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She-Hulk #19-20
Issue(s): She-Hulk #19, She-Hulk #20
Cover Date: Sep-Oct 90
Title: "Year zero" / "Dorkham Asylum"
Credits:
Steve Gerber - Writer
Bryan Hitch - Penciler
Jim Sanders III - Inker
Gary Barnum - Assistant Editor
Bobbie Chase - Editor
Review/plot:
These issues start with i have to admit is a pretty funny What If scenario, namely What If Batman's origin happened in 1969.
It's the "Mom? Why's that straight laying a trip on daddy...?" that gets me.
Gerber doesn't really seem to have anywhere to go from there, though...
...and by issue #20 we have the not even worth of Cracked Magazine title of "Dorkham Asylum". And Three-Face.
She-Hulk gets a job through Lex Loopner to handle publicity arrangements for "Nosferata", our Batman analogue (the "nose for what?" joke on the cover of #19 is repeated in the interior). She ends up helping Nosferata fight the Joker analogue (Jack Serious) before calling it a day.
Quality Rating: D+
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A
References: N/A
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
I had no idea Bryan Hitch's art career extended back this far.
You spell the name Noserata. Isn't it Nosferata? The "f" is kinda important.
Definitely Nosferata or else the "nose for what?" joke wouldn't work. Thanks.
@Bob
He goes back even a bit further, with some great work at Marvel UK, some of which is out of fnord's scope (Action Force, Transformers); some of which will be covered later (Death's Head). I'd recommend you give them a look, especially the Death's Head stuff.
The emulation of Alan Davis wasn't as prominent in his early material as it was on the She-Hulk run.
Hitch's Death's Head stuff was beautiful.
Neary has a lot more to do with his evolution, as one could see when Andrew Currie inked him on Ultimates.
Is Nosferata supposed to be gay? In the third scan where she appears in her civvies, Hitch draws her to look like a stereotypical butch lesbian.
Tuomas, when Nosferata went out to fight crime for the first time in issue #19, she did it disguised as a man complete with a bald cap. The three thugs she went after thrashed her. In the third scan, she's still wearing the same clothes she used for her man disguise. Based off that, I presumed she cut her hair short so she wouldn't be uncomfortable wearing the bald cap.
