This weekend in the US, we are celebrating Father's Day, a holiday where we honor our patriarchs by giving them Home Depot gift cards,
Burn Notice DVD sets and Glenn Beck books. ;)
In honor of this grand tradition, I have devised a special Father's Day themed Lost 100 Pager featuring artwork by the ever amazing
Jan "Reno" Maniquis:
While I came up with the initial concept of a gladiatorial battle between Jor-El and Thomas Wayne, Reno really exceeded my expectations! The addition of the cheering Khunds in the background was his idea and an magnificent addition. I really like how he used a subdued color scheme for the Khunds which allowed the Dominator to stand out appropriately. Check out the original version (sans captions and logos) here (click to enlarge):
For those of you who may not recognize it, Thomas Wayne is wearing his Masquerade Ball Bat costume from
Detective Comics 235.
[ full synopsis from ComicVine.com ]
I originally thought that was the only appearance of that costume, but while googling for references for this cover, I found it showed up other places.
Here it was in
Untold Legends of the Batman 1 drawn by
John Byrne.
And more recently it showed up in the animated
Brave and the Bold cartoon:
While the original existence of this proto-Bat suit was erased by 1985's
Crisis on Infinite Earths, I wouldn't put it past someone to revisit this idea. (As recent Batman scribe
Scott Snyder reintroduced the Bronze Age concept of
Batman having a long lost brother.)
As to World of Krypton, that's a post for another day.
Have a great weekend!
- Jim
