Mastermind Of Menaces! The Brave And The Bold #61 Reprinted in Justice League of America #116
Starman & Black Canary? Not what I would consider the most natural of team-ups.

The Mist has a special chemical that he has secretly sprayed on the flowers in Dinah (Black Canary) Drake Lance's flower shop. This allows him to send radio transmissions that hypnotize people.
If these were artificial flowers I could buy the transmissions, but a spray that turns real flowers into transmitters???

While in town on business, Ted (Starman) Knight drops in on Dinah to say hi, & she gives him a (treated) flower. Later at the observatory Starman is unable to see the stars and he later finds that his cosmic rod is powerless. When he learns of this (via the transmitting flowers) the Mist figures it must be a combination of the broadcast frequencies & the noise of the Observatory that made his old enemy powerless.
Okayyyy, I can buy the transmissions blocking stellar energy from the cosmic rod, but starlight is light. If Starman can't see the stars he shouldn't be able to see anything.

Black Canary is fighting the Mist's invisible thugs, so she blows a red powder into the room which coats parts of their bodies. Here I think the artist (Murphy Anderson) made a terrible mistake. The invisible crooks are inked, but colored white, after BC blows the powder they are colored white with red parts. I think it would have been more effective to have only inked the parts that would have been colored red, so we the readers can see them as BC sees them.

Kid Flash Meets The Elongated Man! Flash #130 Reprinted in Four Star Spectacular #2
The part of the Four Star Spectacular cover that shows this story has Kid Flash, being held by the Elongated Man's stretched arms, punching the Weather Wizard. In the actual story the Elongated Man, being pushed/carried by Kid Flash, punches out the Weather Wizard.

Summary: Spring has arrived, but the Weather Wizard has a device that has kept winter going in Oakley County & no one can get in or out to find out what's going on. The Elongated Man has asked Flash to help him examines the mystery, but Flash can't go so he asks Kid Flash to go help out EM.

Flash says he can't go because he & his wife have planned a vacation to the pacific coast, later when Kid Flash is talking to the Elongated Man, EM says that Oakley county is in the northwest.
Not exactly a nit. The pacific coast could mean California & the northwest could be Oregon, Washington or Idaho, but as a native of the Pacific Northwest that apparent contradiction struck me odd.

Kid Flash tells his parents he's going to be spending the weekend with a friend.
Were parents in the `60s so trusting that if their kid said they were spending the weekend at a friend's they never asked the friend's name or what the friend's phone number was?

It's said that thick clouds keep planes from seeing what is happening in Oakley County, but all scenes in Oakley County lack a complete cloud cover.

When they drive to the spot where Oakley County is frozen in the ice just stops kind of like a wall & there is no evidence of melting ice.

After stopping the Weather Wizards' weather machine the ice & snow vanish & the ground appears perfectly dry.

Captain Comet & Tommy Tomorrow
Danger: Dinosaurs At Large! DC Special #27
Summary: Chronos pulls a space rock with temporal powers back through time. On the way it pulls Tommy Tomorrow's ship from the year 2056 to 100 million BC. Chronos tries to recover the rock with a time tunnel and it unleashes dinosaurs & other prehistoric animals around the world in the 20th Century. Captain Comet deals with some dinosaurs & Chronos while Tommy Tomorrow deals with dinosaurs & an evolved dinosaur man, Tyrano Rex, who regards the rock as his god.

Even though the same artists did the cover & the interior art, Tyrano Rex looks different on the cover than inside. His head is bigger & he has yellow 'gloves'. Personally I think he looks better on the cover.

Sloppy coloring job on page 1. Captain Comet & Tommy Tomorrow's skin is red. The red parts of Captain Comet's uniform is light orange. Tommy Tomorrow's uniform is mostly light violet except for splotches that are dark purple. Tyrano Rex has red splotches on his head & neck.

Wow! The Planeteers do have uniforms with legs. All other Tommy Tomorrow stories I remember has the Planeteers wearing shorts. However, in the afterward writer Bob Rozakis says that he set this story between two previous Tommy Tomorrow stories so the long pants are probably a nit.

Tommy Tomorrow says that pterodactyls don't exist on any planet in the galaxy.
This might be a nit. In Real Fact Comics #13 (Planet Of Peril), Tommy landed on Venus where dinosaurs still lived. Now it's possible that story didn't show any pterodactyls so Tommy might not know of them.
Heck, Green Lantern supposedly wiped out all the yellow pterodactyls in Showcase #23 & since GL has a cameo in this comic...
Of course Tommy landed on Venus in 1998...

The rock mutates/evolves a Tyrannosaurus rex into an intelligent dinosaur man, Tyrano Rex, complete with costume.
Anachronistic dinosaurs in 100 million BC were actually mentioned in the story, so presumably they must have been pulled back through time as well.
Where did Tyrano Rex get his name? How would he know that his kind will be called Tyrannosaurus rex by humans millions of years in the future?
How do you evolve/mutate a costume? After mutation Tyrano is wearing a blue unitard & what looks like yellow boots.

The Great Super-Star Game! DC Super-Stars #10
Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, the Earth-1 versions of married villains Huntress & the Sportsmaster* are having an argument over whether villains ever win. Sportsmaster suggests creating a baseball team of heroes & villains if bad wins Huntress stays a villainess, if good wins she becomes a hero. Three guesses what happens?
* Why was there an Earth-1 version of these villains? Who knows? As far as I can tell before this story they only existed to occasionally battle Batgirl & Robin, and I have no idea if they ever appeared after this story.

The story starts in their home where they are in their supervillain costumes.
Don't they have civilian clothes? You'd think this just might tip off the police to Mr. & Mrs. Menace's location.

To assemble the teams Huntress & Sportsmaster use a teleportation device.
Okayyyyyyyyy, you're a supervillain with a teleportation device why would you even need to wear a costume & physically commit crimes? Talk about a perfect 'work' from home situation. Need money? Poof! You got money. Need food? Poof! You got food. Need booze? Poof! You got booze. What could be simpler?

They have Superman ask, but the writer never does explain, how Luthor got Amazo out of the JLA satellite. If Luthor somehow got in why didn't he boobytrap the joint? Why didn't he download top secret codes the JLA has? Even if he only managed to reactivate Amazo by remote control you'd think he might try to do some of this before Amazo left the satellite.

A solid platinum trophy is colored orange. In reality platinum is a dull grey (although in the Metal Men Platinum was white.)

For some odd reason Plastic Man disguised himself as a lariat & somehow got onto Wonder Woman's hip without her noticing. I suspect BILC overrode common sense here. The writer just thought it would be cute to have WW throw her lariat only for it to turn out to be Plastic Man.

Tattooed Man & Dr. Polaris are back in their original costumes & the editor promises to explain why they went back in a later story.
Is that really necessary?
I never saw Dr. Polaris before this story so I don't know what his last costume looked like, but for the Tattooed Man we can just say he finally looked in a mirror & realized that his last costume was ugly with a capital UG! (I think we can blame Len Wein for the design of that monstrosity.)
For that matter I think it's a stretch to call the Tattooed Man's original outfit a costume. He was a sailor, so his clothing looked like the sort of thing a sailor might wear: hat, shirt with rolled up sleeves, pants & deck shoes.

Dr. Polaris' magnetic beam is pulling Robin through the air by his belt.
Kid Flash says, "Loosen your belt, Robin--I'll catch you!"
Robin responds, "Yeah... but what's gonna keep my pants up?"
Ha ha, funny comment, but
1. Can you really call those green shorts he wears pants?
2. Robin's belt goes around the outside of his shirt, not through belt loops on his shorts.
3. I believe the sole purpose of Robin's belt is to store stuff.

Luthor, Joker & Felix Faust seem thrilled to play an honest game of baseball against the superheroes. You know, those 3 villains never struck me as the most physically fit so I find it odd that they think they can win in a game of athleticism. (On the villains' team*, I think only Sportsmaster & the Tattooed Man would be the most physically fit, most of the rest are basically scientists with gimmicks.)
* Huntress is playing for the heroes & the android Amazo is serving as umpire.

In order to get the heroes to agree to play Huntress has lured 66,000 people to the stadium & they won't be allowed to leave until the game is over.
Gee, for someone who is thinking about becoming a hero she sure got off on the wrong foot there.

The best part of the story is the last inning when the villains decide to cheat to win, although I wonder why neither of the umps (Amazo & Uncle Sam) ever called the villains on it. Since the game was supposed to be without powers or gimmicks I'd think using those would be against the rules.

Hawkman & Flash
Gorilla My Dreams! Super-Team Family #3
The JLA satellite & Hawkman's spaceship look different here. Didn't the editors give the artists any reference material?

Gorilla Grodd is able to change Hawkman to Hawk-Ape because the post-hypnotic command he was given only applied to humans & gorillas, but as an alien Hawkman wasn't protected.
Given DC's editorial position on Kryptonians & other aliens being Human I would have guessed that Thangarans were Human. Then again maybe because Grodd thought Hawkman was alien he was able to get around the post-hypnotic command? Although if that was the case, then why didn't he turn Superman into Superape?

When Hawk-ape reverts to Hawkman his green leggings suddenly appear from nowhere.

Aquaman & Green Arrow
The Manhunt On Land!/The Underwater Archers! Adventure Comics #267 Reprinted in Super-Team Family #3
Okay, technically this isn't a team-up, the two heroes don't meet until the last panel of the GA story, but the stories are connected so I put it here.

Plot Summary: Aquaman villain 'Shark' Norton & Green Arrow villain The Wizard decide to get away from their respective nemeses by moving to different areas. 'Shark' starts committing crimes in Star City & The Wizard commits crimes at sea, but Aquaman figures out a way to fight crime on land, while Green Arrow & Speedy become aquatic archers.

NANJAO. Funny the things you finally notice when you start nitpicking. Until I got to the Green Arrow part (drawn by Lee Elias) I didn't realize that all shots of The Wizard drawn by Ramona Fradon avoided showing his face. I don't know why she wanted to avoid drawing his face since it's a fairly normal looking face, but 4 panels feature a 1/4 view, 1 panel has the face in deep shadow, 1 panel has the face blocked by a light bulb, & 1 panel has his face blocked by his shoulder.

I can understand 'Shark' wanting to get away from the hero who keeps capturing him, but why does he decide to start committing crimes in Star City? He's friends with The Wizard shouldn't he know that Green Arrow patrols this town?
(Actually it could be asked why any villain keeps committing crimes in any city with a resident super-hero. You'd think they would go to another town without one. Off hand I can only think of one villain who tried this & Cat-Man had the bad luck to do it at a time that the Freedom Fighters were passing through.)

"The sea porcupine fires its quills with terrific force."
Does anyone know if this is true or not? (Sounds like an old wives' tale to me.)

When Aquaman arrives in Star City the police chief tells him that Green Arrow has already headed after The Wizard who went to sea.
The caption states that this is a few days after 'Shark' & Wizard have escaped prison. However the Green Arrow portion of the story shows that a few days afterward GA & Speedy were working on new equipment to function underwater & they were still testing it days later.

NANJAO. By my calculations the Aquaman part took, at least, 4 days, while the Green Arrow part took, at least, 14 days.

To get the whales to go where they want Green Arrow & Speedy fire Bait Arrows, with fish on them, ahead of the whales who follow them. Good thing these were fish-eating whales instead of plankton-eaters.

At one point The Wizard & his gang are working in a fake iceberg. (Actually the ice is real, but it has a control room & a motor to move around the sea.) To stop it GA & Speedy fire salt arrows on top of it & the sun's heat, plus the salt melt the ice which floods into the vessel.
Huh? Wouldn't it make sense to have the control room inside the iceberg be sealed & waterproof? If the ceiling of the control was ice wouldn't the Wizard worry about the ceiling melting?

The Wizard tricks GA & Speedy into attacking a fire-breathing sea serpent (looks more like a bipedal dinosaur, actually) that had been recently awakened by an underwater atom bomb test.
Clearly a tip of the hat to Godzilla, this story is cover dated December 1959 & 1959 is when the second Godzilla film was released in the US.

Green Arrow recognizes Topo, Aquaman's pet octopus that he had met once before.
Given the color-changing skill of octopi I'd be hard pressed to recognize any octopus I had met once before.

Anywayyyyyyy, GA tries to contact Topo "with all my telepathic power".
Since when has GA had telepathic powers? You'd thunk he might exercise this ability a little more in ordinary crime-fighting.
I'm surprised it never came up when GA became a loud-mouthed, bleeding-heart liberal. "Yo, King of the Sea. Think you're so hot because you can communicate with fish. Well, watch this." [Orders fish to go on strike until Aquaman pays them an honest wage.]

Flash & The New Gods
Gulliver Effect! Super-Team Family #15
Orion (the hero, not the constellation) is between Earth & the moon & he's said to be half the size of Earth (4000 miles). However Flash & Lightray stand in his hand which seems to be about three times their size (around 18 feet). Now since Orion is drawn proportionally & is about 6.5 heads high & the average person's hand is almost as big as their head the hand should be about 615 to 571 miles long so Lightray & Flash would be too small to see.

I kinda hope ScottN or one of the other math/science whizzes around here is reading this since math is not my strong suite.
Assuming that each time he doubles his original size his weight would also double & using 6 feet, 150 pounds since I don't know his real height & weight, & since 6 feet goes into 4000 miles 3,520,000 times Orion's weight could be 528,000,000 pounds. Assuming that's correct (hey, I'm just guessing) what would be the gravitational pull of Orion's body & what effect should it have stuck between Earth & the moon? (Why the New Gods couldn't move him farther away from Earth is never explained.)

A flashback has the New Gods returning to New Orleans where Metron is based, then "Jezzabelle returned east to Metropolis, Lightray to San Francisco in the northwest, and Orion flew west to Arizona".
Okayyyyyy, while San Francisco may be north & west of New Orleans it is not part of the Pacific Northwest where I live. Also Metropolis is in New York which is farther north than San Francisco but Jezzabelle flies east, not northeast.

At the beginning of the story Flash & Lightray are seen running through space to Orion (the person), when they get there Metron is seen flying around from Orion's other side. However the flashback shows Metron contacting Flash with no sign of Lightray.

Metron worries that Orion might grow big enough to crush the sun.
Yeah, right, sure.

Page 14, Panel 1. Darkseid says, "the solar system will be throw permanently out of balance!"
Thrown, not throw.

To stop the Ice Weirds from attacking them, flash has Lightray send him at an ice weird at the speed of light and he ricochets off them like a billiard ball sending them in different directions, except that on the next page it's revealed that he sent them all at Metron who uses the Boom Tube to send them somewhere else.

Page 31, Panel 2. Flash's mask is suddenly yellow.

To block Hagdar the Mad's axe Flash creates "a shield of absolute vacuum!"
So Mr. Conway, you are saying the axe was blocked by NOTHING? What happened to the good old days of DC Comics when they would use tidbits of ACTUAL SCIENCE to explain how things were done?

I kinda hope ScottN or one of the other math/science whizzes around here is reading this since math is not my strong suite. - KAM
So, , what is your strong suite? The bridal or the Presidential?

Excelsior!

Assuming that each time he doubles his original size his weight would also double & using 6 feet, 150 pounds since I don't know his real height & weight, & since 6 feet goes into 4000 miles 3,520,000 times Orion's weight could be 528,000,000 pounds.

Orion is three-dimensional. Doubling his height, and keeping his other demensions proportional would multiply his weight by 2³ = (2x2x2). If his height was multiplied by 3,520,000, his weight would be 150 x (3,520,000)³ =6,542,131,200,000,000,000,000 lbs.(That is, if he were on the surface of the Earth. Weight is dependent on gravity. You need to refer to his mass.)

I'm too tired at the moment to convert from English weight to metric mass, or to compare Orion's mass to that of the moon. (The moon's mass is about 1/6 that of the Earth.) But using a "quick and dirty" assumption that Orion's average density is around half that of the Earth, if Orion is half the size of Earth, and his mass is therefore 1/16th [half of 1/(2³)=1/8], he would definitely have at least a major tidal effect on both the Earth and the moon, since he is closer to each than they are to one another. In fact, he probably would be affecting the orbit of the moon. If he keeps growing the solar system will, indeed, "be throw permanently out of balance."

Benn, Speeling our meye stronq soot. D'oh!

TomM, thanks.

Deadman & The Phantom Stranger
Hour Of The Demon! DC Super-Stars #18
Deadman (a ghost with the ability to possess others bodies) takes over the body of a girl who is tied up & lying on a slab about to be sacrificed. The next panel Deadman, in Teresa's body, is flipping off the slab and the rope is lying on the slab.
How did Deadman remove the rope from Teresa's body? It bound her arms to her body & I doubt she was strong enough to snap the bonds.

Green Arrow & J'Onn J'Onz, the Martian Manhunter
Wanted--The Capsule Master! The Brave And The Bold #50 Reprinted in The Brave And The Bold #114
If you don't count the Justice League of America, this was the first team-up story for The Brave And The Bold. It would lead to them experimenting with teaming up other heroes until they discovered that readers most liked seeing Batman teamed up with other characters.

3 criminals escape from prison. They used super-powers & were wearing disguises to look human. GA suspects they are aliens & might be Martians, so he contacts the Martian Manhunter.
Offhand I wonder why he didn't contact Superman.

JJ asks, "What's this about other aliens being here on Earth?"
Yes, one calls himself Superman & 2 others go by the names Hawkman & Hawkgirl.

When JJ catches up to the 3 Martians they are shorter than he is for some reason.

Also while these Martians have equal strength & weakness to fire they seem to lack JJ's other Martian abilities. For instance they lack the ability to shapechange. While in prison they needed to wear masks to appear human. Now JJ recognizes these Martians as members of a Martian gang, so possibly they had those abilities 'removed' when they had been captured on Mars, but the issue is never addressed in the story.

JJ is disguised as GA and fires GA's bow, but in Justice League of America #61 when JJ disguises himself as GA he shatters the bow he is using because he forgets to watch his strength. I'm not sure which story came first, so it may or may not be a nit.

Sgt. Rock, The Unknown Soldier & Mademoiselle Marie
Heap The Corpses High! DC Super-Stars #17
The story starts with a newspaper headline of a "meteor"* strike in Arizona & has a picture of the explosion with a bird skeleton in front.
BILC. First what's the likelihood that a cameraman would just happen to be at the right spot to snap this picture. Second, if the explosion was powerful enough to strip the flesh of a flying bird, wouldn't the bones get scattered (vaporized?) as well?
* Actually a cover story to hide the fact that the Germans have a new long-range ICBM.

Mademoiselle Marie is running down stairs in a pair of high heels.
Given that she was on the Eiffel Tower to act as a sniper would a more sensible pair of shoes have been better?

Nazis are riding the elevator up to catch her so she shoots the elevator cables & the car plunges down to the ground.
Was the Eiffel Tower elevator that shoddily constructed in the 1940s? Seems to me that even back then elevators were constructed so they would not plummet if the cable snapped.

Not sure if this is a nit or not. A German soldier refers to Marie as a Maqui. Later Marie uses both Maquis & Maqui to describe the resistance. Are both spellings accurate? Is Maqui singular & Maquis plural? (If so then Marie's use of Maqui would be inaccurate as she was speaking of several of her men who were killed.)

Creeper & Wildcat
Showdown In San Lorenzo! Super-Team Family #2
Either Earth-1 has a Wildcat or Earth-2 has a Creeper, since there's no way these two heroes should be teaming up like this. (It's possible that The Brave And The Bold established the existence of an Earth-1 Wildcat, but I don't have any of those stories & can't check.) Either way dialogue establish that both heroes & their secret identities are well-known on whatever Earth they are on.

The Atom's Quest
Despite this name being used a couple of times to describe the story that ran from Super-Team Familys #11-14 the Atom's name always came last on the covers. Issue 11 & 12 simply said "Plus The Atom" & issue 13 said "Guest-starring The Atom".

Atom, Flash & Supergirl
The Other Side Of Doomsday! Super-Team Family #11
Plot: Iris Allen, Jean Loring & Linda Lee (Supergirl) Danvers are kidnapped from a Woman's Symposium. Iris' husband (The Flash) & Jean's fiancé (The Atom) track them to a living planet controlled by JLA foe T. O. Morrow. The heroes manage to defeat T. O. Morrow, but the events have caused Jean to have a second nervous breakdown & the living planet sends her away. Atom vows to track her down.

So what does that title mean? Is it supposed to be a reference to the fact that T. O. Morrow ceased to exist in an issue of the Justice League Of America? (#103 IIRC) Or is it just BISC (Because It Sounded Cool)?

There are times when heroes bickering is natural & then there are times like this story.
Atom chews out Supergirl for capturing all the Wind Pirates because they wanted one to escape so they could track him back to his boss.
Atom & Flash make bitchy comments about Supergirl.
Flash says he figured Atom held a secret grudge against him because he's a practical scientist & Atom's just a theoretician.
Yeesh, Mr. Conway you're not writing Marvel characters here. DC characters are usually a little thicker-skinned & friendlier.

Page 33, Panel 1. A close-up of the Atom & the blue part of his costume is red. (I think the colorist thought he was Flash, not Atom.)

Atom, Green Lantern & Hawkman
The Eternity Pursuit Super-Team Family #12
Plot: Sixty days after the events of last issue Atom has developed a device that will allow him to track Jean. With the help of Hawkman & Green Lantern they go to the planet Aura where Jean appeared, devastated the world (the natives are telepathic so it was probably a combination of her mental breakdown & the energy of the living planet) and she disappeared. Afterwards the Dhrune conquered the world. Atom & Hawkman stay to help the Aurans while Green Lantern uses the tracker to follow Jean to the planet Titan where Jean is going to be burned at the stake for being a witch (she caused the planet to start falling into the sun). Green Lantern defeats the evil tyrant & returns to Aura where he helps Atom & Hawkman defeat the Dhrune & they transport the Aurans from their barren world to Titan where they use their mental powers to push Titan back into it's proper orbit. However they discover that Jean went away shortly after Green Lantern went back to Aura.

Well, it may seem to take a while, but is 60 days really an eternity?

Green Lantern, Hawkman & Atom are fighting against Dhrune spaceships when GL wishes that the Green Lantern Corps would receive the training that Thanagaran policemen do.
Uh, given all we've learned about the Thanagaran police, what the heck is GL thinking?
The Green Lantern Corps has been around for eons, the Thanagaran police have only been around for a short period of time. Hawkman was the first one. They only founded it when the Man-Hawks came to Thanagar to steal. Since then some Thanagarans turned to stealing. There's never been any indication that the Thanagaran police patrolled the starlanes. Heck, Hawkman & Hawkgirl came to Earth to capture a Thanagaran crook & stayed to study the police methods of Earth.

The flashback to last issue alters the dialogue of the revelation that Jean was sent away & makes it appear that Supergirl told him rather than Iris Allen & Flash.

Interestingly the bad guys, the Dhrune, don't look human, but the victims, the Aurans, do.

The planet Titan. You'd think writers would avoid naming planets after moons.

Atom, Aquaman & Captain Comet
Ragnarok Night Super-Team Family #13
Plot: Sixty days after the last issue Atom has tracked Jean to Earth where the energy she got from the living planet is being used to cause disasters. The scientific Lemurians have Atom go into Jean's brain to deal with the source of the energy, while Aquaman & Captain Comet deal with the Wind Pirate whose weather changing machinery is tapping into that energy. At the end the Lemurians tell Atom that the energy is still within Jean and the only way for Earth to be safe is for Jean to stay in a coma.

The issue begins with Captain Comet beaming up to the JLA satellite with a wounded Kid Flash (Kid Flash was beaten up in The Secret Society Of Super-Villains #9). No one is on monitor duty in the satellite.
When exactly did Captain Comet get permission to access the JLA transporter? He's not a JLA member.

Page 4, Panel 5. Kid Flash's red leggings are orange.

Page 16, Panels 4 & 6. Atom's red trunks are colored blue. Panel 5. Atom's red leggings are colored yellow.

Page 30, Panel 2. Captain Comet's left arm & part of his waist are colored yellow instead of red.

Atom & Wonder Woman
The End Of The Quest! Super-Team Family #14
Plot: In an issue of The Secret Society of Super-Villains Jean was kidnapped from Lemuria and is now in the hands of Gorilla Grodd, Jason Woodrue & Star Sapphire. Grodd is using a device to tap the energy from Jean's mind and blackmailing the world into making him it's master. Wonder Woman & the Atom go to Gorilla City to stop the villains and at the end Jean is all right and all the energy is gone from her and she agrees to marry Ray.

Page 13, Panel 2. Star Sapphire's pink trunks are white.

Page 15, Panel 3. The red parts of Wonder woman's top & tiara are yellow.

they go to the planet Aura
Auria, not Aura. What is it with me & planet names lately?

Metamorpho & the Metal Men
Wreck The Renegade Robots The Brave And The Bold #66 Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Metamorpho
Mercury heats up & glows when he gets mad??? Only time I�ve heard that.

Simon Stagg�s guards are wearing different masks than usual.

Stagg�s mansion is said to have a 100 rooms here, but in Metamorpho�s book it was only 50.

Green Arrow & Manhunter From Mars
Wanted--The Capsule Master! The Brave And The Bold #50 Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Volume 1
Given that Green Arrow�s series in World�s Finest Comics appeared to be ending & probably that the Martian Manhunter�s series was also in trouble I wonder if this team-up was a pilot to see if both characters could get more readers as a team rather than solo. (It also explains a curious comment in Justice League of America #24 about the new team of GA & JJ.)

Martian Manhunter thinks, �The robot brain, with which the late professor Erdel accidentally brought me to Earth�
Professor Urdle, not Erdel.

Also IIRC the robot brain was destroyed in Detective Comics #228, so where did this one come from?

When this story was reprinted in The Brave And The Bold #114 they removed a panel & a page where J�onn J�onzz returned to Mars & changed the dialogue referring to that, so the robot brain which causes the teleport becomes a computer that JJ gets his info from & a new panel of JJ in front of a computer is added.
Also at the end of the original story JJ says he�s taking the Martian gang back to Mars, but in the reprint he imprisons them in a fiery volcano.

Talking to the All-Martian Council JJ refers to Earth as his �exile home�.
Exile home? When was he exiled & if he was exiled why is he allowed to return to Mars?

Okayyyyyyyyy, the All-Martian Council knows Vulkor & his henchmen are on Earth, but because they have no official relations with Earth they cannot send their space police to help JJ.
Excuse me?
Martian criminals with Martian superpowers are running rampant on Earth & you don�t think you should contact Earth & offer assistance?
On the other hand why are they allowing JJ to play superhero on Earth since they have no official relations with the planet?

Page 13, Panel 3. Speedy says, �Vulkor�s right on our trail� & Green orders him to brake & spin the Arrowcar around.
Problem is the actual drawing shows Vulkor�s ship in front of the Arrowcar, not behind it.

GA fires an Acid Arrow almost straight up against Vulkor�s ship.
Never heard of gravity, GA?

J�Onn J�Onzz says, �Incendiary Arrows will stop them with the only Martian weakness... Fire!�
I don�t know about that, those ultra-high sonics earlier seemed to do a good job.

Well, since I did a list of who teamed with Batman in The Brave And The Bold (on the Batman & Guest Star board) I might as well list the non-Batman team-ups in that book.

50 - Green Arrow & The Manhunter From Mars
51 - Aquaman & Hawkman
52 - Johnny Cloud, the Haunted Tank & Sgt. Rock
53 - Atom & Flash
54 - Kid Flash, Aqualad & Robin (later to be reunited as the Teen Titans in issue 60)
55 - Metal Men & Atom
56 - Flash & The Manhunter From Mars
61 - Starman & Black Canary
62 - Starman, Black Canary & Wildcat
63 - Supergirl & Wonder Woman
65 - Flash & the Doom Patrol
66 - Metamorpho & the Metal Men
72 - Spectre & Flash
73 - Aquaman & Atom

Some odd team-ups there. Aquaman & Hawkman? Not the most natural of team-ups.

Flash had the most team-ups with 4. I wonder if the possibility of him being the permanent star was considered? How long would the book have run if he had been?

Me - Martian Manhunter thinks, “The robot brain, with which the late professor Erdel accidentally brought me to Earth”
Professor Urdle, not Erdel.
Actually the story I was going by, Detective Comics #228, was wrong. Erdel was the spelling in Detectives 225 & 227.

Metal Men & the Atom
Revenge Of The Robot Reject The Brave And The Bold #55 Reprinted in Showcase Presents Metal Men Volume One
The villain of the piece is Uranium, Doc's first robot, & he's accompanied by Agantha, a silver robot Uranium invented.
Showcase #38 indicated that it was intense aurora borealis activity that may have given the Metal Men their unique personalities, so either that's wrong or the aurora borealis activity lasted for a much longer time period.

Caption reads, "The laser beam arcs through the skies".
I thought laser beams went straight rather than arcing?

Six-inch tall Atom secretly carries the remains of the Metal Men to Uranium's lab to fix them.
Yeahhhhh... how many weeks did that take?

Super-Team Family #14
Here Atom removes his costume & returns to his normal size.
However when Ray was removed from his costume in The Atom #14 he remained six inches tall.