Monday, 28 September 2009

Starman to the rescue... again.

Or, as we are supposed to say in French : Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. (Which means the more things change, the more they stay the same but really, I'm French and I've never heard any Frenchman say that except Maurice Chevalier in very old movies.) So it's another superhero with the name of Starman, this time the third character to have that name. This extract is from Starman's first appearance in Adventure Comics 467 published in late 1979 and yes, I did buy that issue when it came out and no, I'm not going to tell you how old that makes me. The story is written by Paul Levitz (who has since become VP of publisher DC Comics), inked by Romeo Tanghal and pencilled by the inimitable Steve Ditko, whom I've always thought drew very hot mature men (hey, he created J.Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man's arch enemy who's the star of this blog post). So you can imagine my delight when I bought this issue and found out there was a new Ditko-drawn series and it featured this hot bondage scene. So what is going on? Somewhere in space, mysterious masked figure Starman has just rescued a star cruiser that was hurtling towards a sun and certain doom and now, he's being given the grand tour by the starship's owner, Lord Oswin. He's unaware that in the ship's hold, hot mature man Jediah Rikane is being held in bondage and questioned. Shall our hero rescue him? Tune in later for the answer.

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