Lex Luthor is hoping to distract the Man of Steel with a series of explosions in order to carry out his masterplan. But what is the villain up to? Read on!

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Marshall Rogers remains one of the definitive Batman artists for me, and this is from Secret Origins Volume 2 #6.

Poor Sue, she’s only able to tell her husband how she feels about him when he is unconscious. What kind of a marriage is that?

I’ve no time to discusss these in any detail as the girlfriend’s parents are arriving for the weekend in afew hours and if she gets home and discovers I haven’t hoovered it will be my ass getting kicked, so let’s just say “Holy shit Batman!” and leave it at that.

Just what the hell is that white gooey substance coming from Kid Quantum in Legionnaires #11? What do people get up to in the 30th century? It looks like the orgasmatron from Woody Allan’s Sleeper.

This beauty is from the early days of Marvel’s non-team The Defenders #6. Art is from Sal Buscema.

Everything you need to know about Marvel symbiotes can be found here. Nothing about them dancing though.

The Caped Crusader shows it doesn’t make one goddamn bit of difference if you bring a knife to a fistfight. From Batman #3.

This is from a couple of summers ago when my girlfriend and me went for a stroll around Lanark’s Clyde Falls. I’m sporting my Billy Batson Whiz t-shirt.

Lex Luthor has planted four bombs, and has tricked Superman into activating one of them. Unaware that the Man of Steel is really Clark Kent he hid a detonator on the mild-mannered reporter’s spectacles that was triggered when Superman used his X-ray vision.

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