taken up by Alexander Luthor, having survived the Joker's gunshot. I would have loved to have seen that, even if the risk was we'd get more of the wanky, petulant Luthor we say in INFINITE CRISIS. But hey, if Superboy-Prime can be made interesting, anything's possible!