Power of Fishnets 5: Zatanna’s Search Parts 2 & 3

Ryan Daly reviews the second and third chapters of Zatanna’s search for her father in Detective Comics #336 and The Atom #19. Also, listener feedback from episode 3.

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6 responses to “Power of Fishnets 5: Zatanna’s Search Parts 2 & 3

  1. Thanks for covering these. I don’t have the trade so I am learning about this stuff fresh here.

    Good point on the continuity between the Hawkman and Atom storylines given the time between issues and the lack of longform stories in comics back then. Picking up on The Druid as a lead is a nice call back.

    Kane is more of a miss than a hit for me. His art is fine here, dynamic. But I don’t include him in the Kirby, Ditko, Swan, Kubert pantheon level.

    Interested to hear the rest and figure I have to hunt down the trade now.

  2. Agreed that Kane drew one sexy Zatanna. The good news is, we get Kane on Zee again in the GL chapter!

    I love Gil Kane, especially in the Silver and early Bronze Age, when he (or his inkers) reined his sketchiness in a bit more. I think he’s one of comic’s most unique talents, and brought a dynamism to comics rivaled only by Kirby.

    Yeah, the Batman story is a total cop-out. Clearly, Schwartz and Fox were just making things up as they went along. The Outsider doesn’t even look like the pasty, pimply moon man we’ll meet later.

    Fun show as always. I’d be up for a Zee new JLA member roundtable episode! Just sayin’.

    Chris

  3. Another great episode. I’m always interested in hearing about classic stories that occur before Crisis. Thanks also for playing the promo for Waiting For Doom.

  4. I’m a big Gil Kane fame, possibly because he always seems to be drawing my nostrils. My favourite period was when he was unleashes sans the likes of inker Sid Greene, in late Bronze Age Action Comics – that was wild stuff.

    Great point about Zee looking younger under Kane, she certainly looked a tad matronly under Murphy Anderson, but here she’s a right nice bit of stuff.

  5. I read the Zatanna’s Search trade but I guess I skipped the Batman story after the first couple pages because I completely have blanked it from my memory. Oh well, as you said it’s not really related except to include Batman later on.

    I’ve always been so glad that these stories (aside from Batman) were intentionally linked. Pretty big undertaking for the time.

  6. So the thing is, I started listening to this episode expecting coverage of the Batman story months ago, then stopped until I read the Atom story, which I did a few weeks or maybe a month later, then I eventually finish listening a while back, but didn’t comment until now. The opening music for this show became the soundtrack of my hurriedly grabbing my tablet when they would auto play after I finished Fire & Water Network shows I was actively listening to.

    You just know some idiot reader wrote a letter suggesting connecting Zee to the Batman story and Julie went with it. When will someone write a better story to explain it?

    I am deeply offended that Anj is a Gil Kane apostate. You like apples? Swanderson doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Gil Kane. How you like dem apples?

    Ray Palmer was totally the kind of scientist who would tool around in a red convertible, then team up with a teenaged girl he just met for a magical adventure against a Druid. I agree that Kane’s take on Zee is stronger than Murphy Anderson’s, probably because Kane is part of the comic book pantheon alongside Eisner, Fine, Raymond, etc…

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