Catching up now. Just finished episode 2 (again, thanks for your shout-outs, too kind), now let’s talk Volume II. I’ll keep it short by just telling you who I “dialed up” in my Super Seven 9th grade social experiment: I was Black Condor. That is all.

Oh that reminds me! Frank! Infantino was inked by Janson in a number of Dial H for Heroes strips in Adventure Comics.

Great podcast guys, I’ll try to listen to #3 this afternoon.

Balloon Buster – At this point, he was a supporting character in Enemy Ace’s strip, which was appearing as a backup in Unknown Soldier. Balloon Buster only had a few starring roles; I think he only had 4 installments of his own strip. But he did have his rivalry with the Enemy Ace, and the two of them are forever linked because of it.

Baron Bedlam – Not sure which Baron you guys are thinking of, but Baron Bedlam was seemingly killed at the end of the second issue of Batman and the Outsiders, and has barely reappeared afterwards. He would show up for another Outsiders story right around when Batman left the team, and again in the Baxter series, then randomly in a few other issues. He is often named as one of the Outsiders major villains, but that’s not really accurate; he was just their first foe. (Ask Frank how much I like the Outsiders.)

Bat Lash – Man oh man do I like Bat Lash. He’s a lot like the character Maverick from the eponymous TV show. He’s a lot like the anti-Jonah Hex — where Hex was a violent man who tended to end up doing the “right thing” in the larger scale of justice, Bat Lash was a scoundrel who cheated at cards, pulled hesits, escaped from prision, and generally got himself into trouble. He did appear a few times in the modern Jonah Hex series (pre-New 52). And he is a dandy FER SURE.

Forever People – I may be the only fan of these characters. I know I am the only one I know. Big Bear is a great character, one of Kirby’s best “big men” from his whole crew of “big men.” He looks like he should be a bruiser but he’s more Ferdinand the Bull than Ben Grimm. I did a whole blog entry on them which you guys might enjoy reading: http://ljaconesbunker.blogspot.com/2008/01/characters-i-like-forever-people.html

Thanks for the show and keep up the great work on both shows!

Ben – Rob addressed your question exactly as I would have. Well, I would have mis-pronounced a few words, but other than that it’s the same.

Will Payton totally rocks! And Black Condor’s crazy pre-Crisis origin FTW!

Shag

Cant remember if was this show or Fire and Water, but Shags I am with you on Will Payton. He is in my top 5 favorite super-heroes (but you probably already know this from listening to my very own podcast…right?).

Anyway, good job as always. Looking forward to the next!

Favorite character entry this time is probably Black Condor because Jerry Ordway did such a great job and I was always a huge FREEDOM FIGHTERS fan.

PS Add my name to the list of people who HATED Black Canary’s Flashdance uniform. Yuck!!!

Your pal,
Little Russell Burbage